gluttonous adventure king

Chapter 212 The Bronze Man
The topic is the Big Diao Bronze Man.

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The lower part of the money tree was buried, it should be a base, and the part standing on the ground didn't seem to have much damage.

Copper is a metal with very low activity, and it is not easy to undergo chemical reactions. It is not a matter of a day or two to form a patina. Unlike iron, it will be unsightly rusted after two or three days of exposure to water.

In fact, most bronzes should not be called bronzes, because they are golden when they are forged, but they are called bronzes only after a chemical reaction produces a patina.

However, most archaeologists are opposed to polishing and removing rust on bronzes, so most bronzes are still blue.

In fact, ancient bronze and gold wares were basically the same color, but later the ancients also discovered that gold, a metal, is less likely to corrode.

As the saying goes, real gold is not afraid of fire. It does not mean that real gold will not melt when burned, but that gold will not react and change color at high temperatures, while other metals are prone to chemical reactions at high temperatures.

The ancients had no interest in summarizing the differences between gold, silver, copper, and iron. They only summed up their commonalities, and then collectively called them metals.

But this is for ordinary people, and for the ruling class, the word resplendent is extremely important. Glittering metal objects and emerald jade objects are all tools for them to show their dominance.

As the rope descended, Fang Hong had already separated from the tower body, because the tower was getting bigger and bigger as it went down.

When one fell to the ground, what Fang Hong felt was solid ground, not dust.

Even after avoiding the dust for such a long time, the accumulated dust has turned into a hard ground, and the thickness is at least more than one meter.

Fang Hong turned on the searchlight and let it shine.

The tower is not a single building, but integrated into the stone building.

What is strange is that this building structure does not contain reinforced concrete, but it is very strong, and it did not collapse even after being buried. Looking around, there are many vertical stone pillars.

What is more difficult and valuable is that these stone pillars are not piled up one by one, but the whole stone pillars. How people mined these huge stones back then is unknown.

Pyramids are known all over the world. In fact, only a small part of the pyramid is made of whole stones, and most of them are made of rammed earth or similar to pouring concrete.

"Brother Gun, there doesn't seem to be anything here. Except for this money tree, everything is empty."

"Empty? How is it possible?" Fang Hong bowed his head: "Do you know why every time a large ruin is discovered, many artifacts are found?"

"Because the houses that people lived in in ancient times were not permanent, there are only two kinds of buildings that can be preserved for a long time. One is the large-scale residence of the ruling class, and the other is the large-scale tomb of the ruling class. These buildings are all representatives of identity. In contrast, the various utensils that are more valuable today were not as valuable as the buildings themselves at that time."

Pouring copperware, especially the country's most important ones, requires enough ore, liquefied, and then molded, each of which requires a lot of labor.

At that time, was the labor comparable to the labor of building this large building?
It sounds like copper is indeed very valuable, and so is gold.

But don't forget, is there any king in the world? In those days, the value of these coppers to the monarch was no different from all kinds of furniture around us. How many people didn't have furniture in their homes?How many people's furniture can match the price of the house?
The answer is, hardly ever.

Judging from the layout, it should be a square building, not a circular building. In other words, this is no longer a prehistoric building.

Prehistoric buildings are mainly circular, mainly because of the limitation of building materials, including many existing aboriginal people in the world who are circular earth rammed buildings.

That's not to say that there is any cultural characteristic of the gap between them and the mainstream of the ordinary world, it's just that they are thousands of years behind the world.

"Brother Gun, look there is something on the ground here."

Fang Hong turned his head and looked at the dark corner. At this time, Liu Chao also came down.

The torch was turned on, and what I saw was a small stone platform on which was placed a bronze statue, or a human figure cast in bronze.

Sure enough, it is in the same line as Sanxingdui's style, with a big square face, big head, eyes protruding a lot from the surface of the face, square patterns on the body, and the biggest feature is that there is a breast.

The wide nose is a characteristic of the pure Han people in the past.

In ancient times, Han people were characterized by wide noses, single eyelids, and beautiful double eyelids, all of which came from genes of other ethnic groups.

If you look at ancient paintings, you can see that before the Song Dynasty, the pictures of ladies, officials, and emperors all had single eyelids, and it was not until the Song Dynasty and later that double eyelids appeared.

The history of painting and calligraphy is a very documentary art. It is easy to distinguish between single eyelids and double eyelids.

This person's facial contour is not prominent, but the eyes are protruding, so they look very energetic, which is a common feature of Sanxingdui bronze statues.

"Brother Gun, I checked the information, and many people say that Sanxingdui is not a historical monument in our country, but evidence of the existence of aliens, just like the pyramids."

"Huh? Why do you say that?"

Both Fang Hong and Liu Chao looked at the bronze figure. This was a great new discovery. Only the bronze figure and the money tree were enough to confirm the status of this new relic.

"They said that the jade and bronze of the same period were so fine, while the pottery of the same area at the same time was very rough, so they concluded that the bronze and jade were made, and probably copied from other technologies. , the re-engraving object should be an alien."

"Nonsense, some people on the Internet are half-filled with water and ding-dong. First, jade and copper are sanders, which can be slowly polished until they are shaped, while pottery is made first and then fired. There is no way to modify it again. They To say that is tantamount to changing the concept secretly. It’s as if people can make iron into mechanical components, but they can’t make water into mechanical components.”

In fact, modern people have a natural sense of superiority, thinking that they are better than the ancients in everything. Once they find out that the ancients did something well and lost it, they think it has something to do with aliens. There are so many people in this way of thinking. The reasons for the prevalence of strange and unsolved mysteries books.

In the history of man-made architecture in the world, there are no unsolved mysteries.

The simplest example is that the firing of porcelain by the ancients has almost reached the peak of plastic arts. The characteristics of porcelain as a material are also better than modern glass.Is porcelain brought by aliens?However, porcelain appeared in the Shang Dynasty, that is, the era after Sanxingdui, and it was very rough, and it was perfected step by step with the progress of history.

These magnificent treasures can only prove the diligence and wisdom of the ancients.

Liu Chao looked around: "Don't move anything, but it feels like it's well-connected here, so you can explore the way."

Fang Hong looked around: "That's right, you see, according to the habits of the ancients, there is one door to the south and one door to the east. If you enter other rooms, the structure may still be the same."

"There are no doors in the west and north, which means that this is already the deepest part of the entire building system. There should be many rooms or corridors in the south and east. And it continues to extend."

The reason is very simple. In ancient buildings, the south gate is the main entrance, the east gate is equal to the current windows, and the other is the skylight. Then in a ring building, the buildings will be built in a row. The westmost house , is the innermost layer, and there must be a series of houses in the east.

Because a house that functions as a transportation hub must have four gates in the south, east, north, and west.

When the building standard improves and the rigid demand for privacy comes, it is an inevitable trend of historical development that the circular building becomes a square building. Therefore, it is easy to judge the location when entering the underground palace.

"Let's go south."

Ordinary people in that era would only build horizontally, and the large buildings with a continuous space to the south seem to have not been completely unearthed.

(End of this chapter)