What's so special about the design of painted ear cups unearthed from the Western Han Tomb in Mawangdui, Changsha?
Painted ear cup box, unearthed from Mawangdui, Changsha, square corner, height 12 cm. Diameter: external 19 cm, internal 16.5 cm. The lid is tightly buckled with the mouth of the child and the mother. There are 7 ear cups in the box, and the internal infrared rays are all black. Safe stacking and precise production. The design idea embodied in this object is a breakthrough in the modeling design of the Han Dynasty, which not only considers the convenience of use, but also reduces the space for placement. As a tableware, it has the advantages of hygiene and cleanliness. Similarly, there are many sub-boxes. In a big round box, there are many small boxes with different shapes, such as circle, square, rectangle, ellipse, semicircle, double diamond and so on. Small boxes are nested in a certain format, sometimes as many as nine or eleven. 1974 a multi-child lacquer box unearthed in Xu Xian county, Jiangsu province, contains 7 small boxes.