The bronze hand was found on the left calf of the tomb owner, and this purpose is supported by everyone.
Then there are the sacrificial supplies, there is nothing much to say about this.
Every major festival, the emperor would hold a sacrificial ceremony, and relevant officials would prepare corresponding items in advance.
Judging from the appearance of the cultural relic, it should be a sacrificial item in the hands of a wizard.
It mainly appeared on major sacrificial occasions. Because of this, the nobles made it a funerary object.
The last view is that of bronze bi-shaped vessels. Bronze bi-shaped vessels are usually used in conjunction with bronze tripods, and their purpose is to "catch meat."
The ancients were very smart. They would invent many unexpected daily necessities and transform the original ones.
This theory is the most reliable. The strange-shaped bronze hand should be just a tool for fishing out meat.
The above five uses are all guesses. If you want to determine what they are, you can only look at them later.
With the development of archaeological work, more cultural relics will be discovered, which will surely solve the mystery of the purpose of the bronze hand.
Just like some of the daily necessities discovered by the ancients, it is difficult for us modern people to imagine them.
However, from later discoveries, such as murals and classics, we can see some matching records, so that the purpose of an item can be determined.
There were many things like this with unknown uses in ancient times, such as bronze wheel-shaped vessels.
This thing belongs to Shang Dynasty and was unearthed from Sanxingdui. It has a diameter of 85 centimeters.
Although it looks a bit like a steering wheel, it really isn't.
What is the Sanxingdui wheel-shaped device used for? When I first discovered it, I thought it was a chariot and horse device, but after a closer look, I discovered that it was not a wheel.
Later, it was named "wheel-shaped device" based on its appearance.
There are 5 eye holes at equal intervals on the edge of the wheel, and there is also an eye hole in the center.
Therefore, the wheel-shaped device should be used with something, perhaps hanging on a bronze tree, or used in combination with a bronze tall man.
Unfortunately, most of the Sanxingdui artifacts were smashed when they were buried in the pit, so the distribution of the artifacts is relatively chaotic.
Therefore, there is no way to restore the artifacts nearby, and there are no similar images for reference.
Many experts speculate that the wheel-shaped device may be related to sun worship.
The sixth strange thing is the book-like turtle, which dates from the late Shang Dynasty and is now hidden in the National Museum.
Although it looks a bit fake, it is a genuine national treasure!
After appraisal by many experts, it was confirmed that this was a bronze from the late Shang Dynasty.
The preciousness of this bronze vessel lies not only in its unique shape, but also in the 32-character inscription on the turtle's back armor.
The inscription records the deeds of a Shang king who shot a turtle on the Huan River.
The Shang king shot four arrows at the turtle found by the river. The arrows hit the turtle's body. This bronze vessel was made to record this event.
It is said that an old Nanhe farmer caught it while fishing by the river, and was later collected by the National Museum.
Because it was unearthed through informal excavations, there are still many doubts about this bronze.
The image of this thing is that of a turtle with four arrows stuck on its back.
It is not accurate to say that it is a turtle, it should be a turtle. It is crawling, with its head protruding, all four legs exposed, its tail tilted to the left, its left shoulder, and its carapace embedded with four arrows.
The inscription on the back of the turtle has 4 lines and 33 characters, describing that the Japanese Shang King Bingshen went to Huan River and shot the turtle.
The King of Shang shot one arrow, and Zuo Chubanzuo shot three arrows, all of which hit the target. The King of Shang gave the captured turtle to Zuo Chupan.
What is recorded in the inscription is consistent with the image of this vessel.
In the early Shang Dynasty, inscriptions began to be cast on a few bronze vessels, with a small number of words.
By the late Shang Dynasty, the number of bronze vessels with inscriptions increased significantly.
It was not until the end of the Shang Dynasty that long inscriptions of several words appeared.
The Western Zhou Dynasty was the heyday of bronze inscriptions. Inscriptions with more than 100 words were common, and there were many examples with more than 200 or 300 words.
Bronze inscriptions are also called "jinwen" and "Zhongdingwen". They basically maintain the form of brush writing and were the traditional Chinese characters at that time.
It is also because most of them have words on them that they can make bronze wares a real national treasure of our country, because they are inheriting civilization.
What is more important than this is definitely the lunch box.
Chen Wenzhe had bought a Sui Gong tea before, but he didn't know if the one hidden in Poly was authentic.
Sui Gongyu: "I must also be true!"
You think it is just a "lunch box", but in fact it is really a bronze lunch box.
"盨" sounds the same as "Xu" and was used to hold millet, millet, rice, beam and other meals in ancient times.
The valuable thing about this bronze lunch box is its inscription. There are 98 words inscribed on it, which record Yu the Great's control of floods and his conduct of politics with virtue. The style is similar to "Shang Shu·Yu Gong", and can prove each other.
This bronze cup is the earliest documentary record of Dayu's flood control that has been seen so far, and it is of great significance.
The eighth piece is a moiré-patterned five-column copper vessel, which is very similar to a modern router in the middle and late Western Zhou Dynasty.
This type of vessel is currently an orphan, and its image is not found in any historical materials.
There are different opinions on the use of this five-column moiré copper vessel. Currently, there are several theories such as incense vessel, musical instrument, and child praying vessel.
The ninth strange thing is the bronze caliper, which needless to say dates from the Wang Mang period.
It is one of the cultural relics that is truly suspected of "travelling".
It is the prototype of modern vernier caliper, which can measure length, outer diameter and depth.
Scholars estimate that the longest length it can measure is almost one foot in the Han Dynasty.
The last one is the bronze galloping horse, something from the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
The Bronze Galloping Horse came out of the circle because of the "horse stepping on flying swallows", but because of the controversy over what the horse's hoofs stepped on, it was named "Bronze Galloping Horse" out of a rigorous attitude.
A netizen once asked why the national treasure "Horse Treading on a Flying Swallow" is never photographed from the front?
I believe that the netizen who asked the question must have never seen the actual copper galloping horse.
Anyone who has seen the Bronze Galloping Horse will know how funny the front of the Bronze Galloping Horse is.
What's more, only from the side of the bronze galloping horse can you see the "smooth turning" of the horse's legs.
This is also the wonderful thing about Bronze Galloping Horse, but it turns out that many people don’t know this.
At the end, Chen Wenzhe saw another series of strange bronze vessels.
This family's job is to hunt for novelties, so there are quite a lot of ancient bronzes that they have imitated, but few people know about them.
Some of the bronzes are really weird, and the last one is so weird that you won’t believe your eyes!
As we all know, in the tombs of many emperors and princes, there are many important objects such as the Owl Zun, the Four-Yang Fangzun, and the Great Men's Cauldron.
But in addition to these famous national treasures, a large number of strange and strange weapons with unknown uses were also unearthed in those ancient tombs.
Some of these weird utensils will make your imagination run wild, some of them will only work out until your head hurts, and some of them have no idea what they are for at all.
For example, in 1958, two chicken heads were unearthed from a Han tomb in Chang'an.
Cultural relic experts at the time did not take them seriously, but later, when sorting out the cultural relics, they discovered that these two items were unusual.
They are not called chicken heads, but dove heads.