What is a grain bottle which five grains are placed in a grain bottle

Town tomb jar, also called town tomb bottle, bucket bottle, grain bottle, is a relatively common burial object in ancient Chinese tombs, popular in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, has been used until the Wei and Jin dynasties.

The town tomb jars are mostly ceramic, and some are clay. The bottle is generally filled with flour, millet grains, mica flakes and other so-called miracle medicines, individual ones are filled with lead, the text on the belly of the bottle is mostly written directly in the abdomen with vermilion or ink, the tomb text is more or less, more than 100 words, less than a number. The style and content of the text are relatively fixed.

History. The town tomb inscription on the town tomb bottle has a strong superstitious color. It is a product of the prevalence of witchcraft in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, with the shaking of the dominance of Confucianism, superstition was rampant in the society, especially during the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, social turmoil, wars continued, and the integration of the northern and southern nationalities was further developed.

For example, at that time, Zhu Fahu and Kumarosh, who lived in Liangzhou, were all famous spell masters. The contents of these tantric mantras were all-encompassing, such as dispelling illness and eliminating disasters, summoning gods and ghosts, passing away in the Buddha country, and talking about becoming a Buddha, etc., which catered to the needs of the ruling class at that time and was widely supported by the ruling class. These magic spells will surely penetrate into people's lives, production and beliefs, so that they will be accepted by more people.

The contents of the tomb jar are a true reflection of this idea in the tomb culture.

In addition, due to the Wei and Jin dynasties, it was strictly forbidden to erect a monument in front of the tomb, so the tomb jar buried in the tomb also played the role of an epitaph, which provided extremely accurate physical information for archaeological dating.

The grain bottle is a kind of glass bottle, which is the expression of a good harvest.

The first is millet, millet, wheat, soybean, and rice; The second is millet, millet, wheat, soybean, and hemp.

The saying of "five grains" appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and in the Analects of Weizi: "The four bodies are not diligent, and the five grains are not divided". However, the interpretation is different, one says millet, millet, wheat, mushroom, rice; One says millet, millet, wheat, mushroom, and hemp.

The main difference between these two theories is the presence or absence of rice and hemp, and the reason for the disagreement is that there were not only five kinds of crops at that time, but the existence of the "hundred grains", "six grains" and "nine grains" theory is a clear proof of this, and the differences in the types of crops in different places are caused. The reason why the "five grains" theory is popular is obviously due to the influence of the five elements thought. So, in a nutshell, grains refer to a few major food crops.

The culture of grains plays an important role and can be said to be the origin of human civilization. According to authoritative data, human beings have observed traces of sorghum on stone tools hundreds of thousands of years ago, indicating that grains have given birth to human beings for more than 100,000 years. It cannot but be said to be a feat in the history of mankind that human beings have cultivated wild weeds into cereals, which gave birth to human civilization.

At the same time, it tells the world that human beings have an indissoluble relationship with grains. The grain painting is the highest artistic embodiment of the grain culture and the artistic portrayal of the grain culture.