Li Bai wrote in Xiangyang Song: The cormorant parrot cup needs to be poured 300 cups a day for 36,000 days in a hundred years. Du Fu also said that the Nautilus Cup was deeply moved by your feelings. Du Fu compared the love of a gentleman to a parrot cup, which is unfathomable, and the love of a gentleman is as deep as a parrot cup. Li Bai is more direct, saying directly that Nautilus Cup can pour out 300 glasses of wine every day.
The wine cup praised by the great poet is actually a conch-shaped cup. The upper part is in the shape of a parrot and the lower part is a complete conch shell.
This kind of cup is strange. I don't know why there is wine everywhere. Later, experts solved the problem of the nautilus cup with X-rays and found that the internal structure of the nautilus cup was unusual. There are many lattice structures in the nautilus cup. When wine is poured into a nautilus cup, it will flow into the grid. When you pour wine from the Nautilus cup, you don't pour it all at once, but rely on the extrusion of air to keep flowing out. The space in the grid can store a lot of wine, and the holes are connected with each other, so there is always a feeling of continuous flow.
This nautilus cup is not made by people, but is taken from a real conch. This kind of conch is called nautilus. As early as 500 million years ago, there were parrot conchs in Ordovician. It is also called the living fossil of the earth.
This kind of conch is extremely rare. Only exists in the deep sea below 100 meters. The ancient fishing technology was underdeveloped, so the probability of compiling this conch is very small. Only princes and nobles or wealthy families have the opportunity to use this conch.
Archaeologists found this burial object in the tomb of the king of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The owner of the king's tomb was Wang Xizhi's grandfather and a rich man in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The discovery of the Nautilus Cup in his tomb shows that Jin literati also loved it very much.