The Silk Relics Discovered in Hebei Archeology
Many silk cultural relics were discovered in Hebei archeology. In the archaeological excavation of the Shang Dynasty ruins in Taixi, Gaocheng, a large number of bronze ware were unearthed, and a large number of silk fabrics were attached to the surface. For example, the support part of the copper Ge, the flow, abdomen and foot of the copper jue, the whole body, the circle foot and the mouth of the copper Gu, the abdomen of the copper pin and other parts were found. Some were covered on the utensils, some were wrapped around the utensils and most of them were bonded with copper rust. After identification, the fibers on the copper Gu were silk fibers, and five kinds of silk fabrics were identified, including the plain "Wan", plain yarn, gauze, plain crepe silk as the "grain". In 1968, in the tomb of Liu Sheng, the Han Dynasty's Zhongshan King, excavated in Baoding, fragments of silk were found in the coffin, armor, and jade clothes. Most of them were plain silk, while a few were high-grade fabrics such as patterned silk, colored brocade, embroidery, and so on. The fine silk found under the jade clothes belonged to the type of bedding, probably a kind of fabric called "Bingwan" at that time. In the left trouser tube of the jade clothes, a piece of double-silk plain fabric "Jin" was found. Read more exciting novels for free
Silk Road Treasures in Guyuan Cultural Relics and Archeology
Guyuan had a lot of treasures that reflected the cultural exchange of the Silk Road in cultural relics and archaeology. In the tomb of Li Xian, the general of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, about 1500 years ago, gilded gold and silver pots and glass bowls belonging to the Sassanid Dynasty of Persia were found. The gilded gold pot had a slender upper belly, a round lower abdomen, a high circle foot, and a duckbill. The pot body was made of silver and partially gilded. A figure was cast on the pot handle. There were three groups of six figures of men and women carved on the pot body. The content was the story of the Greek mythology Paris referee and the Troy War. It was a combination of Persian Sassanid style, Greek style, and local elements of Bactria. It was a wine set used by the nobles of the Persian Dynasty. The protruding glass bowl was deep and straight. There were 14 interlaced glass circles inlaid around it. It was light yellow-green in color and crystal clear. This kind of decorative glassware was a typical Sassanid glassware. It was native to the highlands of iran. At that time, China could not produce it due to technical reasons, so it was very precious. There were also Eastern Roman Byzantine gold coins and Sassanid silver coins unearthed from the tomb of Tian Hong of the Northern Zhou Dynasty in Pengyang County, Guyuan City. Sassanid silver coins were the common currency of the Northern Dynasty, Sui and Tang Dynasties, which proved that Pengyang area was an important passage of the ancient land Silk Road during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. There are more than 20,000 cultural relics in Guyuan Museum, some of which also reflect the achievements of Silk Road cultural exchange. For example, the lacquer paintings on the side of the coffin, the glazed bowl, the mother-and-mother leopard buckle, the epitaph of Yuwen Meng, the painted pottery pot, the double-layer gate mural, the golden bowl with a handle and other cultural relics reflected the development of Guyuan area in various historical periods and the integration of external cultural exchanges from different angles. These cultural relics were the treasures of the Silk Road in Guyuan's cultural relics and archaeology. They witnessed the important position of Guyuan on the Silk Road and the extensive development of cultural and trade exchanges between the East and the West. <a href="/?from=ask_words" style="color:red" target="_blank">Read more exciting novels for free</a>
Nanyang Cultural Relics and Archeology
Nanyang's archaeological work had many important results. For example, in the archaeological excavation of the Baliqiao site, the Baliqiao site was located in Chengzhuang Village, Zheyang Street, Fangcheng County, Nanyang City, Henan Province, on the west bank of Pan River. This site was the largest and highest-level Erlitou cultural settlement discovered in southern Henan. It was a large-scale moat settlement, around 3700 - 3600 years ago, with an excavated area of 1.35 million square meters. There were many ditch relics crisscrossing and orderly planning in the site, showing a "multi-grid" layout similar to Erlitou site, as well as wall and handicraft relics, including rammed earth building area, handicraft area, wall, roads and other facilities. The functional division