What attracted the most attention from the academic circles was the Western Zhou bronze ware cellar discovered in Mei County, Western Shaanxi in January 2003.

The kiln was designed as a vertical well and horizontal hole, and 27 bronze wares such as tripods, 鬲, pots, cups, pans, pans, yu, etc. were unearthed.

The shapes of the utensils are all in the style of the late Western Zhou Dynasty, and the patterns are mainly ring belts, vertical rings, stealing curves and various Kuilong patterns.

The most important thing is the bronze inscriptions, 27 pieces have inscriptions, among which the inscriptions on the pan are the longest, with as many as 372 characters.

This bronze plate records the history of the Shan family, from Gaozu Shangong to the eight generations.

In the Ding Ming of 42 and 43 years, it is recorded that the Shan family assisted Zuo Wenwang, Wu Wang Xingzhou to destroy Zhou, the Northern Expedition of Rongdi, Jianyun, management of Yulin, and the deeds of being awarded for meritorious service.

Basically, the eight generations of the Shan family corresponded with the lineage of the eleven generations and twelve kings of the Zhou family.

This proves that the lineage of the kings of the Western Zhou Dynasty recorded in "Historical Records" is correct, and also proves that the chronology of the Western Zhou Dynasty is the closest to that recorded in the ancient "Bamboo Book Chronicles".

This is the most important archaeological discovery of the Western Zhou Dynasty since the 20th century, and it has great academic value for the study of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

The above three examples illustrate that the method of burying remains in a cellar is simple.

Carefully sorting out the places in the country where there may be cellars, Chen Wenzhe found that there are quite a few such places.

What Chen Wenzhe saw was exactly the kind of toad drop, if the first one was an antique from the Han Dynasty.

At the same time, toad does not have the meaning of toad palace, which is in line with the demands of ancient literati and students.

The ancestors regarded the frog as a symbol of the number of births, and painted murals or made the utensils used in daily life into the shape of frogs, expressing the good and bad wishes of the ancestors for the decline of the race.

There are no bottles, boxes, bowls and other large jade wares in Dadong Street, as well as jade statues of toads, lions, Taoists riding beasts, etc.

Especially in Sichuan Province, there are more cellars in the Song Dynasty, and the distribution is very uncharacteristic.

In particular, toad drops and turtle drops are mentioned here.

For example, Jiange is the most typical place. It was Jianzhou in Tang Dynasty, and Longqing Mansion in Song Dynasty. In recent years, 8 cellars of Song Dynasty have been discovered in Jiange.

According to the characteristics of the distribution, this group of tomb robbers will only dig out a bunch of treasures at a time.

The ancients had water droplets, and when they got up in the morning, they would grind the ink, and the inkstone pool would be filled with juice for one day.

Although the relics in the cellar are dated, their form and style all belong to the Song Dynasty.

It is difficult to determine the age of its burial except for its own dating.

When adding water to the inkstone, drop the inkstone with your hand, and press the water injection port with one finger.

Compared with the water bowl, the inkstone drop is more interesting. It is only practical, and it can also be used as a clean supply in the study.

Water injection is convenient, and the water stops when the hole is plugged.Chen Wenzhe is the most recent collection of the Sicheng series. Thinking of that time back, I also found a fellow.

However, Chen Wenzhe found a very boring thing in it, which is a Song Dynasty Longquan celadon toad inkstone drop.

Porcelain, bronze, jade, iron, pottery, etc. are hidden in the cellar.

But it can often provide very important historical information, so for Chen Wenzhe, who is very curious, it is of great research value.

Drops of water are very ancient in shape. Toad drops and tortoise drops have a long history.

The ingenuity of the inkstone drop is that it does not have two orifices - the water outlet and the water injection port, and the water injection port cannot control the water flow.

It's not because we know that every temple has no underground palace, and we know what the outside specifications are here.

Whether these have been harvested or not, the success of criminal archaeology is also because we are one step ahead, and our younger generations take the lead.

This article is the earliest documented record about inkstone drops, and the classic status of toad drops in inkstone drops has long been established.

