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Chapter 911 Destroy its ancestral temple and move its heavy weapons

"Huh? This is a crossbow? Isn't it something that only existed during the Three Kingdoms period?"

Looking at the strangely shaped bronze vessel in his hand, Chen Wenzhe was full of surprise.

The Zhuge Liannu of the Three Kingdoms period was very famous. He did not expect that a bronze crossbow of the Han Dynasty appeared in front of him at this time.

This is a bronze ware, and it must be a crossbow machine. It cannot be something from the Three Kingdoms period.

Looking at the rusted bronze vessel in his hand, its crossbow mechanism was exposed outside the wooden pole, and it was decorated with wrong gold and silver.

On the whole, this is already a very mature crossbow machine, and each part of it has exquisite decorations.

Not to mention other places, but there are five groups on Wangshan Mountain: snake-shaped dragon pattern, phoenix pattern, golden snake pattern, running beast pattern, and flying crane pattern;

There are two groups on the two teeth: a pair of deer on the outside, a pair of cranes on the front, and two flying geese on the wheel under the teeth;

There are two groups at both ends of the key: one is Baihu and Suzaku, and the other is Benlu and Benshou.

What is more complicated is that the Guotai and arrow grooves also have patterns.

The back of Guotai is a picture of a white tiger biting a wild boar, and the front part is a picture of two symmetrical running deer;

On the side of the Doosan and the alveolar, 13 groups of compound diamond-shaped small patterns are decorated with gold wire.

The patterns of sharp swords and wild geese are painted in the arrow groove: a golden sharp arrow shoots out, and two wild geese flee in front of it.

Within a square inch, the expressions and shapes of the wild geese are vividly depicted, and it seems that two wild geese can be heard whining.

If it is determined that this thing is a creation of the Western Han Dynasty, it can definitely be called "the best crossbow in the world".

"Another baby!"

There are so many decorations on this weapon.

In particular, the decorations on it are still decorated with gold and silver, which is even more rare. .

Of course, there is one more important point, that is, it is still a practical weapon!
There are quite a lot of decorations using wrong gold and silver here, and you can find a lot of them if you take a casual look.

Putting away the crossbow, Chen Wenzhe looked at a copper pot next to him.

It should be a copper pot, after all, Chen Wenzhe has a very good knowledge of making pots.

It's just that, compared with the teapots he made, the craftsmanship of this copper pot is much more complicated, and it is also decorated with gold and silver.

Of course, this is nothing. The reason why this copper pot attracts Chen Wenzhe is mainly because of its craftsmanship.

This is a copper pot with a gold and silver inlaid wire mesh cover, but it does not seem to be from the Han Dynasty, but from the Warring States Period.

Why is it said to be from the Warring States period, because this thing has been passed down in an orderly manner.

In the fifth year of King Xuan of Qi (315 BC), the prince of Yan State in the north, Pinghe General City, launched a mutiny to attack the prime minister's son.

Zizhi successfully carried out an anti-coup d'etat, and Yan's country was in turmoil, and Qi's general Chen Zhang captured Yandu.

After Chen Zhang's army captured Yandu, they "destroyed its ancestral temple and moved its heavy weapons".

One of the "heavy utensils" is the utensils in the court of Yan State-the copper pot with gold and silver inlays and silk screen sleeves in the Warring States Period.

Chen Zhang ordered people to carve an inscription on the pot, which was his record of attacking Yan.

Therefore, this copper pot with gold and silver inlaid with wire mesh in the Warring States period, also known as the Chen Zhang round pot, was a wine container in the middle of the Warring States period.

This Warring States copper pot with gold and silver inlaid with wire mesh covers is 24 cm high, 12.8 cm in diameter, 22.2 cm in belly diameter, 13.8 cm in ring foot diameter, and weighs 6250 grams.

It is composed of the body, the shoulders and the net cover on the abdomen. The body is used as a wide mouth, a long neck, a round belly, and a ring foot.

An inscription recording the capacity of the pot is engraved along the mouth of this vessel, and the words "Chen Zhang's harvest from swallows" are engraved on the outside of the circle.

