Continuing to scroll down the photos, there is actually a bronze mirror underneath.
A gold, silver, copper square mirror and a copper square lei are mixed with each other. The lei is placed in the mirror. There is also a spoon inside the lei with a slender handle and a ring-shaped handle.
Put wine in the fou or vessel and put ice in the jar to achieve the effect of ice wine.
The most famous Fang Jianfou combination is the two pieces unearthed from the tomb of Zeng Houyi.
The Bronze Bingjian of Marquis Zeng is not only large in size, but also very cleverly designed.
The copper fou is inside and the copper mirror is outside. There is enough space between the copper fou and the copper fou to put ice cubes to freeze the wine.
Different from other fou-jian combinations elsewhere, Zenghou Yi's Bronze Bing Jian also has a lid. There is a square opening in the middle of the lid, and the mouth of the bronze fou is embedded in it.
This also makes the entire Jian Fou shape more complete.
The three-dimensional decoration on the table of the vessel is also very careful. It is based on the four beasts, and the body of the vessel has eight arched dragon-shaped ear buttons.
The tail of the button is wrapped with a small dragon, and there are two small five-petal flowers embellished on it.
Without refrigerators, ancient people could enjoy iced drinks in the hot summer.
So where did summer ice come from in ancient times?
In the hot summer, the natural ice cubes used by the ancients must have been collected in advance.
Judging from documentary records, ancient people began to use ice since the Western Zhou Dynasty.
From 2002 to 2005, archaeologists discovered a large-scale "Royal Ice Room" in the No. 5 site of Changle Palace in Chang'an City, Chang'an.
In 1992, a stone "hiding freezer" was discovered in the tomb of Queen Xiao of Han Dynasty and Liang Dynasty in Mangdang Mountain, Yongcheng, Nanhe.
There are currently four Qing Dynasty ice cellars in the Forbidden City, the capital of China.
Ancient people harvested ice in the cold winter and stored the ice cubes in cold ice cellars.
"On the second day, the ice was cut and washed, and on the third day, it was collected in the cold sky."
"Lingyin" refers to the ice cellar. The ice cellar had different names in different periods. In the pre-Qin period, it was called "Lingyin (Lingshi)".
It was called "Bingjing" in the Han, Wei, Tang and Song dynasties, and "Bingjing" in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
"The second day" is the twelfth month of the lunar calendar every year, and the "third day" is the first month of the lunar calendar.
The ancients mined large amounts of ice from frozen lakes and rivers in the twelfth lunar month of winter, and then stored the ice in ice cellars in the first lunar month.
At that time, there was a special person in charge of ice services, called "Ling Ren".
In the Tang Dynasty, there were regulations on the size and thickness of each block of ice. It was stipulated that "a thousand sections of ice are stored every year, three feet square and one foot and a half thick."
In mid-spring, the emperor would hold a special ice-opening ceremony, during which a lamb would be sacrificed.
It can be seen that even for the aristocratic class, ice cubes are very rare.
Generally speaking, only princes, ministers and officials have the right to use ice.
For the ancients, the bronze ice mirror was equivalent to the "refrigerator" of that era.
Perhaps these things were more popular among the ancient royal family, so there seems to be a bronze mirror in every prince's tomb.
Otherwise, there wouldn’t be so many bronze scrolls here. In other words, each bronze scroll represents the tomb of an ancient prince?
Fortunately, this was dug before liberation, otherwise, the stall owner and his family would have to eat peanuts!
However, people have persisted and passed down these treasures to this day, which is their blessing.
The more he looked through the photos, the more emotional Chen Wenzhe became.
Being able to protect these antiques more than a hundred years ago shows that this stall owner's family is not simple.
Obviously, they found a lot of tripods and guis, and it is absolutely impossible to only have nine tripods and eight guis.
No wonder they actually stacked a set of nine tripods and eight guis together to take pictures.
At this time, Chen Wenzhe had once again seen a set of seven tripods and six guis.
This time, perhaps because the number was smaller, he could see more clearly.
Therefore, Chen Wenzhe clearly saw the inscriptions on the tripod and gui that appeared in the photo.
Many bronzes from the Western Zhou Dynasty have been unearthed, and tripods and gui are not that rare.
There are many very famous ones among them, such as Tiansu Gui, De Fang Ding, Yihou Kui Gui, Xiao Yu Ding, He Zun, etc., all of which were important artifacts from the Western Zhou Dynasty.
Bronze vessels such as the Small Yu Tripod are famous because of the inscriptions on them.
The reason why the bronzes in the photo album in front of us are not famous is simply because no one has seen them, and no one has studied them through the inscriptions on them.
Chen Wenzhe knew that as long as these things were exposed, they would soon cause a huge sensation.
Even if the thing is not exposed, just the inscription is printed, it can still cause a huge sensation.
It seems that this family has done a good job in protecting this batch of bronzes.
After looking around, I saw that the bronze tripods and Gui that appeared had few inscriptions, and then there were other bronze vessels with few inscriptions.
In such a comparison, the huge copper carriage is nothing.
It felt like it was not as rewarding as looking at the photos, and Chen Wenzhe had a smile on his face.
The greatest value of bronze vessels lies in their inscriptions, and this family put a lot of thought into it.
However, even if the price is astronomical, the person still deserves it.
"Hey, this tripod is pretty good. It looks like a famous tripod."
Looking at the photo, Chen Wenzhe saw a green vessel that looked very much like Tiger Father Yi's tripod.
This tripod has a diameter of 16.8 cm and a height of 20 cm.
The reason why it is said that he resembles Tiger Father Yi Ding is because this kind of bronze tripod was very common in the early Western Zhou Dynasty.
The Tiger Father Yi tripod is engraved with the words "Hu Father Yi" on the inner wall near the mouth.
This bronze vessel with three pillars and legs is currently collected in the Palace Museum. According to relevant research, this bronze vessel was made to worship Father Yi.
Obviously, the tripod in the photo also has two inscriptions on it: Father Yi. It was also built to worship Father Yi.
Therefore, this tripod can also be called the Father Yi Ding. Whether it is the Tiger Father Yi Ding is another matter.
There are some familiar-looking bronze vessels like this, and there are also some, like the tiger halberd and the halberd.
One piece was previously unearthed in 1958 and is stored in the National Palace Museum.
The height of this object is about 44.3 centimeters, the milling distance is about 27 centimeters, and the weight is 16 kilograms.
This type of instrument is a type of percussion music in the Western Zhou Dynasty and appeared in the middle stage of the Western Zhou Dynasty.
Therefore, it is not surprising that the same things are unearthed in other ancient tombs.
There are many bronzes that are also musical instruments, such as copper bells, bells, etc., as well as pottery xuns.
The Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties in my country were a historical period when music flourished.
At this time, many ancient musical instruments appeared on the stage, showing their elegant artistic beauty.
During the Western Zhou Dynasty, the idea of the ritual and music system swept the world, and court ritual and music emerged spontaneously.
It is said that the ritual and music system of the Western Zhou Dynasty was established by Zhou Gongdan with reference to Xia Rites and Yin Rites.
The ritual and music system of the Western Zhou Dynasty was a hierarchical music system with complex music etiquette.
During the Western Zhou Dynasty, the palace music institution-Da Si Yue was also established.
Some aristocratic children also received special education in music.
According to ancient records of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the common musical instruments in the Western Zhou Dynasty mainly include chimes, stone chimes, harps, lutes, bamboo flutes, drums, harps, xuns, cymbals, and duos, etc., and their production techniques are quite high.