"Family Collection" continues to pay attention to the special program "Follow the Cultural Relics to See the Past and the Present". Today, we will continue to take you into the Zhangshu City Museum, modern people use iron nails to fix tents and mats for camping, so what did ancient people use to fix mats more than 2,000 years ago?
In order to let everyone better understand what ancient people used to fix mats, the museum staff did a scene restoration on the spot. With this set of "artifacts" in the town, you are not afraid of the mat being blown away by the wind when camping in the wild.
The ancients used to sit on the ground, in order to avoid the wind to lift the mat, they would use heavier utensils to press the four corners of the mat, this kind of utensils is the "copper town", which originated in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Of course, the copper town used for the demonstration is a replica of the museum.
The copper town we see now is not the only one in the museum's collection, but a piece that is better restored, all of which are from the burial utensils of the Warring States tomb in the Zhangshu Guozi Mountain, a total of 24 copper towns have been unearthed, which are roughly semicircular, and it seems that this shape is very popular in the Warring States Period.
Zhang Shuqin, a librarian of the Zhangshu City Museum, said that under normal circumstances, the copper town is solid, but this one is hollow, because it is used as a funeral object, in order to save materials, there is no need to consider practicality. Tongzhen reflects the Yue culture of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and it is common to see this semi-circular steamed bun shape.
At that time, Chu still had the wrong gold and wrong silver craft of the copper town, like this scale shape can be regarded as the basic style, to the tiger, leopard, phoenix, sheep, deer, snake, bear, turtle and so on in an endless stream. It can be said that Tongzhen was an indispensable object more than 2,000 years ago, and a large number of unearthed objects also proved that it was not only practical but also used to ward off evil spirits. These vivid and dexterous copper towns not only reflect the ancient cultural customs, but also let us understand the superb bronze smelting technology at that time.