To mix in the antique field, there can be no money, but there is one thing that must be had, that is, vision. People with vision can spend thousands of dollars on the stall to buy things worth hundreds of thousands or even millions, and people without vision will sell this treasure to you as waste. Especially some of the older cultural relics, people who do not have a little vision really can't recognize it. For example, the villager mentioned today actually took the bronze ware of the Western Zhou Dynasty as a "night pot" for use.
In Datong Village, Duanjia Town, Fufeng County, Shaanxi Province, there is an old man surnamed Liu, who has been working in the local agriculture for generations, and rarely reads out, Liu Laohan himself has not read any books, for him to cultivate the land is all the knowledge he understands, watching the crops in the field to have a good harvest in autumn and winter, it is the greatest pleasure.
In 1971, a sudden rainstorm destroyed the Baoji Gorge river near Datong Village, washing off a lot of sediment from both sides into the river. When the torrential rain stopped, the river gradually receded. However, the sediment in the river is still there, and as the river gradually decreases, it is bound to cause the river to be blocked.
In order to irrigate the coming year, Datong Village organized a dredging team, requiring each household to send a labor force, and then went to Baoji Gorge to clear the mud, each person was responsible for a section of the river, and completed the task after clearing his own section. As a strong laborer in the family, Liu Laohan took the initiative to join this mud cleaning team.
The place that Liu Laohan is responsible for is relatively biased, and the mud is also relatively hard, in addition to shoveling, Liu Laohan often uses a hoe. Whoops! As soon as Liu Laohan went down with a hoe, he knocked on a hard object.
He curiously opened it to see that it was a "pot", but on closer inspection it did not look like a pot. Heck, isn't this the "night pot" used by officials in ancient times?
Liu Laohan dug out 4 "night pots" in the river in a row, and at night, Liu Laohan took them all home and cleaned them all in the backyard. There is also a pattern grin, it is a treasure, Liu Laohan muttered.
Can't Liu Laohan's wife have an opinion, said: Why do you take so many night pots and put them at home? Are you going to get people from the village to come to your house and go to the toilet? Liu Laohan was criticized, and then put the four "night pots" in a cave in the backyard, and the naughty children in the family really often used them for the night pots.
Time passed 26 years, some of the children who went home by reading went out, and every time they went home, they would go to the cave to see these four "night pots", and they felt more and more that it was not simple, so they found an expert in the county to identify the family. After the experts in the county came to see it, they were not sure whether this was a cultural relic, so they invited Mr. Luo Xizhang, a well-known cultural relics appraisal expert, to see.
Mr. Rossizhang carefully observed and found that there were 12 lines of inscriptions in the cover of the beast, a total of 129 words. These characters record the slaughter of beasts by the King of Zhou in the Shilu Palace, and the shape and craftsmanship are very similar to the bronzes of the Western Zhou Dynasty, so it can be concluded that this is a cultural relic of the Middle and Late Western Zhou Dynasty.
As soon as the expert opened his mouth, he stunned everyone, this night pot in your house is a cultural relic of the middle and late Western Zhou Dynasty, and it is a pity that you wasted it. Experts then said that the slaughter of animals is a heavy treasure of the state, and if it is handed in, it can get a certain reward, but if it is not handed in, it may break the law. The Liu family finally agreed to hand them in, and the four beast-slaughtering statues entered the Zhouyuan Museum from the cave and became the treasures of the town hall.