Excavation of 2,100-year-old spooky fireplace, expert horror: The secret lies in the inner chamber!

According to scientists, this fireplace is specially designed to stay warm all night.

The spooky fireplace

In 1987, a large number of rare and precious treasures from the Tang Dynasty were unearthed from the underground palace at the foot of Famen Temple in Fufeng County, Shaanxi Province, China. In addition to the ceramics, gold and silver artifacts placed in the palace, archaeologists also found two silver spherical incense burners and fireplaces with a very special interior design. One of the incense burners measures up to 128mm in diameter and it has been recognized as the largest surviving silver censer in China.

It was then taken to the exhibition hall of the China Museum of Science and Technology and named as the "Central of China". This incense burner cum fireplace is not only an art treasure, but it is also a unique invention that shows the wisdom of the ancients.

During an excavation, archaeologists accidentally found incense burners cum fireplaces with unique designs.

The incense burner dates from 2,100 years ago, ie around the Western Han Dynasty. A special feature of this censer is that it can not only smoke incense but also be used as a heater to warm up in a blanket.

The shell of the fireplace is made up of two hollow hemispheres. The outer shell is embossed with patterns of rattan, dragon, phoenix. to conveniently conduct heat from the inside out. After separating them, the furnace body can also be seen due to a solid hemisphere attached in the middle.

Outside the furnace body are 2 layers of concentric rings attached by 3 rotating axes at right angles to each other. These axes keep the concentric rings from touching each other, and the inner furnace body can rotate freely in any direction and is always horizontal. When using, people put hot coal or bass into the hemispherical furnace body. Due to the anti-gravity design, even if placed in a blanket, the charcoal will not fall out and can stay warm all night.

Unexpected discovery

Later, when scientists carefully studied this incense burner and fireplace, they discovered that it was made completely in accordance with the working principle of the gyroscope. Gyroscope is an application of physics based on the principle of conservation of angular momentum.

This spooky fireplace is similarly designed with an anti-gravity gyroscope.

It is designed with a rotating wheel or disc with the shafts rotating freely in all directions. This direction changes more or less depending on the external torque than it does with regard to high speed gyro without large angular momentum. Since torque is minimized by mounting the device in universal joints (such as a Gimbal), its orientation remains nearly constant regardless of any movement of the object on which it rests.

The most obvious practical application of the gyroscope is the compass. Compass is currently being used with many vehicles such as boats, planes, rockets, etc.

By applying this principle, the compasses no matter how strong the waves are, how complicated the wind is, they will always work normally.

The great scientist Leonardo Da Vinci was the first to propose the design of the gyroscope.

It was not until the 16th century that the physicist Gerolamo Cardano officially created the gyroscope and since then it has been widely used around the world.

From this fireplace can be seen the wisdom of the ancients extremely profound.

The earliest record of Bei Trung incense burner was found in the work "My man rich" by writer Sima Tuong Nhu in the Western Han Dynasty.

In the book "Western Classics" it is recorded that: "But the skillful craftsman of Truong An has created a kind of urn that can both smoke incense and replace the fireplace. Their purpose is to transport them away. everywhere without internal damage".

Moreover, according to the website Baike, the Bei Trung incense burner was confirmed by archaeologists to be 2,100 years ago, meaning that it was born 1,000 years earlier than the gyroscope. From here, it can be seen that the wisdom of the ancients is really profound, causing posterity to bow down.