Foreword: In the 80s and 90s of the last century, the mainland was in a period of reform and opening up, and many cultural relics were also discovered at this stage because of infrastructure construction and other matters. In addition to this discovery, there is also a more common way of excavating cultural relics, that is, farmers often cultivate land and open up land, at which time some cultural relics will be discovered.
Farmer Ma Zhong ploughed the ground to find antiques
At the end of the 1990s, many farmers were also relatively hard, without more developed tools and machines, and many times farming still needed manual operation, that is, they needed to plough the land, reclaim, weed, etc. This was also a relatively common way of farming in those years, and farmer Ma Zhong also operated the same way.
On this day, as in the past, he went to work in the field by himself, and when he turned the ground, he did not find anything, but after the hoe landed, the soil that was turned over was different from the previous one. This also made Ma Zhong feel that something was wrong, out of curiosity he was particularly cautious to dig out the surrounding soil, and after digging, he also found an extraordinary object.
After he cleaned up the dirt on it, he found that this object was a pot-shaped item, the overall workmanship was very exquisite, and the pattern above the pot body was also very chic. He himself knew little about antiques and artifacts, so he didn't know the value of the pot-shaped object.
Cultural relics experts go to farmers' homes for identification
The fact that Ma Zhong dug something in his own field immediately spread throughout the village, and many villagers also went to Ma Zhong's house to admire this object. Most people don't know much about the object, but one of the villagers said he seemed to have seen the same object in a museum.
His words also made the villagers more curious about the object, and many people thought that the object that Ma Zhong dug up was a treasure, after all, it had been exhibited in the museum. The news of the treasure dug up in Ma Zhong's home has not gone away, and such news has also attracted the attention of the local cultural relics authorities.
Experts came to Ma Zhong's home and studied the object he had dug up for a long time, and later agreed that what he had found was indeed a cultural relic. This artifact is a blue-and-white porcelain vase from the Yuan Dynasty, which is finely crafted, and this porcelain vase is paired with the Yuan-blue-and-white porcelain vase in the Capital Museum.
Cultural relics found must be turned in
The porcelain vase that Ma Zhong dug up in the ground was a male vase, and another national treasure was a pair. Moreover, there are only 2 such porcelain vases in the current cultural relics excavation records, which can be said to be of great historical research value. After experts identified the porcelain bottle as a cultural relic of the Yuan Dynasty, they also explained to Ma Zhong the state's management measures for such cultural relics.
After an individual discovers cultural relics, they must be handed over to the state and cannot be appropriated for themselves. For such precious cultural relics, only national and local museums can collect, and they can be better preserved. Ma Zhong still agreed with the experts' statement, and gladly accepted the opinion of the state, asking the experts to take the porcelain bottles and put them in the museum.
Ma Zhong, because he discovered cultural relics and took the initiative to hand over cultural relics, also gave him a certain financial incentive, and also issued him an honorary certificate. The cultural relics also have the best home, these 2 porcelain vases are still exhibited in the museum, which is also of great significance to the study of the blue and white porcelain art of the Yuan Dynasty.
In summary: after the discovery of cultural relics, we must contact the local cultural relics organs as soon as possible, so that these cultural relics can be better preserved, so that future generations can have more understanding and research of history, the value of which can not be measured by money.
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