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Found A Ghostly Glass Of Wine “Drinking Forever” In An Ancient Tomb: X-Ray To Find Out The Truth

After a period of research, scientists discovered the working principle of the cup and were deeply impressed by the ingenious inventions of the ancients.

The image of a strange cup was unearthed (Source: Sina)

The cup “can’t finish drinking” is a topic of interest to many archaeologists

Li Bai was one of the most famous Tang Dynasty poets in China. He is not only known for his great and distinctive poems, but is also known as the “zhu Trung fairy” because of his rare love for wine. In Ly Bach’s poems, there is an image of a glass of wine that will never be empty:

“The ladle of the bird, the cup of the parrot, one hundred five thirty-six thousand days, one day should tilt three hundred cups” (from Tuong Duong ca).



The never-ending cup of wine is a famous poetic image of poet Li Bai (Artwork from Sohu)

As time passed, archaeologists paid great attention to the “parrot cup” or “parrot cup” Li Bai often mentioned, but no discovery of these artifacts has been made.

It was not until 1965 when an archaeological team discovered the ancient tomb of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (317 – 420), that people could admire the strange wine glass described in the above poems.

Specifically, the tomb above belongs to a family in the Xiangshan region, Nanjing city, Jiangsu province, China. After a period of calculation based on the remains on the stele unearthed, archaeologists judged that the owner of the tomb was a member of the Wang family – one of the four largest Chinese families during the Jin Dynasty.



Decipher the mystery behind the strange cup

Also here, in addition to discovering countless burial items, which are of great significance in studying funeral customs and family culture of the Wei and Jin dynasties, researchers also found a large Anh Vu conch shell. in the grave.

Scientists recreated the image inside the parrot cup (Source: Sina)

The appearance of this shell has caused a lot of controversy in the professional world, because this is the first time that archaeologists have unearthed this strange artifact. In the end, experts said that this is the famous “parrot cup” in history, which is made of Anh Vu snail shell. Many people believe that the owner of the tomb has a passion for wine like poet Li Bai, so he also decided to bring the strange cup to his final resting place.



Since then, experts have begun to study how this parrot cup can hold such a large amount of alcohol because when viewed from the outside, it is completely a normal shell.

After a while of discussion, the experts took X-rays of the cup and were surprised to discover that Li Bai’s image of Li Bai’s “300 cup tilting day” is not the product of literary rhetoric old.

This wine cup has also appeared in movies (Source: Sina)

Accordingly, the parrot cup has a multitude of nets created in a very natural way, having a dense density in the spleen and. All hidden meshes are connected by small holes. When pouring wine in, the wine will slowly seep into the mesh through a small hole. When drinking, under the influence of air pressure, the wine will not be poured out all at once, but flowed out little by little. As a result, it gives the illusion that the wine in the cup will never run out.



After discovering this secret, researchers also considered that the wisdom of the ancients was extraordinary when there were inventions and inventions ahead of their time. They think that the principle of operation of the parrot cup is similar to the principle of activated carbon today because both use the spatial structure inside the object to slow down the flow.

The parrot cup has the same principle of operation as activated charcoal (Artwork from Sohu)

Although the cup is small, it has a long pouring capacity that can help the drinker feel extremely elegant and emotional. This is also the reason why parrot cups are extremely sought after by antique wine lovers. But now the parrot cup no longer appears because the main ingredient to make the cup is Anh Vu snail – a species of snail with a very rare quantity, not easy to find.