Chapter 473

——【In those days when any city could become a country—the Xia Dynasty had ten thousand countries, the Shang Dynasty had a thousand, and the Zhou Dynasty had 800. According to the "Records of the Grand Historian," after Zhou conquered Shang, it enfeoffed eight hundred feudal lords, perhaps even more.】

Fang Yang had actually only just started, and then the rest of what he was going to say was all said by the netizens.

He gestured for Li Yu beside him to look, and then said to him: "Just as the netizens said, this is a ritual object; its symbolic meaning is greater than its practical value."

In fact, Li Yu already had an idea in his heart after seeing the carvings on this item.

He handed the Spring and Autumn period Duke Rui Huan's sword to the cultural relic expert beside him, and then said to Fang Yang with a very serious look: "Then, will you continue the excavation work next?"

It had only just begun, so of course he had to continue the excavation.

He never had any intention of stopping immediately after digging up one thing.

"Of course I have to continue."

Fang Yang said in a very firm tone.

Li Yu nodded, then raised his hand and waved, signaling the others to clear the area.

310. Laozi said, advance further from the hundred-foot pole!

They didn't know what kind of operation Fang Yang would have next, and the best thing they could do was try not to cause trouble for Fang Yang.

Fang Yang was quite satisfied with the sensible attitude of this director of the Cultural Relics Bureau named Li Yu. He walked toward the excavator and climbed up in a few moves.

The cameraman felt very strange. He carefully tilted his head and said to Fang Yang, who was already sitting on the excavator: "Brother, shouldn't you look around before starting the excavation work?"

Most of the time before, didn't Fang Yang look here and there to determine which position had something before starting to dig?

It was like that before, so why was it not like that this time?

The cameraman felt very strange watching this scene.

Fang Yang just glanced at the cameraman and waved his hand to signal the cameraman to move back a bit.

"It's hard to explain this to you. I can only tell you that I roughly know where the next treasure is, so there's no need to do anything else."

After saying this, and at the same time after the cameraman stepped back, Fang Yang started the excavation work again.

The soil was shoveled to the side bit by bit.

Fang Yang's attention was as focused as ever.

This was clearly a very simple process, but when others saw Fang Yang's focused appearance, they couldn't help but stare for a little longer.

They suddenly felt that the work of excavation actually seemed quite meaningful.

Just as they were thinking this in their hearts, they suddenly saw Fang Yang stop his movements, as if he had dug up something.

As soon as they saw the pause, they almost immediately stepped forward.

"What was dug up?"

They asked excitedly.

"I haven't seen it yet, I don't know what was dug up."

Fang Yang wiped the sweat from his forehead, and only after confirming that the excavator had stopped did he say this to the cultural relic expert.

It wasn't until Fang Yang got off the excavator's operating platform, approached, and took out the dug-up item, hearing the system's voice ring in his ear, that the thing he couldn't be sure about finally seemed to be confirmed.

【Western Zhou Cloud Pattern Five-Pillar Vessel】

【Pillar height 16.5 cm, square base 21.5x20 cm, total height of the vessel 31 cm, weight 5.25 kg】

【This is a bronze cultural relic from the Western Zhou Dynasty.】

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When Fang Yang held the object in his hand, he always felt the item was strangely familiar, and for a moment he couldn't see where this familiarity came from.

It wasn't until he saw someone in the live broadcast room suddenly say something that he suddenly realized, and he couldn't help but let out an exclamation: "This is simply absurd."

Just as the netizens said, its appearance is very similar to a modern wireless router, which does look quite interesting.

Actually, it doesn't matter what you guess, because these can prove that everyone can be curious about this thing. In fact, what exactly is it?

"This item is a bronze cultural relic from the Western Zhou Dynasty, named the Cloud Pattern Five-Pillar Vessel."

"The Cloud Pattern Five-Pillar Vessel is actually the character 'Zi' (child/offspring) in oracle bone script and bronze script."

"This character has 5 vertical lines on top, arranged at intervals, of equal length."

"Below is a mouth shape, similar to the bottom of the vessel, with a cross inside the mouth, similar to the patterns on the vessel. The bottom of this character is a 'ji' (table), indicating that this object was placed on an altar for sacrifice."

"It is a ritual object; in fact, this is a ritual object for praying for offspring."

"The ancients generally had fertility worship. The number of offspring was the key to the reproduction of the race, and using figurative objects as ritual objects to pray for blessings was a common occurrence."

"Over time, these objects or scenes were recorded by various symbols and characters."

"This is also the unique feature of Chinese characters as pictographs."

"So, why does this Cloud Pattern Five-Pillar Vessel have five pillars on top? I can explain this point here."

"Actually, in the scriptures, there are also three-pillar sets. The numbers in traditional Huaxia culture are not current numbers, but simple counting."

"Laozi said: The Dao produced One; One produced Two; Two produced Three; Three produced all things."

