One day in 1998, a carpenter in Xining Village, Xinjiang, dug out a piece of porcelain in the process of building a house and taking soil, at first he did not know the value of porcelain, and even some people said that it was a urinal pot, fortunately, Ma Zhong, a carpenter who came from the discovery, was not confused, he used his spare time to scrub the porcelain bottle a little bit, and the exquisite image was revealed in front of the eyes of the world.
Knowledgeable cultural relics dealers quickly found Ma Zhong, hoping to see it quickly, and as the discoverer of cultural relics, he also wanted to know the story behind this porcelain bottle, and the cultural relics dealer saw at a glance that the shape of the porcelain bottle was completely different from the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, which was a Yuan Dynasty blue and white porcelain with very little quality.
If unsurprisingly, the birth time of the porcelain vase should be more than 700 years, in 1970, the Yuan Dadu site in Beijing once unearthed a porcelain vase broken into 48 pieces, which was praised by experts as a treasure of the world, and the porcelain vase on the Mazhong homestead was better preserved, and its sale price was obviously not the same.
Ma Zhong's family dug up a treasure, which is big news in the poor Xining Village, all kinds of cultural relics dealers and villagers come to visit every day, some people even offered a price of 200,000 yuan, what this means to a carpenter, clear-eyed people know, but Ma Zhong has his own ideas.
Although it was found in his own homestead, if the cultural goods were left overseas, he would be ashamed of the ancestors, and he would be sorry for his children and grandchildren, he had already had the idea of donating to the country in his heart, and the cultural relics dealers were still doing persuasion work, which also disturbed Ma Zhong's life, because the porcelain bottle was stolen several times at home, and in 1999 he finally called the Ili cultural relics department.
After receiving the call, the director of the Yili Cultural Management Office immediately rushed to Ma Zhong's home with several staff members overnight, he himself could not identify the authenticity of the porcelain bottle, but did not dare to be sloppy, and left a bonus of 200 yuan for Ma Zhong before leaving, and promised that if the appraisal was true, he would bring the appraisal report to him, but after Director An left, there was no more follow-up, until one day ten years later.
The teacher of the village primary school received a call from the Cultural Management Office in 2009, he excitedly ran to find Ma Zhong, there is news, when you picked up the porcelain bottle was determined to belong to the Yuan Dynasty blue and white porcelain, there are only two pieces in the world, brother, WenGuan said, the value of this cultural relic may be as high as hundreds of millions.
In the second year, CCTV widely reported Ma Zhong's deeds, and invited Ma Zhong and the director of the Ili Cultural And Educational Institute in a cultural relics treasure column to welcome the new, the doubts about the ten years have not been identified with the report is also solved, Director An said, cultural relics appraisal has a long process, to fake the truth, a day is also anxious, for this long wait he said very sorry, but Ma Zhong knows that the porcelain bottle is real, and the state protection is very good, everything is not calculated.