Recently, the tomb robbery series of TV series that has swept the whole network has a new chapter, attracting a large wave of audiences to wait faithfully, and has also become the talk of many people after dinner.
The reason why the topic of tomb robbery has been enduring is due to people's curiosity about mysterious sacrifices, and the other is that the cultural relics handed down through the ages, especially the funerary items buried underground for thousands of years, are mostly of great value, not only material value, but also their cultural value.
Therefore, in order to get this valuable treasure, tomb robbers usually practice a skill to obtain it, and ordinary people have absolutely no access to precious cultural relics in their daily lives except for admiring through the glass of the museum. But this statement is not absolute, but because the odds are too small, even no one thinks in the direction of cultural relics, only as a windfall, resulting in a lot of losses in the cultural relics industry.
Heavenly Wonders
The story takes place in the Inner Mongolia region of China in the last century. At that time, the whole of China was in a period of extreme poverty, there were still a small number of people in the whole country who could eat enough, and many fields could not grow grain, forcing the villagers to leave their hometowns and beg for food for a living.
And there are not a few people who pick up waste, and the old king of Inner Mongolia shuttles through all kinds of ruins every day, rummaging desperately with his old hands, trying to find some supplies that can slightly improve his life.
The focus of waste collection is mainly on scrap products that can be sold for money, and steel is the most rare. Faced with the ruins that had long been patronized by other scavengers, Lao Wang still put his hand inside and struggled to find it. Suddenly, I felt a hard knot and dragged it out to see, and it was still glowing with golden brilliance! This is not - Lao Wang did not dare to think that it was gold, even if it was brass, it could sell for a lot of money.
He was so happy that he put this large iron rod weighing seven or eight pounds into his sack and hurried home. When he got home and took out the iron rod again, he looked at it carefully and burned it with fire, and found that the gold had not faded, and even became brighter. Unable to contain his excitement, he hid the treasure and returned to the place where he had picked it up.
I don't know how many unknown surprises are buried in the ruins. The old man carefully opened the dirt block to look for it, and his mood was no longer as desperate as before, and the happiness of wealth occupied his body. Sure enough, under the flying dirt, Lao Wang dug out more treasures and wiped away the dirt, all of which emitted a golden glow.
Fly up the branches and become a phoenix
Early the next morning, Lao Wang took all the treasures to the gold and silver store to exchange money. The boss carefully examined it for a while, but refused to exchange it directly, but said that there were many impurities in it, and the purity was not high, so it needed to be melted to refine gold. Although Lao Wang did not expect it, but in the end it was a windfall, how much could he get, he readily agreed.
In the end, this pile of treasures melted into pure gold, more than four pounds, and the owner of the gold shop exchanged twelve thousand yuan for the old king's head, and his joy was needless to say.
In the 1970s, people spent money in terms of points and angles, and Lao Wang's income was undoubtedly a huge amount of money, and he became a well-known local "ten thousand yuan household".
His fate was completely changed by this pile of gold. He no longer had to make a living in the garbage heap, and from then on he was a flying yellow tengda, and the sparrow flew up the branches and became a phoenix.
This miracle also quickly spread to the surrounding townships, and everyone praised the good luck of the old king's head, while lamenting why he did not have such good luck. The news spread farther and farther, and soon there were people in the local cultural relics department who were also rumoring about it.
It turned out to be a priceless cultural relic
As the so-called "art has a specialty", when the staff of the buried cultural relics research heard about the shape and size of the gold nugget and the excavation site, they keenly realized that this may be an ancient cultural relic. They immediately organized a working group to go to Lao Wang's home to investigate, and the place where Lao Wang picked up the treasure was the place where the gold artifacts made by the ancient Xiongnu were buried.
Only then did the old man know that the ruins at his feet carried the gold ware manufacturing process developed by the Xiongnu thousands of years ago. However, judging from the degree of mobilization of the public officials in front of him, the old man confirmed that this object was of great value, but he did not know what the significance of the Xiongnu cultural relics was.
Although he was afraid, he still secretly rejoiced that he had obtained this huge fortune, until the staff said that this cultural relic was worth three hundred million!
What is this concept, Lao Wang never even thought that he would be associated with a wealth worth three hundred million. But the wood has become a boat, the gold has melted, and people can no longer see the surprises created by the Xiongnu gold-making process in this land, and they feel sorry for it, but they have no choice.
At that time, in China, the level of education of the people was low, and the concept of cultural relics protection was naturally not high. On 9.6 million square kilometers of land, there are generations of simple peasants and workers, who look up to history and think that they are outside history, not knowing that perhaps the real history is buried in the land under their feet. There are many, many incidents of unintentional destruction of cultural relics like Lao Wang's.
The protection of cultural relics cannot be delayed
In order to prevent such things from continuing, the state soon promulgated the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Cultural Relics, which clearly stipulates that all cultural relics left in the underground, inland waters and territorial waters of the People's Republic of China belong to the state. Whoever deliberately destroys precious cultural relics or scenic spots protected by the State shall be investigated for criminal responsibility in accordance with law. The protection of cultural relics is the obligation of every citizen.
After the law was introduced, to a large extent, the destruction of cultural relics due to ignorance was curbed, and many villagers were more careful when excavating land, and immediately reported to the local government as soon as there was a sign of suspected cultural relics, and people's awareness of cultural relics protection became stronger and stronger. also
Because of this, there have been many large-scale tomb excavations, and more exquisite cultural relics have been unearthed, and the wonderful artifacts have shed dust and emitted the light of the times, which is the charm of history.
Once a scavenger to a rare "ten thousand yuan household", Lao Wang is lucky, the windfall has changed the fate of poverty, attracting the envy of many ordinary people, but the cultural relics worth 300 million yuan are finally lost, which is the regret of the country and the regret of the times. We can only treat cultural relics with a more reverential attitude, look forward to history, and reduce such regrets.
In the eyes of the ancients, perhaps an inconspicuous little object has become a priceless treasure after the baptism of time? It is precisely because time, the times are developing, and mankind is progressing, we have grown up with the progress of history, and while looking up at the future step by step, it is a heavy history that carries our footsteps.