When it comes to the impression of cultural relics, the first word that comes to everyone's mind is "solemn and solemn", no matter how foolish people go into the museum to see cultural relics will sit up in a second, but not every cultural relics are so serious, some cultural relics are "not serious", which will make you a black question mark face for a second: "Is this really a cultural relic?" ”
Eastern Han tortoise toad fish pottery lamp
This ugly and cute cultural relic of the Sichuan Museum looks like a crab, and a bit like an octopus, in fact, it has nothing to do with crabs and octopus, it is composed of three animals: Mandarin duck, toad and turtle. The two crab-like claws are mandarin ducks, whose fins hold up the lamp as a lampstand.
The fish on the left did not hold up the lamp, that is because the damage to the artifact caused the loss of the lamp bowl on the left, and the fish on the left was so empty with fins, it looked so embarrassing! The animal with two round and slippery eyes in the middle is a toad, and the toad is a turtle with four feet, and the combination of these three animals is called tortoise toad fish pottery lamp.
The common name of the toad is what we often call "toad", the back of the toad is full of disgusting knots, why should this cultural relic use toad to make a pottery lamp? We all know that the lamp is generally used at night when the moon comes out, and the toad has a little relationship with the moon, and the ancients used the toad to make the image of the lamp.
There are craters on the moon, so that its surface is covered with shadows, the ancients saw the shadows on the moon did not know that it was a crater, they used their imagination to think that it was rabbits and toads, as early as the Western Han Dynasty people had this idea, astronomer Zhang Heng also said in the "Lingxian": "The moon, the yin essence, accumulates into a beast, like a clam rabbit."
Don Pig Head Figurine
In 1972, No. 215 of the Astana Cemetery in Turpan City unearthed a clay maid relic, that is, the following laughing pig head figurine, this pig is 79 cm tall, the face is moderately exaggerated, the face is thin and the nose is extended forward, the fangs pile up the facial folds, the most soulful place is that the two eyes are laughed into a crescent shape, and it is currently the only large-scale zodiac figurine in Xinjiang.
The origin of the zodiac is related to animal worship, the pre-Qin dynasty has a complete zodiac system, the zodiac sign made into clay figurines buried in the Sui and Tang dynasties is very popular, in addition to Turpan, Shaanxi Xi'an Tang tomb also has a similar zodiac figurines.
Shang Bronze Owl (xiāo yǒu)
This cultural relic is like a "angry bird" on the Internet popular, but it is not used to hit the green-headed pig, "owl" refers to the owl, "卣" is the meaning of wine vessels, so this cultural relics is used to hold wine bronze wine vessels, this kind of wine vessels are very popular in the Shang Dynasty and the Western Zhou Dynasty, most of the shape is round or oval, it is no wonder that bronze owls look chubby, people who want to see can go to the Shanxi Museum to see.
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Golden Gate Wind Lion Gate Pottery Lamp Holder
Do you believe that the following two goods are used to ward off evil spirits? People in the Fujian area will put the wind lion on the doorstep or the beam of the house in order to ward off evil spirits, attract wealth, and ask for children, since the image of the wind lion master used to ward off evil spirits is generally very fierce, growing into a grinning tooth and a fierce look, but this wind lion master has a silly face, as if he saw something very funny, from the Republic of China period to the present.
Neolithic Statue of the Jade God
This is the oldest cultural relics in these 5 cultural relics, about 5000-6000 years ago, is the representative work of Hongshan culture jade, the cultural relics unearthed by Hongshan culture have a strong religious color, this figure is a circular sculpture of the sun god artificial image, his eyes protrude from the pig's mouth, hands around the chest, bowed his head and pondered, people can not guess what he is thinking, and is now collected by the Shanghai Aurora Museum.