Artifacts on the cup
Count which lines
Fashionable fashion is the most fashionable?
Three highlights, let's get to know the cloud pattern jade cup together
01
Fashion on the cup
It's all in these lines
Bronze ritual vessels from the Shang and Zhou dynasties
to the jade of the Qin and Han dynasties
The auspicious pattern is an eternal decoration
This cup is full of "auspicious wishes".
The moire jade cup is composed of two parts: the cup body and the base
It is the earliest jade goblet to date
The body of the cup is decorated with four layers of bas-relief
from top to bottom
The first layer is persimmon leaves with moire
The second layer is the valley ding hook moire
The third layer is geometric
The fourth layer is the deformed cloud head pattern
Each layer of ornamentation is separated by a string pattern
The upper part of the base is engraved with five rectangular frames
Each frame has a crossed "S" shape to simplify the phoenix pattern
The overall ornamentation is slender and gorgeous, rich and colorful
If their moral is summed up in one word
That is:
Auspicious, auspicious, auspicious
Say the important thing three times
02
It does not hold wine, but ......
"A glass of white jade wine, green poplar in March. ”
"Drinking the jade cup lingering and dancing, Nanchun wishes a thousand years of life. ”
in ancient poetry
There is always a constant connection between jade cups and wine
This jade cup is not
It doesn't hold wine
It's for dew
"Hanshu Suburb Chronicles" Yan Shigu quoted "Sanfu Story": "Jianzhang Palace bears the dew plate, 20 zhang high, and 7 large circumferences. It is made of copper, and there are cacti to bear the dew, and jade shavings to drink it. ”
"Sanfu Huangtu" volume 3: "Jianzhang Palace has a god platform...... Emperor Wu made sacrifices to immortals. There is a dew plate, and there is a copper fairy Shu holding a copper plate jade cup, in order to bear the road of the cloud table. Obey it with dew and jade shavings in order to seek immortal paths. ”
It is recorded in many ancient documents
The ancients believed
Jade is the aura of mountains and rivers
Dew is the essence of heaven and earth
Place the cup outside
Accept the dew and drink it
You can live forever and prolong your life
03
It comes from the "first house of the world"
The moire jade cup was unearthed
The ruins of Afang Palace in the western suburbs of Xi'an
Afang Palace was the first in Chinese history
A unified multi-ethnic centralized state
- The imperial palace built by the Qin Empire
With the Great Wall, the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, and the Qin Straight Road
And it is called "the four major projects of Qin Shi Huang"
It is the first unified landmark building in China
It is also the physical identity that the Chinese nation began to form
Known as "the first house in the world"
This "first house in the world"
Due to the size of the palace
Until the fall of the Qin Dynasty
Only the front hall was completed
Even so, the Afang Palace, which has not been shown in its entirety
It still makes people feel its grandeur
There are also about 600,000 square meters of Afang Palace ruins
In 1991, the ruins of Afang Palace were identified by the United Nations
The foundation of the largest palace in the world
It's a wonder of the world
For more than 2,000 years
The jade cup carries history
Silently spoken
The splendor of an era
Producer丨Tang Yi
Producer丨Bi Lei
Copywriting丨Mao Yueyin
Vision丨Ding Lijie
Technology丨Cai Zixu
Reviewer丨Zhu Dongmei
Co-ordinator丨Liu Ying, Tian Haoyuan
Special thanks to Xi'an Museum, Shaanxi Station, China Cultural Relics News
Editor in charge: Zhang Jing