This Warring States period even looks like modern glass cups with 90% similarity! Is it from the modern back to the Warring States yet? Of course, this is only a joke, in fact, it is indeed made during the Warring States Period.
Take a closer look at the cup: the shape of the cup is open lip, the cup wall oblique was horn-shaped, round bottom, circle foot outside write, 15.4 cm high, wide on the narrow, caliber 7.6 cm, diameter of 5.2 cm , 5.2 cm high ring foot. Throughout the body showed a touch of amber, the cup surface polished, looks smooth and translucent, cup body without any decoration, only some of the flocculent sponge, sponge is crystal natural crystallization lines. The simple shape of the cup, the shape looks very much like the present glass, after more than 2000 years, the ancients and today's cup can be so similar, it is amazing. Many people doubt that this simple form of the cup as the museum of the town of Treasures of the Museum is somewhat weak? In actual fact, it is a national treasure called artifacts. This must be from the discovery of this Crystal Cup, archaeologists in 1990, Midtown, Hangzhou, Shitang Village, excavation of the ancient Warring States period tomb, suddenly felt something in front of a flash, a closer look shiny, clean finished After the surface of the earth, the outline of a cup appears. Because of its appearance is too much like a cup of modern water, archaeologists suspect that the legacy of the thieves. However, through the tombs site analysis found that the Warring States cemetery has not encountered a tunneling. According to unearthed primitive porcelain and tombs, archaeologists initially determined that the production of cups and tombs belonging to the same era, are the ancient Warring States period. In the Warring States period of the tombs, the emergence of modern style cup, this is incredible. What is the material of this cup? In order to understand this, archaeologists will cup the bag together with the soil in the cup together with the well-known archaeologist Su Bingqi Institute of Archeology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, his hands holding the cup looked for half an hour, again and again praised : "National treasures, is definitely a national treasure ah!" Researchers on the cup body and cup of soil to prove that this is indeed the Warring States period with a natural crystal crystal cup, and it is China now found the earliest and largest natural crystal products . In 2002, the Warring States Crystal Cup was listed in the national exhibition of 64 banned national heritage-class cultural relics in the list, and as the Museum of the town's treasures of the museum has been a permanent collection.