was complete. The unearthed relics were basically the same as those of Erlitou Ruins, and they were highly similar in terms of political concepts, value systems, and religious beliefs. The site was formed in the second phase of the Erlitou culture, which was a critical period when the Xia culture began to expand outward. The Xia culture crossed the Fangcheng Pass and entered the Nanyang Basin to build a settlement. This was the key throat connecting the hinterland of the Central Plains and the Jianghan Plain. It was an important safety guarantee for the southern copper mines, turquoise, cinnabar, and other mineral resources to enter the king's city. It was also an important hub for the transfer and control of resources in Erlitou. It was of great value to the study of Erlitou culture's southward spread and the Xia culture's control over the southern land, especially the control of resources. The discovery of multi-grid layout filled the gaps in the internal spatial layout of the small and medium-sized cities in the Xia Dynasty. In the archaeological work of Nanyang, the Henan Province Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology and the Nanyang Institute of Cultural Relics Protection participated in it. Many archaeologists carried out excavation, drawing, observation of soil samples, etc. at the Baliqiao site, unearthed high-level relics such as jade articles, divination bones, turquoise inlaid pieces, copper smelting remains, etc., and also discovered cultural relics such as painted vermilion stone portraits. Moreover, famous cultural relics and archaeologists would also go to the Baliqiao site to conduct research, check the archaeological layout, and analyze the relics. <a href="/?from=ask_words" style="color:red" target="_blank">Read more exciting novels for free</a>
Hebei Jinzhou cultural relics
Hebei Jinzhou has many cultural relics. Among them was a silver Buddha statue of the Tang Dynasty, which displayed the exquisite skills of ancient craftsmen. There was also a Tang Dynasty medicine roller made of white marble that was found in a mid-Tang Dynasty tomb in Beizhangli Village, Huaishu Township, Jin County in 1983. It was a special tool for grinding medicine. It was composed of three parts: a flat rectangular grinding groove, a push-pull grinding cover, and an oblate grinding wheel. The grinding groove was 263 cm long, 5.5 cm wide, and 5.1 cm high. The maximum depth of the boat-shaped groove was 3.5 cm. The outer wall was engraved with lock patterns and inscriptions. The grinding wheel was 9 cm in diameter and engraved with lotus petal patterns. The center was slightly bulging. There were holes through the shaft and cloud patterns on the cover. The content of the carving was rich, the composition was unique, and the technique was exquisite. It was a treasure among the cultural relics of the Tang Dynasty and was designated as a national first-class (first-class) precious cultural relic. In addition, there was "Wei Zheng Gong Hong Fan's Genuine Records Volume"(Rubbing), which was a rubbing of Wei Zheng's handwritten inscriptions. The works were sharp, strong, and powerful. The structure was sparse, and the charm was beautiful. The strokes had a tilting state, and the charm reached an elegant realm. It was now in his personal collection. There was also a plaque given to Sun Qingyuan by Emperor Jiaqing in the 15th year of Jiaqing (Gengwu, 1810). At present, Jinzhou was known to have precious cultural relics from the Shang Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, including the ruins of six ancient cities (Xiyang, Xiaquyang City, Linping City, Anxiang City, Chengguan, Zicheng), etc. <a href="/?from=ask_words" style="color:red" target="_blank">Read more exciting novels for free</a>
Silk cultural relics
There were many silk-related cultural relics, which were found in different sites and museum. For example, in the ruins of the Shang Dynasty in Taixi, Gaocheng, Hebei Province, a large number of silk fabrics were found on the surface of bronze ware, such as copper Ge, copper Jue, copper Gu, copper Wei, etc. After identification, the fibers were silk fibers, and five kinds of silk fabrics were identified, including plain "Wan", plain yarn, gauze, plain crepe silk as fabric. In 1968, in the tomb of Liu Sheng, King of Zhongshan of Han Dynasty, which was excavated in Baoding City, fragments of silk fabric were found in the coffin, iron armor and jade clothes. Most of them were plain silk, and a few were high-grade fabrics such as patterned silk, colored brocade and embroidery. Among them, the fine silk found under the jade clothes might be "Bingwan", and the fragment of double-silk plain fabric was found in the left trouser tube of the jade clothes. Silk remnants about 5500 years ago were