When it comes to cultural relics, you must think of the rows of ancient relics on display in the museum. The mainland is a country of cultural relics, and there are countless cultural relics left over the centuries. However, in the world's impression, the ancients were all well-behaved and solemn, and the cultural relics left behind must also be very well-behaved. But is this really the case?
Each cultural relic is a historical relic connecting ancient and modern times, and it is also an effective proof of restoring historical fragments. In the eyes of the world, these shelved museum relics are not only valuable, but also cold and solemn, but when you carefully walk around the museum, you will occasionally encounter some cultural relics that look funny, and even encounter a few cute netizens' "comics"
Warring States horse head shaped copper rim
This piece of bronze is decorated in the shape of a horse's head, and its head and neck are decorated with gold with curly hair and scales, which is exquisitely made, which is one of the typical representative works of wrong gold, silver and bronze ware in the Warring States period. Wei was a great aristocrat in the Jin dynasty during the Spring and Autumn Period, and gradually became a powerful political force. In 471 BC, the Three Families of Han, Zhao, and Wei eliminated other forces to divide the Jin State (known in history as the "Three Families divided the Jin"), and in 403 BC, Wei was crowned as a "Prince" by King Weilie of Zhou, becoming a powerful country in the Central Plains during the Warring States period. Wei's territory was in present-day southwestern Shanxi Province and du'anyi (present-day Xia County, Shanxi Province) in northern Henan Province, and later moved to Daliang (present-day Kaifeng, Henan). At the beginning of the Warring States period, Wei Wenhou appointed Li Wu, Wu Qi, Ximen Bao, etc. to carry out economic, political and military reforms, which accelerated the feudalization process of the Wei state and made the Wei state a famous power in the early Warring States period. The tomb of Guwei Village in Huixian County is a large-scale "medium" glyph tomb (the tomb of the two tombs), surrounded by cemeteries, similar to the specifications of the mausoleums of the princes, so the excavated car rut decoration is extremely exquisite.
Town Tomb Beast
This thing sounds very scary, and even in ancient times, tomb robbers would run away as soon as they saw this thing in the tomb. But the town tomb beast found by modern archaeology is very cute, without a little majesty; it can really be said that no one can stop it. The town tomb beast is a common monster in ancient tombs on the mainland, with animal faces, human faces, and antlers, which is a kind of haunted instrument set up for the town to capture ghosts and protect the souls of the dead from intrusion.
Bronze villain
Walking into the Shanxi Museum, which has a long and ancient atmosphere, you will find a display case hiding a bronze that looks far from inconspicuous. This bronze is not large, the height is only close to 30 centimeters, but after a closer look, there will be a sense of déjà vu, suddenly blurted out: "Isn't this an Android robot?" ”
Yes, this small bronze looks very similar to the Android robot. Its original name was four-legged belt gai fangding, and its origin is also quite mysterious, and it is a funerary product excavated from an ancient tomb in the hegemonic kingdom of the Western Zhou Dynasty. This hegemony never appeared in Chinese historical records, and it was not until the discovery of its tombs that the existence of this princely state was confirmed. Because of this, this bronze is covered with a mysterious color.
According to the staff in the museum, the role of this bronze is the tool used by ancient nobles to cook food, which is not used by ordinary civilians.
Bronze double-sided human head
On September 20, 1989, villagers found a large number of bronzes while taking soil near Chengjia Village in the area of Oceania Town, Xingan County, Ji'an City, Jiangxi Province, when the construction of the Ganjiang River embankment was underway. Subsequently, Peng Shifan, then director of the Jiangxi Provincial Museum, led the archaeological team to the scene to preside over the excavation. As a result, the Oceania Shang Dynasty artifact group finally reappeared in front of the world after sleeping for more than three thousand years.
As the name suggests, this artifact is a bronze double-sided human head; it is a cultural relic excavated from the Oceania site of Xingan, Jiangxi. Its role is to be used for sacrifice, in the aesthetics of the ancients this thing is also very terrible, ordinary people dare not look directly at it; but in the eyes of modern people, this thing is very cute.
Roc Bird
In the Han Dynasty, especially after the rise of Buddhism in China, gilding technology has been greatly developed, mainly for the daily necessities of the nobility has been Buddhist Buddhas and so on. Among the many ancient gilded artifacts unearthed, this roc bird is very special, without a sense of respect, but like a cute little child.
There are a few sentences in the Tibetan creation song "The Song of The Formation of Spar": "When the original Suba was formed, the heavens and the earth were mixed together, and separating the heavens and the earth was the ,...... of Dapeng", and about the origin of the six major clans of the Ancient Tibetan Zhangxiong "Qiong", there are also records in the classics as follows: "Incarnate as King Huiming, transform into Sanpeng in the air, and inhabit the Garden of Xiangxiong, the People of Zhangxiong were surprised, they had never seen this bird, and the old man called it a horned peng." When Sanpeng flew back to the sky, the claws touched the warm stream of Fujian, black and white yellow flowers and four eggs, and each hatching child was called Qiongbu. "The rest of the myth of the Roc egg-born human beings as the ancestors is also circulating in various branches.