Feng Ping sighed that it was easy to mix well-connected, and at the same time threw himself into the sea of reading classics. Although he studied science www.biquge.info and engineering, he still has a certain understanding of history, and his grandfather's pride in the ancient family makes him use historical knowledge to test Feng Ping from time to time, and he knows a lot about coming and going.

As far as Feng Ping knows, the development of bronze ware is divided into three stages, the formation period, the heyday period and the transformation period.

It was formed in the Longshan era of 4000-4500 years ago, that is, the mythical Yao Shunyu era. In this era, it was mainly red copper and bronze, less brass, and the types of bronze were relatively single, mostly belonging to daily life utensils. Because most of them are daily necessities, there are fewer ornaments, only simple star stripes and triangles.

After entering the Xia, Shang and Zhou periods, with the development of society, the development of bronze ware has also become more and more prosperous. From the original daily utensils, in addition to miscellaneous utensils, there are ceremonial instruments and weapons. Among them, the highest craftsmanship belongs to ceremonial instruments, because ancient China has always emphasized the feudal hierarchy of royal power, and the strengthening of the concept of hierarchy is largely reflected and reflected in ceremonial instruments. There are strict regulations on the daily feasts, sacrifices, and even the Yin utensils that accompany the burial after death, so that later generations can infer the identity of the tomb owner through the burial goods.

In this era, the craft of bronze ware developed rapidly, and there were many types of bronzes, with exquisite styles and gorgeous ornamentation. The common pattern has also developed from the original triangular pattern and star stripe pattern to gluttonous pattern, Zen pattern and dragon pattern, which is very mythical. Gluttony is the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" in the mythical beast, the belly can swallow the heaven and the earth, sexual greed and food, "Divine Strange Scripture Southwest Wilderness" said: "There are people in the southwest, hairy, wearing pigs on their heads, greedy as wolves, so as to accumulate wealth, and not eat the valley of people, the robber robs the old and weak, and the fear of the group and hits the single, the name is gluttony." In the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", it is called the roe deer owl. There are more theories about the dragon, one believes that it is the nine sons of the dragon, and the other believes that it is one of the sources of ancient Chinese dragons. The predecessors divided the dragon into four types: the scaly dragon, the winged dragon, the horned dragon, and the hornless dragon. The emergence of these two kinds of ornamentation also represents the integration of more myths and stories with the feudal royal hierarchy, and the mystification of royal power.

In this era of weapon smelting, the technology is quite superb. There are already anti-rust diamond-shaped, flame-shaped, scale-shaped patterns, and even some swords can be blown and broken after two thousand years.

The last period of bronze development is the transition period represented by the Qin and Han dynasties, in this era, with the change of feudal dynasties, the collapse of the traditional ritual system, coupled with the use of iron, the status of bronze in society gradually declined, and the utensils were gradually used daily. But again, after its heyday, smelting technology tended to be more complete, and although the demand decreased, there was no shortage of exquisite bronzes.

Although Feng Ping's understanding of bronze artifacts in his mind is quite complete, he is afraid that there will be some shortcomings, and he has searched for a long time in this sea of books, but it seems that it does not play much role in finding the secret of this bronze sword. After all, there is no record of a bronze process that can keep a sword sharp for thousands of years, and there is no process that can invalidate carbon determination. Feng Ping consulted a lot of classics and did not find a record of changing the identification year of the bronzes, so after thinking about it, he began to use the pyramid-like figure on the bronzes as a breakthrough to start a new round of searching.

This symbol is quite distinctive, with six rectangles connected in pairs to form a hollow triangle pattern. There is a sign of lightning in the triangle of this pattern on the sword, and Feng Ping remembers that on the jade pendant in the dream, the pattern in this triangle is an open eye, and there is no difference other than that. It's just that for eyes and lightning, Feng Ping can't think of anything that can be related to each other, so it's not possible that these graphics are all randomly chosen, right? If so, where else will the logos be inscribed in this collection?

The more I thought about it, the more I felt that my head was big, since I couldn't find anything in the books, Feng Ping simply took out the sword and looked at it carefully, the inscription on the sword body was not only a simple star stripe but also a complicated gluttonous pattern, that is, the beast face pattern, then this is at least something after the mythological era. The blade of the sword is smooth, except for the engraved patterns, there are no diamond or flame-shaped patterns, and there are no other special marks, and I flicked it with my fingers, the sword body is very thick, but the sides are very thin, the blade of the sword is very well polished, and there are some echoes of gold and iron when the fingers are flicked. Since the last time the patina fell off automatically in the warehouse, the sword seemed to come alive, and the entire body of the sword was completely as if it had just been forged from the casting furnace without any aging, oxidation or damage. Maybe it was because Feng Ping had seen the sharpness of this sword, and he always felt that the sword itself exuded an invisible aura, which made a chill always surround Feng Ping's heart. Ergouzi said that the person who sold it was determined that this was a bronze from the Han Dynasty, and although the carbon element was not tested later, his own verification and comparison also determined that it was at least completely Han Dynasty style in terms of craftsmanship. Feng Ping used to wonder why Ergouzi was so concerned about a fake that couldn't be dated, but when he thought of his dream, it was estimated that Ergouzi's dream was really something he couldn't forget. Thinking of the feeling of being gradually stripped of consciousness and slowly losing all strength and not being able to breathe and think, Feng Ping still had some heart palpitations, maybe it was no different from real death.

When Feng Ping was at a loss, the second dog not far away seemed to have discovered something, and he slammed the table in the library excitedly, causing many people on the side to hold their brows and watch. When I walked over, I found that Ergouzi was actually looking for the books of the foreign church, so that he could find it too? I saw Ergouzi pointing to a mark on the book and said, "Brother Ping, look, isn't it very similar?" ”

The mark is also a hollow triangle like a sign composed of six rectangles, and there is also an eye on the sign, but the open eye is located at the top of the pyramid, like an emperor standing in the mortal world looking down on all beings, and the surrounding light is full of light, as if to highlight the reverence of its status. The mark as a whole, and the pyramid in particular, is exactly the same as the pattern on the bronze sword, and it seems that there is a real connection.

Closing the book, only to discover the meaning of this mark, Feng Ping shouted in surprise: "The omniscient eye? Freemasonry? “