Ancient utensils have many different materials, made of a variety of materials, porcelain is glaze in the raging fire has been sublimated, and become more elegant and sacred, jade is in a variety of knives, is carefully carved out, appear warm and exquisite.
The gold and silverware, on the other hand, has become more palatial in the face of many hammer strikes. Different materials bring people different feelings, gold and silver may be because the raw materials themselves are more precious, which also makes their own identity and status appear more noble.
If the ancient gold and silver ware can be passed down to today, most of them are very expensive and the value is very high, but among the cultural relics found in the general tomb, porcelain accounts for a relatively large proportion, while the number of gold and silverware found is very small, and it is also very rare in the process of examination.
What the editor wants to talk to you about today is an unusual thing, in this "big pit" found, all the cultural relics are all gold and silver, which is really unheard of.
The discovery of this large pit was actually very accidental, one day in January 1993, on an infrastructure construction site in Pengzhou City, there were many migrant workers at work, and they were excavating the foundation pit according to the requirements, but just when the pit was dug to a depth of more than two meters.
A migrant worker suddenly found that there was a very complete stone slab on the wall of the pit he had dug, and driven by curiosity, the migrant worker called his good friend who worked with him to try to pry the stone slab down together.
It was such a move that allowed people to discover the largest collection of Song Dynasty gold and silverware ever discovered. Several migrant workers were very careful to pry the stone slab down and found that there was a large pit below.
Everyone then penetrated the light, found that there were many bowl-shaped utensils in the pit, and later talked about everyone's careful identification, and found that these utensils were actually gold and silverware. The expert looked at it and said: 5,000 yuan. In fact, this 5,000 yuan is the money to reward migrant workers, which is also very good.
This discovery was soon discovered by the relevant local departments, and after careful excavation by professionals, it was finally determined that this pit was a gold and silverware cellar of the Song Dynasty, the entire cellar was more than two meters high from the ground, and the entire cellar was made of green bricks.
The top of the cellar was sealed with three stones, and although the volume was not large, there were more than 350 pieces of gold and silver in this volume.
Among them, there are 27 pieces of goldware, and the rest are silverware, except for some gold noodles and gold hairpins, most of which are containers, such as bowls, plates, and so on. Such a variety of shapes, very fine patterns, from these details can see how skilled the technology of making gold and silverware during the Song Dynasty was.
Among the excavated cultural relics, many of them are engraved with words such as "Dong" and "Dong Zhai", which indicates that the owner of this cellar should be surnamed Dong. As we all know, the Song Dynasty was very prosperous, and the people's lives were also very rich.
However, it is not easy for ordinary people to have one or two pieces of gold and silverware, but this Dong family can have so many gold and silver utensils, which is enough to see the identity and status of this family at that time, at least financially, it is the rich side
So why are so many gold and silver objects buried in the ground? This place is not a tomb, so these gold and silver objects are not buried with burials, hundreds of utensils are buried neatly in the ground.
And it is also placed according to the category, the size of the whole cellar is just enough to hold these hundreds of utensils, through these signs can be seen that the owner in the arrangement of these utensils, very clear, not in a panic situation.