In ancient China, people "died as if they were alive, and died as if they existed", believing that although people died, they would continue to live in another world, and in order to make them have no worries about food and clothing, they would usually bury the objects and treasures used by the deceased before they died. In funeral rites, there is a special pattern of burying the living in a mausoleum for service, also known as martyrdom.
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Qin Benji
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When you die,
"The first people were martyred, 66 followers"
This cruel system existed for many years in history, until it was abolished during the reign of Emperor Ming Yingzong. Later funerary items are jewelry, or pottery dummies, similar to the terracotta warriors of the Qin Shi Huang period.
In the process of modern archaeological research, the cultural relics mined by experts from ancient tombs are not all cookie-cutter porcelain bells, and there are also some strange gadgets.
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In 1900, Shitang Village, Banshan Town, Hangzhou City, unearthed a crystal cup that looked like a glass of modern craftsmanship. whereas
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In 2019, a cultural relics exhibition held in Shanghai spread across the country, because among the cultural relics on display, there were two objects that resembled beer bottle caps. Netizens have thought that this thing may be left by tomb robbers after drinking beer in the ancient tomb, and joked that they let the staff take a magnifying glass to see if it says "another bottle".
But the museum staff explained that this is indeed a well-thought-out excavation, not a beer bottle cap that everyone thinks. It is reported that the experts who mined this batch of cultural relics at that time did not have the same doubts as netizens, but their doubts were quickly dispelled by the evidence found in the tomb.
According to the "Shanghai Wenbo Treatise", this cultural relic was excavated in 2007 in the tomb of Li Xinzhai family in Jiangqiao Town, Jiading, and the owner of the tomb is a Ming Dynasty official of more than five pins, and the tomb is a joint burial tomb of husband and wife. When archaeologists opened the stone chamber tomb, there was no trace of passive incense ash and glutinous rice used as encrypted waterproof treatments around it, so they deduced that the tomb had not been found by tomb thieves.
In addition, beer is well known to be a foreign wine introduced to the mainland from the West, and it has a long history, and there is a piece in the Louvre
The "Blue Monument" records that the Sumerians used beer in sacrifices in the 3rd century BC, but it was only after 1860 that the Chinese tasted this delicacy. Moreover, this rusty "beer lid" looks unassuming, but it is made of sterling silver, and the beer manufacturer should not have such a big hand.
Since it is not a modern handicraft, these two "beer covers" can only be funerary products put in by the owner of the tomb when he is buried. But what exactly it is and what it is used for, experts are also confused. After going through a large number of documents, they finally came up with a reliable guess that this thing, which was mistaken for a beer lid, was actually an incense box used by women, and the word "incense" engraved on the lid also indicated its usefulness.
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Mentioned that the incense box is actually used by ancient women to hold spices, with two lids only pair, the upper lid is slightly larger than the lower lid, so it can be closed, "Dream of the Red Chamber" in the second seventh time has been introduced
"The incense box dug by the bamboo root", it can be seen that the materials for making incense boxes are diverse, and the silver incense boxes that can be used are bound to be ordinary people.1
The reason why the small silver incense box makes such a big oolong is mainly because its edges are not made into a smooth process, but the same pleats as the beer bottle cap, for which the expert explained that the reason for this design is to increase the friction to prevent the incense box from slipping out of the pocket. Here, about these two
The mystery of the "beer bottle cap" has finally been fully solved.