Since the birth of human civilization, as long as it is the place where human activities have been, it will definitely leave corresponding traces, and the objects in these traces are called cultural relics, and cultural relics are definitely the most collectible and research value historical and cultural heritage.
Most of the cultural relics are eliminated in the long river of history with the passage of time, those that have been well preserved, luckily preserved in modern society cultural relics, due to its historicity and research, naturally become everyone's sought after treasures, it can be said that each cultural relics have a very high commercial value.
Of all the cultural relics, the most valuable are naturally those that can prove certain historical facts, and the older they are, the higher their value. The story we want to tell today is that there is an old farmer in Henan who accidentally caught a "turtle" when he was fishing, but it is a treasure story when he looks closely.
Many people like to fish when they are relaxing, not only cultivating themselves, fishing home or turtles, but also allowing the family to open meat today. The protagonist of our story today is also for the old man who loves fishing, and this day he came to the river with a fishing rod and felt that he was fishing for something big.
After pulling it up hard, I found that this thing was a rusty turtle-like iron knot, but unlike ordinary turtles, it had four arrows inserted in its back, which looked very strange. The old farmer didn't think much of it, and conveniently put this "booty" into his backpack.
After returning home, the old farmer cleaned the "turtle" and specially invited the neighbors to identify what this thing was. But the neighbors can't say what it is, but everyone generally agrees that this thing should be a treasure, so that the old farmer can put it in the house and collect it well.
The old farmer usually read too many stories of cultural relics scammers, so he had no interest in this aspect, so he put this thing into the locker at home, and usually did what he wanted, and did not pay attention to it.
Fast forward to 2003, when the National Museum of China issued a notice to the people to collect cultural relics in order to avoid the loss of cultural relics. After the old farmer heard the news, he suddenly remembered the Iron King Eight who was still lying in his locker, and he was ready to carry it to Beijing to see what the museum's experts said.
The expert saw this turtle, and it was called a happy mouth. This turtle is not only a treasure, but also a top national treasure.
This turtle is a bronze artifact, a good thing handed down from the Shang Dynasty, with a history of at least 3,000 years. Moreover, the animal carved in the artifact is not a turtle, but a creature called a shrew. The shrew is the largest turtle creature, which is commonly known as the turtle, which is only distributed in the eastern and southern parts of Asia. Currently on the verge of extinction due to human activities, it has been listed as a protected animal by our country.
This bronze shrew is not only exquisitely crafted, but also has an inscription engraved on its body. After the study of ancient Chinese experts, the meaning of the inscription on the back of the weasel has now been interpreted: "BingShen, Wang Yuhuan, obtained." The king shoots one, shoots three, and kills (none) the discarded arrow. Wang Ling (命)Sleeping (馗) Brother (贶) in the book, said: "Playing in Yong, as a female (Ru) treasure." "
These texts record that the Shang king at that time went out hunting and encountered the shrew, and the Shang king and the album shot it a total of four arrows, the Shang king shot one arrow, and the album shot four arrows, and finally the Shang king rewarded it to the album, and the album made this bronze shrew according to the situation at that time to commemorate this event.
Finally, the experts named the cultural relic a bronze shrew like a commercial album, and said that the cultural relics were worth about 1.8 billion yuan, and one of the experts patted the shoulder of the old farmer and said: "You directly caught 1.8 billion yuan with this pole." The old farmer was not greedy, he knew that this was not his own thing, so he frankly and generously donated the bronze shrew to the National Museum of China.
In order to show its gratitude to the old farmers, the state gave back a small material reward, of course, compared to the bronze shrew worth more than a billion, this material reward is nothing at all. However, we still encourage everyone to hand over the cultural relics to the state after obtaining them, only in this way can experts find out the historical significance behind the cultural relics, so that more people can appreciate the unique historical and humanistic beauty of the cultural relics in the museum.