The one in the box has a "cauldron lid", the kind that can often be seen in TV dramas and movies, but it is much more exquisite than those in film and television dramas, and it can even be said to be exquisite to the limit!

The workmanship is so exquisite that even modern people can't do it!

Don't blow it, because what's in the box is the crown of the Qing Dynasty emperor of China!

Seeing this thing in the box, Guan Xingquan unconsciously said: "The emperor's hat?"

Zhang Nan also stared at the "cauldron lid" in front of him, and when he heard this, he said directly: "This is Chaoguan, Brother Guan."

It's not an auspicious crown, nor a regular crown, a travel crown, or a rain crown, this is the most important summer crown!

There were more than a dozen emperors of the Qing Dynasty, God knows how many hats were made, and now there is a Qianlong summer court dress crown in the Forbidden City, and the others are all gone.

The Anglo-French alliance and the eight-nation alliance on the dog day, how many good things have been robbed of our Huaxia!"

The first sentence is still talking to Guan Xingquan, and the rest is almost a self-talking complaint.

Last time, I bought Qianlong's tablet on the stall, which was surprising enough and the fire was big, but this time the crown was found in the Nazi treasure, and the Manchu government was weak and shameful enough!

None of the Chinese guys present felt how strange it was to appear here, everyone knew that the British and French forces burned the Old Summer Palace, and the Chinese treasures that were stolen did not know how many, and those who had read history textbooks knew everything, and that the Eight-Nation Alliance would have a share in Germany, Tsarist Russia, Austria-Hungary, and France.

In World War II, Nazi Germany annexed Austria, then France, and then occupied most of Europe in the Soviet Union. Mussolini, the papier-mâché ally, took over a large part of Italy after his death, and it was normal for the Nazis to get a large number of Chinese cultural relics looted during the Second Opium War and the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance.

Hearing Zhang Nan's words, plus hearing that he had found the hat of the Qing Dynasty emperor, except for the guys on duty outside, everyone else came up to see what this crown that once belonged to the Manchu emperor looked like.

Some people say that the crown of China is not as delicate and gorgeous as the traditional crown of the West, and it is not so precious......

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Different concepts and different aesthetics, as long as the ancient Chinese emperors accepted the Central Plains thought, no 250 would put a bunch of gems on their heads: make it shiny, you play monkey!

The people in this room, whether they are from China or Americans, are amazed by the exquisiteness of the Chinese Crown!

There are many gems in the two European crowns found in front of you, but apart from the gemstones, the other craftsmanship is really lackluster: compared to the production process of Chinese jewelry, these European crowns use the most basic, if not the most rudimentary setting technique.

The processing of royal jewelry in China often uses the tired silk process that Western craftsmen can't think of: they can't think of it, they can't do it, and they still can't even figure out how to do it after seeing the real thing.

In all dynasties, the best jewelry and gold and silver craftsmen in China have been serving the emperor's family, which object in the emperor's family is the most important and the highest level?

The Emperor's hat!

There are many types of hats, but which one is the most important?

Towards the crown!

Which is the finest in the crown?

There are two kinds of crowns, the workmanship of the winter crown and the summer crown is actually the same fine, but the Xia Dynasty crown has more small accessories than the former, so the Qing Dynasty emperor's crown hat is a Mahayana person, and it is none other than the Xia Dynasty crown!

And the one in front of me is the Xia Dynasty crown, or the complete Xia Dynasty crown, and there are a lot of "parts" of the same size.

It looks like a conical "cauldron lid", and the lower eaves are open and double-flared. The inside is either made of jade grass from the northeast, or made of rattan silk and bamboo silk.

The outside is framed with a layer of Luo, and the two layers of flare are inlaid with stone blue woven gold trims, and the red woven gold is the inside, the outer layer is decorated with Zhu Wei, and the inner layer is decorated with a hat ring, and the ring is decorated with a belt.

