Chapter 279: Magic Mirror
"Get me a blank piece of paper!"
Hei Feng heard and quickly took out a piece of white paper, Wen Yiming raised the white paper with his left hand, held the bronze mirror in his right hand, and kept adjusting the angle in the sun, everyone was very curious, I don't know what happened?
"Look, the mirror can let in the light!"
Suddenly, Hei Feng shouted, pointed to the aperture that appeared on the white paper, and said in surprise: "Isn't this the pattern behind the bronze mirror?"
"Hahaha, it's really a translucent mirror!
Wen Yiming laughed, constantly changing the angle, the pattern on the white paper became clearer and clearer, is it really the bronze pattern behind the copper mirror, and the metal can actually transmit light?
"See the light of the sun, the world is bright!"
The diameter of the bronze mirror is eight or nine centimeters, the net weight is 50 grams, it is the utensils used by the ancients to reflect the face, and the outer side of the back pattern is engraved with the light of seeing the sun, and the world is bright. The inner area of the mirror is eight curved arc patterns, and the center of each arc pattern has a short line perpendicular to the button base on the symbol, and the ornamental symbol on the copper mirror rotates clockwise.
This type of copper mirror is illuminated by light, and the back of the mirror can be decorated in the reflected light, and it looks as if the light is penetrating the metal mirror body and reflecting from the back of the mirror.
The name of the translucent mirror has been handed down, but unfortunately the production method of the translucent lens has been lost for thousands of years, leaving an unsolvable mystery to future generations.
"Shangbo collects 10,000 bronze mirrors made in Chinese dynasties. Among them, there is a Han Dynasty translucent mirror, which is the treasure of the town hall. For more than 1,000 years, the miraculous phenomenon of the translucent mirror has attracted many scholars from ancient and modern China and foreign countries to study, from Shen Kuo in the Song Dynasty to Zheng Fuguang in the Qing Dynasty, countless scholars at home and abroad have racked their brains to uncover the mystery of the ancient mirror that has plagued the world for thousands of years. ”
"Through research, it has been found that the translucent lens is very thick where it has inscriptions and patterns, while it is thinner where there is no inscription. Whereas, the edge of the translucent lens has a wide and thick ring. When casting copper mirrors, they cool quickly because the mirror body is thinner, while the mirror ring cools slowly because the mirror ring is wide and thick. ”
"Therefore, when the mirror body has been fixed and formed, the mirror ring is still cooling and shrinking, which produces a tightening effect on the mirror body and forms casting residual stress. When the mirror body is deformed, the bottom of the mirror arches to a large extent in the direction of the mirror, while the arch of the mirror ring and the ornament is small, so the unevenness of the mirror surface is formed. ”
Wen Yiming kept playing with the bronze mirror and exclaimed: "Although this difference cannot be discerned with the naked eye, it is enough to make the difference in the degree of reflected light distribution." When a beam of parallel light is projected onto the mirror surface, the ornamented place is flat, and the reflected light is concentrated, while the unornamented place is convex and the reflected light diverges, so the light reflected to the wall is bright where there is a pattern, and the place without the pattern is dark, and the wall presents the same pattern as the mirror back. ”
"There is another feature of the Han Dynasty translucent mirror, its pattern is circumferentially distributed, only then can a significant circumferential casting residual stress be generated, and a relatively regular concave and convex surface is formed on the mirror surface. ”
As he spoke, he turned the front of the bronze mirror over, looked at himself clearly inside, and sighed: "This copper mirror has red and green curls, the traces are firm, the mirror surface of the copper realm is smooth and bright, and there are layers of naturally formed glass outlines, so after more than 2,000 years, it can still reflect the characters, and the hair can be identified, and it is very clear." ”
"Some experts have counted that there are many circulating helioscopes and Zhaoming mirrors, which theoretically have the characteristics of light transmission, but through experiments, most of them cannot transmit light. The reason is that the mirror surface is corroded, and there are very few that can really transmit light, so the existing translucent mirrors are rare treasures!"