unearthed in the urn coffin burial of Qingtai site in Xingyang, Henan Province. Recently, the scientific research team identified the carbonized fabric extracted from the urn coffin of Wanggou site in Xingyang and confirmed that it was of the same kind and period as the fabric unearthed from Qingtai site. In 1958, silk threads, ribbons, and silk pieces from about 4300 years ago were discovered at the Qianshanyang site in Balidian Town, Huzhou, Zhejiang Province. In 1926, half a cocoon from 5600 years ago was discovered at the Yangshao cultural site in Xiyin Village, Xia County, Shanxi Province. All of these showed the existence of silk-like cultural relics and the historical and cultural significance behind them from different angles. <a href="/?from=ask_words" style="color:red" target="_blank">Read more exciting novels for free</a>
The Story of Silk Relics
Silk played an important role on the Silk Road, and there were many stories related to it. It was said that silk was brought to the West by Duke Mu of Zhou during the Western Zhou Dynasty. As the first China head of state to visit a western country, Duke Mu of Zhou led his entourage to the west with a large number of gold, silver, jade, silk, and artifacts. They arrived in Central Asia and even went to the Kingdom of the Mother of the West and gave silk as a national gift. Although this statement had the color of legends and myths, it also reflected the possible connection between the Yellow River basin and the upper reaches of the Syr Darya River in Central Asia during the Western Zhou Dynasty, and China silk might have been introduced into Central Asia. In the West, silk had been popular ever since it was introduced into ancient Rome. During the Augustus era of the Roman Empire, western classical literature began to have more detailed records of China silk. China silk was colorful and became the most popular luxury item in the upper class of Rome at that time. It was expensive. Rome paid up to 100,000 ounces of gold for imported silk every year. Even Caesar the Great wore silk clothes to attend the palace banquet and was opposed by the ministers, but the Roman people were still unwilling to take off their silk clothes. The large influx of silk also caused the Roman Empire's trade deficit to expand and gold to flow out. The Roman Empire even made a decree to prohibit people from wearing silk. In the course of history, silk had always been a symbol of China's prosperity and civilization. Through the trade and export of the Silk Road, Chinese civilization had flourished unprecedentedly. Moreover, for a long time, Westerners regarded silk as a " hard currency " like gold. <a href="/?from=ask_words" style="color:red" target="_blank">Read more exciting novels for free</a>
Relics Discovered in Suining
At 2 p. m. on April 21,2023, a suspected cultural relic was found at the construction site of Wangjia Dafenzui, Hexing Village, Baosheng Town, Suining High-tech Zone. According to the investigation of the Sichuan Province Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology, the tomb was an independent cliff tomb of the Eastern Han Dynasty. There were pottery chicken figurines and a small number of pottery fragments exposed on the cliff, which had been cleaned up and properly disposed of by the Suining City Relics Protection Institute. They would be handed over to the Suining City Museum for safekeeping. The tomb had been destroyed from the middle when the house was built in the early years. The drainage ditch was destroyed for the second time. The damage was more serious. The tomb door and tomb passage could not be seen. Only the cross-section of the tomb chamber could be seen. It was impossible to judge the shape of the tomb. The bottom of the tomb was about 3.3 - 3.5 meters from the ground and about 4 meters from the ground. The tomb was about 2.7 - 3 meters wide and 1.2 - 1.5 meters high. The cliff where the tomb was located was about 1.25 meters away from the wall of the house. Because the cliff where the tomb is located is narrow from the wall of the residential house, there is no working space, and the upper part is a steep slope, the risk factor of field work is high, and there is a certain landslide risk on the site, which does not meet the basic conditions for cleaning and excavation, the Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology suggests to protect the original site. At present, the relevant situation has been reported to the Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau and the State Cultural Relics Bureau. The State Cultural Relics Bureau will decide whether to excavate after confirmation. In addition, from December 2023 to February 2024, Suining City found five clues of pre-Qin relics in the archaeological investigation of Fujiang River Basin, and found a site from the late Neoliths to the Shang and Zhou Dynasties in Great Britain. <a href="/?from=ask_words" style="color:red" target="_blank">Read more exciting novels for free</a>
