68 Meet the old friend in a foreign country
In fact, it’s just a cute rhino bottle!
But it is the highlight of this museum, because it turns out to be a bronze from the Shang Dynasty.
When Chen Rui came to the display cabinet, the bronze bottle was placed in position C in the bronze exhibition area.
The outside is simply covered with a glass cover, so visitors can see the bottle up close.
Under the glass cabinet, there is a series of English introductions.
“Wow, this is the highlight of this museum!”
Karen looked at the bronze statue inside and let out a burst of admiration.
Chen Rui looked at the bronze statue in the glass cabinet. What others couldn't see was the strong green light emitted by the bronze statue.
And this blue light was nourishing his eyes. When the blue light was absorbed by his eyes, his eyes could feel the coolness.
The jeweled aura exuded by this antique can actually refine his superpowers...
Chen Rui was shocked and at the same time felt ecstatic in his heart.
But at this moment, he didn't have time to think too much. He looked at the bottle intently.
This bottle is about twenty centimeters high and nearly forty centimeters long.
It looks quite small in appearance, and the shape of the rhinoceros is very realistic, even a bit naive.
The craftsmen of the Shang Dynasty could make a rhinoceros bottle into such a magical shape, which really made him marvel at the skills of the ancient sages.
The reason why this thing is called a bottle is because the back of this bronze vessel has an opening.
The rhinoceros is hollow inside, and there should have been a cover on it, but it is obvious that the cover has been lost.
What's even more awesome is that there are actually several words engraved on the inside of this statue!
Next to the display case of this bottle, there is an LCD screen, which displays photos of this bottle from various angles.
One of them was shot from above. From this angle, you can see the fonts engraved on the bottom of the bottle.
Karen lay in front of the screen and looked at the writing on the bottom of the bottle.
"Ricky, what do these words mean?"
In fact, there are some differences between this character and modern Chinese characters, but Chen Rui can understand the modern translation next to it.
"It probably means that in the process of conquering the Yi Fang, it was on the day of Dingsi."
"The King of Shang traveled to a castle called "Kui"."
"Kui means rhinoceros in the ancient Dragon Kingdom, which shows that rhinos are abundant here."
"The King of Shang rewarded his minister Yu Kui Bei here."
"And Kui Bei refers to this bronze vessel..."
Chen Rui translated the meaning of these words to Karen.
Karen couldn't help but exclaimed: "Wow! I can't believe that your Dragon Kingdom was able to make such exquisite bronzes thousands of years ago."
"And there can be such accurate written records."
These few words can be said to have reached Chen Rui's heart.
He couldn't help but say in his heart: "That's the best you've ever seen!"
Even though he has been in the United States for so many years, the thing that makes him most angry is the hypocrisy of these Westerners.
Especially in the matter of historical archaeology, we say that the Dragon Kingdom has a long history, spanning five thousand years.
He insists on saying that your Xia Dynasty did not exist because there is no actual historical research to support it.
We won’t argue with them on this, but we say that the Shang Dynasty had already begun to use bronze vessels.
These Westerners will give you an ancient Egypt. They are so awesome that they even built pyramids.
When we talk about the papermaking technology we invented, they say that papyrus was invented long ago in ancient Egypt.
Anyway, whenever there is some archaeological discovery here, they will be able to "discover" some historical relics over there in less than two days.
It may seem irrelevant, but if you look closely, it turns out that it's totally against you.
Anyway, it just wants to prove that their Western ancestors are also very powerful.
It's completely different from what we said. Our ancestors already had hot meals.
Their ancestors had just come down from the trees and were still drinking blood from their hair.
Although this is a historical fact, they cannot accept it. They just want to overwhelm us in history.
Therefore, in those years, the explosion of "archaeology" in the West "created" many new monuments.
Even many ancient monuments bear traces of modern times...
A few decades ago, these archaeological arguments in the West could deceive many domestic public intellectuals.
But as the Internet becomes more and more developed, the cultural level of domestic people has improved.
Many young people in China have begun to question the history of Western archeology.
For example, the miraculous Sumerian civilization spread in Western history, and the many monuments of the Mesopotamia civilization.
Many young people now question that it is Westerners who are falsifying archeology...
Chen Rui is one of them, but naturally he will not tell Karen this.
After seeing the bronze bottle, they started to walk around the museum and look at it.
Although there are more than 10,000 exhibits in this museum, only 2,000 are on display at a time.
All exhibits are rotated out on a regular basis.
In addition to this treasure of the museum, the exhibits on display this time also have several other good things.
For example, the gilt-bronze Buddha statue of Sakyamuni is the first gold-bronze Buddha statue in China with a clear date.
It's a pity that it was lost overseas for some reason.
There is also a money tree from the Eastern Han Dynasty...
These are all proper C-position exhibits in the bronze exhibition area.
Although there are also many exhibits from India and other Southeast Asian countries on display at the same time.
However, those things are not in Chen Rui's eyes at all.
He was not interested in those Asan's antiques at all.
For example, he also passed by an Indian bronze god statue.
The Indian god Shiva and his wife Goddess Pa
vati.
The Buddha statues in our Dragon Kingdom are all properly wrapped and tightly wrapped, and their Dharma appearance is solemn.
It makes people feel solemn after watching it.
But the statue of Asan is an exaggeration, very unrestrained, and the man doesn’t know what kind of god he is, with his lower body exposed.
Sitting next to him was his wife, also with her upper body exposed.
Moreover, the shape of those organs is very exaggerated and plump.
Moreover, the actions of the two of them are also very unsightly. At first glance, it seems that they are practicing Zen. Isn't this an action movie?
If this is done in China, wouldn’t it violate the precepts?
Not to mention entering the museum, I'm afraid there is no chance to preserve it.
In addition to the exhibits from the Dragon Kingdom, there is also a Japanese national treasure exhibit.
Statues of Emperor Shakten and Fenten from the Nara period.
These two pieces are Japanese antiques and are listed as the treasures of this museum.
However, in Chen Rui's eyes, these two statues are a little less interesting than the Buddha statues in our Dragon Kingdom.
Before I knew it, I spent most of the day wandering around the museum.
When he was about to finish shopping and was about to go out, Chen Rui suddenly saw a figure flashing in the distance.
In fact, there were many people in front of him, but he recognized that guy at a glance.
Isn't this old black guy the same old black guy who sold him a camera at the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles?
Isn’t this special girl meeting an old friend in a foreign country?
But it's different from last time when I was sneaking around and wearing dirty clothes.
This time, this guy was wearing a suit and leather shoes, and on his head was an expensive melon-pipe hat.
At this moment, he was walking slowly and wandering around the hall.
"What's wrong? What did you see?"
Karen couldn't help but ask when she saw him stop.
"Aha, I really want to see an acquaintance."
"Who?"
Chen Rui pointed the old black man to Karen: "This is the guy..."
And when Karen saw the guy clearly, the corners of her mouth could not help but curl up slightly...
Chapter completed!