"All things carry yin and embrace yang, and the blending of their Qi creates harmony."

"One is the origin of all things, Two is yin and yang, Three is the state of yin and yang blending. The blending of yin and yang gives birth to all things, so humans are of course born from the blending of yin and yang, so this 'Zi' character in the scriptures has three pillars on top."

"This is a special number in traditional culture. It is taken from the Five Elements. The Five Elements manifest in the sky as the five stars of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth; on earth, they manifest as the five phenomena of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth; in humans, they manifest as the five virtues of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and faith. Directions also manifest as east, west, south, north, and center. In addition, there are the five dings, five rites, five hearts, five colors, five flavors, five bodies, five internal organs, etc."

"Yin-Yang and the Five Elements are a comprehensive basic theory of Huaxia civilization that can cover everything in the world, so these five pillars were definitely not made into five pillars by accident. It represents the unity of heaven, earth, and man, and has the implication of perfection and harmony, so it can be used for prayer and blessing."

"Everyone look, the cultural connotations behind any unearthed cultural relic in Huaxia are extremely rich, so what reason do we have not to learn the traditional culture of Huaxia?"

"As descendants of Huaxia, we should uphold the excellent national ideological connotations of Huaxia, and while inheriting tradition, we should not forget to innovate."

"Advance further from the hundred-foot pole."

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——【Actually, every bronze vessel is a character.】

——【The Xia Dynasty didn't have enough long worms (snakes/dragons) because they couldn't stand the oppression of Shang and Zhou and moved south to establish the Shu State. Like the other descendants of the Xia Dynasty, the Asuras, they all had golden figures for heaven worship and did not use writing.】

——【The Yellow Emperor lived in the Paleolithic Age; at that time, humans did not yet have bronze ware.】

——【Between the Black River in the southwest of the Classic of Mountains and Seas, there is the wilderness of Duguang, where Houji is buried. Are the ancestors and gods worshipped by the Zhou people people of the Zhou Dynasty? Huaxia cultural resources are corroborated by the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and the cultural relic patterns of the Classic of Mountains and Seas are the symbols of Huaxia's cultural heritage.】

——【The router signal is strong, has a certain wall-penetrating function, and is expensive; I definitely can't afford it.】

——【Haha, please don't let our traditional culture disappear.】

——【It's too scary, our culture is too Westernized. For thousands of years, only a very small number of people have known traditional culture, and the vast majority of people are illiterate and don't understand anything.】

——【There is no difference between ancient and modern times. If we had agreed to the pinyinization of Chinese characters back then, we would be like the Kimchi Country now, unable to recognize our own Chinese characters. Scary, right?】

——【Impossible thing. After the founding of the country, there was a trend to change to Cyrillic, but it couldn't be implemented at all.】

——【Isn't there the English CET-4 and CET-6 exams now? Is it useful? If you don't know it, you still won't know English.】

——【You are the one who doesn't work hard and always wants to rely on others.】

——【Chinese characters are ideograms, not pictographs.】

——【Oh my, why do I feel like this is a weaving tool used to weave straw sandals or something like that?】

——【In "Literature and History," bronze vessels with such exquisite characters are generally from wealthy families. The nobles of such families would not weave. At that time, bronze vessels were not something ordinary people could afford; they were all for nobles. They wouldn't even use them, and even if they did, they wouldn't make them so expensive.】

311. Unidentifiable cultural relics, did crystal exist in the Warring States period?

Everyone was constantly discussing.

They were full of curiosity about this newly unearthed cultural relic.

And Fang Yang, like them, was full of curiosity about it.

He even couldn't help but say a few more words.

"Although some items do make people unable to help but think that they might be objects made by people who traveled through time, the theory of time travel is still a bit absurd after all."

"In fact, if you distinguish carefully, you will find that this has nothing to do with time travel."

"This is just that the people of that time already had very advanced knowledge and culture, or it was just some coincidences."

【Popularity】+1+1+1+1.

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——【If you say it's a coincidence, it's really too much of a coincidence.】

——【Up to now, the number of unearthed cultural relics is already quite large, but many of the cultural relics in them are always very similar to some modern things.】

——【Why does everyone think that if ancient cultural relics are similar to modern ones, they must be made by time travelers? Could it not be that we modern people feel that the styles of ancient cultural relics are very convenient to use, so we deliberately imitated them, or got some inspiration from ancient cultural relics, and then made some of our current items very similar to ancient ones?】

——【Yes, yes, how can the thoughts of modern people be directly imposed on the thoughts of ancient people? This is actually very absurd.】

Fang Yang looked at what the netizens in the live broadcast room were saying, couldn't help but smile, and then added a few more sentences: "Like the Western Zhou Cloud Pattern Five-Pillar Vessel, this type of vessel is not seen in any records, and so far, no records of this thing can be found in any historical materials."

While speaking, Fang Yang looked at the cultural relic expert not far away.

Li Yu frowned.