This reflects the war between Qi and Yan in 315 BC.

These think because of the value attached to the inscription.

Even if you don't look at these inscriptions, but just look at the craftsmanship of this copper pot, it is definitely a treasure.

In fact, it is because of the complicated craftsmanship of this copper pot that anyone who sees it will know that it is a treasure, and someone will engrave an inscription on it.

Therefore, it is because of this copper pot that there are inscriptions.

With the inscription, the value of this copper pot has increased.

Looking at the copper pot in front of you, and then imagining its name, in fact, it can be seen that the production process of this utensil is extremely difficult.

Mixed gold and silver, inlays, silk screen sets, copper pots.

How complicated are these processes?

Let’s not talk about other things, just look at the abdomen, where there are vertical and horizontal flower branches welded on it.

It's nothing, but the flower branches are welded with flowers. The flowers are composed of five petals and stamens. The petal decoration is as thin as hair, and there are [-] peach blossoms in full bloom.

This is very simple, right?There are more complicated ones.

The flowers on the upper abdomen of this copper pot are also welded with gold and silver interlaced copper rings, and four matching shop heads are welded around the rings.

In the middle of the root of the two corners of the head of the shop, a round bead is inlaid.

The curved horn tip is cast into a dragon head.

The dragon opened its mouth with a tongue in its mouth, and two pairs of small teeth were exposed on both sides of its lips, the tips were as small as needle points.

Four gold and silver tiger-shaped handles are welded on the abdomen, with copper rings on the upper end and flowers on the lower end, which are arranged alternately with the shop head.

The body of the tiger is curved, the head is downward, the mouth is wide open, the front and rear feet are separated, and the claws are holding the cylinder.

Isn't it difficult to make such a complicated pattern?Complicated enough?

It's not over yet!There is also the craft of copper wire mesh sleeve!

The copper wire mesh cover on this copper pot is made of [-] curly dragons and [-] plum blossom nails, which are interlaced and fastened.

In the middle of the net cover, there is a copper hoop with staggered gold and cloud patterns. On the hoop, there are four alternate beast head rings and four inverted beasts in relief. There are staggered gold and silver patterns on the rings and standing beasts.

These are only the belly decorations of the copper pot. In addition to the belly, there are also neck, ring feet and so on.

Its neck and ring feet, shoulders and abdomen under the net cover are decorated with gold and silver oblique grid moiré respectively.

The pot base is round, and the plane has a hollowed-out circular lining pattern.

The neck and seat of the pot are covered with gold and silver flakes and gold and silver threads to form a geometric pattern.

From these places, we can see how superb and complicated the craftsmanship of this copper pot is.

The most important thing is that with the addition of so many complicated crafts, the final overall effect is still that unique, and the shape of the vessel is still so beautiful and natural.

This is not easy, which is enough to show how exquisite its craftsmanship is.

That's it, I just talked about the decorations on it, and I haven't talked about the overall layout and overall craftsmanship.

Speaking of the overall layout, this utensil is a bronze pot decorated with a three-layer network of three-dimensional hollow nets composed of long dragons and plum blossom nails.

The outside of the pot body is decorated with a copper mesh cover, which is divided into upper and lower halves. The upper part is connected to the shoulder of the pot body, and the lower part starts from the edge of the ring foot, and fits up and down on the belly of the pot. The cover is decorated with a horizontal hoop. .

The net cover is a three-dimensional hollowed-out three-layer network structure, which is formed by curling and undulating long dragons coiled up and down, left and right, with their heads and tails interlaced and intertwined with each other.

The joints of the two dragons are connected with plum blossom nails, and the plum blossom nails penetrate the inner and outer three-layer network.

There are forty-eight long dragons in the upper part of the net cover, each of which undulates and curls three times, and the plum blossom nails are in forty-eight vertical rows, with three in each row, and one hundred and forty-four of them;
There are also forty-eight long dragons in the lower part, each of which undulates and curls nine times, and the plum blossom nails also have forty-eight rows, nine in each row, a total of four hundred and thirty-two.

Can this show how complicated its casting process is?

(End of this chapter)