Guabian gray pottery cup is one of the representative cultural relics of Xia Dynasty. Although it is a ceramic cup more than 4000 years ago, it is also very similar to a modern cup. It is often ridiculed by the world that "he brought it back", but it is impossible to cross it. In fact, among the existing cultural relics in China, there are two amazing cups, one is the melon-side gray pottery cup in the Xia Dynasty, and the other is the crystal cup in the Warring States period.

Bronze inlaid with turquoise

Among the third batch of cultural relics prohibited from leaving the country stipulated by China's Cultural Relics Bureau, there is a bronze inlaid with turquoise in the Xia Dynasty. This cultural relic can be said to be one of the oldest turquoise cultural relics in China. Unearthed at Erlitou site of Yanshi in autumn of 1984. Judging from its name, this cultural relic is not only turquoise, but also an ancient bronze ware. This is enough to show that our ancestors mastered bronze smelting technology in the Xia Dynasty.

Erlitou tongjue

Many people think that China's bronzes first appeared in Shang Dynasty. In fact, in addition to the legendary Xuanyuan sword, many bronzes dating back to 5,000 years have been discovered in China, and the bronze representative of Erlitou site, Tongjue, is a bronze cultural relic dating back to 4-5,000 years. Judging from the name and shape of this wine vessel, it was used by the ancients to drink, indicating that drinking was popular in China as early as 4,000 years ago.

Flat pot at Taosi site

Many experts and scholars believe that Taosi Site is the capital of Yao Di and the earliest "China". Erlitou Cultural Site During the Xia Dynasty, a large number of cultural relics of the Xia Dynasty were found here. Although this flat pot is damaged, it is also an extremely important cultural relic, not only because it is very old and rare, but also because there is an ancient word "Wen" on it.