China has a long history, and most of the folk cultural relics are antiques. Many people have inadvertently discovered cultural relics of great value, handed them over to the state, and contributed to the study of the history and culture of the motherland. However, some people inadvertently discover cultural relics, but do not know their value because of cultural level and other reasons, and even "transform these precious cultural relics into useful things" or directly destroy them.
In 2010, after a farmer in rural Chongqing inadvertently acquired a valuable sword, because he did not know this object, he finally smoothed it with a whetstone and transformed it into a kitchen knife, making it a sharp kitchen knife made of special metal material worth up to dozens of yuan.
In 2010, farmer Yi Shouxiang was using modern machinery to plow the land with a rotary harrow. Prior to this, most of China's rural areas used primitive tools for agricultural farming. Readers and friends who live in the countryside must have a deep understanding, although China has been reforming and opening up for more than thirty years, and its national strength has been almost incomparable, except for the United States. However, agricultural and rural development is not so fast as that of industrial and commercial development.
In addition to scientific and technological reasons, there are also institutional factors, and China's rural areas have not achieved large-scale land circulation due to special national conditions, which has led to the prevalence of small-scale farming forms. Each family has only a few acres of land, and the crops and methods they grow are different, and it is impossible to achieve large-scale mechanized operations. Therefore, agricultural modernization has been developing slowly, and the degree of mechanization of farmers' farming is very low.
In the past, many farmers also used livestock to plow the land, which was shallow and inefficient. Later, after the emergence of large machinery, everyone used large rotary tillage rakes to plow the land, and this large mechanical plough ate deeper soil.
In ancient times, many people buried gold and silver treasures in the ground for reasons such as war or to prevent theft, which was very common. But the depth at which they buried the treasure could neither be too shallow nor too deep. Too shallow is easy to be found by others, or easy to be found by the cattle that plough the ground, too deep is easy for ghosts to find--- can not find it. The depth of the can of money buried in this place without silver is just not deep or shallow.
History comes to the present, after the development of science and technology, the plough depth of large machinery is just enough to the location where the ancients buried treasures, so in recent years, many cultural relics and antiques have been discovered by the old farmers who ploughed the land.
Yi Shouxiang's old uncle was plowing the ground with a rotary ploughing rake when he plowed out a long metal object. Yi Shouxiang could see at a glance that this was an ancient sword. I have not read a few books, the Three Kingdoms Water Margin Journey to the West has read many versions, and the sword used by Wu Song to kill Pan Jinlian and Ximen Qing is similar to this.
Although Yi Shouxiang has no culture, he also knows that many antiques are also very valuable, and the old king in the village is the imperial cook in the Northern Song Palace, and has received several tea bowls used by the royal family, and the old king sold them for a sky-high price of fifty thousand yuan, and then used this money to marry his son and daughter-in-law.
So Lao Wang found the "expert" in the county under the introduction of a friend, and the "expert" said after the appraisal: This is also an antique, from the seal characters on the top, it can be seen that this is a "green dragon sword", but the age is not very long, that is, the late Qing Dynasty folk created a gadget, similar to the "Beijing Welcome You" period souvenirs, not worth much; I am willing to pay 20 yuan, sell it to me, sell scrap iron is not worth five yuan!
The old man thought to himself who you were to blame, thinking that according to the principle of two eight, this thing was worth at least a hundred, so he refused the "expert's" request for acquisition. Old Man Yi Shouxiang returned home with this Green Dragon Sword.
After returning home, Yi Shouxiang decided that this object was not very valuable, what if he sold a hundred children and eighty yuan, and did he lack the hundred yuan? What is missing is Lao Wang's fifty thousand yuan, since he can't sell it at that price, just keep it for yourself. However, Lao Yi, who had seen the world, found that the material of this sword was not ordinary iron, nor ordinary stainless steel, because it was rusty. This sword is heavy, and I think it won't be the legendary iron that cuts iron like mud, right?
Without stopping, Yi Shouxiang decided to transform it into a kitchen knife that cut iron like mud. So Yi Shouxiang found a whetstone, picked up the ancient sword and brushed it up, the three words of the seal body "Green Dragon Sword" quickly vanished, Yi Shouxiang nodded with satisfaction, he was deeply pleased with his famous sharpening technique in the village.
Later, Yi Shouxiang found a problem, which family has such a long cutting knife, cutting a vegetable is like a war. So he found the stone, and put the Green Dragon Sword resting on a brick, with a crunching sound, the long sword shattered into several pieces, and the section that was connected to the handle was just the length of a kitchen knife, Yi Shouxiang nodded with satisfaction. 、
After polishing, the Green Dragon Sword finally became a cutting knife, and Yi Shouxiang found that in addition to cutting vegetables, this knife was also very sharp for cutting bones.
After a while, the comrades of the Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau heard about the Qinglong Sword and quickly came to Yi Shouxiang's home, wanting to protect this cultural relic as soon as possible and discuss with Comrade Yi Shouxiang the issue of the ownership of cultural relics. Yi Shouxiang trembled and led the comrades of the Cultural Relics Bureau to the kitchen, pointed to the kitchen knife and said: Oh, I have transformed it.
The comrades of the Cultural Relics Bureau saw the kitchen knife and the freshly cut potato shreds next to it, and immediately fell silent. A long time later a comrade spoke: This potato shredded is still quite thin.
It turned out that this Green Dragon Sword was produced in the Tang Dynasty, not a folk object of the late Qing Dynasty, and its value was at least more than one million. Article 324 of the Criminal Law stipulates that whoever intentionally damages precious cultural relics protected by the State or cultural relics that have been identified as a national key cultural relics protection unit or a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also be fined or fined individually; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined.
In view of the low level of education of the elderly Yi Shouxiang, he did not realize that the Green Dragon Sword he obtained was an important cultural relic, and the sword had not yet been characterized by the relevant departments as a national or provincial cultural relic, so the government did not take punitive measures against the elderly Yi Shouxiang.
Education plays an extremely important role in the long-term and stable development of a country, and the overall improvement of the quality of the people is a powerful guarantee for social harmony and cultural prosperity. At the same time, it is equally important to strengthen the construction of material civilization and the construction of spiritual civilization, the development of material civilization provides material guarantee for the development of spiritual civilization, and the progress of spiritual civilization will promote the development of material civilization construction.