The mountain is not high, and the immortal is named. The water is not deep, there are dragons and spirits. Mountains and immortals, water and dragons, the two can be achieved by each other, museums and cultural relics can also be this relationship, not only in the Louvre there are precious cultural relics, in a museum in a county town in China, there is also a national treasure, it was originally unremarkable, but because the words carved outside have become a national treasure, what is going on? Let me reveal the secrets to you:
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On October 9, 2008, while most people were still immersed in the relaxed atmosphere of the National Day holiday, a group of people in Weinan City, Shaanxi Province, were preparing for a ceremony in Chengcheng County, where they were preparing for the opening ceremony of the Chengcheng County Museum. Located on Guzheng Street in the county seat, this county-level museum is very large, with a total area of up to 6,400 square meters, five exhibition halls, and up to 3,000 cultural relics.
The time has come to today, Chengcheng County Museum has also been open for 13 years, it has gradually played a new role from the very beginning of the storage of exhibition cultural relics, and now it has become a comprehensive museum that shows the local human history and folk customs, and even an important platform for publicizing Chengcheng and Chengcheng tourism. There are many representative cultural relics in the museum, such as the Jun kiln bowl of the Yuan Dynasty, the lotus pattern flat bell of the Ming Dynasty, and the hollow gourd of the Qing Dynasty, each of which is a priceless treasure. Of course, the reason why so many treasures can be unearthed in a small county town in Weinan is because Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi Province, is the ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties, and the number of treasures left here is naturally quite abundant.
Among the many cultural relics in the Chengcheng County Museum, one is called a national treasure. This is a Jin Dynasty iron bell, the iron bell net height of 2 meters, plus the head of the bell is 2.35 meters, the maximum diameter of 1.56 meters, weighing up to 4 tons, according to relevant literature records, this Jin Dynasty iron bell was cast in the third year of Jin Mingchang (1192 AD), when the Southern Song Dynasty was in the third year of Shaoxi, Song Guangzong although the old Dingxin meaning, but belonged to a wife strict management, Empress Li Fengniang was fierce, strong interference in the government, resulting in the Southern Song Dynasty began to decline.
The Southern Song Dynasty gradually declined, but the Jin Dynasty is vigorously developing, in order to seek the blessing of the Buddha, Jin Zhangzong ordered the casting of this big iron bell, the same year the construction was completed and completed the famous Lugou Bridge, this big iron bell was actually born in the same year as the Lugou Bridge, this is still quite interesting thing, after modern times, this big iron bell has been placed in the local Puji Temple, but later due to the war, it has lost track, after the founding of the country, after the unremitting search of experts, this makes it reappear bright.
Chengcheng Jin Dynasty large iron clock is elegant, there is a Pu Lang Yu, the lower octagonal arc mouth, the bell body is cast, can be divided into seven sections and forty-five molds: the upper section of the button, the casting of a mold, leaving a hole in the middle, connected with the button, quite a sense of design, but this is just a simple iron clock, without any complicated accessories, there is no precious material, so even if it is old, it should only be a third-level cultural relic, but from the list of national cultural relics, it can be found that it is actually a proper first-class cultural relic, why is this?
It turns out that in the body of the bell in the big iron clock, there is a precious record. As we all know, Chinese character culture is broad and profound, as a rare monosyllabic language in the world, Chinese characters have a very high ideographic function, according to the functional division, Chinese characters can be divided into hieroglyphs and finger writings, such as hammers, a finger made of metal heavy objects, this is a complete finger writing, although it does not have the image of hieroglyphs, but as long as it is analyzed from the perspective of the head, it can still clarify its meaning.
Today, we no longer use traditional characters, but the process of simplifying Chinese characters is not smooth. For example, the change from the bell to the bell, there are many people who have raised objections, the simplified bell is neither hieroglyphic nor referential, if it is simply for the convenience of writing, it is so simple to abandon the inheritance of culture, this is not too hasty.
But this Jin Dynasty iron bell gave a silent answer, in the iron bell body, a total of more than 60 simplified Chinese characters, including Dang, Gui, Rong, Zhang, Shun, Jian, Lin, Bao, Xian, Ji, Mi, a total of eleven characters, actually exactly the same as modern Chinese characters, which means that the mainland's simplified Chinese characters have a history of more than 800 years, thus overturning the previous Doctrine of Simplified Chinese Characters for 300 years, it seems that the simplification of Chinese characters, by no means a number of classics forget the ancestors, not to dig up the foundation, but an inevitable trend, Because the ancients did this more than 800 years ago.
A seemingly bulky iron bell, which is actually carved with the history of Simplified Chinese characters, Simplified Chinese Characters, can improve the speed of writing, better learning, too many benefits, even if some of the characteristics of hieroglyphs and finger writings are lost, they should also be used in this way, the wheels of history are rolling, only in line with the products of the times, can flow for hundreds of years!
Wenlan Hairun Studio Editor-in-Chief Wen Xiucai, this article is written by: Special History Writer: Jin Xiaozhou
Source: 1. Weinan Daily, 2017.11.02