Northern Song Dynasty Glass Grapes Excavated in 1969 from the Jingzhi Temple Pagoda Underground Palace, collected by the Dingzhou City Museum, but you must not try to eat it, because it is fake....
Grapes are a common summer fruit. The string of glass grapes introduced today is unearthed in the Jingzhi Temple Pagoda Underground Palace in the Northern Song Dynasty.
The grapes vary in size, round and oval, with a very thin abdominal wall and are blown from grain to grain. The texture of the glass is not very pure, and there are many light spots on the dark surface, but these defects make this bunch of glass grapes look more like real grapes.
The history of the development of glass ware has been briefly introduced in the previous three articles of Dragonfly Eye, Li Jingxun Tomb Glass Bottle and Qianlong Hair Salon Bottle (Poke Blue Character Review). Today, with this cultural relic, I will briefly introduce the history of grape cultivation in China with a push.
Chinese archaeological materials and documentary historical materials show that the people of the Central Plains first planted grapes in the Western Han Dynasty. According to the Chronicle of Dawan, in 138 BC (the third year of the jianyuan of Emperor Wu of Han), Zhang Qian went on an envoy to the Western Regions on the orders of Emperor Wu of Han and saw that the local residents "recognized Pu Tao as wine, and the rich hid wine to more than 10,000 stones, and the long-term undefeated people were dozens of years old." The "putao" in the historical data is the name of grapes in the Han Dynasty.
The emperor who liked to eat grapes the most in history was none other than The Wei Emperor Cao Pi. Cao Pi often praised the grapes in front of the courtiers: "There are many rare fruits in China, and they are said to be putao." When its Zhu Xia waded into autumn, there was still a residual summer, drunk and sober, hiding and eating. Sweet but not greasy, sour but not crisp, cold but not cold, long and juicy taste, in addition to annoyance and thirst quenching... The fruit of others, rather than the match! In Cao Pi's eyes, the grapes are sweet and sour, cool and cool, and there is no better fruit than it."