"The cultural relics of the Six Dynasties are even in the air, and the sky is light and cloudy, and the present and the ancient are the same." ——Tang Dumu, "Water Pavilion of Kaiyuan Temple, Xuanzhou"
Time is the most helpless thing, and for individuals it is merciless, "Streamers easily throw people away, red cherries." Green plantains. "But for the whole society, for a certain nation, a certain country, it is precious, it can accumulate those past into a thick foundation, bring future generations of timeless experience, but also accumulate into a strong sense of national pride."
Of course, time can also turn some daily necessities into precious treasures, hundreds of thousands of years ago, an ordinary bowl for eating, an ordinary copper pot for pouring water, after a long time of waiting, can become a sought after antiques.
But not all objects that have been washed by time are gifts of history, such as this old farmer from Henan, who was arrested on the spot because of a cart of antique gold.
One day in the 1980s, an old farmer in Shanxi went up the mountain to cut firewood as usual. Since the dead branches in the place where the firewood were originally cut were almost cut, this time he chose to go farther. Walking along, the old farmer accidentally found a cave, curiosity urged him to go in and take a look, but he did not expect that this look showed the treasure, and there was a lot of gold placed on the ground not far from the cave!
It is reasonable to say that this desolate mountain and wild ridge suddenly found a large amount of gold, anyone must cluck in their hearts, think about where this gold comes from; but the old farmer's living conditions are not very good, after seeing so much gold, he lost any reason in his mind, the only thing that comes to mind is that he has finally developed and can make his family live a good life.
Instinct drove away the old farmer's sanity, he hurriedly threw himself in front of the gold, grabbed a piece of gold and stuffed it into his clothes, and soon his whole body was stuffed, but there was still a lot of gold left. The old farmer was not satisfied, and after returning home to put down the gold, he directly took a small trailer and pulled all the gold in the cave away. As for chopping wood? At this time, where did he remember chopping firewood.
Although gold is valuable, but now the country is stable, the people's days are getting worse and worse, naturally after the era when gold can be directly traded as currency, how can these gold not be spent? In fact, normally, the most important thing for old farmers to do is to send a piece of gold of unknown origin to be identified, and then choose whether to donate or how.
But the old farmer, because he had no culture, did not know that his behavior had violated the cordon of the law, and was still thinking about how to solve the gold. In the end, the old farmer really came up with a "good way", that is, to exchange these gold for money in the bank, so that he can always have money, right?
But what the old farmer never expected was that he who pulled the gold to the bank to exchange money did not wait for the overnight riches, but was only arrested on the spot. It turned out that these golds were not ordinary gold, but real cultural relics, and the bottom of the gold was engraved with the words "Zhang Tongru, a hero of the State of Wei in the Pillar State", which was a historical figure in the chaotic period of the Tang Dynasty's transition from prosperity to decline.
According to China's regulations, those cultural relics that belong to the family from generation to generation, whether they are dug up or picked up, all belong to the state, and if individuals want to hide or get money in circulation on the market, they are really breaking the law.
At that time, the bank staff found at a glance that these golds were not family heirloom gold (China has a very strict control over gold recycling, and the pawn sales must show the relevant formal processes to buy, or the certificate from the ancestral tradition), and then looked closely at the cultural relics, so they immediately called the police, and then there was an old farmer waiting for the money but waited for a pair of iron handcuffs.
As people's lives get better and better, everyone's interest in cultural relics and antiques is also getting higher and higher, after all, the spiritual needs are well, so there is now a situation where museums are full and treasure hunting programs are emerging in an endless stream, and most ordinary people basically have the dream of picking up an antique and then getting rich overnight.