As the saying goes: "The dragon swims in shallow water and is played by shrimp, and the tiger falls in Pingyang and is bullied by dogs." In fact, not only do people have such moments of unambitiousness, but cultural relics also fall from the altar and are used as a vegetable bowl, they only hate themselves for not being able to speak, and they have no acquaintances to appreciate their artistic value, so that they are ignored and abused by ordinary people.
If they could speak, they would have jumped to their feet and cursed "stupid humans."
In the mainland, there is such a magical treasure of the town and country, and its experience is very bumpy: under the command of the emperor, the top jade workers of the court gathered together, gathered the most exquisite craftsmanship and wisdom at that time to create it, and used nearly 10,000 kilograms of jade for it; after its birth, it only appeared at the state banquet, with a noble status and a great value, so that foreigners were yearning for it and lived in the legend of the West;
But then there was a little accident, it disappeared for 300 years, and when it was found, people found that it had changed from a state banquet heavy instrument to a Taoist "vegetable tank", full of salty and sour taste lingering. How is this gap a tragic word, is all this a distortion of human nature or a moral degeneration?
This treasure of the town and country is the famous "Great Jade Sea of The Mountains". Dushan Dayuhai belongs to the Yuan Dynasty jade urn, its predecessor is a whole piece of giant black and white medallion oval single mountain jade, after the internal hollowing, external decoration, fine polishing series of operations, and finally gorgeous transformation into the ancient state banquet of the royal wine storage vessel, the person who ordered it to be made, is the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty Kublai Khan.
It was 1265, and Kublai Khan felt that his work of unifying the country and mountains was in sight, and he was full of ambition, so he pondered to create something that could show the royal domineering style, symbolize the stability of the country, and the strength of the country. The jade workers understood Kublai Khan's meaning, spent countless efforts, and decorated the outside of the urn with a rough sea pattern, so this large jade urn had the name of "Jade Sea".
In addition, Dushan Dayu also decorated more than a dozen animal motifs at home and abroad, dragons, mantises are dedicated to symbolizing the Mongolian Khan, others are deer, pigs, horses, rhinoceros, carp, snails, toads, mussels, fish, rabbits, dolphins, rat head fish, exquisite reliefs, delicate jade, has been very aesthetic value, Kublai Khan is quite satisfied, after completion, he asked people to move it to the Guanghan Hall of Qionghua Island (now Baita) in the Yuan Dadu (now Beijing) Tailiu (now Beihai).
Dushan Dayuhai is the earliest existing extra-large jade carving in China, this "extra-large" is not a vain name, when Kublai Khan opened a banquet to drink, Dushan Dayuhai can hold more than 30 stones of wine in his belly, which is also worthy of its weight - Dushan Dayuhai weighs 3500 kilograms.
Such masterpieces are difficult to find in the world, so the Great Jade Sea of The Great Jade Sea was once mighty. During the Yuan Dynasty, the Italian traveler Marco Polo came to China, and after seeing the Great Jade Sea of Dushan Mountain, he was shocked, and went back to describe it in his travel diary: the king of Sri Lanka has a precious ruby worth a city; but China's Dushan Great Jade Sea is more precious, and it takes four cities to exchange it!
This description made Westerners at that time very yearning for the riches of the East, but after Zhu Yuanzhang overthrew the Yuan Dynasty and established the Ming Dynasty, the Great Jade Sea of Dushan Mountain disappeared for a while, until more than 300 years later, when the Great Jade Sea of Dushan Mountain was found shrinking in the corner of the Zhenwu Temple outside the Xihua Gate of the capital, and the Taoists did not treat it as a zhenguo jade at all, stuffing its stomach with pickles...
The Qianlong Emperor was a lover of cultural relics, and when he heard about it, he was quite distressed, and immediately sent someone to "redeem" the Great Jade Sea of Dushan with a thousand taels of gold to protect it. However, it was more difficult for the Qianlong Emperor not to leave traces on the cultural relics than for three days without eating, so the imperial poems of Qianlong were naturally engraved in the belly of the Great Jade Sea of the Dushan Mountains that we see now (and the level was naturally not bad).
Nowadays, the Great Jade Sea of Dushan Mountain is placed in the jade urn pavilion in front of the Chengguang Hall of Beihai Tuancheng in Beijing, and many Chinese and foreign tourists have admired its magnificent and atmospheric style, and modern cultural relics experts have rated it as China's "first of the zhenguo jade" and a unique national treasure. I have to say that as a cultural relic, the experience of the Great Jade Sea in Dushan Mountain is also quite legendary.