In the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, USA, there is a special blue pottery collection, and almost no one can guess its purpose. Finally, an expert speculated that blue painted pottery is likely to be a musical instrument. What's going on? If you want to know, let the edi

In the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, USA, there is a special blue pottery collection, and almost no one can guess its purpose. Finally, an expert speculated that blue painted pottery is likely to be a musical instrument. What's going on? If you want to know, let me reveal it to you:

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Metropolitan Museum of Art, located in the United States, is the largest art museum in the United States and the most famous art museum in the world. Its specific location is at 82 Street, Fifth Avenue, New York, USA. The Metropolitan Museum of Art covers an area of ​​about 130,000 square meters.

As a world museum, the collections in the Metropolitan Museum of the United States almost review the development of human civilization history. It is known as the five major museums in the world, along with the Forbidden City in Beijing, China, the British Museum in London, England, the Louvre in Paris, France, and the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art was built in 1871. After discussing with New York City, the museum was approved to obtain a piece of land on the east side of Central Park as a permanent site. The architectural appearance design was also held by the famous designer Calvert Vaux. After that, the museum began to collect important cultural relics transported from all over the world, gathering the strengths of hundreds of schools of thought here, forming a world-wide large museum with more than 3 million cultural relics.

In the list of cultural relics displayed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, there is a cultural relics that seem particularly special, it is a special blue pottery. The blue colored pottery has a very special appearance. Its whole is divided into three parts. The upper part is a structure in the shape of a "door". It is thick and sturdy but has a strange shape. Modern people cannot speculate about it at all. In the middle of the painted pottery is a female face with distinctive characteristics of ancient Egypt. She has a beautiful face and is decorated with her head. Her pretty eyes are staring ahead, and her eyes are full of awe. The lower part is relatively simple, its shape is similar to a square pillar, and some ancient Egyptian characters are also carved on it, but relevant writing experts also said that they are not able to crack the meaning of the characters at present.

A problem arises at this time. What is the purpose of such a strange blue pottery? After all, productivity in ancient times was limited, and craftsmen could not be so bored that they spent a lot of energy to make an item. In order to uncover the secrets, archaeological experts began to study the use of blue pottery. Some experts have suggested that it is likely to be a decoration for the avatar of Hassol, a famous goddess in ancient Egypt. Hassol was one of the important objects of worship by the ancient Egyptians. She was the famous god of love, the god of harvest, and the god of exorcising disasters. She could bless the subjects to enjoy the most beautiful love and make the crops harvest good. Legend has it that on the land of ancient Egypt, a bloodthirsty devil slaughtered at will on the earth, killing women and children, and drinking their blood. In order to subdue the devil, Hasol sprinkled pomegranate wine to lure the devil to eat it. The devil mistakenly thought that pomegranate wine was blood, so he got drunk and then fell asleep and could no longer harm anyone.

Archaeological experts compared the shapes of myths and blue pottery and found that according to the records of myths and legends, the goddess Hassol seemed very simple and did not like various costumes, so the ancient Egyptians had no reason to dress up for the goddess. It was not until an old expert who studied ancient Egyptian music arrived that the secret was revealed. Old experts believe that blue pottery is actually a special musical instrument in ancient Egypt called a fork ring.

Fork ring is one of the ancient Egyptian musical instruments. Its working principle is also very simple. It is that there is a horizontal insertion plate in the upper half of it, which can make sounds when subjected to external forces. The sound is hoarse but rhythmic. It is the bell tone that represents the ancient Egyptians paying tribute to the goddess.Seeing that everyone was half-believing and half-doubted, the old expert immediately ordered his assistant to go back to his home to take out the collection of forks and compare them with the blue pottery on the spot. As expected, except for the slightly different shapes of the two, the other settings are almost exactly the same, which makes everyone feel convinced.

Many of the ancient production, life, sacrifice and other behaviors were left without written records, and many cultural relics lost their original meaning. The cultural relic of fork rings allows us to know an important detail of Egyptian sacrifices and is of great help to us in studying the history of Egypt.

Reference materials: "Mystery of Ancient Egypt" by Huang Wei, published by Jilin Publishing House

Wen Xiucai, editor-in-chief of Wenlan Hairun Studio, written by this article: Special History Writer: Changshan Zhao Zichong