As soon as the time entered summer, the howl of the circle of friends about "hot" rose and fell one after another, and everyone wished that Houyi had shot down all ten suns, and today was a crisp autumn.
But if you think about it, we always shout today that "my life is given by air conditioning", did the ancients not live without air conditioning?
They don't have refrigerators, no air conditioners, no mobile phones and no computers, aren't they hot and boring?
There is a saying, the life of the ancients is far more developed than we think, there are some things we thought were not available in ancient times, in fact, people have long used it as a necessary for home.
For example, we are completely inseparable from air conditioning and refrigerator.
Let's take a look at this Warring States bronze ice book hidden in the National Museum of China, which is said to be the world's earliest "refrigerator", which looks a little serious, but it is really practical and environmentally friendly.
▲ GIF source: Douyin @ National Museum of China
Warring States bronze ice book is composed of Fang Jian outside and Fang Zunyi inside, simply put, the big bowl is set with a small bowl, the ancient people want to drink ice wine, so they fill the gap between the large and small bowls with ice, and then fill the small bowl with wine, isn't there a cool wine?
▲ GIF source: Douyin @ National Museum of China
This ice book is also equipped with a long-handled bronze spoon, which focuses on an elegance.
Some ice books will leave pores, in the summer put ice cubes in it, air conditioning can come out of the holes, people sitting around the ice book will naturally be cool, a bit of refrigerator air conditioning all-in-one meaning.
You may ask, where does their ice come from?
There is no electricity technology, of course, it is still obtained from nature.
▲ GIF source: Douyin @ National Museum of China
In the cold winter, people will go to the frozen rivers to cut large pieces of ice, store it in the ice cellar, and take it out the following summer. The Zhou Dynasty also set up a special "ice factory" and set up the position of "Lingren" in charge of ice affairs, which shows that the royal family at that time still attached great importance to this matter.
However, looking at this bronze ice book, looking at this large-scale ice chiseling action, it is obvious that ordinary people in society at that time could not afford it.
Later, the ice book was continuously improved, with porcelain, wood, lighter to use, more affordable materials, ordinary people can finally use this to beat the heat.
This summer is gone, but how to pass the time?
We can now blow the air conditioner and watch a drama, what are the ancient people doing?
Hi, no power has no battery gameplay, although they don't have a mobile phone computer, but they have a pure naked-eye sky.
Ancient people especially liked to engage in astronomy, and if you read the Book of Poetry, you can know that "three stars are in the sky", "fire flows in July, clothing in September", and "three stars" refers to the three stars in the center of Betelgeuse. As for "flowing fire", it does not mean that it is hot and fast on fire, and the ancient "fire" refers to the Antares, and after July in ancient times, the Antares began to sink westward, and the weather would gradually cool.
In addition to the Book of Poetry, we should have heard many names that the ancients gave to the stars: Chang Gung, Qiming, Yingyu...
▲ Qing Xu Yang's "Sun and Moon Five-Star Pearl Map" (partial)
The ancients attached importance to astronomy not for nothing, after all, every sunrise and sunset, moon and moon and star changes may affect plant growth and the presence of birds and beasts, and people have to "rely on the sky to eat" and ponder the changes in the sky.
As a result, astronomy has become one of the four major disciplines of ancient Chinese natural science, and we can still see many astronomical relics that are ahead of the world today.
For example, the celestial globe, this instrument for observing celestial bodies, the spherical surface is painted with stars and major nebula star clusters, and when the technology is mature, it can even tell the time like a clock, and it can show the time and direction of the sun in the day, and even the length of the day and night can be seen.
Another example is the "astronomical map" stone stele of the Song Dynasty.
Looking at the past, densely packed, the sky full of stars are painted on it, hyperbolas outline the Milky Way, a total of 1434 stars are marked on it, you must know that European countries only observed 1022 stars in the 14th century, we can be regarded as far away from them, became the "astronomical big brother" at that time.
Through these artifacts lying in the museum, the trajectory of the life of the ancients is vividly remembered.
We seem to hear the sigh of their first cold drink one summer; As if they could be seen, they looked up at the night sky and danced for the upcoming harvest season.