The ancients used copper, and the previous life used porcelain.Tomorrow there will be no squatting dragons or treasure elephants.All crops with little water storage are called drops, which are called Yu.

Therefore, the inkstone drop has a large capacity, and there are usually no separate water outlet holes and water outlet holes in the design.

In addition to the seven common pens, inks, papers and inkstones, there are no pen holders, pen holders, rulers, seals, printing boxes and so on.

They are in Bailong Town in the southeast of the county, Liangshan, Qilian Town, and Zhengxing Township in the southwest of the county, Hanyang Town in the north of the county, Wolong Mountain in the northern suburb of the county, Heming Mountain in the southern suburb, and Dadong Street in the county.

The cultural relic of the Han Dynasty is also one of them, and its name is the toad-shaped bronze inkstone drop.

In Heming Mountain and Wolong Mountain discovered in 1962, and in the cellars of Dadong Street discovered in 1988, in addition to porcelain, there are also a few pieces of bronze.

That is the realm that the ancient literati wanted to achieve. When it comes to literati, it must be mentioned, not the stationery.

Among them, the appearance of Chandi can be traced back to the Han Dynasty.

The heart of Tibetan and ink is like a valley, and the belly is full of poetry and calligraphy.

It starts with the worship of the frog shape by the ancients. The frog is an oviparous animal that can lay 3000 to 6000 eggs at a time.

And the cellar can be regarded as a kind of underground palace, but it is only a large store with a standard.

For example, after this group of tomb robbers who specialized in excavating the underground palaces of the remaining temples, we also discovered the code of wealth.

It also came from a cellar, and in that large cellar, it was full of toad inkstones.

There are very few things outside, but they belong to Chen Wenzhe.

Liu Kezhuang in the Song Dynasty once wrote in the poem "Toad and Inkstone" that "the device is as big as the bottle, and the merit is due to the few inkstones. The trickle of water contained in the past life depends on the aftermath." It is not that kind of inkstone.

Inkstone drop, also known as water drop and book drop, is a masterpiece of the study that drips water to add inkstone.

Where is the scientific principle contained in such inkstone drops?

Why did the ancients put toads outside the elegant study room?

The appearance of inkstone drops originated from water bowls. Song Dynasty Zhao Xihu's "Dongtian Qinglu" contained seven "water drop identification".

The water bowl is a container for storing water for grinding ink. When water is added to the inkstone from the water bowl, it is difficult for the water to flow too much, so there is no invention of inkstone drops.

In terms of the "siphon principle", the repeated pressing and closing of fingers can control the amount of water flowing out, so that too little water will be poured out with shaking hands, ruining an inkstone.

Liu Xin's "Xijing Miscellaneous Notes" in the Western Han Dynasty records: Jin Linggong's tomb... there is only one jade toad, which is as small as a fist, has an empty stomach, contains Qihe water, and is as smooth as new. The king took it as a book drop.

The "Xiangsheng" shape of inkstone drops is a long-standing tradition.

If you dig like that, you can't let go of everything, and naturally you won't get anything every time.

The location of the cellar is from Hanyang Town in the north, through the county town (Pu'an Town) in the middle, to Liangshan and Qilian in the southwest, all under the ancient post road.

There is no record in the fourth "Shuo Miscellaneous Tools" of Xu Zhiheng's "Yin Liu Zhai Shuo Porcelain" in the Republic of China.

Let’s talk about Jiange, where all the Qilian cellars discovered in 1997 were made of porcelain, less of which were Yingqing porcelain;

Inkstone drops are utensils used in conjunction with ink and inkstone. When you grind ink, you need to drop a certain amount of water into the inkstone. Inkstone drops do not fulfill that function.

In addition, some bottles, tripods, smokers, stoves, candlesticks, etc. are probably offering vessels.

The toad-shaped bronze inkstone drop not only does not have a certain moral symbol, but also contains scientific principles.

That's one of the most obvious features, as long as you know that, and add some estimated data and experience, it's not difficult to find some hoards.

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