Relics Discovered in Luyi
The important cultural relics found in Luyi were mainly concentrated in the relics unearthed from the tomb of Zhangzikou. There were more than 1000 cultural relics of various materials unearthed from the tomb of Zhangzikou, which could be divided into pottery, primitive porcelain, bronze, jade (stone), bone, tooth, clam and shell. Among them, there were 197 pieces of pottery, including pots, zun, Lei, Gui, basin, beans, big mouth zun, pot, urn, Gu, jue and cover, etc., mainly pots. The utensils were exquisite and standardized in shape. There was no pottery Li, which was the most common in Shang and Zhou tombs. There were many utensils with covers, 79 covers and various cover shapes. There were 12 pieces of porcelain, including beans, big mouths, and urns. The porcelain body was delicate and exquisite, with a green glaze and a well-proportioned glaze. There are many kinds of bronze ware. There are 85 ceremonial musical instruments, which can be divided into cooking utensils, wine vessels, water vessels and musical instruments. There are 28 cooking utensils, including tripod, Li, Gui and Gui. There are 48 wine vessels, including Gu, Jue, Jiao, Yu, Zun, Gong, You, Hu, Zhi, Lei and Dou. There are 2 water vessels, including plates and cups. There are 6 musical instruments, which are 2 sets of weaving, each set has 3 pieces. In this batch of ritual instruments, there were more than 50 inscriptions, most of which were "eldest son's mouth" and so on. In addition, there was a bronze tripod with the animal face pattern of the eldest son's mouth of the Western Zhou Dynasty. It was unearthed in the tomb of the eldest son in Luyi County in 1997 and is now collected in the Henan Museum. The tripod mouth was slightly closed, with square lips, slightly drooping abdomen, round bottom, pillar feet, two ears standing upright on the mouth, six groups of animal face patterns on the upper abdomen, three feet decorated with Taotie patterns on the middle and upper parts, and three raised string patterns on the lower part. <a href="/?from=ask_words" style="color:red" target="_blank">Read more exciting novels for free</a>
Relics Discovered in Jining
There were many cultural relics found in Jining. As of 2019, the Jining Battle Memorial Hall had 220 cultural relics in its collection (set). In 2002, a large number of cultural relics were unearthed during the rescue excavation of the ancient city of Jining Road of the Yuan Dynasty in Chayou Front Banner of Ulanqab City. The blue-and-white porcelain unearthed here made experts speculate that the blue-and-white porcelain craft might have been formed between 1264 and 1313, which was pushed forward for nearly 40 years. The fourth national cultural relics survey in Jining District began on May 20, 2024. As of October 21, 40 cultural relics sites out of the 122 cultural relics in the third cultural relics survey had been reviewed, and data statistics and information had been completed. More information related to cultural relics would be found during the survey. <a href="/?from=ask_words" style="color:red" target="_blank">Read more exciting novels for free</a>
Silk, newspapers, cultural relics
Silk newspapers were newspapers printed with special materials. They had unique designs, exquisite printing, small circulation, and were worth collecting and investing. For example, the silk newspaper published by Huzhou City to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Huzhou Daily was very popular and difficult to obtain at a high price. However, there was no information about the specific connection between the silk newspaper and the cultural relics. <a href="/?from=ask_words" style="color:red" target="_blank">Read more exciting novels for free</a>
Relics Discovered in Guo Town
There were many cultural relics found in Guo Town. Among them, the "Guo Ji Zi White Plate" discovered during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty was unearthed in Baoji City, Shaanxi Province (Baoji County of Fengxiang Prefecture in the Qing Dynasty), which belonged to the area where Guo Town was located. In recent years, cultural relics such as "He Zun" were also unearthed. A national treasure bronze ware, He Zun, was unearthed on the plateau of Jia Village in the northwest of Guo Town, providing rare physical information for the study of history. In addition, there were also unearthed cultural relics such as the Sanshi Plate, the Qin Gong Bell, and the Qin Gong Bo. <a href="/?from=ask_words" style="color:red" target="_blank">Read more exciting novels for free</a>