Museums are the tellers of these stories, and they're always thinking about how they need to be told so that more people want to listen.
This past May 18 was International Museum Day, and this year's theme is "Museums, Sustainability and Well being".
On this International Museum Day, the Douyin platform launched the "Meet a Better Life in the Museum, Museum Cultural Innovation Promotion Week". Guided by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, hosted by China Cultural Heritage News and Douyin Group, and organized by Douyin E-commerce and Wenbo Online, this event invited 62 museums across the country to bring thousands of cultural and creative products, so that more young people are willing to enter cultural relics and understand the stories behind cultural relics.
Douyin has always had a close relationship with museums, doing "cloud exhibition" activities and launching cultural and museum special effects.
At the beginning of this year, the "Cultural and Creative New Year Goods Festival" launched by Douyin's e-commerce "See the Craft Project" made many young people shout "a cultural year".
Among the museums participating in this event are the National Museum of China, known as our country's "cultural living room".
The above-introduced ice book, celestial globe and astronomical map are from the collection of the National Expo, which was established in the first year of the Republic of China, with a construction area of nearly 200,000 square meters, almost as large as 28 football fields, and is the world's largest modern comprehensive museum with a single building area, with more than 1.43 million collections, covering various categories, we are familiar with the Houmu Pending, Four Sheep Fangzun and other cultural relics, now stay in the National Expo.
Over the past few years, the National Museum has been paying attention to how to get the museum out of its inherent venue and into the public's sight, until they began to popularize historical knowledge on Douyin in the form of short videos and live broadcasts.
They introduced the "first dragon of China", introduced the bronze ritual music system, introduced the secrets of oracle bones, and told us "why China".
▲ GIF source: Douyin @ National Museum of China
Because they know that the "museum + Internet" model is more suitable for the present, Guobo has also moved their cultural and creative brand "Guobo Yanyi" to Douyin e-commerce.
During this event, the official cultural and creative store of the National Museum of China, the flagship store of the National Museum of China, entered the Douyin e-commerce.
In the store, we can see that these cultural relics that were originally quietly "lying flat" are no longer separated by display cases, they have become food, use, and play, and have become cute ornaments that can be placed on the desk and played with at any time.
When asked about the views of the National Museum on cultural creativity, they mentioned that in fact, everyone is willing to pay attention to cultural creativity, because they value the profound culture behind cultural creativity, which is also what the museum wants to see.
"We also want to tell users the stories of cultural relics behind the products, and truly "make cultural relics alive and tell Chinese stories well". In the future, we also hope to use the influence of Douyin and Douyin e-commerce to let excellent Chinese culture go abroad, and let more overseas audiences understand the National Museum and understand Chinese culture through exquisite cultural and creative products. ”
At this "Museum Cultural Innovation Promotion Week", in addition to the "Xinglin Chunyan" and "Haiyan Heqing" series valued by the National Museum, we can also see many familiar images:
The astronomical map nearly a thousand years ago has been expanded on the autumn shadow Jinbo festival gift box and the Douzhuan Star Shift Night Light, and the tableware is delicate gold, with a shining beauty;
The lamp reproduces the twenty-eight stars and the 1434 stars, and the rotation can really project the effect of "fluffy radiance".
Even if the stars shift, we can look at the same night sky as the ancients.
The paper carving lamp of Daguan Garden is combined with paper-cutting art, reproducing the classic scene in "Dream of Red Mansions", superimposed with 7 layers of high-transmittance paper, and when the light is turned on, it is as thin as cicada wings, hazy and interlaced warm colors, as if hearing the whispers of the red chamber with a thin stream of water.
The cutest piece of cultural creativity is this one-day ornament, the size of a palm, hand-fired, based on the bronze ware of "Luju Zun", with stupid eyes, high head, and straight as standing in a military posture.
Such a positive foal is placed on the desk, and the mental state of the workers can be much fuller.
The artifact is silent, but the emotions attached to it are very noisy, and from thousands of years ago to today, a long relay has been completed to come to us.
And the cultural creativity we see today is the next baton, and each of their relays makes cultural relics more vivid and vivid, and also makes history more fresh and bright.