Hejia Village, a small village that sounds like an unknown origin, has become the center of the topic because it has dug up a treasure cellar from a thousand years ago. Because a large number of Tang Dynasty treasures have been unearthed here, some people joke that the treasures here can add up to buy half of Hong Kong. Although this is an exaggeration, it is enough to illustrate the precious value of these treasures.
One day in 1970, while construction was underway as usual on a construction site in Hejia Village, workers suddenly dug up a pottery urn. In Xi'an, the ancient capital of the Eight Dynasties underground, which is full of cultural relics, the workers were not surprised to be able to dig up cultural relics, but when they opened it, they were still shocked, and it turned out that the things inside this clay urn were actually golden!
The news was quickly reported to the authorities, and the archaeological team immediately sent someone to the local area to carry out excavations. Finally, it was confirmed that this was a treasure cellar during the Tang Dynasty, because the discovery site was located in Hejia Village, so these excavated treasures were also called "Hejia Village Relics".
There are more than twenty gold and silver treasures excavated in Xi'an, but like He Jia Village, there is no one with a large number of precious treasures, and these things are closely related to the Silk Road, and a rare Gold Kaiyuan Treasure has been unearthed, so its significance is very important!
Finally, after inventory, a total of 255 exquisite gold and silver utensils were excavated this time, including bowls, plates, plates and other utensils, as well as jewelry such as gold noodles and gold jutsu. In addition to these gold and silver vessels, silver ingots, medicines, minerals, gemstones, and a large number of coins were included. The value of these items is too high to be estimated.
In addition to the value of these treasures themselves, the most important thing is that through them we can learn a lot of things about the Tang Dynasty. These goldware, silverware, coins, medicines, etc., are all showing us the open, inclusive, prosperous and prosperous Datang!
The location of Hejia Village, which belonged to Xinghuafang in Chang'an City during the Tang Dynasty, is about one kilometer away from Xishi and about three kilometers away from Dongshi. It is inhabited by a large number of foreigners all year round, most of them merchants who traveled to and from the Silk Road, speaking a Sogdian language, and use this place as their place of stay.
These people brought the most advanced gold and silver making technology in the world at that time, so it also became a gathering place for many metal craftsmen, and a large number of exquisite gold and silver products flowed out from here. Perhaps this can also explain why He Jia Village has been able to excavate so many precious gold and silver utensils.
Among the unearthed treasures is a very precious one, which is an agate cup with a gold-encrusted animal head, which is currently treasured by the Shaanxi History Museum. Because at that time, agate, gems, etc. were more valuable than gold and silver, and these things were not produced in the Tang Dynasty, mainly relying on these merchants to transport to China after a long journey, so at that time it was a popular item, and non-ordinary people could enjoy it.
There are also a large number of coins in the cellar, which vary in age and country, both from the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, from the Wang Mang period, and from the silver coins of the Sassanid Dynasty. All kinds of coins seem to tell us what kind of collecting hobby this cellar owner has.
In addition, we can also see the Tang Dynasty's conscription system, because the Tang Dynasty practiced the rent system, and the local governments needed to pay taxes to the central government and also draw people to serve. However, in some areas, these can be converted into silver cakes for payment. Among the treasures unearthed this time, there are some silver cakes, which can be seen from the inscriptions printed on them, which are the taxes and silver paid to the central government of the Tang Dynasty at that time.
From these excavated cultural relics just introduced, we can feel the openness of the Tang Dynasty, countless cultures and arts, through the Silk Road of East-West exchanges into the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty with its broad mind to digest and absorb, and then create its own splendid civilization.
Regarding the identity of the owner of the cellar, there is still no conclusive conclusion. But these are actually not so important in the face of the value of cultural relics. Presumably, the owner of the cellar did not expect that a burial thousands of years ago would become an extremely precious key to the excavation of history in later generations.