Why is the bottom of a 6,000 year old pottery vase pointed

The pointed bottom of the pottery vase was designed by the ancients at that time for the convenience of getting water, and the pottery table where the pointed bottom vase was placed had round holes. Tianjin Jinghai.

Similar vases and tables have been excavated.

Because it is used to draw water, the bottles with pointed bottoms will slant over when they touch the water, and the water will be filled in by itself, which is convenient.

Principle of the item. Regarding the center of gravity of the object and its application, our country was in the Neolithic period about 6,000 years ago.

I already know it. Xi'an Banpo site.

The unearthed water-filled clay pot has a terracotta texture and a small straight mouth, a thin neck, a long round belly, a pointed bottom, and a symmetrical double system on the shoulders or abdomen, which is used to wear ropes. There are many rope patterns on the surface of the device. The degree of sintering is good and the texture is firm.

Due to gravity, the mouth of the bottle will naturally turn downwards when drawing water, and when the water is about to be full, the bottle body will automatically reverse and the mouth will be upward. This is one of the most representative artifacts of the Banpo type of Yangshao culture. Yangshao culture temple ditch type and Majiayao culture.

The pointed bottom flasks found in the remains are slightly different. The pointed bottom bottle of the temple bottom groove type is double-lipped, small-mouthed, slender and long, and the shoulders and abdomen are untied. The sharp and low bottle of Majiayao culture is extravagant, straight neck, folded shoulders, and the abdomen is made of fine mud orange and yellow pottery, and the surface of the vessel is coated with light red pottery, and the black color painting is swirling, and the decoration is full of dynamics and fine production.

Western Zhou. This kind of kettle was improved and turned into a plaything for the court. It is also a kind of utensil that uses the center of gravity to adjust the balance, tilts when empty, stands upright when it is filled with no more water, and overturns when it is filled with too much water. Exactly"False is positive, middle is positive, and full is over"。

Please refer to the encyclopedia for details.

The so-called "pointed bottom bottle" refers to a kind of bottle with a small mouth pointed bottom in the Yangshao culture, which cannot stand on the ground。As for the role of this culet, which has a history of more than 7,000 years, the university community only has speculation, and there is no definite conclusion. Some people speculate that the pointed bottom bottle is just an ordinary bottle, and its function is to hold water; Some people believe that the role of the pointed bottom bottle is sacrifice, that is to say, the bottle is not an ordinary bottle, but a bottle soul.

Guess one, for the water for this precious cultural relics unearthed in Baoji City, people are most curious about what its role is. On the surface, the pointed bottom bottle is a bottle, so it is natural to think that the bottle is used as an automatic water container. In order to test this hypothesis, people tied ropes to both sides of the pointed bottom bottle and put it into the water, but the bottle did not show the phenomenon of "the bottle is full of water and automatically stands up".

Not only that, but the pointed bottom bottle is more likely to be inverted after contact with water. As you can see, the purpose of the pointed bottom bottle is not only for water.

Guess 2, used to worship the carefully related pointed bottom bottle, we can find that its appearance is very beautiful, not only has a beautiful color, but also has a beautiful pattern. Archaeological experts have verified that the culet-bottom vase is consistent with the "unitary" in the oracle bone inscription, and the external image of the culet-bottom vase is very similar to the fruit core. The meaning of the kernel is death and new birth, which can also be linked to human death and new birth.

It can be seen that the purpose of the pointed bottom bottle should be to make sacrifices, so that the deceased can have a chance to be reborn.

It is precisely because the culet stores the soul of the deceased and must stand upwards, so the culet can only stand upside down and cannot stand upright。Of course, there are many theories about the role of the pointed bottom bottle, and everyone has their own certain theories and experimental verifications. But personally, I think the "sacrificial" role is the most likely.

7,000 years ago, there was a kind of bottle in Yangshao culture, with a small mouth pointed bottom, which was poured on the ground, and it was called a pointed bottom bottle. The pointed bottom of the bottle bulges in the middle, and the two pointed ends are the image of the kernel, which is used for burial, hoping that the soul can enter the bottle and expect to be reborn. So, the Pointed Bottom Bottle is the Soul Bottle.

There are many theories about its role as a small pointed bottom, but the most convincing one is the worship of spirits.

Everyone has seen the pointed bottom bottle in the museum, the product of the Yangshao period, in order to draw water, they designed the flat bottom to be pointed, and slowly put it into the water with a rope, after the water is full, the bottle will stand up, so that you can hit the water.

1. The pointed bottom bottle of Banpo is considered to be used for drawing water, and the people of Banpo use the pointed bottom bottle to draw water in the river, and the pointed bottom bottle is easy to pour on the water surface, and the water is easy to flow into the bottle.

2. Some of the culet or round bottom is a cooking vessel, generally attached to the base or support below, most of the tripods of the Beixin culture are pointed or round, and the kettle of the round bottom found in various places in the Neolithic Age is generally found in these sites, such as the ruins of Daxi culture.

3. Some are for special purposes, such as a batch of specially-shaped pottery unearthed in Dadiwan F901, which is generally considered to be a measuring vessel.

4. Some may be used in religious ceremonies, and the straight cylinder (bottomless) of the Hongshan culture.

Pointed bottom pottery vase, ancient pottery water vessels. There are many forms, generally small mouth, thin neck, long barrel-shaped abdomen, and pointed conical bottom. The texture is mostly fine sand red pottery or muddy red pottery. Common in Neolithic cultural sites.