The magical "wine glass" unearthed in Nanjing, Li Bai was full of praise for it, and the experts were pleasantly surprised after seeing it

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In ancient my country, a series of wine cultures were derived based on drinking, including the exquisiteness of wine utensils. For the people at the bottom, the drinking mode is very rough: drinking from a large bowl and eating large pieces of meat, but for the dignitaries, they like to drink with wine utensils such as Jue. For example, the nobles of the pre-Qin era were unearthed in many noble tombs. With the development of the times, the materials of the wine utensils of the noble masters are constantly updated: the wine utensils of the pre-Qin era are copper, but in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, people prefer to use jade: such as grape wine luminous cup. The luminous cup is actually a wine glass carved from jade. After the Song Dynasty, wine utensils and handicrafts were integrated and became a landscape in the history of Chinese art.

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Parrot Cup

However, in Chinese history, a wine glass called "Parrot Cup" has always troubled later history researchers. Because according to the poetry description of Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai, he once used a vessel called "parrot cup" to drink. The magic of this "parrot cup" is that it claims to be able to pour more than 300 glasses of wine every day. Of course, there are exaggerations in Tang poetry, but one thing is certain, that is, the "Parrot Cup" can continuously pour many glasses of wine. However, this description seems to violate geometric principles. However, Li Bai was so eloquent about the attribute of the "Parrot Cup". He once said bluntly that "cormorants, parrot cups. Three thousand six thousand days in a century, three hundred cups a day must be poured." Therefore, historians are eager to know the principle of the "Parrot Cup".

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真相

It was not until 1965 that the truth of the "Parrot Cup" became known to the world. That year, archaeologists discovered in Nanjing that there was a special funerary object in the tomb of the nobleman Wang Xingzhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty: that was a conch. If the conch appears at the Dawenkou Resident Site or the Hemudu Site, there is nothing wrong with it, after all, it is a site of primitive society. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Chinese civilization has developed rapidly. Why does the noble master need a conch as his funeral? Therefore, archaeologists concluded that there must be a mystery in this. Later, scholars discovered that this conch is actually a wine glass, and it is the "parrot cup" that has plagued academic circles for many years!

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Principle of "Parrot Cup"

However, such a conch has a limited capacity after all. How can it be possible to pour many glasses of wine? Experts find it difficult to understand. Therefore, experts used an X-ray machine to inspect the "Parrot Cup", intending to see the structure and structure inside. This test was pleasantly surprised and discovered the principle of the "Parrot Cup": it turns out that there are a lot of inside the "Parrot Cup" The small hole divides the inside of the conch into many spaces. This leads to the fact that every time you pour the wine, because of the internal barrier, the wine needs to be divided into many times to be poured. Therefore, the "Parrot Cup" can pour more than 300 per day. The argument for a glass of wine is actually not because the "Parrot Cup" has a large capacity, but because each glass of wine poured is too small.

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Scarcity

This characteristic of "Parrot Cup" has been loved by dignitaries and literati since its inception. However, the "Parrot Cup" has the characteristic of serious scarcity, which has led to a very small number of nobles and great writers to have this kind of wine glass. The reason why the "Parrot Cup" is extremely rare is that the raw material of the "Parrot Cup" Nautilus is too small. Because Nautilus is located at a depth of 100 meters, it was difficult for the ancients to go to a depth of 100 meters for collection without modern diving equipment, which led to the scarcity of Nautilus.

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