Ancient cultural relics have witnessed the footprints of historical development, no matter who digs up the ancient cultural relics, they must be handed over to the state at the first time, because the ancient cultural relics themselves belong to the state.
Even if the strength of the individual is strong, it is not possible to collect ancient cultural relics privately, and only by relying on the strength of the state to protect it will it not allow such important cultural relics to spread to other countries.
01 Old farmers' private collection of antiquities was reported
In the early 1970s, staff of the Cultural Management Committee in Lintong County, Shaanxi Province, received a message that "a group of criminals who wanted to steal cultural relics were caught at the scene of Linkou Village, and many treasures were found in the farmland." "What the hell is going on here?
This old farmer surnamed Li, when working in the farmland, inadvertently dug out a green bronze, because the old farmer has not studied, there is no culture, so when seeing this bronze, the old farmer first thought of this is no different from scrap copper and rotten iron, should be sold for money.
When the old farmer continued to plan the ground, the whole bronze was dug out, and it was covered with green rust spots, and the shape was also strange, like a vessel for water and like a container for wine. What the hell is this?
In the process of careful and repeated examination by the old farmer, he suddenly thought that it seemed that this thing was very similar to the picture of the artifact he had seen in the newspaper before, and should be a valuable treasure.
The old farmer began to dig again with his dream of making a fortune, and sure enough, as expected, he really dug out other treasures. Fearing that this matter would be known to others, the old farmer made a mark on the land and returned home. When the greedy old farmer waited for night to fall, he went to the field to continue digging for treasures.
This time, the old farmer brought woven bags and carried them home one by one. On the way, the old farmer met several villagers, they greeted the old farmer warmly, and asked him what he was carrying, the old farmer was stunned, and then replied that he was carrying dirt in order to fill the yard.
Seeing that the old farmer's expression was not quite right, the villagers quietly followed the old farmer and returned to his home. Through the gap in the gate, the villagers saw that the old farmer was carrying not dirt, but a lot of bronze artifacts.
Since he wanted to swallow alone, he should bear the consequences, and several villagers really couldn't bear to see it, so they reported the matter to the village chief. As soon as he heard that it was an antique treasure, the village chief did not dare to slacken off and immediately brought a few people over. After several searches, the village chief still found nothing.
In order to make the old farmer realize the seriousness of the development of the situation, the village chief told him that if he refused to hand over the antiquities, he would go to jail and eat a lawsuit. Hearing this, the old farmer was frightened, and immediately explained the incident, and pointed to the septic tank of their house and said that the treasures were all below.
It turned out that the old farmer was worried that things would be exposed, so he threw the treasure into the cesspool in advance and hid it.
02 The privately hidden cultural relics unveiled a 3,000-year-old unsolved case
Through everyone's efforts, these ancient cultural relics were finally fished out of the old farmer's septic tank without landing, and all of them were cleaned, with a total of nearly 100 pieces of large and small, with strange shapes.
At that time, this incident shocked the entire archaeological community, and as these ancient artifacts appeared in people's field of vision, the unsolved cases that had plagued historians for nearly 3,000 years were finally solved. What kind of historical suspense is it?
Among these ancient relics, there is a bronze vessel that is the most important artifact of the country, the Li Gui. Its height is 28 centimeters, weighing 7.95 kilograms, it can be said that it is the earliest time of the most definitive Western Zhou bronzes so far, which records the detailed records of the Battle of Makino, before the excavation of Ligui, because of the lack of historical evidence, so many people have disputed the specific time of the Battle of Makino.
Nowadays, Li Gui records the major historical event of the early morning of the Wu King's felling of the Shang Dynasty, and historians have also calculated that the specific time of the Battle of Makino was January 20, 1046, which is extremely important for the division of the two dynasties of Shang and Zhou.
Nowadays, Li Gui is treasured in the National Museum of China, which is one of the artifacts that are forbidden to be exhibited abroad (border), and is also known as one of the national treasures of the nine towns, and has been rated as a national first-class cultural relic.