Master Archaeologist

Chapter 250 Foreigners really know how to play double standards!

"Although engraving is good, it is not unique."

Chen Han smashed it, said it with some pity.

Although, the Chinese people's concept of "time" and "calendar" is far ahead.

But because it was already very common in the Han Dynasty, seven or eight of this kind of copper clepsydra of the Han Dynasty have been unearthed across the country.

They were all unearthed in the tombs of great nobles, princes and princes.

Although it is precious, it is not special enough.

After Chen Han discovered the native peanuts and caterpillar fungus of the Western Han Dynasty one after another, and even the bronze ware suspected of being a "distiller", his vision changed.

It's not the kind of great discovery that can change history and shake the archaeological world, and it doesn't catch his eyes anymore.

Seeing Chen Han's attitude, Wen Suozhang said angrily and amusedly, "Where are there so many unique cultural relics?"

"However, we also unearthed several Boshan furnaces, which are very exquisite in style."

"Boshan Furnace?" Chen Han looked at Director Wen with interest.

Throughout the ages, incense culture has reflected the splendor of Chinese civilization from a unique perspective.

The stove is warm, amidst the green smoke and emerald mist, I don’t know how many inspirations have been aroused, how much enthusiasm has been added, and how much anger has been calmed down.

Among the cigarettes curling up from the censer, countless national decisions have been made.

It can be said that the unique incense culture in Chinese culture has accompanied Chinese people for thousands of years.

The Boshan stove is the representative of the incense burner in the incense culture.

Just hearing the name of this thing, there is an indescribable "fairy" feeling.

The poem "Yongbo Mountain Furnace" says: "Go up and engrave the prince of Qin, ride the crane and ride the purple smoke."

Li Bai's "Yang Ren'er" poem says: "In the furnace of Boshan, the incense burns, and the two smokes make Ling Zixia."

These verses all describe the charming artistic conception of the smoke lingering when the Boshan furnace burns incense.

The so-called Boshan furnaces are actually smoked furnaces made in the style of "overseas fairy mountains".

China has had the custom of incense since ancient times.

In the process of burning firewood, the ancient ancestors discovered the efficacy of vanilla and fragrant wood, so they consciously put them in the fire and smoked them to purify the air and improve the living environment.

With the inheritance and spread of incense customs, incense culture has developed, and incense utensils have also emerged as the times require.

By the Warring States period, the production of some smokers had reached an unimaginable level of sophistication.

During the Han Dynasty, the society was stable, and the material and cultural living standards of the people were further improved, and the style of the smoker began to gradually become unified from the colorful and mixed situation.

Here, there is a special shape representing the fashion of the times - Boshan furnace!

Although the Boshan stove is also a kind of smoker, it is a fantasy utensil.

In the Han Dynasty, it was rumored that there were three fairy mountains on the sea, Penglai, Boshan and Yingzhou.

Yes, the legendary abbot, Xianshan, hadn't been seen at that time.

The "Boshan" of Boshan furnace is named after Boshan, which symbolizes the legendary sea fairy mountain.

Boshan furnace, called Boshan incense burner, Boshan aromatherapy, Boshan Mao furnace.

The furnace body of this kind of incense burner is in the shape of a bean in bronze, with a cover on it. The cover is high and pointed, hollowed out, in the shape of a mountain, and the mountain shapes overlap.
The unearthed Boshan furnace has many precedents in the large Han tombs excavated over the years.

At the 2010th World Expo held in Shanghai in 4, the exhibit that once amazed people - the Boshan furnace with wrong gold and copper in the Western Han Dynasty was unearthed in 1968 at the tomb of King Jing in Zhongshan, Hebei.

The Boshan furnace is 26 centimeters high, and the whole body is decorated with smooth and delicate gold wires. The gold wires are thick and thin, and the thin ones are like a hair.

It can be regarded as the pinnacle work of craftsmen in the Western Han Dynasty!

Chen Han was a little surprised and asked: "Haihunhou's Boshan furnace is more exquisite than the one in Zhongshan King Jing's tomb?"

"That's not true." Director Wen spread his hands, took Chen Han to a place where cultural relics were being cleaned up, and said: "It is impossible to have a Boshan furnace that is more exquisite than the tomb of King Jing in Zhongshan in the same age." gone."

