The mystery of the Luminous Cup. The Luminous Cup is a legendary treasure in Chinese history. As early as the Western Han Dynasty great sage Dongfang Shuo wrote, there are records in the Ten Weeks of Hainei, of which the story room novel is recorded as follows, King Mu of Zhou made the West Lake present Kun Wuge jade knife, that is, the night light is full of cups, the knife is one foot long, the cup is subjected to three sounds, the knife cuts jade like cutting mud, and sorrow makes the essence of white jade. Bright Night. Illumination at the beginning, sad in the atrium has been to the sky, pen name and water, full of cup also, dry and fragrant, thinking of the breath of the eclipse.
When Qin Shi Huang was in the West Lake, the West Lake was now cutting jade knives, and the fatherless man was full of bells. In the Tang Dynasty, the great poet Wang Han Liangzhou said that the grape wine luminous cup, wanting to drink the pipa immediately urged, but also the ancient western region of the luminous cup was promoted to the extreme, so that the luminous cup has been widely praised for thousands of years. Does the Luminous Cup really have this thing? In modern times, some scientists believe that the luminous cup may be caused by some minerals, such as some impurities containing diamond, lycopene, heavy gold, silverstone, white black mine, crystal, etc., in the external energy stimulation, such as heating, friction, electricity and ultraviolet, X-ray or syllable rays and other short-wave light irradiation, will produce luminous phenomenon, but the luminescence of natural minerals are far from reaching the luminous cup or the night pearl implied by the whole night light, the basic conditions for night light.
Some scientists suspect that the luminous cup is caused by crystal, but the crystal does not have the characteristics of the story, the aromatic nature of the stream described in the literary novel. Some people think that the ancient night light cup itself can not shine, the reason why it is called the luminous cup, because the luminous cup is thin, after steaming the moon reflection, the moon shadow poured into the cup, the moonlight through the despicable and nine colors of the glow, into a different brilliance, so called luminous cup, or luminous cup.
In 1821, the Houfuhu broken cup excavated in the ancient tomb near Brighton, England, the cup body was carefully carved due to the whole piece of blood-red amber, the inside and outside polishing was very uniform, the diameter was about 9 cm, there was a small handle, there were 8 beautiful small circles at the mouth of the cup, the surface had cracks, but the whole was well preserved, under the illumination of the light, it was glowing with smoke red, it appeared to be luminous, and because of the sadness that Han Dongfang said, it was luscious and dead, or the grape wine luminous cup of tang wang Han Liangzhou word, Or tang li baike zhongxing poems, Lanling fine wine royal golden incense, royal bowl city to break the light, but so that the master can drunk guests, do not know where is the other country. The poetic scene of the luminous cup described is always associated with amber.
Some people think that the luminous cups in history may have been made of amber, but given that archaeologists have not yet excavated real luminous cups underground, we still have no way of knowing the real ones. What do you think luminous cups are made of?