The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

Why does Zun use it?

"Miss Theron, this is a wine vessel from the China, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and also a ritual vessel..."

Little Charlie can understand what a wine vessel means, but what is a "ritual vessel"?

When you meet a curious baby, you still can't let it go, so just accept it. The fastest update. Fortunately, Boss Ma has been in the antique business for many years. This is experienced and knowledgeable. He is not a thorough wild way. He has studied the history of China and explained it patiently.

"The ritual utensils were used by ancient Chinese nobles in ritual activities such as sacrifices, feasts, expeditions, and funerals. They were used to show the user's identity, rank, and power.

The period of the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties in ancient China was the nearly two thousand years between the 21st century BC and 221 BC. It was the maturity period of our ancient Chinese ritual system, and it was also the time when the ancient Chinese ritual system was the most standardized.

There is a saying that "li is made by wine, and no wine is not a ritual." This Xia, Shang and Zhou period was also the period when Chinese wine rituals were the most complicated and the combination of wine and politics was the most intimate.

It is because wine rituals were most valued during the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and the development of wine vessels was the fastest at that time. Bronze wine vessels became the most brilliant category of bronze civilization in the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties. "

Charlize Theron is a silly understanding, but it is difficult to switch between different languages. It is even more world-class difficulty to explain Chinese classical Chinese in English. Charlie said that this would be the feeling that the nobles at that time could do everything. To drink

Jiang Aihua couldn't understand the English so fast. Fortunately, Guan Xingquan was doing real-time translation for him.

Now Boss Ma has the patience to explain, not only because Zhang Nan is the God of Wealth and has a solid background, but also because of the newspapers of the past few days.

The world's first Boeing 767 luxury private jet arrived at Xiangjiang Kai Tak Airport. In the photo of the mysterious rich man, only a tall white woman took it clearly. He recognized that the one in the photo was Miss Theron!

Can you not be enthusiastic?

Zhang Nan was also listening, admiring Boss Ma's knowledge. However, what Boss Ma said was more theoretical, and the topic turned out to be: "Charlie, the understanding of drinking at that time was much more complicated than it is now. Like how many utensils do we use for drinking now?

Three or four thousand years ago, the ancient Chinese people were more careful than us. Some scholars divided the bronze wares of the Shang and Zhou period into four parts: eating utensils, drinking utensils, water utensils, and musical instruments, a total of 50 types.

Among them, only wine vessels account for 24 categories, which are also subdivided into several small categories, such as wine cookers, wine containers, drinkers, and wine containers.

Moreover, the importance of wine vessels in the Bronze Age can also be seen from the Chinese archaeological discoveries: in the tombs of some nobles in the Shang Dynasty, most of the wine vessels, such as nobles, goblets, and other wine vessels, were placed in wooden coffins together with the coffins. Ding, 鬲, 簋, beans and other eating utensils are placed outside the coffin..."

It is indispensable to explain the difference between a few words of "coffin", and then said: "Interesting, drinking is more important than eating.

Moreover, this situation is not only for the nobles at the beginning, but also for the common people 3000 years ago.

Between 1967 and 1977, Huaxia conducted several systematic excavations in the western Yinxu cemetery of the Shang Dynasty more than 3000 years ago in Henan Province, and found that the most common funerary objects in the tombs of civilians at that time were also wine vessels and jue.

The merchants of Yin love wine, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are addicted to wine like fate. "

Xiao Nizi listened, patted the erected bronze statue with her hand, and asked, "Brother Ellen, this thing is three thousand years old, right?"

"Almost, even if it's almost, it's not much difference."

"Oh, it turns out that the Huaxia Ancient Human Industry three thousand years ago likes to drink like my dad, and both drink too much."

Xiao Nizi's brains are wide open, and this is the first time she has said what the discordant factors in the family are.

When Zhang Nan heard this, he seemed to feel distressed for the little Charlie in front of him: If he didn't show up, Charlize Theron would have seen her mother beat her father to death, and one of them went home drunk and threatened to kill them. Mother and daughter's father!

Little Charlie’s father seemed to love wine very much and became a prisoner of alcohol. Wine may be more important to Shang and Zhou people, because alcohol brought unprecedented joy to people who had just entered the threshold of a civilized society.

The Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, especially the Shang and Western Zhou dynasties, are probably the dynasty that was soaked in a big wine vat.

Zhang Nan likes to imagine how the ancients lived. It is estimated that people's life 3,000 years ago should be very boring. The sweetness and stimulating charm of wine is estimated to indulge everyone in the beginning of Chaos.

Empty people love wine, and people who enjoy it also love drinking. As for why the father of Theron, who is in a good family, is drinking too much, this question probably only her father knows.

Zhang Nan will decide to wait for the Spanish side to finish, and then accompany Xiao Charlie back to South Africa. By the way, he will meet her father to see if the person can be saved.

In addition, Paul Kruger, Martin Eisen and Dean Kitt have all called and said that they are about to start the search for Boer’s treasure. These three have already done a lot of investigation work in the early stage.

The three South African mine owners found another piece of joy in life, but Zhang Nan gave out a $100,000 treasure hunt fund. Of course, he must be notified.

Those three also thought that Zhang Nan had a super treasure hunt, "smell ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ is a bit lucky in the treasure hunt.

As for whether there is a harvest in the end, it is secondary. This is a fun game for the super local tyrants.

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Zun Tongyi has collected it. Boss Ma still has an ancient bronze ware in his hand, which is still an old antique that is older than the wineware in the previous group, and is a gadget of the Shang Dynasty.

After Boss Ma moved out a gadget weighing more than 30 kilograms, Jiang Aihua asked Zhang Nan: "What is this?"

There are handles, full of work. Fortunately, Comrade Aihua didn't ask "What kind of pot is this?" Otherwise, it would be a joke that the bronzes with handles 3,000 years ago had not only pots, but also other objects.

"This is 卣, reading you, now it seems that and pots are basically in the same category."

"I looked at the same thing. I remember that there are a few similar ones in the Beijing Museum. I just forgot how to pronounce this word." At this point, Jiang Aihua grumbled: "It's really troublesome. If you don't say it, this name is called I didn't come up, and I got two names for similar things, and I don't know what people thought at that time."

When Zhang Nan heard this, he smiled and said: "The names of high ancient bronzes were basically determined by the Song Dynasty. Many of the names of the artifacts are not in the ancient books and inscriptions. They were used in the Song Dynasty. One of the artifacts may be an artifact. The name is determined by the word of the name.

If there is no such word, it is determined by the size of the utensil, which is often a guess.

The difference between this pot and 卣 is probably guessed based on the difference in size and body shape: the pot is tall and short and sturdy. "

Archaeology requires science and evidence, but it can also be guessed in many cases.

People's guesses nowadays may be refuted. The results of people guessing thousands of years have passed through time. Unless there are real objects and words to refute them from three thousand years ago, otherwise the guessed answer is the truth!

Not convinced?

There is a kind of you who went to shoot a documentary three thousand years ago and come back. rw