In April 1979, Yang Mao, a middle school student of the Tunjungou Brigade of Pinglu Commune, Pinglu County, Shanxi Province, and others came to dig soil on the cliffs of tugou slopes one kilometer outside the village. At that time, it was a collective work, collective labor, each family had to send a person to participate in the labor, Yang Mao was the only strong labor force in the family, so he followed the young and middle-aged people in the village to the slope of the earth and began a day's labor.
In the 1970s, rural workers worked
At noon, Yang Mao dug soil on the cliff on the slope of the ditch, and below it was a young farmer named Heiyun who loaded the soil with a shovel and pushed the soil into the land with a wheelbarrow to build a field. Yang Mao waved a hoe and excavated, and quickly dug down the soil on the cliff piece by piece, the soil rolled down the bottom of the ditch, and the black cloud waited below to shovel the soil up and load the car with the shovel.
About 30 minutes or so, Yang Mao dug out a decaying wooden box from the soil layer of the cliff, and the wooden box was half-hidden in the soil layer, and from the pattern on the box, it was known that it was a very delicate box. Yang Mao reached out to pull the box, but the box had already decayed, and the cover on the box shattered as soon as it touched it, dropping the wood chips on the ground
"Gold! That's a lot of gold! Due to excessive force, Yang Mao pulled out a series of yellow and brilliant gold bars from the box, and due to the slippery hand, a long gold bar rolled down the bottom of the ditch along the soil slope and mixed with mud. The black cloud that was shoveling the soil under the ditch picked it up and looked at it, and found that the metal strip was indeed gold.
In the 1970s, they worked collectively
Suddenly, the crowd saw the gold being dug up and rushed up the slope to dig up gold bars. Dozens of people wielded hoes to dig the soil, and some strange bones, bronzes, and agate beads were quickly dug up on the slope, and the crowd worked together to almost half of the entire slope, until the production captain came to stop it.
The next day, the captain of the production team reported the digging of the trench to the commune, which in turn reported the situation to the county cultural management committee. The county cultural management committee immediately sent experts to the scene to investigate, and on the other hand, urged the relevant local departments to recover the lost gold bars and other cultural relics. When experts arrived at the scene, they found that this soil slope was a large gully washed out by water, and the place where the gold bars were found was above the side wall of the gully.
According to local elders, this place was a horse flat river decades ago, and in recent decades, with the continuous washing of rain, this large gully has emerged. The appearance of dug gold bars on the side walls of the gully is an unpredictable discovery. After surveying, experts found that under this gully, there is a rammed earth building platform with an east-west length of 33 meters, a north-south width of 8-9 meters, a height of 2.8 meters in the north, 2.3 meters in the south, and a low north and a low south.
Archaeological excavation site
The rammed soil layer is hard, the soil is gray-red-brown five-flowered soil, each layer is 7-10 cm thick, and the base is north-south. This layer of rammed earth is the foundation of an ancient house, and the location of the excavated gold is exactly in the southwest corner of the building foundation. In the southern part of the platform, from the flood-washed ravines, within a range of about 200 meters, traces of ancient people's habitation can be seen, and there are a large number of pottery fragments, open pots, plain urns, and yellow-green porcelain glaze fragments from the Northern Wei Dynasty. Among the iron tools, there are hammer heads, knives, etc., and the bones of the beast are the leg bones of horses, shoulder blades and limb bones of sheep, and most of the bones of sheep are grilled black by fire.
According to the analysis of pottery fragments, experts found that these artifacts belong to the artifacts of the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty. The place where the gold bars were unearthed was originally a wooden box, the wooden box was 40 cm long, 25 cm wide and 30 cm high, which had decayed into fibers, according to Yang Mao, who dug up the gold bars, at that time, the gold had four layers stacked together, and three bundles of gold leaf were stacked on the east side, and between the gold bars and gold leaf, there were also some gold cakes, gold jewelry and gold chains.