Put away the translucent mirror, which is the same as the crystal cup, which is a symbol of ancient wisdom, which fully proves the black technology of the ancestors, and goes back to a specific exhibition hall for people to visit and appreciate.
"Sir, this bronze has a strange shape......"
Finally, a bronze vessel was taken out of the soil, and the body was slightly constricted, the bottom of the circle, the feet of three bears, and the bears were squatting. Rectangular ears on both sides of the abdomen, with small animal buttons that can be flipped over on the ears.
"Huh, the four beasts, the bear's feet, the bronze tripod?"
Wen Yiming looked at the bronze tripod and couldn't help laughing: "This is the pressure cooker of the Han Dynasty, the same one has been unearthed in the tomb of Liu Sheng, King Jing of Zhongshan in the city, but I didn't expect it to be here." ”
Squatting down and pointing to the bronze belly, he explained: "There is a convex string pattern here, and there are four small beasts on it at equal distances. After the lid is fastened, flip the Ding-eared beast button, turn the Ding-eared beast button to the left, and cover the head of the small beast just stuck on the Ding-eared beast button, so that the Ding-eared beast button is locked. ”
"Then it is heated over high heat and used to steam and cook meat, which is the same principle as the pressure cooker we use now, and it is also an ancient black technology. ”
"Wow, this little bear is too cute, isn't it?" Hei Feng cleaned up the three-legged tripod, looked at the little bear carved on it, and the love was overflowing, in today's words, it is really cute!
Everything was packed and taken away, and they continued to look for clues nearby, and everyone climbed to the Guishan Han Tomb, where there was a stone tablet at the gate, on which an irregular small seal was written. Wen Yiming read softly: "The hundredth stone, the ancient corpse king of Chu." Through the heavens, the coffin is buried, and the Bois is not prosperous, so that the ministers have been buried, and they go to serve the gold and jade. Later generations of virtuous doctors were fortunate to see this book, and this was also saddened. ”
Turned around and explained: "This tomb is the tomb of Liu Zhu, the king of Chu Xiang in the Western Han Dynasty, and his wife, the inscription is mainly to warn future generations, although he is a generation of Chu kings, but there are no luxurious clothes in the tomb, and there are no treasures to accompany the burial, when you see the inscription, you will definitely feel sad in your heart." ”
Despite this, later excavations proved that the tomb was stolen twice. Two theft excavations still unearthed a large number of jade, pottery, chariots and horses, terracotta figurines, five-baht coins, lintoe gold, turtle button silver seal, Vermilion Bird Xiao shape seal and other cultural relics, so it is clear that there is no silver three hundred taels here, just cover the ears and steal the bell. ”
Wen Yiming circled around the neighborhood, according to the records of the treasures of the troubled times, after the tomb robbers opened the tomb of Liu Zhu, the fragrance was fragrant, and the coffin was opened, which was even more fragrant and refreshing, so that the fragrance could be smelled for several miles near the mausoleum!
Liu Zhu and his wife are lifelike, and their skin is similar to that of a living person. It is said that he smiled as if to say to the tomb robbers: You are only here now, we husband and wife have been waiting for you for a long time!
Historical records: His son Liu Cong held dozens of stones of precious incense from all over the world in the coffin, and the incense of Suhe to eliminate the epidemic was ready. In Yongjiazhong, the county man Hengxi sent his tomb, the appearance is like life, and the fragrance smells for dozens of miles.
The ancients have long had the embalming technology of corpses, whether it is an Egyptian mummy or an imperial rake in the East, it should be the use of embalming spices to preserve the corpse, and it will not decay for thousands of years.
Curious to know what exactly is the recipe for this miracle spice?
Could it be the legendary Hexiang that can prolong life?
If a dead person can not decay for a thousand years, what effect will a living person smell like?