Our country has had the custom of respecting the old and loving the young since ancient times. When Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty was in power, he held a banquet for people over 70 years old.
After the banquet, Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty gave each of the elderly people present a dove stick.
"Book of Etiquette of the Later Han Dynasty": "A jade stick, nine feet long, decorated with a dove bird at the end. A dove is a bird that does not choke, and I hope that the elderly will not choke."
The turtle dove bird does not choke when eating, which means that the elderly eat delicious food, stay in good health, and live a long and healthy life.
In addition to this special imperial gift, the copper crossbow also had a very special status in ancient times.
Now is the age of firearms. Once a war occurs, small firearms are trivial, and large objects and the like are often just thrown over.
However, in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, when two armies fought, the bow and crossbow took precedence. It can be seen that the bow and crossbow were definitely the most important weapons at that time.
Cultural relic experts once unearthed a batch of strange copper utensils during protective excavations in the tomb of Liu Sheng, Prince Jing of Zhongshan in the Western Han Dynasty.
This thing is very much like a freehand pistol, but there were no pistols at that time. Experts later dismissed the unreliable view.
As the excavation progressed, experts discovered traces of a rotten crossbow and a sheep casing bowstring in front of the pistol-shaped bronze vessel.
After seeing these traces, experts realized that this was originally the copper crossbow machine behind the crossbow.
This kind of crossbow is a weapon with long-range shooting and strong lethality. Its structure is divided into two parts: the arrow box and the body.
The mechanism is made of copper, and the arrow box is carved from nanmu and is rectangular in shape. There are two parallel semicircular firing holes on the lower edge of the front end.
There are three slots for storing arrows in the box. There are vertical slots on both sides, which can store nine arrows, and a horizontal slot in the middle, which can be placed side by side.
This kind of copper crossbow is well-cast and very exquisite, and it already has some prototypes of modern weapons.
It is a pity that in ancient times, every dynasty changed, there was a civilizational fault, and due to the lack of emphasis on science, this weapon was not developed.
Even by the Han Dynasty, the practical crossbows had become larger, not smaller.
Modern technology has proven that any thing, whether it is huge or miniaturized, is high technology.
In 1964, a copper crossbow machine made in the fourth year of Liu Chan Jingyao's reign was unearthed in Sichuan.
Jingyao's fourth year has been more than 20 years since Zhuge Liang's death, but the production of this large-scale repeating crossbow is still very precise.
The entire repeating crossbow weighs 267 kilograms, so for such a large repeating crossbow, you have to use your feet to wind the crossbow arrows, and then it can be fired.
And Qie's records in "Tang Jing Sai Nu" have detailed descriptions.
This book says that there are many crossbows in Shu, and the largest crossbow is the Zhuge Liannu.
This type of crossbow can fire ten crossbow arrows at once, called a flock of crows, or it can fire only one crossbow arrow.
And the ones that fire only ten or one fire are both called Mountain-Destroying Crossbows, which are the repeating crossbows made by Kong Ming back then.
However, in ancient times, there were not many dynasties that could support such large-scale industrial manufacturing. Even if they were able to produce it, whether they wanted to make it or whether they could make it was still a question.
Therefore, this kind of copper crossbow, which was very similar to a pistol, was eventually lost.
There were many strange things like this in ancient times, such as jade.
What is a jade? The correct answer is that it is the father of the finger ring.
In ancient times, in order to protect the fingers of the archer, a jade string hook was worn on the right thumb of the archer.
The earliest jade talisman was unearthed from the tomb of Fu Hao in the Yin Ruins in the late Shang Dynasty. When it was unearthed, archaeologists felt that this thing looked like a thumb ring.
However, the Qing Dynasty wrenches were all in the shape of a hollow straight barrel, which was somewhat different from this strange monster.
After examining the classics, experts finally determined that this jade dragon was the father of modern people.
Because there is a shallow groove on this jade that can be used to hook strings, and there are obvious traces of use on it.
Such as this weird ancient utensil and the world's earliest steam boiler.
In 1976, a strange bronze vessel was unearthed from Fuhao's tomb in Yinxu, Anyang.
This is a basin-shaped container with a hollow column standing in the middle. On the top of the column is a lotus-shaped hole with a hole.
What exactly this thing was, experts were still debating at the time.
Some people say it is a sacrificial item, while others say it is a gourmet utensil.
After a protracted debate, it was finally named Steam Column Retort - meaning steam boiler.
This steam column retort is placed on a hot water basin, and the steam will rise along the perforated column into the retort to steam the food inside.
However, some experts have reservations and believe that this object should be an alchemy furnace used for alchemy.
And there are many weird kitchen utensils like this, such as copper drains.
This is a bronze closed cylinder with a hole on the top, a hole on the bottom, and a lifting beam on the top.
What did the ancients use this thing for? At first glance, you will definitely be confused.
Five nights of missing sounds remind the dawn arrows, and the ninth spring scenery intoxicates the fairy peaches.
This is "Early Dynasty with Jia Sheren" written by Du Fu, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty. These two lines of poems write one thing, that is, more leaks.
The watch is equivalent to modern watches, quartz clocks and timepieces, but when the watch below was unearthed in the ancient tomb, it really made experts scratch their hair.
Because of the wooden scale rod in the middle of this weird-looking thing, as well as water floats and other things inside.
Some parts have long since rotted into mud, making them even more difficult to identify.
Without a few important things, this update becomes a strange device that is difficult to understand...
Strange things like this can be said to be everywhere, such as the king-pattern copper ceremonial.
A farmer accidentally dug up an ancient tomb from the Warring States Period while building a road in Xiaotian River, FL, Sichuan Province.
After hearing the news, experts rushed to the scene and after excavation, a large number of cultural relics were unearthed.
But facing this weird bronze vessel, they were at a loss.
This thing has an octagonal handle with an oval cup-shaped body above it.
The cup-shaped bronze vessel is also engraved with two characters on the front.
In the middle of the word "王", there is also a mysterious Bashu symbol.
Is this thing a big wine glass? But it seems too heavy to be used as a wine glass.
As a container, its bottom cannot stand at all.
After several years of research, experts finally found its name - Zheng in ancient books.
The zheng is a percussion instrument from the Warring States Period. It is often used in military formations and has the function of directing soldiers to advance and retreat during wars.
Therefore, the word "王" is engraved on the surface of the zheng to show its importance!
Just like the zheng, such a strange and rare musical instrument has been handed down from ancient times only rarely, but it is not isolated, such as the tiger-button jade.
This bronze is the weirdest bronze that Chen Wenzhe has ever seen.
What's weird about it is that the bottom of this kind of vessel is open, with a tiger button on top, and the middle part of the vessel is covered with transparent holes.