The crown is prefixed with a gold silk hollow golden Buddha, and the crown is suffixed with the gold silk hollow Shelin that only has a crown in the Xia Dynasty, and the top of the crown is crowned with a gold silk hollow cloud dragon seat, embedded in the top of the Dadong jewelry.

The general basis of the Western crown is precious metals, and the gemstones are inlaid on it, while the basic materials of the crown that the Chinese emperor will wear on the most important occasions such as sacrifices and court meetings seem to be inconspicuous, but in fact, the workmanship is extremely fine, not to mention the important accessories whose craftsmanship can make people stunned.

Huaxia "crown", the highest craftsmanship in the crown ornament!

Zhang Nan always carries four magic weapons, a ruler, an electronic scale, a flashlight and a magnifying glass.

To see the tired silk process, you need to use a magnifying glass, but this will not be used first, take out a small tape measure and measure: the treasure top on the top of the crown is 12.4 cm high, plus the hollow golden cloud dragon seat more than two centimeters high on the lower layer, which is not much shorter than the lightning rod on the helmet of the Manchu cavalry.

The whole body of Baoding is made of hollow tired silk technique in metalworking, and the top title is a large eastern pearl, which is divided into three layers below, and an eastern pearl is intervaled between layers.

Each layer bears four golden dragons, the head of the golden dragon of the hemispherical base layer is facing down, the golden dragon of the upper two layers is facing upwards, and each dragon is decorated with an east pearl.

On some well-made braided plays and the portraits of emperors handed down in the Qing Dynasty, you can see that there is a gold medal inlaid with Dongzhu on the front of the crown, and there is a Buddha statue on it: there is also a crown on this court, but it is not a simple "gold medal", and the production process looks more complicated than the treasure top on the head.

First, this thing is 8.4 cm tall, 3.3 cm longitudinally, and 6.0 cm long.

"This thing is called the Golden Buddha, the Manchu emperor believed this, this may be Shakyamuni. ”

The "gold medal" is called the Golden Buddha, not the "Sakyamuni" is called the Golden Buddha, but Zhang Nan's words can be understood by a few Chinese guys: This is not easy to explain in American English, and there is no need to talk nonsense, Paul and others have already seen a little straight-eyed!

It's so fine!

"Golden Buddha" is full of gold hollow filament, the base is two layers of oval, each layer is decorated with two dragons, the dragon's head is relative to the back, a Buddha is sitting in the middle, and the flame backlight is decorated with two dragons, and 15 pieces of the same size are inlaid around the sitting Buddha.

The gold wire is extremely thin and dense, not to mention that you can't figure out how to make and weld it in the first place, and you can't even find the welding point at once!

There is a golden Buddha in front of this crown, and there is also a jewelry in the corresponding position behind, Zhang Nan pointed to the ornament and said: "This is Shelin, the transliteration of Manchu, which originally refers to the iron piece nailed to the helmet in order to protect the forehead."

The Qing Dynasty clan also has this thing on the crown from the prince to the crown of Beizi, and the level is distinguished by the number of Dongzhu on the top, but they are all worn on the forehead, only the emperor's Xia Dynasty crown is to put Shelin on the back of the head, and the Winter Dynasty crown does not have this thing. ”

This piece is 4.5 centimeters high, 3.0 centimeters longitudinally and 5.0 centimeters long. The slender oval base is decorated with two golden silk dragons, the second layer is decorated with gold silk flowers and leaves, and the top layer is decorated with a large dragon looking back, inlaid with seven eastern pearls.

Baoding, Golden Buddha, Sherin, the three accessories are there, this craft ......

Dozens of streets to blow up those crowns of Westerners!

Even if he was unhappy with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Zhang Nan exclaimed: "Baby, real baby, Qianlong's top is at most the end of this process!"

At this time, Xiang Weirong asked: "Which emperor do you think it belongs to?"

"It's hard to say!"