Master Archaeologist

Chapter 247 Chinese people have always been the most intelligent people!
The appearance of throwing pots can only be said to be a matter of reason.

From the Spring and Autumn Period to the Qin and Han Dynasties, throwing pots has always been a very popular banquet game among Chinese nobles.

However, from the bamboo slips to the inkstone and then to the throwing pot, it can be seen that Liu He should be a person who loves elegance and loves to dance and write in terms of hobbies, habits and talents.

This is naturally very different from Liu He, who was licentious and immoral, lost imperial etiquette, and disrupted the court system in historical records.

This also allows archaeologists and historians to gain more understanding and understanding of this historical task.

After Chen Han briefly chatted with the archaeologists of the Jiangxi Institute, he walked towards the storage room next to the document archives.

Now most of the archaeologists from Jiangxi Institute of Archeology and Nanchang Institute of Archaeology have gathered in this storage room to clean it up.

Before he walked in the door, Chen Han heard all kinds of exclamations and discussions.

"Hey, the level of ingenuity in this design is comparable to the Changxin Palace Lantern!"

Exclaiming all over, he immediately caught Chen Han's attention.

The Changxin Palace Lantern is undoubtedly one of the best Western Han national treasures in the history of Chinese archaeology!
This is a treasure unearthed from the tomb of the wife of Liu Sheng, King Jing of Zhongshan.

It is the direct ancestor of Liu Bei.

The lamp body of this palace lamp is a gilded maid who sits squatting with the lamp in both hands, with a quiet and elegant demeanor.

The lamp body is 48 cm high and weighs 15.85 kg.

But the important thing is not its exquisiteness, but the ingenious design at the time of manufacture.

The design of the Changxin Palace Lantern is very ingenious. The palace lady holds the lantern in one hand, and the sleeve of the other hand seems to be a windshield. It is actually a siphon to absorb oil fumes, which not only prevents air pollution, but also has aesthetic value.

The Han Dynasty was the heyday of copper lamp production.

At present, the copper lamps unearthed from Han tombs in various places can be divided into three categories: pan lamps, siphon lamps, and down lamps.

Among them, the siphon lamp is characterized in that the lamp body has a siphon, and the lamp holder can hold water, and the siphon is used to absorb lamp smoke and send it into the lamp holder to dissolve it in water.

In this way, it can be achieved that the fuel lamp will not produce combustion smoke in the room, so as to avoid it from polluting the air.

For the era before BC, this kind of smokeless lamp was undoubtedly a high-tech product.

In fact, only the nobles of the Liu family can use this kind of high-end lamps.

However, the reason why Liu Sheng's wife can have such a high-tech palace lantern is not because her husband is a prince of the Liu family, but because her surname is Dou!
She is a member of Empress Dowager Dou's clan!

Empress Dowager Dou is the queen of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, the mother of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, and the grandmother of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. She has gone through three generations of emperors, Wen, Jing and Wu.
In the Western Han Dynasty, there was a two-house ruling system. Because the Han Dynasty ruled the world with filial piety, the power held by the queen mother could check and balance the emperor.

After meeting the emperor, the ministers usually need to go to Changxin Palace to meet the queen mother, which is equivalent to having two leaders in a country.

Back then, Empress Dowager Dou almost abolished Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, which shows how much influence and power he has.

It was also because the queen mother of the Han Dynasty had too much power, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty succeeded to the throne as a young man, and he personally experienced this kind of restraint, so he killed Liu Fuling's mother later, and left the mother to keep the son.

He was afraid that after Liu Fuling, who was only eight years old, came to the throne, the empress dowager's relatives would become so powerful that there would be a Lu family rebellion, or that, like him, he would be restricted by empress dowager Dou in various ways, and he might even be abolished.

For any emperor, it is impossible to allow a second person to share his authority.

Not even relatives!

Empress Lu, who once held the power of the emperor on behalf of the emperor, served as queen to a large number of women from the Lu family of the princes of the Liu family.

Although the later Empress Dowager Dou was not as outrageous as Empress Lu, she directly controlled the government, but she did not give less to the women of the Liu family's princes and kings.

Liu Sheng's wife, Queen Zhongshan is the Dou family.

The Changxin Palace Lantern found in her tomb had the word "Changxin" engraved on it, so it was named Changxin Palace Lantern.

The Changxin Palace is the palace where the Empress Dowager lived for a long time. Obviously, this palace lantern was given to Mrs. Zhongshan Wang by the Empress Dowager Dou.

It can be seen that in the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, only the Liu family could use such advanced high-tech lamps.

Hearing that a high-end lamp comparable to the Changxin Palace Lantern was unearthed from the tomb of Marquis Haihun, Chen Han immediately quickened his pace and leaned over to step on his feet to have a look.

I saw that an archaeologist from the Jiangxi Institute was holding a bronze lamp in the shape of a wild goose in his hand, and the wild goose had a fish in its mouth.

The shape of the whole lamp is very exquisite and lifelike, just like a wild goose fishing!
However, if you look closely, you can find that the bodies of both the fish and the wild goose are hollow.

"This fish acts like a lampshade!"

The scholar who inspected the lamp carefully said with a smile on his face: "I guess, the lampshade will block the oily fumes produced after lighting the lamp oil or white wax, and will not fly around. It can only go upward into the bodies of geese and fish."

"The people at that time should have injected some water into the belly of the goose."

"The smoke from burning, after being blocked by the lampshade, enters the hollow belly of the goose and dissolves in the water!"

"In this way, the smoke can naturally be prevented from spreading and affecting the air!"

"In addition, the four parts of this Yanyu lamp can be disassembled freely, so as to wipe and clean up the smoke and dust."

"It is said that the Chinese nation has been industrious and wise since ancient times. Looking at this geese and fish lantern will indeed make us have a sincere respect for the wisdom of our ancestors!"

Hearing his words, Chen Han nodded in agreement.

In fact, in ancient times, the Huaxia people were definitely a civilization whose technological development was ahead of the earth's civilization!
The design of this kind of smoke guide pipe is a great pioneering work in the functional innovation of the bronze lamps and lanterns of the Han Dynasty!
It is an advanced invention made by the Chinese people before BC.

As for Westerners' oil lamps, it was not until the 15th century that Leonardo da Vinci in Italy invented the iron sheet smoke guide lampshade.

That's right, it's the Da Vinci you know.

He is not only an excellent painter, but also a great smart inventor!

However, before Leonardo da Vinci, in the full 17 centuries, no Westerner could think of such a brilliant lamp!

In China, this kind of technology already appeared in the Western Han Dynasty BC!
It can be seen that the intelligence of the ancient Chinese people is definitely the best in the world!
In fact, the early Chinese civilization was full of creativity and imagination.

Whether it's arithmetic methods, astronomy, geography, technology...

China has always been ahead of the world. Western inventions before the 17th century, retrospectively, appeared on China's side definitely earlier!

Not just the four great inventions of the compass, gunpowder, papermaking, and printing.

It also includes ingenious small designs like Changxin palace lanterns.

And something that facilitates the progress of human civilization.

For example, water wheels that can increase food production.

For example, in the 20th century, it can also help scientists calculate the abacus of the atomic bomb equation!

The Chinese nation has never lacked creativity.

However, under the oppression of Confucianism in the Song and Ming Dynasties, the wisdom of the Chinese people was imprisoned by the stereotyped essays created by the Four Books and Five Classics.

(End of this chapter)