Era: Early Western Zhou Dynasty
Excavation point: Jiacunyuan
, Baoji City Collection unit: Baoji Bronze Museum
He Zun is the treasure of the town of Baoji Bronze Museum. The height is 39 cm, the diameter is 28.6 cm, and the weight is 14.6 kg. Zun is an ancient wine container, and "He" is the owner of the utensil.
He Zun looks like a trumpet-shaped vase. The whole body has four edges, which is very three-dimensional. The upper part is decorated with banana leaves and snake patterns, the abdomen is high-relief gluttonous patterns, and the lower part is a low-relief animal face pattern. The whole body is filled with clouds and thunder patterns, using a combination of high-relief and bas-relief. It is dense and dense, dignified and full of changes. It is a noble and majestic sacrificial ritual.
He Zun was unearthed in Jiacunyuan, Baoji City in 1963. In September 1965, it was recruited by the Baoji Museum. In 1975, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage held the "National Exhibition of Newly Unearthed Cultural Relics" in the Forbidden City in Beijing. He Zun was transferred to Beijing. While cleaning up the rust, an inscription with 122 characters in 12 lines was found on the inner bottom of He Zun. As a result, He Zun's worth doubled.
The He Zun inscription records the important historical event that the King Wen was ordered, the King Wu destroyed the business, and the King completed the final wish camp of the King Wu and built Zhou Luoyi. The inscriptions are completely consistent with historical documents such as "Luogao" and "Zhaogao" in "Shangshu", which confirm the authenticity of historical documents, and provide important physical materials for the study of Western Zhou history and the dating of bronze wares. The role of history.
Even more exciting is that the word "" was first discovered in the inscription of He Zun. The inscription records: "Yu Qi Zhai Zi China, from the Yi people", this is the present It is found that "China" is the earliest place to appear as a phrase, and it has a history of more than 3,000 years. "China" in He Zun's inscription is a locator word, which means center and center. At first, it was just a directional concept, meaning that to control the center is to control the entire world.
In the 1980s, He Zun once went to the United States, Japan and other countries for exhibitions with a price of tens of millions of dollars. In January 2002, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage issued the "Catalog of the First Batch of Cultural Relics Prohibited to Exhibit Overseas (Border)", a total of 64 cultural relics, He Zun was listed among them. In 1982, He Zun boarded the special stamps of Chinese cultural relics and became the business card of the People's Republic of China. He is well-known at home and abroad and showed the people of the world the long history of the Chinese nation and the splendid bronze culture.
