Chapter 184

Zhou Guang and others looked at Xiang Fangyang like he was a fool: "Isn't this used for drinking in TV dramas? You wouldn't even have watched TV, right!"

Xiang Fangyang was speechless, he pitted himself with his big mouth.

Could only smile helplessly: "It's really not for drinking!"

Chen Feng immediately became interested: "I believe it, then what exactly is it for?".

104. Long queues at the museum, stone carving of a horse stepping on a Xiongnu! (Please subscribe!)

Xiang Fangyang held the Jue in his hand and explained to everyone: "I also thought Jue was for drinking before, until... uh.. until I saw it just now, I suddenly found that it is not for drinking!"

Everyone looked confused.

"Cough cough~~" Xiang Fangyang continued to explain: "First of all, this shape of it is not for drinking!"

"Look, there are three high feet at the bottom, and then this flat place at the top, which is the place for drinking in TV dramas, there is a flow below it. If you look carefully, you will find that this flow is protruding, and it is easy to hit your mouth when drinking!"

"All the bowls and cups we have at home today are round-mouthed, and there are no such long flows!"

"The function of the flow is to facilitate pouring wine, not for drinking."

"Including the two high small milk pillars on the Jue, the ones on TV have them. If you drink, this thing will poke your face, which is very inconvenient!"

"So Jue is not used for drinking. It can actually be said to be an ancient warm wine vessel plus a wine dispenser. It is a high-level wine ritual vessel used during sacrifices!"

Everyone listened in a fog, hearing this explanation for the first time, but after looking at it carefully, they found that there was indeed a flow at the bottom.

If this thing is put to the mouth to drink, it will definitely be very obstructive.

As for the two high pillars on both sides of the middle of the Jue, it is even more inconvenient.

Xiang Fangyang looked at their confused expressions and continued to explain: "Look at the bottom of the Jue, do you know why three such high feet are designed? It is to facilitate lighting a fire under the Jue to heat it."

"In ancient times, people believed that gods don't eat or drink, but like to smell the aroma."

"And when sacrificing, you must use fragrant wine to sacrifice. Fragrant wine is brewed by mixing fragrant herbs and grains."

"Every time you sacrifice, you light a fire under the Jue to heat it, and the aroma will be fragrant, and the gods in the sky can be attracted down. This is called descending the gods in ancient times!"

"So if you look carefully at the bottom of the Jue in my hand, you will find some black marks, these are traces of heating!"

Chen Feng hurriedly took it over and looked at the bottom of the Jue. Although it was covered in green rust, if you look carefully, there are indeed black substances.

Everyone had a sudden realization at this moment.

Zhou Guang exclaimed: "Could it be that what is performed on TV is fake?"

Not only him, but everyone present had this feeling.

Even Chen Feng knew for the first time that Jue was not for drinking, but for sacrifices.

Xiang Fangyang continued to explain with a smile: "Look at the two pillars on the Jue, normally it has two functions. I just said that Jue is for heating. Once heated, the whole Jue will be very hot, and you can use clips to clamp this pillar to take it down."

"Secondly, you can add a filter net on top of this pillar. When pouring wine, you can block the wine dregs and pour them on the ground. This is the pouring ritual of ancient Chinese sacrifices."

"Sacrifices in the ancestral temple, using fragrant wine, pouring it on the ground to descend the gods. This way of pouring wine is still used by us modern people, for example, going to sacrifice to ancestors during the Qingming Festival, offering wine in front of the ancestors' graves, is to pour the wine on the ground!"

"This Jue is a product of the Shang and Zhou periods. At that time, there was no ritual without wine. Wine must be present during sacrifices, and the wine vessels used by people of different levels and identities are different."

"The more noble the status, the smaller the wine vessel used for sacrifices. At that time, Jue was the smallest, so it was also the most noble, and of course, it also represented the owner's status!"

"That's why there are words like Jue rank and official rank later. For example, if your status is improved, it's called adding officials and advancing Jue!"

Everyone felt like they were attending a wonderful history class, and their eyes were shining.

Being instilled with another kind of knowledge for the first time made them feel that they had benefited a lot.

After all, almost most people would think that Jue was for drinking.

