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The old man caught a "turtle" from the river, with 4 arrows inserted in his back, expert: it is a national treasure of the Shang Dynasty

In 2003, the National Museum of China collected a very peculiar treasure in the folk, this treasure is a "turtle" with four arrows inserted in its back. The appearance of this treasure is also very peculiar, it was accidentally caught by a farmer while fishing in the river. He pulled up the treasure and looked at it, and found that it was an "iron turtle" with 4 Jane inserted, which was very strange.

The old man caught a "turtle" from the river, with 4 arrows inserted in his back, expert: it is a national treasure of the Shang Dynasty

When he returned home, he first showed the thing to his son, who recognized it as valuable, a bronze turtle, and should be a precious historical relic. So the old farmer reported the catch of a bronze turtle to the local government, and the experts came to his home to study it, and finally speculated that the turtle should belong to the turtle family, at least three thousand years old.

The old man caught a "turtle" from the river, with 4 arrows inserted in his back, expert: it is a national treasure of the Shang Dynasty

According to the above inscription, it is speculated that it should be a cultural relic of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties and a well-deserved national treasure. This turtle is engraved with 32 inscriptions, which roughly tell such an event: in the late Shang Dynasty, the King of Lu and others came to Anyang, Henan to hunt, the object is the shrew, it is huge, the largest up to 100 kilograms, after the King of Lu shot an arrow at the shrew, the people next to him continued to praise him very strong, the King of Lu was happy and shot three arrows in a row. Later, the king of Lu gave the hunted shrew to the people next to him, and when he returned home, he found someone to build a bronze turtle according to the appearance of the arrow in the shrew at that time, and also engraved an inscription to record the incident.

The old man caught a "turtle" from the river, with 4 arrows inserted in his back, expert: it is a national treasure of the Shang Dynasty

Therefore, experts named this cultural relic "Bronze Shrew like a commercial album". The appearance of this cultural relic shows that in the Shang Dynasty, the archery ceremony already had a prototype and the research value was very high. After netizens saw this bronze turtle, they used their imagination to say that this is not "turtle heart like an arrow", do you think?

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