Nowadays, when it comes to the industry of tomb robbery, most people's views may be "exciting", "interesting", "thrilling", etc., and regard tomb robbery as a treasure hunting game, which is caused by the novels and film and television dramas on the theme of tomb robbery with the fire in recent years; but in fact, tomb robbery is definitely a very bad, whether from the moral level or from the perspective of the destruction of cultural relics, it is very intolerable behavior, violating the bottom line of the law.
Tomb robbery has been around since ancient times, taking the famous "Lieutenant Touching Gold" founded by Cao Cao, once passing by the graves of some officials and rich people, the treasures in the tombs will be plundered, and there will be no items left, Cao Cao's reason is that the belongings of these deceased people will be used as military expenses in the future.
Tomb robbers are disgusting, but in 2012, When Nanjing Forestry University was expanding its campus, it found a tomb, the owner of this tomb belonged to the Jinyiwei of the Ming Dynasty, and his tomb was found purely by accident, after all, if it was not to expand the campus, it would certainly not be displayed in the eyes of the world, and there are traces of tomb robbers found in this tomb, but there is another statement.
In the Ming Dynasty, the position of Jinyiwei was probably the most unpopular, and arresting people to try cases, beating them into confessions, and listening to intelligence seemed to be the labels on Jinyiwei. It's just that the owner of this tomb is actually a descendant of Xu Da, the founding hero of the country at that time, because of the glory of the ancestors, he inherited the position of Jinyiwei.
Since the owner of the tomb is a descendant of Xu Guogong, there must be many tombs among them, which is of great help to us in understanding the history of the Ming Dynasty; but when excavating, it was found that this tomb has been visited many times by tomb robbers, and the tomb is empty, almost no valuable items, this is a tomb destroyed by the stolen tomb thieves.
Just when the archaeologists were disappointed, a special object was suddenly discovered. It was a sky blue bottle that looked a lot like a blue wine bottle, and experts investigated and found that it was an extremely rare blue-glazed plum bottle, and the value of such a bottle alone was enough to make up for the many losses that were stolen.
Among the cultural relics that appear in archaeology, as long as they are cultural relics with special colors, the value is basically quite high, which is mainly due to two reasons. First, because many cultural relics with special colors are unearthed, the pigments on their surfaces will react violently with the air to cause the color to disappear, so the color can be preserved very precious; second, in ancient times, only some nobles had the financial resources to obtain such brilliant color items, so the value of this colored cultural relics will be higher.
The reason why this blue-glazed plum bottle was not taken away by the tomb robbers was because, as speculated above, it was found to be a wine bottle after identification; since it was only a wine bottle, the value of the tomb robbers at that time was naturally not as high as those gold, silver and jade stones.
This Xu surname Jinyi is also estimated to be an alcoholic temperament before his death, otherwise he could not use a wine bottle as his funeral, but it is a pity that there is still wine in this sky blue bottle, if there is any, it is more than 400 years of aged wine.
Then again, blue is a very elegant color, Zhuangzi once said "the sky of the sky, its positive color also", don't look at modern people for blue has become commonplace, and played out a lot of tricks, such as these two years of popular color or what is the so-called "haze blue", but for ancient people, blue this color is extremely difficult to get.
Even the blue made of the most popular secret color porcelain during the Tang Dynasty is only the light blue of the rain and the sun, not such a pure sky blue, the closest to this blue in Chinese history is only cloisonné, but the cloisonné is not porcelain firing, so it can be seen that the price of this blue glazed plum bottle is extremely high, so the price of this bottle is conservatively estimated to be more than 100 million, if it is auctioned, I am afraid that the price will be raised even higher.