Looking forward to it, the ghost blowing lantern series has finally started!
Many netizens can't wait (including).
The theme of this season is "The Return of the South China Sea", and you can tell from the title of the show that the Iron Triangle is going to have a big adventure under the sea!
But as a rigorous archaeologist, I am curious, is there really a ruin in the South China Sea?What about this ruin?
Stills from "Return to the Ruins of the South China Sea", the source of the official Weibo.
The legendary return to the ruins
It is recorded in the Taoist classic work "Liezi":
In the east of the Bohai Sea, I don't know hundreds of millions of miles, there is a big gully, but there is a bottomless valley, and there is no bottom under it, and the name is called the ruins. The water of the eight and nine wildernesses, the flow of the heavenly and Han people, all pay attention to it, and there is no increase or decrease. ”
Roughly what it means:
In the far east of the Bohai Sea, there is a bottomless abyss called "Guiru". All the water in the world eventually gathers here, and it will not be full or depleted.
Therefore, the ancients felt that the ruins were not in the South China Sea, but on the East China Sea!
Liezi also said that there are five mountains in the ruins: Daiyu, Yuanqiao, Fanghu, Yingzhou, and Penglai.
Yingzhou and Penglai should be familiar with everyone.
These five mountains are not ordinary mountains, they are immortal mountains.
There are palaces and pavilions on the mountain, all of which are built with ** and beautiful jade, and there are birds and beasts on the mountain.
Therefore, although the location of the ruins in "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" is wrong, it is said that there is a dungeon in the ruins, and now it seems that there is a certain amount of truth.
But in the end, there is no documentary history to say clearly, and most of them are also legends.
Most modern literary works describe Guiru as a very magnificent and mysterious place.
Stills from "Return to the Ruins of the South China Sea", the source of the official Weibo.
King Qin looks at the bone mirror
This season, the Iron Triangle was entrusted by Professor Chen to go to the South China Sea to find an antiquity called "King Qin's Bone Mirror".
This thing sounds a bit metaphysical, and it was unheard of before, but it has something to do with King Qin.
So what's so peculiar about this mirror?
Stills from "Ghost Blowing the Lamp".
King Qin's bone mirror, from the Tang Dynasty's ** collection "Youyang Miscellaneous" volume 10 "Strange Things":
Qin mirror, there is a square mirror in the grottoes of the ancient bank of Yixi, the diameter is more than that, according to the five Tibets, the Qin Emperor is the treasure of the bones. In the border mountains of Wulao County.
In the territory of Wulao County, there is a square mirror in the grotto on the ancient bank of Yixi Mountain, the diameter is more than one zhang, it can see through the viscera, when Qin Shi Huang, it is known as the bone treasure
Therefore, King Qin's bone mirror is a bronze mirror, and the superpower of the mirror is to be able to look at the human skeleton veins. Isn't that a bit like a modern X-ray ......?
However, such an outrageous function was originally from history**, and there is no record of "King Qin's bone mirror" in the official history.
Although the "Qin King Mirror" is a fictitious treasure, because of the legend that this mirror can also distinguish loyalty and treachery, later generations will be good at judging cases and distinguishing right from wrong People are likened to "Qin Mirror".
We can really find the "King of Qin" mirror in the museum now!
Tang "Appreciate the King of Qin" Rui beast pattern bronze mirror Hunan Provincial Museum collection.
Treasures of the South Seas
Since the ruins are not in the South China Sea, are there any relics in the South China Sea?
Of course there is!Not long ago, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage also announced the first discovery of a large-scale ancient shipwreck site on the kilometer-level seabed of the South China Sea.
Inside the No. 1 shipwreck on the northwest slope of the South China Sea.
Unlike in film and television dramas, this kind of site does not have a magnificent burial palace.
Generally, it is mainly based on the accumulation of shipwage, such as: pottery, porcelain, bronze, iron, bamboo and wood, etc.
Archaeological excavators are needed to carry out professional salvage.
Speaking of shipwrecks in the South China Sea, most people may think of "Nanhai No. 1".
Nanhai No. 1. Nanhai No. 1.
To popularize science, this is the only shipwreck site in China that is directly named after the sea area.
"Nanhai" is a wooden ancient shipwreck that was wrecked and sunk in the early Southern Song Dynasty when transporting porcelain on the Maritime Silk Road.
The site of its sinking is located in the sea area of Guangdong Province, China, more than 800 years ago.
As of 2019, more than 180,000 pieces of cultural relics have been unearthed from the shipwreck, and many of them are priceless national treasures, which can be called the most underwater archaeology in China, and also show the prosperous overseas ** system of China's Song Dynasty.
Nanhai. Interested friends can watch CCTV's "Nanhai" documentary, which records in detail the entire process of discovery, investigation, salvage and protection of the "Nanhai" shipwreck.
Nanhai No. 1 "out of the water porcelain.
Underwater archaeology
China, as an ancient civilization with both land and sea, has also left behind a valuable marine cultural heritage in its waters.
The excavation of the "Nanhai" is just the beginning.
It is heartening to note that China's underwater archaeology is booming, and I believe that there will be more shipwrecks in the South China Sea in the future.
[References].
Liezi" Tang Dynasty ** collection "Youyang Miscellaneous".
Edited by Dong Zhiwen. Talking about Chinese Maritime Myths and Legends[M]. 2014
Nanhai No. 1 archaeological excavation: the world's first overall salvage data accurate to the millimeter level.
More ancient literature resources can be consulted in the ** library of Mesqi.
Copywriting |Atractylodes macrocephalus (if you need **, please indicate the source).
Typography |Cat her (part of the picture comes from the Internet, invaded and deleted).