"However, there are still exquisite Boshan furnaces."

"After all, in terms of status and identity, Liu He and King Jing of Zhongshan, Liu Sheng, are about the same. Liu He even had a higher status at his peak!"

Following Director Wen's gaze, Chen Han looked towards the excavation site, and saw a superbly crafted Boshan furnace being cleaned by several archaeologists.

The height of this Boshan furnace is about 30 cm. It not only has gilt craftsmanship, but also has the shapes of immortals and auspicious animals surrounded by auspicious clouds.

The entire furnace cover and the upper part of the furnace plate are cast in the shape of Boshan, with steep mountains, winding peaks and undulating layers.

The mountains on the furnace cover are haunted by gods and beasts, tigers and leopards are running, and immortals appear in the mountains. The pictures are vivid and lifelike.

In the middle is the place where spices are placed, the pillars below are wrapped with dragon patterns, the bottom is the tray, and there are silver decorations on it, the workmanship is quite exquisite.

It is indeed a masterpiece of extremely exquisite craftsmanship, which can fully represent the peak skills of craftsmen in the Western Han Dynasty!
Director Wen said happily: "This is the first time that the Western Han Boshan Furnace, which is so well preserved and exquisitely crafted, has been discovered in Jiangxi!"

"This not only reflects the noble status of the owner of the tomb, but also demonstrates the superb craftsmanship of the Western Han Dynasty. It is also a recorded symbol of the thousands of years of Chinese incense culture."

After hesitating for a while, Director Wen said again: "Boshan Furnace is actually closely related to the foreign exchanges of the Western Han Dynasty."

"Some foreign scholars have shown that the prototype of the Boshan furnace may have originated in Central Asia and West Asia, and it was spread to the Central Plains through the Silk Road, and combined with the idea of ​​​​Chinese immortality, it was quickly localized under the name of Xianshan. of."

"This Boshan furnace may also represent the testimony of the exchanges between the Western Han Dynasty and Central Asia and West Asia at that time!"

Chen Han scoffed at Director Wen's statement.

After he gave a meaningful groan, he said slowly, "The Silk Road is a basket, and anything can be put in it."

Boshan Furnace symbolizes the typical Chinese expectation of cultivating immortals.

As we all know, the Western Han Dynasty was a dynasty that highly respected the theory of "cultivating immortals". Everyone from great talents like Zhang Liang to ordinary people had the heart of seeking immortality.

Later, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also had the same thoughts as Qin Shihuang, wanting to become immortal and live forever.

In addition, the Huang-Lao theory was the ruling theory in the early Western Han Dynasty, and many of them only said "cultivating immortals and keeping in good health", and the first to bear the brunt was Zhuangzi's theory.

In this way, from top to bottom in the Western Han Dynasty, everyone wanted to become a fairy.

In this case, Boshan Furnace was born.

Let’s not talk about whether there is such a unique incense-burning culture in Central Asia and West Asia.

Even if the guess is correct, the prototype of Boshan furnace did come from West Asia and Central Asia.

But in BC, when everything was very slow, how many years have passed since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty dug the Silk Road to the death of his elder brother Liu Sheng?
The Boshan furnace in Liu Sheng's tomb is already a very mature work with extremely exquisite craftsmanship.

Can a foreign artifact be quickly localized and reach its peak in just ten years?

Besides, if it is an imported object, why have no smokers with West Asian or Central Asian styles been unearthed so far?
Since the Boshan stove was developed based on the incense burners in West Asia and the Middle East, there must be incense burners from West Asia and Central Asia that became popular in China first, and then they will be localized, right?
Some Western scholars, taking products like smokers unearthed in West Asia and Central Asia, said that this thing was passed from Central and West Asia to China.

Isn't this bullshit?

Things like smokers have been unearthed in China since the Warring States Period, and they have a complete local development and evolution route!

Even if smokers were unearthed in West Asia and Central Asia, it is more likely that they passed through the Silk Road through the Silk Road, right?

Why, allow foreigners' things to spread to China, and not allow China's things to spread out of the country, affecting Central Asia and West Asia?
The double standard of this group of foreign scholars is really good!
(End of this chapter)