As we all know, ancient tombs have always been mysterious, and the tombs of the dynasties and dynasties will often be patronized by tomb robbers and archaeologists can not verify, in some ancient tombs there are many burials of the treasures of the town at that time, some tomb robbers take the national treasures lightly and get rich overnight, so many well-preserved tombs that have not experienced tomb robbers will often cause an uproar when exposed to the world. Generally many treasures will be unearthed,
However, only one ancient tomb in Shaanxi was still found after being destroyed by tomb robbers, so that archaeologists and scientists have a certain understanding of ancient technology.
A national treasure has been unearthed from an ancient tomb in Shaanxi
April 1995,
Shaanxi Fufeng Huangdui No. 60 Western Zhou Tomb
After being poisoned by tomb robbers, the tomb robbers patronized by tomb robbers also in order to protect ancient cultural relics, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage immediately decided to organize archaeologists to go to the tomb for rescue restoration. When the experts entered, they found that there were some horse bones, dog bones and brass bells scattered inside, and these fragments should be some defective products dropped by the hateful tomb robbers when they hurriedly slipped away.
At the same time, archaeologists have also found some funerary items such as horse bones and gold jewelry, and a concave copper mirror has attracted the attention of experts.
With the excavation of cultural relics, because other archaeologists are not able to identify the origin and origin of this bronze mirror, this bronze mirror was passed to the archaeologist Rossi Zhang, although Rossi Zhang has not been practicing for a long time, but he can see it
Feeling this round bronze mirror has a familiar feeling,
Unable to remember where the familiar place was, Rossizhang fell into contemplation for a moment.
The concave copper mirror that Rossi Zhang was holding in his hand had already rusted at this time, and there was no bright light when he first polished.
It is a circle in its entirety, with a diameter of about 8.8 cm and a thickness of about 0.19 cm.
There is a bulge on the back of the bronze mirror held by Rossi Zhang, and a small button in the center, which is 0.9 cm high and 1.8 cm long. Rossi zhang fiddled with it in his hand, carefully examining this analogy
The "concave copper mirror" of the "teacup lid".
Finally, he thought about where the familiar feeling came from, and it turned out that Rossi Zhang thought of the excavated artifacts similar to this bronze mirror, which made him very excited, and he said excitedly:
"This may have come from a bronze sunglasses from 3,000 years ago!"
At that time, Rossi zhang's colleagues were puzzled and cast questioning eyes, but Rossi zhang continued to look at the bronze mirror.
Solar tools from 3,000 years ago
The cultural relics that Rossi Zhang suddenly thought of, its name is Yang Flint, it turned out that Luo Xizhang found a batch of cultural relics when he built the dam in 1972, and among the batch of cultural relics unearthed, there was a Yang Flint at that time.
It's just that he had just followed the archaeological team to archaeology, and at that time, he didn't know what Yang Flint was, and Rossi Zhang wasn't sure what it was, so he didn't delve into it.
What I never expected was that coincidentally, Rossi Zhang saw that thing again today, so Rossi Zhang was very familiar with it, and in the end, it reminded him of Yang Flint.
However, whether this is Yang Flint or not, Rossi Zhang actually can't be sure. What is yang flint? It is an ancient fire-making tool, using the friction of the concave surface to generate heat, and putting some velvet on the top of the yang flint can ignite the fire, which is the wisdom of the ancient people, and Rossi Zhang thought of the book he had read in the "Compendium of Materia Medica":
"Yang flint, fire mirror also." Cast in copper, its face is concave, and the heat is toward the sun, and if it is inherited by Ai, it will be fire. ”
Let Rossi Zhang be sure that this bronze mirror is a solar tool from 3,000 years ago.
Is this solar tool from 3,000 years old the same as the lighters and solar energy we use today? Actually, no, although there was already this yang flint that could be made into a fire
But after all, this object is rare and not every household can have it.
In fact, the yang of the ancient people, more when it is used in the sacrifice, the ancient times believed that fire is a sacred thing,
Ignition must be done with an flint,
Using other things and objects is a manifestation of unholyness, and there is also a special point when casting yang, and it is not possible to make it at any time.
The reason is that yang flint belongs to the yang, so the time of yang flint must be the day of the yang,
If not, it is also considered that the fire is not holy, and generally such a day will only appear during the Dragon Boat Festival, so the yang flint is also very rare.
Rossi Zhang believes that this copper mirror is Yang Flint is not imagined by himself, fabricated out of thin air, in fact, a careful look at this copper mirror will find that there is no pattern on the copper mirror.
In ancient times, such objects without patterns were generally practical things of the ancients, and they were linked to the Yang Flint, and this mystery was naturally solved.
Prove the conjecture with experiments
Rossi Zhang was very confident in his own speculation, so how to persuade others to use this bronze mirror to do a spotting experiment once to see if he could ignite the fire, so that he could know the truth. However, the "bronze mirror" in Rossi zhang's hand was already rusty, and it was obvious that this mirror could no longer make the light gather.
In fact, as long as this copper mirror is polished, it can be re-focused and functioning.
But as we all know, the value of cultural relics is very high, it is absolutely impossible to make such a dangerous action, what to do in the end?
So the clever Luo Xizhang after careful consideration, decided to imitate the antique "bronze mirror" in his hand, but it is not easy to copy, but Luo Xizhang has excellent professional experience, he especially the historical relics of the Zhou Dynasty are very researched, under the hard work,
Rossi Zhang really completed a copy of this "Yang Flint".
Rossi Zhang also consulted a lot of historical records about the use of ancient fire tools and some yang flint, and after determining that the various methods were correct,
Rossi Zhang began experimenting.
Rossi Zhang came to an empty place, and he rubbed the imitation of the concave surface of the yang in his hand and directly faced the sun,
The rice paper above the ground really burned.
Seeing this scene, Rossi Zhang was very excited, and he proved to those archaeologists at this time that this was actually a yang flint!
Along with other archaeologists, an archaeologist from Switzerland witnessed this scene, and when he saw Rossi zhang shining a bronze mirror on rice paper and began to burn in just a few seconds, he couldn't help but exclaim in admiration. And the excavation of the yang flint,
Witness the beginning of the ancient civilization of the continent, how amazing the solar tools 3,000 years ago were,
You must know that the total history of other countries and even countries is only 3,000 years, let alone the invention of such a great tool.
In fact, in our long history, there are countless benevolent people in our five-thousand-year history
Or stand up in times of national crisis, or give silently when the country is rich and strong,
In modern times, there are people who have worked hard to study science and technology, and there are also people in ancient times, so it is not difficult to imagine the solar tool from 3,000 years ago in Rossi Zhang's hand!
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