The old man caught a turtle, hit by four arrows, netizens uproar: turtle heart four arrows, what exactly is it?

Soft-shelled turtle, large soft-shelled turtle. Beetle only soft-shelled turtle is the largest, so also?

The soft-shelled turtle is a genus of turtles and soft-shelled turtles in the family, it is characterized by a large body, weighing up to 100 kilograms or more, due to the ancients do not know this creature, it will be treated as a monster in the river, in the "Dream of Red Mansions" of the twenty-third, Bao Yu on Lin Daiyu, said:

Good sister? If I have the intention to bully you, tomorrow I will fall into the pool and ask the mangy soft-shelled turtle to swallow it and turn into a big king. The mangy soft-shelled turtle is a common name in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province, and in other places, the soft-shelled turtle is also regarded as the sixth among the Nine Sons of the Dragon, namely Gui Tuo (赑屃). Bi Xi.

The ancient people also made the soft-shelled turtle into bronze because of its image, and there is a bronze soft-shelled turtle in the National Museum, and since this bronze soft-shelled turtle is facing the netizens, the comment area is also exploding, and the netizens have given it a very interesting name? Turtle heart four arrows? , at first glance at the appearance of this soft-shelled turtle, but also really so!

The bronze soft-shelled turtle named ? The bronze soft-shelled turtle is called the "Shangzuozhuobang" bronze soft-shelled turtle.

This bronze soft-shelled turtle is an extremely valuable late Shang bronze, with four arrows inserted in the neck and cover: one in the left shoulder, two in the left part of the dorsal armor, and one in the right rear part, and, more importantly, this bronze is also engraved with inscriptions.

The pre-Shanghai period, bronze with engraved inscriptions is very rare, to the middle and late Shang dynasty, bronze casting increased significantly, engraved inscriptions also began to appear, but at most only dozens of words inscriptions, the Western Zhou period is the peak of the engraving of inscriptions, more than 100 words of the inscriptions are quite common, more than 200, 300 words there are also many.

This Shangzuo book-like bronze soft-shelled turtle has only four lines of 32 words of inscription: ? C Shen, the king in huan, won. The king a shot, shot three, the rate of death (no) waste vector. The king made (order) bed (Kui) brother (Kuang) in the book-like, said: play in the yong, for female (you) treasure. These 32 words, also tells the origin of this bronze soft-shelled turtle.

Wang, that is, Dixin, that is, we often say King Zhou of Shang, this kind of call is actually an insult to the Zhou people, the Zhou has not yet destroyed the Shang before, Dixin was called ? Tianyi Shang? and the Shang dynasty was known as the Shang of the Heavenly Kingdom. Tianyi Shang? and? Daiyi Shang?

Traditionally, Dixin was portrayed as a tyrant who indulged in wine and sex, and was heavily penalized, so that he was eventually killed by his family, and his country was destroyed, and many incidents of discrediting Dixin can be seen in some of the existing texts.

Zi Gong once said: ? The badness of Dixin is not as great as it is. It is because the wickedness of a gentleman is in the lower stream, and all the wickedness of the world is returned to him? , and since Zigong spoke of the evils of Dixin, later generations began to imitate them, and in the Shangshu and the Shiji there were drunken forests and meat pools, favoring women, imprisoning the wise, and mutilating the faithful.

Because there is very little literature left for later generations, what kind of person is Dixin in the end, as long as you rely on speculation, but this? The business as a book like bronze soft-shelled turtle? Unearthed, so that historians also unveiled some of the true face of Dixin.

In 3100 years ago, the Ganges River in Anyang, Henan Province, the sound of people, lively and extraordinary, the original emperor Xin and all the ministers in the Ganges River held a shooting ceremony, ? Shooting? is one of the six arts,? Ceremony? Then it was a very solemn thing. When Emperor Xin saw a soft-shelled turtle in the middle of the river, he bent his bow and shot at it, and the first arrow hit the turtle's armor.

Di Xin shot three arrows in succession, all four arrows hit the soft-shelled turtle with precision, which shows that Di Xin's martial arts is extraordinary, after the soft-shelled turtle was salvaged, Di Xin rewarded it to a minister called Zuoshu-like, Zuoshu-like in order to commemorate the occasion, let the people in accordance with the prototype to build a bronze soft-shelled turtle.

Bronze is the highest ritual of Shang, if King Zhou is really mediocre and incompetent, it is not possible to build this soft-shelled turtle, this soft-shelled turtle, is 2003, an old man donated to the museum, if not for him, a story about Emperor Xin, I am afraid to be kept in the dark.