Today is May 18, World Museum Day.
In 1977, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) announced that 18 May would be designated as International Museum Day, and that the theme of the event would be set for International Museum Day each year.
The museum is a magical existence, every time you enter the museum, it is like traveling through hundreds of thousands of years, or even tens of thousands of years of time and space, and seeing the words and deeds of the ancients.
Although the exhibits are placed there silently, when you gaze at it, it seems that you see the ideals and aesthetics of the ancients for thousands of years. This kind of communication is silent, but it is real and has no sense of distance!
In April this year, I walked into the Henan Museum for the first time. There is one exhibit that I have stood for a long time, and I don't want to leave, and I still can't forget it, that is, "The Woman is a Good Owl".
At first glance, this exhibit is majestic and a little cute.
Through the introduction and review of relevant materials, I learned about the history of the Shang Dynasty, the deeds of women, and the thoughts and aesthetics of the ancients.
Who is a good woman?
First of all, Nuhao was the wife of Wu Ding, a male lord of the late Shang Dynasty. She is not only the first female military commander in Chinese history, but also an outstanding female politician. She can fight well and has outstanding achievements, but she is much more powerful than Mulan.
In the summer of one year, when a foreign enemy invaded the northern border, the generals who went to the expedition could not solve the problem for a long time, so the woman took the initiative to ask for help and led the troops to help in the battle, and soon defeated the enemy and won the first battle. The woman's good military talent was recognized by Wu Ding.
After that, she led the troops to fight many times, and successively defeated more than 20 small countries such as Beitufang, and made great contributions to the expansion of the territory of the Shang Dynasty. In the battle against the Qiang side, Nu Hao led more than 13,000 troops, and this time the men and horses were equivalent to more than half of the Shang Dynasty's troops, and the scale of the troops was rare.
The battle against the Qiang side was finally a complete victory, and for this reason, Wu Ding divided the fief to the woman. In those days, only men usually had fiefdoms, which showed the status of women.
What is an owl? The owl is the owl.
The owl is a peculiar-looking animal, with the head of a cat and the body of an eagle, and is a mixture of beast and bird. The owl's diurnal habits, keen vision and well-developed sense of hearing are considered to be a symbol of bravery and intelligence. Coupled with the creepy howling sound at night, it is full of spirituality and mystery, so it has become a symbol of the ancient "god of war", and it is the favorite object of women, even kings and generals, and the owl-shaped vessel is used as a burial object after death.
The auditory nerve of owls is very well developed. An owl weighing only 300 grams has 95,000 auditory nerve cells. Owls also have very keen vision, and in the dark of night, visibility is more than a hundred times higher than that of people.
In Africa, there is a species of owl whose eyes can emit light like a flashlight, and the brightness can be adjusted. The local aborigines use owls to hunt. What's even more amazing is that the light from the owl's eyes shines on the animal's eyes, and the animal doesn't even notice it.
The women's tomb unearthed a pair of owls, the demeanor is realistic, majestic and heavy, heroic, majestic and mighty, and a little cute and cute, witnessing the life of this legendary woman in China, and is considered to be the spokesperson of women!
Witness that the bronze manufacturing industry in the late Shang Dynasty was highly mature and reached its peak.
The owl stands upright, with a crown of feathers on its head, round eyes, wings together, thick feet and drooping wide tail to form three fulcrums, the shape is novel, giving people a particularly stable and heavy feeling. The whole body is decorated with animal face pattern, cicada pattern, dragon pattern, snake pattern and other ornaments, which are very exquisite, which shows the exquisite bronze casting technology and unparalleled aesthetics of the craftsmen at that time. Witnessing the late Shang Dynasty, the mainland bronze manufacturing industry has been highly mature and reached its peak.
The woman is good and the owl is respected, the stepmother is Wuding, and the Yachang Niu is respected...... A piece of bronze cultural relics, by the wisdom of the ancestors, a furnace and a fire casting, silently showing the brilliant bronze age and the glory of the past, but also let us fully feel the afterglow of history, the greatness of the ancestors, as the pride and pride of the descendants of the Chinese nation!