The mainland has a history of 5,000 years, of which there are many dynasties, each dynasty has its own unique history and culture, with the change of dynasties, although the culture will change, but the cultural relics left over from the dynasty have become an important carrier of inheriting history. After excavations in Xiangjiazhuang, Linzi, archaeologists unearthed a duck-shaped bronze vessel, and they discussed it for three days before unveiling the mystery of its use. Today Xiaobian will reveal the secret to you:
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In 1966, a construction site in Linzi District, Zibo City, Shandong Province, was under construction, and in the process of construction, workers actually dug up a hard thing wrapped in mud, and when they removed the dirt, they immediately exclaimed, and this hard thing turned out to be a bronze fragment. After the construction team leader heard the exclamation, he rushed to run, with his past experience, he felt that there might be an ancient tomb in the area, so he quickly contacted the local cultural relics department.
Subsequently, the staff of the cultural relics department rushed to the site with professional archaeological tools, and after on-site exploration, they determined that there was an ancient tomb in the area and prepared for conservation excavations. In the process of cleaning, archaeologists unearthed a number of precious artifacts, such as the eagle head lifting beam pot, which has an eagle's head-shaped lid, a pair of rivet-shaped earlets on the neck, and a set of "S" shaped chains on each side, which are connected to the beam through the double ring of the lid.
Through the study of excavated cultural relics, experts determined that the ancient tombs found in the area were built in the Warring States period. When sorting out the excavated cultural relics, a strangely shaped cultural relics successfully attracted the attention of everyone. In ancient mainland china, craftsmen were very fond of using animals as prototypes to make corresponding utensils, and among the utensils unearthed from this Warring States tomb, there was a bronze vessel shaped by a "duck", which was full of difficult mysteries.
We can see that this bronze vessel is a duck-shaped vessel, its body is round and rolling, on the back of this big duck, there is a "mini duck" with the same shape, but the reason why this artifact attracts experts is not because of the duck shape, but because the duck has an artifact similar to a comb in its mouth.
After seeing the duck-shaped bronze statue holding something, the experts immediately showed a puzzled expression, what is this thing that resembles a comb? In order to find out the purpose of this cultural relic, they specially held a seminar, invited historians and cultural relics experts, and after three days of intense discussion, put forward three conjectures:
The first: wine vessels
From the overall shape, experts believe that the duck-shaped bronze statue should be a "wine vessel", the abdomen of the bronze duck is empty, it should be used to hold the wine, and the bronze duck on the back of the vessel is not a decoration, just need to gently pull it up, you can load the wine into the abdomen of the bronze duck. The comb-shaped vessel is a porous pouring mouth.
The second type: sacrificial vessels
The duck-shaped bronze statue is very exquisitely made, if it is only a wine vessel, there is no need to design a bronze water outlet in the shape of a "comb" to let the bronze duck hold it, such a design should have a special meaning, so it should be a sacrificial vessel, used during major festival sacrifices.
The third type: shower
In the process of research, some experts believe that the bronze duck is holding something, much like a modern shower spout, similar to a watering kettle, but after hearing this speculation, some experts immediately raised objections, because bronze in ancient times, for precious metals, could not be made into a shower. Hearing the objections of the experts, the archaeologists said that the ancient emperors or people of noble status could definitely afford it.
After discussion, most experts think that the duck-shaped bronze statue is a "shower", but the water injection port on its back is relatively small, so the water injection must not be smooth, the most important thing is that the use of heavy bronze as a shower, the use of light and convenient wooden, so what it is doing, experts still failed to give the most accurate answer, and there is no clear record in the historical classics.
Dear readers, after seeing the duck-shaped bronze statue, what do you think its function is? I believe that one day in the future, archaeologists will surely decrypt it for us.