Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 776 Accidental Discovery
Obviously, the shape of the Jue makes it unsuitable as a drinking vessel, but if you explore other directions from the perspective of wine, you will find that the Jue is not suitable for filtering or warming wine.

Both warming and filtering wine are uncommon practices today. This is because the ancient people’s wine making technology is not as good as today’s, and they use fermentation instead of distillation. This kind of natural fermentation of wine inevitably mixes distiller’s grains and wine.

Even in older times, such as ancient Egypt or the ancient Sumerian civilization, the wine made was not so much wine as fermented thick barley porridge.

This is why many people called drinking wine in ancient times, but it was really eating wine, not the ancient "eating" and the modern "drinking".

In ancient times, most people drank "turbid wine" because there were leftover koji and other substances in it. Of course, if the sanitation work is not done well, it is not impossible to have sand in it.

So for them, filtering wine is a must. For example, some textiles are used to filter out the impurities in the wine, and the filtered wine is called sake.

Usually only better wines are filtered, and on the other hand, filtration will increase the production cost of wine and increase the loss in the production process, so it is often expensive, such as the Jinzun sake bucket ten thousand mentioned in Li Bai's poems wine.

As for warming wine, it is also related to the production of ancient people. The method of brewing wine in ancient times is easy to produce things like formaldehyde or methanol. Heating is conducive to the volatilization of these harmful substances.

Of course, a more important reason is that for those brewed wines, the taste is better after heating, so ancient people were willing to do this.

But Jue is obviously not made for these two purposes, because its volume is too small, and it is a thankless thing to use it to warm wine or filter wine.

"So now this thing is not a practical tool, but an ancient ritual tool." Liang En said to Joan of Arc, whose face showed a thirst for knowledge. "A bronze vessel used in naked rituals together with Gu."

There is a sentence in "Shuowen" that jue "has wine in it", so if you want to understand the use of jue, you must use wine as a breakthrough point, and what kind of wine is this? Zheng Xuan's annotation "Zhou Li. Chanren" Said: "Chang, brew the cabinet for wine."

At the same time, in "Shuowen", it is said that the wine is "fragrant and smooth to descend the gods", which means that it is used for the enjoyment of the gods.But the problem is that at least in this world, it is impossible for a god to open his mouth to drink.So the ancients started to imagine and created two "drinking methods".

One is a practice that has been passed down to today, that is, to spill the wine on the ground; the other is mainly to volatilize the aroma of the wine as much as possible. "Book of Rites. Suburban Special Animals" records: "The most respectful food is not delicious, but the noble smell (smell) is also.

Kong Yingda, a Confucian scholar in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a commentary for "Shangshu. Junchen" and said: "The fragrance and fragrance are moving from the gods." The ingredients of the wine are tulip grass and black millet.

During the nude ceremony, a small fire is added to the bottom of the jue and it is roasted slowly. After being roasted by the fire, the smell of the tulip's wine will disperse, which is just for the god to smell.This act of smelling is called "xin".

The wine in Jue Li will also be used for "irrigating the ground" ceremony - pour it on the thatch bundles on the ground. This is what is said in "Book of Rites. Jiao Te Sacrifice" "Zhou people still smell (smell), pour it with stinky (smell) Smell), Yuhe Chan, smelly (smell) yin reaches Yuanquan".

That is to say, if the aroma floats up, it is "Xin", and if the smell of wine falls down, it is "naked". do this.

As for the jue that is actually used for drinking, it is a chan-shaped jue.According to Zheng Xuan's commentary "Zhou Li. Dianrui", it is said: "Yu Gui's head is a vessel, and it can be sacrificed naked, which is called Zan."

In "Kao Gong Ji. Jade Man", Zheng Xuan added: "Zan is like a plate, and its handle is made of Gui." That is to say, the shape of Zan is like a round plate in the front, and there is a handle in the back. It is generally Gui-shaped, and it may look like a large spoon according to today's parlance.

These two things look completely different. As for why they are considered to have the same name, it is because Uncle Gongfu Zan was unearthed in Yuntang, Baoji in 1976.

In front of Uncle Gongfu Zan is a container with a narrow mouth and a bulging belly. There is a circle foot under the container, and a handle in the shape of a Gui at the back. .”

That is to say, there is an inscription engraved on this thing, and I call myself Jue, and the shape of this kind of thing is obviously more conducive to drinking than those three-legged Jue.

It's just because there are too many three-legged jue handed down from generation to generation, so it finally became the representative of jue and at the same time, it is gradually forgotten as a storage device, but the saying that it is a drinking vessel is still being used.

"As for this title, it is likely to belong to a certain prince. At least judging from the patterns on it, only princes at the first level can have these things." Liang En finally concluded.

"As for the origin of this thing, it is very likely that it is a museum, because I found a kind of paint on it to mark cultural relics, and from the paint, it is very likely that this thing was in the museum at least 50 years ago."

"Can you tell which museum it used to be?" Joan asked looking at the white paint left on the bronze.

"I can't see it, because it's too worn." Liang En shook his head and said, "But I think it's more appropriate to put this thing on display in the museum donated by the French last time."

Because they found a batch of lost creatures from French churches when accepting the winery, and returned them to those churches, so those churches also chose to return a batch of cultural relics to Huaxia according to Liang En's request.

Because of the large number of cultural relics and many high-quality goods among them, the Huaxia people established a small branch museum next to the Mingzhu City Museum at the mouth of the Yangtze River after receiving these cultural relics.

And out of gratitude to Liang En, there is a small exhibition hall in this museum specially prepared for Liang En, which contains some records of the entire museum and thanks to Liang En.

So Liang En felt that it was a good thing to take back this very delicate Bronze Lord, because it could further make a name for himself.

After all, Liang En's main industry market is in Huaxia, so it is obviously very important for him to have a good relationship with Huaxia. After all, he has gained a lot of benefits because of the relationship between the two parties.

After carefully inspecting the Bronze Lord, Liang En focused on the same batch of things found, but compared with this Bronze Lord, other things are definitely not so dazzling.

These things are some porcelain, wood and silverware. Although many of them have a strong foreign style, they don't look exquisite or special enough.

Compared with the previous Bronze Lord, these things are more like mass-produced low-level luxury goods. Liang En felt that these things had little historical value other than economic value at first glance.

But out of professional habits, he checked everything here one by one.And when he checked a palm-sized silver plate, well, he accidentally found a familiar yet unfamiliar symbol on it.

(End of this chapter)