China's traditional culture has a long history, as the only ancient civilization that has been handed down to this day, China has the world's leading humanistic connotation and cultural accumulation, but when we embrace this pride, we must also face a very realistic problem - the failure of cultural inheritance.
We can often see such an exclamation on the Internet: "The wisdom of the ancients is unimaginable."
The ancient sword of the Yue King, which has been rusty for thousands of years, the bronze vessels with exquisite craftsmanship, and many techniques that are difficult to reproduce with modern scientific and technological means, have been pure in the ancient period without scientific and technological enlightenment.
However, those magical techniques that have been tempered for thousands of years have not been inherited by us, so when we deduce and maintain antiquities today, we often run into walls and even cause some irreparable losses.
After the Tang Dynasty's 70 tons of "Yellow River Iron Bull" were fished out, they were placed in the open all day but were not protected? Experts say: We don't dare
In the late 1980s, four behemoths were "unearthed" in Yongji City, Shanxi Province, China, with the iron bridge piers of cattle in the Tang Dynasty.
The news that the four iron bulls were excavated and found soon spread throughout China, because this is not only the excavation of cultural relics from the Tang Dynasty, the existence of the iron bull, but also symbolizes the metallurgical technology and river water treatment methods during the Tang Dynasty, which can be improved and supplemented again.
As for the origin of the four iron bulls, we can go back to 732 AD, which was the nineteenth year of Li Longji's reign.
At that time, Pujin pass was an important channel for the foreign trade circulation of the capital Luoyang, but in the middle of the two banks of Pujin Pass, there was a rushing Yellow River, although there were suspension bridge ropes between the two banks, but it was eroded by the river for many years, which was a broken scene.
Therefore, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang delegated the imperial edict to the suggestion of the Ministry of Works to abandon the Pujin Bridge and build another one, and after a very high cost of investment, after a full 7 years of casting works, the Pujin Iron Cable Bridge was finally completed.
There are four iron cows standing on both sides of the Yellow River, under the belly of the cow is a small iron mound with four peaks that perfectly fits with its body, and there is a column-shaped horizontal bolt behind the tail of the cow to wrap around the iron cable of the bridge, and there are other iron-cast cattle herding children next to the iron cow, which are vivid.
Since then, in 1200 years, the important hub site of Pujinguan has never had any obstruction accidents due to road reasons, and later due to historical reasons, the Yellow River crashed into the Huaihe River waterway, causing the Yellow River coastline to move 57 kilometers eastward, at which point, the Iron Bull Group retired honorably.
After 1950, the Shangyang Shaanzhou flood storage project was completed, forming a riverbed silt accumulation, and this situation lasted for more than ten years, and the Iron Bull Group was completely submerged in the silt riverbed.
Then, in 1988, some members of the Iron Bull Group were excavated, and the four iron cows unearthed were re-employed after a gap of 55 years, but this time they changed their identities.
According to historical records, the iron bull weighed 40 tons, and its belly subway mound weighed 30 tons, and the two formed a combination to stabilize the chain bridge, and when the gold pair was excavated in 1988, the weight of the two did not change, and there was almost no rust around the body.
After more than a thousand years without rusting, this has shocked almost all the cultural relics experts in the country, and just when the people of the whole country are looking forward to re-seeing the entire Iron Bull Group in the present day after a thousand years, Yongji has stopped excavating.
The reason is very simple, the experts involved in the excavation claim that it is difficult to protect the integrity of the excavated iron products, the outside air will make the iron products leaving the riverbed oxidation and rust, and some of the excavated cultural relics are difficult to transport and maintain due to their weight problems.
Excavations were stopped for the protection of cultural relics.
This is really ridiculous, you know, the excavation plan for the Tang Dynasty iron bull relics was proposed and implemented locally.
Could it be that before the salvage, they were already fully sure that they could take good care of the excavated cultural relics? Did they not apply lifting equipment during salvage and cause damage to cultural relics during transportation?
Whether the excavators choose to sacrifice cultural relics for the sake of profit and to enhance local value, or simply to fill the cultural deficiencies, it is difficult to determine, but we believe that the truth is in the hearts of the people.
But I think that since it is in the name of protecting cultural relics, is the oxygen-less environment in the riverbed always more suitable than the open-air exhibition?
Excavation of cultural relics but unable to protect the event is not the first time in modern times, the terracotta warriors is the best example, the newly unearthed terracotta warriors originally had a bright firing color, but due to the blind mining of experts, resulting in color and air oxidation, the color layer quickly curled and faded.
And now exposed to the air, the gradually rusting iron bull, why not repeat the mistakes of the past?
Some people may think that the current situation of the iron bull is not a big deal, after all, in the beginning, the iron bull was exposed to the air, and as a bridge pier, the iron bull will even be often scratched, and the environment must have been worse than modern times.
Historically, the Iron Bull did exist as a tool, and it was naturally understandable to be used and consumed, but from a modern point of view, it is not the case.
Today, the iron bull is no longer used as a tool, but has become a cultural treasure of the cultural relics level, and the cultural value contained in the piers of these vivid images is not inferior to the actual value generated when it was used as a tool.
From the perspective of inheriting culture and protecting cultural relics, blindly excavating cultural relics and failing to cope with the corresponding unexpected situations and various problems that can be predicted is itself extremely irresponsible behavior.
Precious historical relics should not become victims of the utilitarian interests of the people.
The value of a cultural relic is originally reflected in its supplement and testimony to the culture of a dynasty, they are born since ancient times, carrying the figurative carrier of the wisdom of the people in the era of its birth, but now, it is used as a prop to satisfy personal selfishness by "people with hearts".
Artifacts of a certain dynasty unearthed in a certain place, I don't know how much cultural color will be added to the local area? Or how many more scores can be added to the city evaluation?
A certain dynasty artifact from the hand of someone in a certain team does not know what kind of golden coat will be coated with the person's life, and I do not know how high a position it will bring to the team in the archaeological community.