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Chapter 1844 Strange, weird weapon
The bronze hand was found on the left calf of the owner of the tomb, and this use is supported by everyone.

Then there are sacrificial supplies, there is nothing to say about this.

Every major festival, the emperor will hold a sacrificial ceremony, and relevant officials will prepare corresponding items in advance.

Judging from the appearance of the cultural relic, it should be a sacrificial item in the hands of a wizard.

It mainly appears on important sacrificial occasions, and it is for this reason that nobles make it a funeral object.

The last point of view is the bronze bi-shaped vessel, which is usually used in conjunction with the copper tripod, and its purpose is to "catch meat".

The ancients were very smart. They invented many unexpected daily necessities and modified the original ones.

This kind of statement is the most reliable. The strangely shaped bronze hand should only be a tool for scooping up meat.

The above five uses are all speculations. If you want to determine what the purpose is, you can only look at the future.

With the development of archaeological work, more cultural relics will be discovered, which will definitely solve the mystery of the use of the bronze hand.

Just like some daily necessities discovered by the ancients, it is difficult for us modern people to imagine.

However, from later discoveries, such as murals and canons, some matching records can be seen, so that the purpose of an item can be determined.

There are many things like this that don't know their purpose in ancient times, such as bronze wheel-shaped utensils.

This object belongs to Shang and was unearthed from Sanxingdui, with a diameter of 85 cm.

While it looks a bit like a steering wheel, it's really not.

What exactly is the Sanxingdui wheel shaper for?At the beginning of the discovery, I thought it was a chariot and horse, but after a closer look, I found that it was not a wheel.

Later, it was named "wheel-shaped device" according to its appearance.

Five eyelets are distributed at equal intervals on the edge of the wheel, and there is also an eyehole in the center.

Therefore, the wheel-shaped device should be used with something, perhaps hanging on the bronze tree, or used in combination with the bronze Talisman.

It is a pity that most of the Sanxingdui utensils were smashed when they were buried, so the distribution of the utensils is quite chaotic.

Therefore, there is no way to restore the artifacts nearby, and there are no similar images for reference.

Many experts speculate that the wheel-shaped device may be related to sun worship.

The sixth strange thing is Zuo Chuan Yuan, something from the late Shang Dynasty, which is now hidden in the National Museum.

Although it looks a bit fake, it is a genuine national treasure!
After the appraisal of many experts, it is confirmed that this is a bronze ware from the late Shang Dynasty.

The preciousness of this bronze ware lies not only in its peculiar shape, but also in the 32-character inscription on the turtle back armor.

The inscription records the deeds of a Shang king shooting turtles in Huanshui.

The Shang king shot four arrows at the turtle found by the river, and the arrows hit the turtle's body. This bronze vessel was made to record this deed.

It is said that it was obtained by an old Nanhe farmer while fishing by the river, and was later collected by the National Museum.

Because it was unearthed through irregular excavations, there are still many doubts about this bronze ware.

The image of this thing is a turtle with four arrows stuck in its back.

It is inaccurate to say the tortoise, it should be a turtle. It is crawling, with its head protruding, its four legs exposed, its tail tilted to the left, and its left shoulder and carapace embedded in four arrows.

The inscription cast on the back of the turtle has 4 lines and 33 characters, which records that the Shang king traveled to Huanshui in Bingshen and shot Yuan.

The king of Shang shot one arrow, Zuo Chuanzuo shot three arrows, all of them hit, and the king of Shang gave Zuo Chuan the turtles he captured.

What is recorded in the inscription is exactly consistent with the image taken by this vessel.

In the early Shang Dynasty, inscriptions began to be cast on a few bronze wares, with a small number of characters.

In the late Shang Dynasty, the number of cast inscription bronzes increased significantly.

It was not until the end of the Shang Dynasty that long inscriptions with dozens of characters appeared.

The Western Zhou Dynasty was the heyday of bronze inscriptions. Inscriptions of more than 100 characters are quite common, and there are many cases of more than 200 or 300 characters.

Bronze inscriptions, also known as "golden inscriptions" and "Zhong Dingwen", basically kept the form of writing with a brush, and were the orthodox characters at that time.

It is also because most of them have text that bronzes can become the real national treasures of our country, because they are inheriting civilization.

More important than this one must be the lunch box.

Chen Wenzhe had bought a Suigong before, but he didn't know if the one hidden in Poly was real.

Sui Gongyu: "I must be true!"

You thought it was just a "lunch box", but it was actually a bronze lunch box.

"盨" sounds the same as "Xu", and was used to hold millet, millet, rice, beam and other meals in ancient times.

The value of this bronze lunch box lies in its inscription. There are 98 characters on the inscription, which record the content of Dayu's water control, government and virtue, etc. The style is similar to "Shangshu·Yugong", and it can be mutually verified.

This bronze scorpion is the earliest documented record of Dayu's flood control that has been seen so far, and it is of great significance.

The eighth piece is the cloud pattern copper five-pillar vessel, which is very similar to a modern router in the middle and late Western Zhou Dynasty.

This type of utensil is still an isolated product at present, and its image is not found in any historical materials.

There are different opinions about the use of this cloud pattern copper five-pillar vessel. At present, there are several theories such as incense vessel, musical instrument, and prayer vessel.

The ninth thing that makes people strange is the bronze caliper, needless to say, it is something from the Wang Mang period.

It is one of the cultural relics that are really suspected of "time travel".

It is the prototype of modern vernier caliper, which can measure length, outer diameter and depth.

Scholars estimate that the longest length it can measure is almost one foot in the Han Dynasty.

The last one is the bronze galloping horse, something from the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

The Bronze Galloping Horse was out of the circle because of "horse stepping on flying swallows", but because of the controversy over the things under the horse's hooves, it was named "Bronze Galloping Horse" out of a rigorous attitude.

A netizen once asked why the national treasure "Horse Stepping on a Flying Swallow" never took a frontal photo?

I believe that the netizens who asked the question must have never seen the real bronze galloping horse.

As long as you have seen the bronze galloping horse itself, you will know how funny the front of the copper galloping horse is.

What's more, only from the side of the bronze galloping horse can we see the "smooth turn" of the horse's legs.

This is also the wonderful thing about the bronze galloping horse, but it turns out that many people don't know it.

At the end, Chen Wenzhe saw a series of strange bronze wares.

What this family does is to hunt for novelties, so there are really many ancient bronzes he imitated, and few people know about it.

Some of the bronzes are really weird, and the last one is so weird that you won't believe your eyes!
As we all know, in the tombs of many emperors and princes, there are many important objects such as the Owl Zun, the Siyang Square Zun, and the Great Yu Ding.

However, in addition to these famous national treasures, a large number of strange and strange tools with unknown uses were also unearthed in those ancient tombs.

Some of these weird utensils can open your mind, some of them only know the purpose after thinking about it, and some don't know what they are for at all.

For example, in 1958, two chicken heads were unearthed from a Han tomb in Chang'an.

The cultural relics experts at the time didn't take them seriously, but later, when sorting out the cultural relics, they discovered that these two things were unusual.

They are not called chicken heads, but dove heads.

(End of this chapter)