Even TV dramas and movies didn't know this.

Plus ordinary people could only see this kind of thing on TV, so naturally they all thought it was for drinking.

【Popularity】+1+1+1+1.

——【Don't listen, don't listen, even if you say it to the sky, it's for drinking. Last time I saw on TV that these two small pillars were designed to avoid drinking too fiercely. Now you tell me it's not for drinking, I don't understand what it's for anymore.】

——【Just searched online, it seems it really is for sacrifices. Because ancient wine was very turbid, those two small pillars were used to hang filter nets. I felt strange before, ancient people used this to drink, wouldn't those two small pillars poke their nostrils? It turns out it was for sacrifices after all.】

——【Hiss~~ my head is itchy, feel like I'm going to grow a brain. I'm here to watch you dig things, not to learn knowledge. Nine-year compulsory education couldn't teach me, you think you can teach me? Wishful thinking! That's right, I am the legendary nine-leak fish!】

——【So official rank and Jue rank actually came from here, really learned something. By the way, Xiang Fangyang knows too much, right? Even knows this kind of obscure cold knowledge, I feel like not many people in the live broadcast room can say it's for sacrifices! Who could have thought of this.】

It was already past ten o'clock in the morning.

The opening ceremony at the museum had long ended, and the scene was crowded with people.

To avoid damage to cultural relics, a winding walkway was temporarily installed at the scene, allowing everyone to walk along it.

This way, people wouldn't run around everywhere.

In the lobby of the museum, there was a large area specifically for exhibiting the cultural relics Xiang Fangyang dug up.

And there was a dedicated person explaining in front of each cultural relic.

Because these things were unearthed for a short time, their value had not been fully studied.

So each person explaining was an old professor with very strong professional fields.

One of the professors who came with the dean before was explaining the Qingxi Town Water Sword at this moment.

"This sword is from the Qing Dynasty..."

However, before he finished speaking.

The audience next to him immediately replied: "Wow! Dragon-slaying sword!"

"No, it's the Water-measuring sword!"

"None of them are right, it's the Qingxi Town Water Sword!"

"This sword weighs more than 3000 jin!"

"It's 7.5 meters long in total! It would be too awesome if it could be lifted!"

"Jin Yifeng was also a ruthless person back then!"

Listening to their chat, the professor was already numb.

He found that these people almost knew these cultural relics like the back of their hands.

Not just this giant sword.

Tourists knew most of the cultural relics Xiang Fangyang dug up very well.

You must know that he himself had just studied this giant sword, and didn't know the origin of the others.

This made a professor quite collapsed!

Finally, he just sat there and didn't speak, anyway, he couldn't get out, so he just listened to the tourists explaining to him here!

Especially when hearing tourists talk about other cultural relics, he listened with great interest.

A helpless feeling arose spontaneously, who is explaining! Why are these people so knowledgeable.

That's because almost everyone who came today was a netizen from the live broadcast room.

They had mostly watched Xiang Fangyang's live broadcast on-site.

Xiang Fangyang had given careful explanations for many cultural relics.

Netizens watched carefully, so they naturally remembered everything.

At this moment, seeing these real cultural relics, everyone was exceptionally excited.

The dean standing in the office upstairs looked at the scene in front of him, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth involuntarily.

The surprise brought to him today can be said to be unexpected!

The popularity of this place can be said to far exceed the Palace Museum in Kyoto.

Although it just opened, the flow of people is so terrifying that the entire lobby is crowded with people.

If it weren't for the walkway, it can be said that it would be difficult to even walk at the scene.

As for outside the lobby, the queue stretched to a place invisible to the naked eye.

This scene can't even be described as "the whole city is empty", this is more than ten thousand people, can't tell how many people there are at all.

Now no one will question his decision, and it is also the most correct decision he has made in the past few years.

As for the deputy curator, he was almost laughing with joy at this moment.

There weren't many people here before.

Now one day is worth several years of flow of people before. He never dared to do this in his dreams in his whole life.

Thinking of this, he suddenly thought of that person, Xiang Fangyang!

Gratitude, admiration, excitement, all mixed together.

Outside at this moment, there are not only tourists but also a large number of internet celebrities and reporters interviewing.