China is one of the four major ancient civilizations in the world, which has experienced countless dynastic changes and left countless precious cultural relics. Some cultural relics have been accidentally discovered and reproduced in the world, and under the identification of experts, they are extremely valuable, but some cultural relics have been lost elsewhere and become worthless waste. There was an old man who picked up 7 pounds of "golden lumps", which was originally an important cultural relic for studying the ancient minority culture, but because of a mistake, it was treated as a pile of scrap iron.
Wang Laohan is an ordinary old man in Inner Mongolia, his family is poor and has no ability, and he can only pick up waste products to maintain daily expenses. One day before the New Year, Mr. Wang came to a dump in the suburbs, hoping to pick up something valuable, thinking that if he was lucky, he could pick up some scrap iron. Wang Laohan was rummaging through the messy garbage dump, and suddenly his hand touched a hard thing, which was most likely a relatively valuable scrap iron! The old man was full of joy and quickly shaved out all the metal, and then Wang Lao Han found that it was some iron rods, and there were some golden lustrous knots on the iron rods.
He took these lumps home, and after washing them, he found that these golden knots were gold, and these lumps totaled seven pounds, thinking that he could sell a lot of money, so Wang Laohan planned to sell them in the town the next day. The next day, the owner of the shop said that there were impurities on this piece of gold lump, and it could not sell much money at all, and after discussing with the owner, the old man decided to melt this gold lump and sell it again.
In the end, this pile of knots refined four pounds of gold, and the old man got a total of 1200 pieces. Many people saw that Wang Laohan had become a rich man overnight, and they all came to ask him about his way of making money, and Wang Laohan also told this matter. Soon, the news that Wang Laohan dug up the treasure reached the ears of the local cultural relics bureau, and after examining and studying the remaining scrap iron, they came to the conclusion that this piece of gold lump belonged to the ancient Xiongnu, and the experts also estimated the value of these cultural relics, saying: The loss of 300 million! Later, experts conducted a comprehensive excavation of the garbage dump and found a noble tomb of the Xiongnu period, which also filled the gap in the history of our country about the Xiongnu culture.
This pile of gold lumps was originally an important cultural relic for studying the history of the ancient Xiongnu, but because the old man was lonely and unheard of, when the gold was sold after melting, it caused huge losses to the archaeological community, so the popularization of cultural relics protection still has a long way to go.