#chinese phones

[niteshade925]

Saw these tags in a reblog of my Chinese museum posts, and thought I have to make a response just so everyone is clear on how archaeological studies are carried out in China:

^Well, the Shaanxi Archaeology Museum is a Chinese museum displaying artifacts found in China, it's not the British Museum lol.

But anyway just so everyone knows, modern Chinese archaeology has a rule, which is that unless it's absolutely necessary, an ancient tomb/mausoleum should not be disturbed. This means that many of these artifacts in the museums are found in a few main ways:

Tombs that absolutely had to be excavated because there were clear signs of grave robbing present, for example when tunnels left by grave robbers were found near a known tomb. This is called "excavating to rescue" (抢救性发掘), it's done by teams of archaeologists, the artifacts found will then be studied and eventually find a home in museums in China. In comparison, actual grave robbers would steal artifacts and sell them for money; many stolen artifacts would end up in auctions, mostly outside of mainland China. This is why there is no "general positive sense" in the phrase "grave robbing with grant money" when it comes to archaeology in China. Modern Chinese archaeology and grave robbing are simply not comparable in any way whatsoever.

Tombs that absolutely had to be excavated because new infrastructure will be built in that location. Such exacavations are also included in excavating to rescue. Examples include tombs in Xi'an city that had to be excavated because a metro was being built. Since Chinese people and Chinese culture are native to China, there are no ethical problems whatsoever, this simply a question of what matters more, the welfare of living Chinese people or the abstract afterlives of ancient Chinese people. Obviously, the welfare of living Chinese people is a more important matter. As for the argument of "but this goes against traditional culture", first, a culture is only alive if the people of that culture is alive and doing well, otherwise that culture is as good as dead; second, a major part of traditional Chinese culture IS focused on the welfare of descendants (ex: the belief that the spirits of ancestors will protect their descendants), so I'm sure our ancestors would be proud to see us doing well.

Tombs that were excavated because archaeologists were absolutely sure that artifacts discovered within would make major contributions to the study of Chinese history. This is pretty much the only exception to the rule of "excavating to rescue", and it is very rarely allowed. An example is the Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Project (夏商周断代工程), where the main focus is to gain a clearer picture of the timeline of ancient Chinese history, when dynasties began/ended, when major events may have happened, etc.

Artifacts that were found when arresting grave robbers. These are called "recovered artifacts" (追回文物).

Artifacts that returned to China from foreign countries, these are called "returned artifacts" (回归文物). A big portion of these artifacts ended up in foreign countries precisely because of grave robbers, and another big portion were and are still lost for the same reason as why the British Museum has so many artifacts from around the world.

Artifacts that were discovered scattered throughout China. There are three facts to consider here: 1) China has a long history and as a result, there are vast amounts of existing artifacts; 2) tombs are material things and thus are subject to the elements; 3) not everyone is an archaeologist. Combine these, and you have situations were valuable artifacts were found in places like the chicken coop of a farmer (this is how the eagle-shaped pottery ding was found).

Donations. Some artifacts were family heirlooms that were donated to museums.

[meltedmush]

Airplaneeee! + Extra Art!

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

cr 晨三金

[kairukitsuneo]

520 gift

[wellwatersurprise]

what if you 🫵🫵🫵were lowkey 👀👀👀 a megstiel enjoyer 🤔🤔🤔 but castiel was never ❌❌❌allowed to be happy 😭😭😭

[dcbatbitches]

恭喜发财!

[dragon-every-day]

Daily dragons all the way throughout 2024!

Heya, welcome to this blog! I'm sure there's plenty of other daily dragon blogs for 2024 because dragons are cool, but hey, more dragons never hurt anyone! (Well like I mean they did in media and stuff but that's besides the point)

Anyway, I'm not going to be taking this blog too seriously, just some fun, cartoony, probably primitively drawn dragons, so sit back and relax!

By the way, I'm always taking requests for dragons, whether it be a type of dragon, a dragon from random media, or a fandom character you want to see as a dragon! (Drop them in whenever, I'd love for there to be a few piled up before next year!)

I don't have many tags, but here they are;

#daily dragon - dragons I draw

#more dragons - dragons I reblog

#not a dragon - other stuff

#that bastard vinny - my son vinny who lives in my phone

I'll also tag each dragon with the day number of the day it was drawn on, and the fandom if it's a part of any!

Follows from @kriscommitscrimes

(btw, this blog is heavily inspired by other blogs like @one-bunny-a-day and @onetigeraday !!)

[lilaclisianthus]

Presenting one of my favorite Stardew Valley mods that SebbyIsAVampire and I recently made: Immersive Bachelor Phone Calls!

In this mod, bachelors will call you on the vanilla telephone after every heart event to chat and reminisce.

Now, you can finally have a reason to own a telephone in Stardew Valley!

If you'd like to make your relationships a little more personal in the game, then this mod is for you~! ^w^

I hope you enjoy it!

Requirements: SMAPI and Content Patcher

☎️☎️☎️

Download (Google Drive) Download (Patreon) Chinese Translation by Ophelia9972

[xinyuehui]

New BTS just dropped!!!

@randomingoftherandomness

[autumn816]

[dimdiamond]

I started it as a joke based on this post but it went out of my hands as every project ever got into my hands.

Part: 1 / 2 / 3 (Speech bubbles in alt text)

[wallpapedits-vvc]

Matching wallpapers #250

Like/reblog if you save ✨

None of this wallpapers/pictures belongs to me, I just do the matching.

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

chinese jade phone chains&straps by 烨烨绳缘

[thedreamerstoryteller]

🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

[the-acid-pear-art]

This was meant to be done for the cringetober prompt Crossover but life broke me as a man so I dropped out but y'all still have to see my Yap Dollar/Fiveish phone guy bc i love him...

[lenasai]

can we please stop with the conspiracy that the government wants to ban tiktok because of pro-palestine content

do you realize how close that sounds to accusations of "zionists controlling the media" (i don't care how you frame it, it's an antisemitic conspiracy theory, please stop)

the us has wanted to ban tiktok for years because the company that owns it is chinese. they literally would let things go on as usual if they sell tiktok to an american company. that's it.

the primary driver is racism, not a conspiracy to shut down activism