Talking about the past and laughing at the present: What are the top ten antiques in China?

1, National Museum of Beijing; Siyang fangzun

Bronze ritual vessels and sacrificial articles in the late Shang Dynasty. Known as the most outstanding work in the history of bronze manufacturing in China, it is the largest and heaviest bronze unearthed in the world so far, with a height of 58.3 cm and a weight of 34.5 kg.

2. Beijing Palace Museum; By the river during Tomb-Sweeping Day.

China's top ten famous paintings handed down from ancient times, the only outstanding works of Zhang Zeduan, a painter in the Northern Song Dynasty, are known as the first wonder of China and belong to the national treasure.

3. Hubei Provincial Museum; Gou jianjian

The bronze wares of Yue State in the late Spring and Autumn Period, a national first-class cultural relic, 1965 were unearthed from the Chu Tomb of Wangshan, jiangling county, Jingzhou City, Hubei Province in winter. Because the sword is plated with a layer of chromium-containing metal, it is stainless for thousands of years. Through nondestructive scientific testing, its main alloy components are copper, tin, lead, iron, sulfur and so on. This pattern contains high sulfur, because copper sulfide can prevent rust.

4. Gansu Provincial Museum; Riding car

A huge horse stepped on the back of a flying swallow, and the swallow looked back in surprise, showing the majestic posture of the fine horse flying at high speed. National first-class cultural relics are prohibited from being exhibited abroad.

5. Hebei Provincial Museum; A jade garment/suit sewn with gold thread

Jade clothes are all made of white jade and sapphire from Hotan, Xinjiang, and 4,248 pieces of jade with different sizes are connected by1.576g gold thread. The perfect combination is a rare artistic treasure.

6. Shaanxi Provincial Museum of History; Golden animal head agate cup

So far, the only beautiful jade carving seen in the Tang Dynasty is also the most exquisite jade carving in the Tang Dynasty. Made of extremely rare red agate in the world.

7. Hubei Provincial Museum; Ceng Houyi rings the bell.

As a cultural relic in the early Warring States period, Zeng Houyi's chime spanned five octaves, only one octave less than the modern piano, and the complete central range was 12 semitones. Super-high casting technology and good musical performance have rewritten the history of world music and are called rare treasures by experts and scholars at home and abroad.

8. Baoji Famen Temple Museum; Yin Hua double-wheel twelve-ring Zhangxi

It is the supreme instrument among many Buddhist instruments. This Zhang Xichang is 196.5 cm long and weighs 2390 grams. The material of Xizhang is very precious, not tin, but gold and silver. The whole Zhang Xi is made of 2 taels of gold and 58 taels of silver, and the whole body is glittering. With its unique historical and artistic value, it has become one of the cultural relics prohibited from going abroad.

9. Shaanxi Provincial Museum of History; Gold-plated dancing horse cup silver pot

The pot is oblate with a vertical cylindrical opening at the upper end. The lid of the pot is hammered lotus petals, and a silver ring is riveted at the center of the top. A silver chain with a length of 14 cm is sleeved in the ring and connected with the hanging beam, and an arched hanging beam with three petals at one end is welded on the kettle shoulder. On both sides of the pot body, there are two dancing horses corresponding to each other, struggling to drum the drummer's tail and bowing down with a cup. National treasure cultural relics

10, Beijing Palace Museum; Dayu harnesses water to harness Dayu Mountain.

Dayu harnesses water to control Yushan Mountain, with a height of 224 cm, a width of 96 cm, a base height of 60 cm and a weight of 5350kg. It is one of the largest jade carving crafts with the largest scale, the largest materials, the longest transportation path, the longest time, the highest cost, the most exquisite carving, the largest shape and the greatest spirit in China, and also one of the largest jade carving crafts in the world.