Hunan farmers dug up a bronze vessel, and the antique dealer bought it 400 oceans, ready-made as a first-class national treasure. In the spring of 1937, Hunan farmer Jiang Jingshu dug a lump of copper when digging sweet potatoes, and when he finished cleaning up the floating soil, he was startled, this thing had a sheep's head in each of the four directions, although it was rusty, but it was particularly exquisite, there were more than 60 pounds on the scale, the news that the Jiang family dug up the treasure did not go away, and the cultural relics dealers heard the sound.
The excavation process of the Four Sheep Fangzun is very ordinary, there is no thunder and lightning, and there is no immortal guidance, but the cultural relics dealers from the provincial city have an eye poison, and they bid 400 oceans on the spot, which is a sky-high price! Jiang Jingshu agreed without saying a word, but the cultural relics dealer is not a philanthropist, and people's accounts are more refined.
The next day, the antique market in Changsha suddenly came the news, a copper treasure from the Shang Zhou period was ready to sell, and the big treasurer of the West Arch Building YifengXiang Business Resolutely shot out, buying the Four Sheep Fangzun with 10,000 oceans, this grandfather was not a person who loved the treasure, he bought the baby and planned to sit on the ground.
A few days later, the Changsha Police Bureau received news that some people were secretly selling cultural relics, and had already bid 200,000 oceans on the black market, and heard that they would contact foreigners in the near future, so the government immediately intervened to detain the buyer and seller for privately selling cultural relics, and Siyang Fangzun was also sent to the case desk of provincial chairman Zhang Zhizhong.
Zhang Zhizhong had already smelled the gunpowder in the north, he himself was not interested in cultural relics, Siyang Fangzun was entrusted to the local bank for safekeeping a few months later, and in the blink of an eye, the Japanese planes began to bomb Changsha, industrial and mining enterprises and banks retreated on a large scale, and Siyang Fangzun was also loaded and transported away, but in the middle of the road, it was bombed by enemy aircraft, and the whereabouts of a number of valuables were unknown.
In 1949, the founding of New China, the cultural relics department began to take stock of the cultural relics lost in the war, some people thought of the four sheep Fangzun, so many parties to check to find a clue, the original responsible for hosting cultural relics is the Bank of Hunan Province, in 1938 retreat, the convoy to Yuanling before the bombing, rescue when a large number of materials into the wooden box seal, this is already 14 years ago.
The working group found the leader of the Military Control Commission who took over the provincial bank, and with the help of the other party, finally found the Siyang Fangzun that had been broken into 14 pieces in the warehouse, which was a top-level ceremonial instrument, and only the great power was worthy of it, after several rounds of restoration, the Siyang Fangzun was finally seamlessly restored, and then lay in the museum's collection room for half a century.
People can only get a glimpse of it in history textbooks until 2007, when The Four Sheep Fangzun stunned the world at the Provincial Museum.