Tang Suzong
Subsequently, experts went door to door to publicize and educate the villagers, persuading the villagers to hand over the gold bars and gold they had dug up. After several days of repeated persuasion, the villagers finally realized the importance of handing over cultural relics and protecting them. Yang Mao and Hei Yun, who had dug up the most gold, took the lead in handing over the gold, and other villagers handed over the gold one after another.
After the collection, a total of 193 pieces of gold were collected, with a total weight of 34810 grams, of which there were 5 pieces of gold ting with inscriptions, the largest one of the golden tings was 18.6 cm long, 4.2 cm wide, 0.45 cm thick, and weighed 982.5 grams, the inscription on the top was "X Dynasty Yilang XX Imperial X Gift Purple Gold Fish Bag Chen XX Jin", there are three lines on the back, the first line is "Qianyuan YuanYuan Nian Nian Monk Money Two Gold Two Gold Two Pick Two", the Bank of China is not clear, the third act is "XXX Official Dynasty Emperor Lang XX Sima Zhi X Fish Bag Minister Zhang Ang". The second jin ting is 8.4 cm long, 4.4 cm wide, 0.7 cm thick, weighs 467 grams, and although it has been smashed, it can still be distinguished as "Zhang Tongrujin, duke of wei of the pillar state". The third jin ting, with the inscription "Join the army Pei Shi Ting".
Gold ting with inscriptions
There are 77 pieces of Jin Ting without inscriptions, weighing 25988.04 grams, which is the largest and heaviest number of cultural relics unearthed in this batch. In addition, there are 15 pieces of gold jewelry, weighing 439.1 grams, 1 piece of gold noodles, 3 pieces of gold chains, 82 pieces of gold hammers, weighing 2048.68 grams, with a color of 93%, and 4 pieces of gold cakes, weighing 63.15 grams. 3 bundles of gold leaf, rolled with gold grains to form thin sheets, there are two kinds of gold leaf. A type of 17.2 cm long, 4.5 cm wide, rectangular in length. The second type is 30 cm long and 9 cm wide, with a total weight of 2588.30 g and a color of 98%.
According to the inscription on the golden boat, it is known that this batch of gold artifacts belongs to the historical relics of the Middle Tang Dynasty. The "First Year of Qianyuan" (758 AD) was the second era name of Emperor Suzong of Tang, which coincided with the Anshi Rebellion and the period when Emperor Suzong organized forces to suppress it. Judging from the inscription, this batch of gold objects belonged to Zhang Tongru. Zhang Tongru is recorded in the old and new "Book of Tang" and "Zizhi Tongjian" that important figures under An Lushan and Li Tingjian were both close confidants of An Lushan's shogunate.
Tang Dynasty gold leaf
In the fifteenth year of Tianbao, An Lushan rebelled and became emperor of Xiongwu, with Zhang Tongru as the right minister. After An Lushan occupied Xijing, Guanzhong, Luoyang, and other places, Zhang Tongru stayed in Xijing. Zhang Tongru was loyal to An Lushan and was the patriarch of the Three Dynasties of the An Lushan regime. Finally, when Shi Chaoyi raised an army to rebel, Zhang Tongru led his troops to save the crown prince Chaoqing and his mother Xin Shi, Zhang Tongru resisted Shi Chaoyi for three days, and finally died in the rebellion.
Zhang Tongru was one of the most important historical figures in the Tang Dynasty's Anshi Rebellion. The "Zhang TongRu Ting" unearthed this time is the Jin Ting of an and Shi occupation areas, which belongs to the relics of the rebels and dates back to 756 AD. This is the direct physical evidence of the rebels in the Anshi Rebellion, which is a valuable historical relic.
Gold bracelet
The total weight of this batch of gold and gold leaf is 34810 grams, and most of the gold content is more than 95%. According to today's market value, the price of this batch of gold will not be less than 100 million. Finally, in recognition of Yang Mao and others' initiative to hand over gold, Yang Mao and others received 300 yuan and corresponding material rewards. The gold was eventually included in the collection of the local museum.
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As a result, a legendary experience of a national treasure has since come to an end.