The ancients left us many relics, in addition to the splendid cultural heritage, there are many material heritage. From these cultural relics, we can well restore the life of the ancients and learn the wisdom of the ancients. But over time, many artifacts have been destroyed, and war is the biggest factor. In the war, such as in modern times, most of the cultural relics flowed out of the country and became the precious collections of many foreign museums, so that many Chinese people felt sad. However, there are still many precious cultural relics in China, since the founding of the People's Republic of China, people have paid more and more attention to cultural relics, and people's awareness of cultural relics protection has also been continuously improved.
In the 1980s, when a Fisherman in Chongqing was fishing, he went down and hit a very precious cultural relic. The Fisherman of Chongqing has been fishing near the Jialing River, and on this day he went to the river to collect the net as usual, but there seems to be no fish in the net, because when the net is collected, the fish's reaction is relatively small, but the net is very heavy, which makes people wonder. The fisherman thought it must have been a net that had stumps or something else. Later, the fisherman fished up the net and looked at it, and there was a very thick iron pillar inside, the fisherman thought it was a stone pillar at first, but later saw that there was a lot of rust on it, and found that it was not stone.
The fishermen thought that since it was an iron pillar, they could definitely sell some money, so they went to the local waste collection station. At that time, the price of iron was not cheap, and the people at the scrap iron acquisition station weighed it, which was ninety pounds! So the fishermen were given sixty-five dollars at the price of scrap iron at that time. The fishermen were very happy in their hearts, better than nothing, after all, sixty-five yuan was already a lot in that era. Because after the fishermen hit the iron pillar, they often talked to others about it, and people talked about what the iron pillar was for. The key is that there are many words on this iron pillar that modern people do not recognize.
When the fishermen left with the money, the local antiquities bureau knew about it, and experts felt that the iron pillar was not simple. So they immediately found the fisherman, and then under the guidance of the fisherman, the experts came to the waste collection station and finally found the cultural relic. The owner of the waste collection station naturally could not let the experts easily take away the cultural relics, so after consultation, the owner of the cultural relics acquisition station was given two hundred yuan, and everyone left. Later, experts consulted relevant documents and finally unveiled the mystery of this cultural relic.
The experts looked at the text on the iron pillar, and after analysis, they learned that these words are the words of the Han Dynasty period, and according to the records on the text, the original iron pillar was actually from the Han Wudi period. So why did people cast such heavy iron pillars at that time? It turned out that during the Han Dynasty, the flooding here in Chongqing was very serious, especially the Yangtze River. In order to control the flooding here, the imperial court ordered the local government to build bridges, but it was difficult to build bridges on the river. The river was rushing, and many bridges were washed away. In order to fix the bridge, so people at that time came up with the method of fixing the bridge with iron pillars, and later it worked, so one iron pillar after another was inserted into the water, just to make the bridge more stable.
If it were not for the writing on the iron pillar that recorded this incident, people would not have known that the ancients had come up with such a clever method more than two thousand years ago, and had to admire the wisdom of the people at that time. In fact, iron is the most easily corroded by water, especially in the river water, but this iron pillar has been buried in the water for more than two thousand years, and the text on it is still clearly visible. Therefore, the ancients must have carried out some anti-rust treatment on such iron pillars, otherwise such iron products could not have existed in water for more than two thousand years. Therefore, this cultural relic is of great significance for the ancients to build bridges and related technical research. However, the experts present were fortunate, after all, it was found early, otherwise the artifact would probably have been destroyed.
After analysis, experts at that time felt that this cultural relic was very rare, worth at least three hundred million! At that time, the fishermen in Chongqing sold to the waste collection station for sixty-five yuan, which was really frightening. Experts say that the reason why this cultural relic is worth this price is mainly that there are almost no similar cultural relics in China, and the age of this cultural relic is very long, existing for more than 2,000 years, and it is not easy to preserve it. Later, this cultural relic has been collected by the local museum and is the treasure of the town museum. Although it has been decades since this incident, for the fisherman, it is still fresh in the memory.
As ordinary people, we should have a sense of cultural relics protection, especially when discovering cultural relics, we should contact the cultural relics department at the first time. Only under the protection of professionals can these artifacts not be damaged. Imagine if the owner of the waste collection station at that time sold this artifact to someone else and was melted into molten iron as ordinary waste. Fortunately, the experts arrived in time, otherwise the people would not be able to see this precious cultural relic today.