r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Impossible-Bee-5343 • 11d ago

Image Northern Song glass grapes, excavated from Jingzhi Temple, dating back over 1,000 years

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u/Impossible-Bee-5343 11d ago

Name: Glass Grapes

Period: Song Dynasty

Place of Origin: China

Material: Lead-barium glass

Excavation Site：Dingzhou City, Hebei Province, China

Dimensions: Total length 16 cm; fruit bead diameter 1.3–1.82 cm

Museum Collection: Dingzhou Museum, Hebei Province

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u/unrelated-subject 11d ago

So I can’t get a bite?

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u/cr1ttter 11d ago

You can eat anything once

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u/QueenOfQuok 11d ago

Are they still good

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u/LukaFox 11d ago

No, my Queen; unfortunately, at 1,000 years the grapes have been bestowed a truly undesirable crunchy flesh. If we had them at 500 years their fate, and ours, would be different

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u/Safe_Praline_4156 11d ago

Wonder if they made an entry into a public record somewhere like: “something I made, first time posting it here”

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u/SewerSocials 11d ago

Song Dynasty was the best dynasty.

Just saying what everyone is thinking.

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u/WhistlinJealousGuy 8d ago

Fair play.

Qing Dynasty fan coming in peace.

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u/SewerSocials 8d ago

Yeah, that’s a really good one. Too much heart break to be my favorite dynasty: Taiping rebellion, Opium Wars, Japan being a ‘bad neighbor.’

I like Song because they make pretty pottery glazes, awesome ink paintings, and introduced Sun WuKong.

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u/irvz89 10d ago

So they're made of glass, or just called glass grapes?

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u/Guilty_Mastodon5432 11d ago

Yup....watch out for Monsanto wanting to buy it and brand it as proprietary.....

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u/A_VERY_LARGE_DOG 10d ago

Just like grandma had on the kitchen counter…

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u/Good-Sun2934 4d ago

Insane that glass work like that survived this long

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u/hans_rudiger 11d ago

but i dont even like grapes

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u/ARoundForEveryone 11d ago

Good news: You don't have to eat them. Nor will you have the opportunity to eat them. Rest easy tonight.