When my grandson saw a name in a history textbook, he felt very much like a grandfather, and when he came home, he asked if it was true
All history is contemporary history —Croce.
Croce, an Italian philosopher, historian, and representative of Neo-Hegelianism, said that this sentence has two meanings, one is that history exists only in the historian's ideological cognition of history; the other is the cultural relics left over from history.
When it comes to cultural relics, then the Chinese civilization must be the most dazzling of the four ancient civilizations.
In the "Book of Poetry, Shang Song, Xuan Bird", it is said: The Heavenly Destiny Xuan Bird descends to give birth to the Merchant and the House Yin Tu Mang. The ancient emperor ordered Wu Tang and Zheng Domain to be in the other four directions.
In myths and legends, the ancestor of Yin Shang was born of Xuan Bird, and Xuan Bird became the ancestor of Yin Shang.
Animal worship was very common in ancient times, especially in the pre-Qin period, and Yin Shang is also the oldest civilization that can be verified at present, Yin Shang has ancient tombs, oracle bones, bronzes, although it is impossible to determine the kings of Yin Shang dynasty, but the basic history of Yin Shang is still sorted out.
Among the bronzes, most of the four sheep Fangzun must have heard of it, in the historical circles it is called "the ultimate bronze model", ranked among the top ten national treasures, in terms of status, it should be the Yin Shang era, the most valuable wine vessel, can be called the national treasure of the national treasure.
Siyang Fangzun is the largest of the only remaining Shang Dynasty bronze Fangzuns, with a side length of 52.4 cm, a height of 58.3 cm, and a weight of 34.5 kg, the four horns of the Zun are composed of a sheep's head and a dragon head, and the legs, neck, and four sides are composed of a band of dragon stripes, and the snake body has claws.
Gluttony has the highest status among the pre-Qin beasts, the dragon is also a symbol of nobility, the sheep represents auspiciousness and integrity, and the legend says that the ancestor Gao Tao also respects the sheep, Gao Tao is the god of criminal law, and the sheep was called the Badger in ancient times, "Shuowen": 觟, 觟牝 horn also, from the horn, Gui Sheng.
In the Confucian definition: the one who is a liar, the sheep of one horn, is guilty of sexual knowledge. Gao Tao governs the prison, and those who suspect his sins touch the sheep, and those who are guilty touch it, and those who are not guilty do not touch it.
In the Han Dynasty, it was revered as a beast, and it was often regarded as a legendary badger.
The sheep is one of the oldest totems of yin shang, the four sheep fang zun with the "four sheep" to determine the status of the sheep, the sheep in the Yin Shang period is likely to symbolize the fa, and the Western Zhou symbolizes virtue, the Book of Poetry • Zhao Nan said: The government of King Wen, honesty, virtue like a lamb.
Siyang Fangzun was excavated from the Tanheli site in Ningxiang, Hunan, which is also the earliest known Western Zhou site in the south, the site unearthed many large bronzes, but whose cemetery is still a mystery, there is a feminist country of Dahe Fangguo said, Xuan You said... There are many more speculations of this type.
The Four Yang Fangzun was not excavated together with the Ancient Tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty, it was excavated separately.
In the 1980s, a 7-year-old boy in Huangcai Town, Ningxiang County, Hunan Province, went to the teacher's office to play after class, he saw a senior history textbook, he looked at it, the child did not know how many words, but there were three words on it that he was very familiar with, these three words were: Jiang Jingshu.
These three words are names at first glance, and the reason why the little boy is so familiar is because "Jiang Jingshu" is also his grandfather's name. The little boy was very curious, so he ran back to inquire, and this question involved an old story from decades ago.
One afternoon in April 1938, Jiang Jingshu, Jiang Jingqiao, Jiang Xiqiao three brothers to the Zhuanerlun Mountain to open up the wilderness to plant sweet potatoes, the three of them dug on the mountainside digging, suddenly the hoe came from the sound of "Dang" a metal collision sound, the three people also thought that they had dug some iron block, they dug the soil block, not long, they dug out a huge metal object.
The three people realized that they had dug up the treasure, Jiang Jingshu also knocked with a hoe, knocked down a palm-sized bronze piece, the three people brought back the four sheep Fangzun, holding the old name of about 64 city pounds, the three people dug out the treasure Quickly spread, a cultural relics dealer immediately came to the door and bought it at a price of 400 oceans.
At that time, Jiang Jingshu was only 17 years old, the whole family of more than 10 people, the family relied on his grandfather to make tofu, his father did short-term work to maintain living expenses, and it was the war years, it was good to maintain food and clothing, 400 oceans made him moved, but after selling, after layers of exploitation, there were only two hundred and forty-eight pieces left in his hands, as for the fragment he knocked down he left as a memorial.
After the cultural relics dealer got his hands, he was overjoyed, he started at 200,000 oceans to sell to foreigners, the local department also grasped the smuggling situation tightly, the cultural relics dealer was caught as soon as he arrived at the train station, and the four sheep Fangzun was also handed over to the relevant local departments.
However, at that time, the people of the relevant departments did not realize the value of siyang Fangzun, and even put the national treasure on several cases as a pen holder for 3 months, and soon after the Changsha defense war broke out, Siyang Fangzun was sent to the bank for safekeeping, but the bank also moved away not long ago.
On November 13, 1938, in order to prevent Changsha from falling into the hands of the Japanese Kou, the Nationalist army decided to adopt a scorched earth policy and burned the area within 30 miles of the outskirts of the city with a fire, but due to some accidental factors, the fire was completed uncontrollably, the fire lasted for five days and five nights, more than 90% of the houses in the city were burned, and the Four Sheep Fangzun was also lost in this fire.
At that time, everyone thought that the Siyang Fangzun was destroyed in a fire, and in 1952, the cultural department revived the old matter, and learned by chance that the Siyang Fangzun had not been lost, and it was still kept in the bank.
However, the bank was bombed by the Japanese army on the way to migration, the four sheep Fangzun was blown into more than twenty pieces of debris, although the bank did not know the origin of the four sheep Fangzun, but also knew that this thing was not ordinary, they rushed at that time, did not report, plus this fire, everyone thought that the four sheep Fangzun was destroyed in a fire.
They kept the fragment of the Four Sheep Fangzun in a wooden box, and more than ten years had passed, and if it were not for the cultural department to pursue it again, I am afraid that it would not know how long it would be before it would be seen again.
The cultural relics department handed over these fragments to the restoration of Zhang Xinru, after more than two months of careful restoration, the four sheep Fangzun was finally successfully restored, but there was a fly in the ointment, the mouth edge part was still missing a piece, the bank said that the complete four sheep Fangzun is like this.
After many investigations, found the "reselling" of cultural relics Of Jiang Jingshu, in 1976, after 38 years, the expert door finally found Jiang Jingshu, heard that it was to find the four sheep Fangzun, Jiang Jingshu was panicked in his heart, when he heard that the cultural relics dealer was arrested, he also lived in nervousness every day, deeply afraid that he was also arrested that day.
After the experts explained their intentions, Jiang Jingshu entrusted the collection of fragments to them, and at this point the Four Sheep Fang Zun was complete, and the Four Sheep Fang Zun was also transferred to the Chinese History Museum, which has always been a national treasure among national treasures, and its history has also been compiled into the textbook.