In August 2010, on a dark and windy night in a certain month, several villagers actually had the idea of becoming "lieutenants of touching gold" and sneaked to Liu Yiji's mausoleum. A few of them did not have the ability to move the cultural relics in the imperial mausoleum, but they wanted to take the most superficial tiles away to subsidize their homes, but the next thing was unexpected.
It turned out that they not only dug up the wadang, but also dug up the royal relics of Liu Yiji (Emperor Xuan of Han), which was of immeasurable value.
At that time, in fact, the "Duling" of the Han Xuan Emperor had already been discovered, and the state cultural protection department also designated it as a national key cultural relics protection unit in accordance with relevant regulations, and learned the lessons of excavating the imperial tomb in the past and set a policy of "not taking the initiative to excavate". However, they did not expect to protect "Du Ling".
At that time, these villagers honestly put a lot of "effort" into it. Li Junping, a villager on Dazhao Street, took his nephew Li Bo with him to start this business. Li Bo was "familiar with himself" and was good at inquiring about the news, so he went to the vicinity of Duling several times in a row, and as a result, in just a few days, the two of them figured out the law of changing defenses and some patrol blind spots.
After the two of them prepared the guys, they sneaked from a deserted path to the local Duling Ruins Conservation Area at night, evaded the inspectors, and waited for the time to change defenses, so they took advantage of the gap to start digging the Tiles of the Han Dynasty, thinking that they could sell some money to improve their lives.
It didn't take long for the two of them to dig, first a few Pieces of Han Dynasty Wadang, and then a few unique and exquisite objects: a pair of jade people dancing in Chinese clothes, and three exquisite and ancient jade cups.
When the two of them saw these objects, Rao was no longer literate, and they also understood that this trip was afraid that they would make a fortune, so they were ready to speed up the digging down. However, they were just about to continue digging down, and the footsteps of the inspectors faintly sounded, obviously the movement of digging tiles was still heard. The two of them could not care less about continuing to dig for treasures, so they fled separately with several treasures.
After some running, the uncle and nephew arrived at the house, they picked up the cultural relics and found that they were indeed exquisite and beautiful, and they were ready to secretly sell them in the underground cultural relics market. However, after all, the two of them are not specialized in this line, there is no special channel to bulk goods, and they can only come forward to inquire.
After some comparison, they finally sold these cultural relics from Liu Yi's tomb for only 500,000 yuan. However, the cultural relics they shot were too big, and there was much discussion in the underground cultural relics market, and the news immediately reached the informants of the police. It is a pity that the 500,000 yuan in their hands has not even had time to spend it, and it has already been targeted by the police and quickly fell into the legal net.
However, the buyers who bought the cultural relics from the uncles and nephews changed hands quite quickly, and actually changed hands several times in a short period of time, and suddenly the matter of tracking down the whereabouts of the cultural relics became tricky. However, the local police did not give up, coupled with the community also gave relatively strong support, some people with lofty ideals to help provide clues, finally after a few months of tracing, found the last holder, the number of cultural relics recovered.
How precious are these artifacts? Why is it worth searching so hard?
Let's start with the jade cup. The material of these three jade cups is quite extraordinary, it is carefully carved from a whole piece of Hetian jade with a good texture, and the polishing technology reaches a very high level, and the lines are rounded and saturated. Two of the three jade cups have flattened gold hoops, which are likely to be the "golden buckle jade cups" in ancient books. In the past, the Jinkou Jade Cup was believed to have existed before the Sui Dynasty, but the specific time it appeared has been lacking empirical evidence, and the jade cup unearthed this time has advanced the time to the Han Dynasty.
Seeing this, people can't help but marvel at the superb skills of ancient craftsmen, and also marvel at the fact that the information was not smooth at that time, but the records of ancient books were extremely accurate.
As for the dancing pair of jade people, many people believe that it is likely that the Han Xuan Emperor Liu Yi had played with the cultural relics before his death, and even pinned on his and Xu Pingjun's "deep love for the sword". It can be seen that the pair of jade people vividly displayed the costumes and dance styles of the Western Han Dynasty with the technique of three-dimensional circular carving, and the value was naturally extraordinary.
As for why experts speculate that it is likely to be the cultural relics that Emperor Xuan of Han played with before his death, it is actually because of the location of the cultural relics unearthed. The location of the uncle and nephew who stole the treasure was actually a few hundred meters away from the real tomb of emperor Xuan of Han, but it was used to sacrifice the mausoleum temple of Emperor Xuan of Han. If you look at it from the perspective of reverence, this pair of jade people is actually inferior to the jade objects in the shape of other divine beasts. In other words, the reason why later generations of Liu's disciples chose to enshrine the jade people here must be because the jade people had a unique significance to emperor Xuan of Han.
Of course, this speculation is only a speculation after all, and the truth can only be left to subsequent archaeological discoveries. Today, these cultural relics are properly collected in the Xi'an Museum, continuing to tell the world the legend of Liu Yi, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty.