After the 70 tons of "Yellow River Iron Bull" in the Tang Dynasty were fished out, they were placed in the open air but not protected? Expert: Don't dare
China has a long history, so it has many rare treasures. China attaches great importance to these cultural relics, so it not only vigorously recycles them in the private sector, but also increases its protection efforts. However, there is an antiquity that has been handed down from the Tang Dynasty but has not been protected by the state. Let's explore it today!
The Yellow River iron bull, which weighs 70 tons, is this antiquity, produced during the Tang Dynasty, and is also the Kaiyuan iron cow. The state has been laying this antiquity in the open all day, without any other protection. Experts mention that protection is not dare to call, why is this? Let's get closer to the Yellow River Iron Bull!
Pujindu, a famous ferry port located on the east bank of the Yellow River. According to historical records, the Tang Dynasty Kaiyuan Iron Bull existed here, but later the Yellow River moved east, flooding the Yellow River Iron Bull, and it also disappeared.
The old man of Puzhou recalled that around 1940, the horns of the iron bull could still be found. Due to the dry season, the riverbed drops, and the horns of the iron bulls can be touched after people have been launched, and the horns will also destroy the bottom of some of the boats. After 1950, due to the westward movement of the Yellow River and the siltation of the riverbed, the iron bull was buried deep in the river beach in the 1960s and 1970s.
In 1998, the government vigorously supported the museum, and after more than a year of investigation, it finally paid off, and in August of the following year, it found the long-disappeared Tang Kaiyuan Iron Bull and Iron Man, and people from all walks of life paid attention to this matter.
Among the antiquities found, there are four Tang Kaiyuan iron bulls, four Tang Kaiyuan iron men, and some other antiquities. In August 1998, this is the first time since the founding of the People's Republic of China that China has found the ruins of the ancient ferry port of the Yellow River, so the attention of people from all walks of life has not decreased, and these four Tang Kaiyuan iron bulls are extremely rare, not only in China but also abroad, which is for the whole world. It has a long history, a high level of craftsmanship, and the heaviest weight, so valuable cultural relics need to be protected together.
Four iron bulls, each of which is very delicate and meticulously made.
The shape of these four Tang Kaiyuan iron bulls is very vivid, and the body of the cow is cast very deeply.
Tang Kaiyuan iron bull is also known as the Yellow River iron cow, because it was unearthed next to the Yellow River, and it was cast in the thirteenth year of Tang Kaiyuan, in order to fix the pontoon bridge, maintain traffic for people's lives at that time to bring a lot of convenience, but then the bridge was destroyed, long forgotten no longer used, so the local people called it "Zhenhe Iron Cow".
The role of the Zhenhe Iron Bull is not only this, it has many more functions. The meaning of the cow is very good, and it is placed on the bank of the Yellow River with the water, which means to pray for people to deter floods.
From the observation of the site of Tang Kaiyuan Iron Bull, we can understand that the Tang Bridge Construction Project at that time was not very good, and the use of iron cows to deter floods was just a psychological comfort.
But why did this antiquity, which is very important to Chinese history, not urgently protected by experts, but was directly placed in the open air after excavation? This is because their protection has already been carried out, but in the later stage, they really can't keep up with the actual strength.
Shanxi Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics asked archaeologists, gave us an answer, cultural relics protection, is also a very important science, we need to consider a lot of questions, can not only start from one aspect, especially iron cultural relics are even more helpless, giving experts unlimited trouble.
Some experts, in fact, there are also some protective measures to implement, not only did not protect, but also let the precious cultural relics suffered harm, so they can only be placed aside and no longer care.