Chapter 1840: Five Heaven-defying Bronze Artifacts handed down from ancient times
Why is the Shenmian You the highest artistic level among the bronzes of the Western Zhou Dynasty?
Just one, that is, the Divine Face is a three-dimensional work of art, so why is it called a three-dimensional work of art?
Three-dimensional artworks will bring visual impact to visitors.
All the carvings on the god's face do not exist in isolation.
Instead, it creates a mysterious and weird atmosphere through organic arrangement and combination.
Looking at this artifact will give you a feeling of awe in your heart.
Until now, we can hardly imagine that the ancients three thousand years ago could use the most primitive means to create such a bronze vessel that surpassed other bronze vessels.
Obviously, these special bronzes are more famous. Since they are famous, naturally there will be no shortage of people imitating them.
"Oh, are these the five heaven-defying bronzes handed down from generation to generation?"
Every time he sees these five bronzes, Chen Wenzhe feels that the ancients' IQ is overwhelming.
It is because these heaven-defying bronzes are quite special, especially the last two, many people think they may have come from time travel.
The wisdom of the ancients is beyond our imagination. Over the past thousands of years, the ancients have left us many valuable cultural relics.
These things all have superb craftsmanship and unpredictable design concepts.
It is precisely because of these cultural relics left by history that we can learn more about history.
It is also by relying on these cultural relics that historians have answered many questions.
The value of a cultural relic is determined based on its age and material.
Therefore, there are many cultural relics that are called priceless treasures by the country.
In people's understanding, cultural relics carry profound history.
So they are generally in line with that era and more solemn.
However, many of the cultural relics excavated today look as if they were made for fun, making people think they have traveled back in time from modern times.
A Ya Chou square gui now stored in Wanwan Museum is said to be the most precious cultural relic in my country.
It is a cultural relic from the Shang Dynasty, but somehow it ended up in Wanwan. Now it is a treasure of the town.
The pattern on the surface of this Gui is complex. From its shape, it can be seen that it is a vessel for drinking wine.
This one is a national treasure that few people know about, while the following ones are very familiar to the world.
The second piece is Zeng Hou Yi Bingjian, which Chen Wenzhe has seen before, but now it is a high imitation.
This bronze vessel is a bronze vessel from the Warring States Period in my country. Although it is called Bingjian, it was used for heat preservation.
This object is the ancestor of the refrigerator. This ice mirror has also been designated as a national treasure by the country and is prohibited from being displayed anywhere.
The third piece is the Houmuwu Ding. Although there are many bronze cultural relics unearthed in our country, and the number of tripods among them is not less than a few, this tripod is said to be a national treasure.
The most famous thing about this tripod is its weight, which weighs more than 1,600 kilograms.
However, because it had been through so many years, it had been damaged by tomb robbers during the period. Later, the leg was broken, but the same leg could not be made, so it was amputated.
Although it is no longer a complete cultural relic, its status is still very important and is now on display in the National Museum.
This is where Yangluo's antique artists are so good. What they imitate is definitely not a defective product, but a complete product.
Although repairing and imitating are two different things, being able to cast such a heavy and identical Stepmother Wu Ding in one go still requires high technology.
The next thing is amazing, don’t be surprised, the sun wheel unearthed in Sanxingdui.
This is one of the ancient civilizations. If no one said it was a cultural relic, many people would have thought someone’s steering wheel had fallen off.
This national treasure-level ancient cultural relic has been shrouded in mystery because of its high-tech appearance. It is still impossible to determine what this bronze vessel was used for.
Open your eyes and let you see what high technology is. The last cultural relic is a time travel to the past.
The moiré-patterned five-column copper vessel was unearthed in Hui Province. It was discovered by workers at a construction site. It was handed over to the country and then designated as a national first-class protected cultural relic.
Later, someone wrote an article because of its appearance, and then this router-like bronze became popular.
The ancients were still very advanced and used routers.
No wonder they can invent so many magical things that even modern science cannot explain.
Seeing these five imitations of national treasures, Chen Wenzhe still didn't know that the store he came to this time had a museum of curiosity.
The bronzes here are somewhat unusual.
For example, the mysterious bronze artifacts have puzzled archaeologists for centuries.
This thing doesn't seem to be domestic. Chen Wenzhe has learned about it before, but I really haven't learned much about it in detail. It is a dodecahedron made of copper.
The first dodecahedrons were discovered nearly 300 years ago, but no one was sure what they were used for.
One day in August 1987, a man named Brian Campbell was filling in the hole left by a tree stump in his yard in Romford, East London.
At that time, his shovel hit some kind of metal.
He leaned down and pulled out an object from the soil. The strange thing was that it had a strange shape.
The object was small - smaller than a tennis ball - and had a thick layer of clay stuck to it.
The first impression when seeing this thing is that it is beautifully and skillfully made...
Also, it was probably made by a blacksmith as some kind of measuring tool.
Campbell then placed the artifact on his kitchen windowsill.
It stayed there for the next 10 years or so.
He then visited the Roman fortress and archaeological park of Saarburg, Germany.
There, in a glass display case, was an almost identical object.
He realized he had found a surprise in his garden, for he knew it was a Roman dodecahedron.
The mystery of the 12-sided metal that has puzzled archaeologists for centuries comes from this thing.
Although dozens, if not hundreds, of explanations have been offered for the dodecahedrons, no one is sure of their purpose.
This is an old puzzle that no one has figured out yet.
The first Roman dodecahedron to fascinate archaeologists was discovered about 300 years ago.
That one was buried in a field in the English countryside together with some ancient coins.
A piece of mixed metal, or ancient brass, consists of 12 equal sides.
This was the description of the egg-sized object when presented to the Society of Antiquaries in London in 1739.
These 12 faces have "an equal number of perforations within them, of varying diameters, but facing each other...each face has a knob or ball fastened to it."
The finely crafted metal casing, and its purpose, may have baffled antiquarians.
The dodecahedron of 1739 was far from the last discovery.
Since then, more than 100 similar objects have been discovered in dozens of locations across Northern Europe.
Its history can be traced back to around the 1st to 5th century AD.