Recently, it was reported that a person named Xu Shen mentioned in the book "Shuowen" that the shape of the iron in the Eastern Han Dynasty was different from the modern one. The expert also pointed out that in the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, irons had already appeared among the people and were widely used. The Jin Dynasty's "Du Pre-Collection" also has a record of irons, which can be seen that irons have become a must-have thing for the people at that time. The iron is not only used to iron clothes, but can also be used to fetch water. However, in a small village in Fujian, someone excavated a bronze vessel covered with green rust, which looked like a modern water scoop.
A worker took this copperware home and used it for more than a decade. It wasn't until recently, when the government conducted a survey of cultural relics, that the worker realized that the water scoop in his home might be valuable and took it to the experts. After expert identification, this water scoop is actually an iron nearly 2,000 years ago. Bronze ware is very thermally conductive, and was first designed as a torture tool for torturing prisoners, but it was later discovered that it could also be used to iron clothes and set shapes. It is said that during the Han and Tang dynasties, irons were originally filled with hot water in a basin at the front end to iron some silk products. However, due to the time-consuming and energy-consuming nature of boiling hot water, people later put red-hot charcoal directly in the iron to iron clothes. Experts believe that the excavation of this iron has great historical and cultural value.
The fact that this bronze iron was unearthed in the mountainous area of Fujian Province also made the experts find interesting. The location of this artifact is likely to prove that the civilization of the Central Plains region spread to Fujian and other places in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Therefore, experts are very interested in the age and location of this iron, and they hope that the study of this artifact can fill in the gaps in ancient Chinese history and culture.
Experts have studied this iron in detail and consider it to be of high research value. Although there are no inscriptions on the iron and there is no valuable information, experts still believe that the iron is valuable enough as a cultural relic, and estimate that its economic value may be in the hundreds of millions. Although this iron is just an ordinary bronze vessel, its appearance provides an important reference for the study of local history.
Although experts have not been able to find more bronzes or aristocratic tombs in the surrounding area, the irons found in this artifact survey are still a big catch. I hope that this discovery will stimulate more people's interest in the study of ancient history and culture, and I hope that the study of this iron can fill in the blank part of history.
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