Speaking of our unique treasures in China, what names can you name? For example, what Eastern Han Dynasty bronze galloping horse, six dragons and three phoenix crowns, bronze sacred trees, plain gauze shirts, Warring States crystal cups, etc., of course, these are a very small part of countless national treasures, each regional museum has its own treasure of the town hall, of course, on top of the national treasure, there are also town and national treasures.
The national treasures we want to introduce today are very strange, because they are a pair, for which they are highly valued, and they are known as the world's most national treasures, but this pair of national treasure cultural relics has been tossed around several times in modern times, almost lost, fortunately in the end, we were saved by the People's Liberation Army in time, otherwise it would really be a very big loss.
It was in Xinzheng County, Henan In 1923, there was a big drought because there was no rain for a long time, plus it was summer, so the local people's life was difficult, there was a villager named Li Rui, Li Rui in order to fight the drought, he decided to start digging a well, but just when Li Rui was digging a well, an unexpected thing happened.
Just when digging to 3 zhang deep, suddenly dug out several artifacts, in fact, are bronze, but Li Rui naturally did not know what it was, only felt that it must be a treasure, and at that time Li Rui knew that there might be some treasure below, so he spent money to let the workers who helped him work shut up, in the next few days, Li Rui dug up many cultural relics again, and even gold and silverware were unearthed.
However, soon this news was poked out, so in the next few days, many cultural relics dealers found Li Rui and paid a lot of money to buy the cultural relics he dug, which further strengthened Li Rui's confidence in continuing to excavate, fortunately, at that time, this matter was known to the warlord Wu Peifu, who directly sent an army to find Li Rui and asked for cultural relics, and finally naturally handed over the same number.
In fact, the cultural relics excavated by Li Rui are all from the ancient tomb of Zheng Guojun 2,000 years ago, which is the later Zheng Gong Tomb. Next, the archaeological team came to this Zheng Gong Tomb and began to carry out rescue excavations, although the Zheng Gong Tomb suffered a lot of damage, but in the end it did not hurt the foundation.
In the subsequent excavations of the archaeological team, many cultural relics have been cleaned up, one of which is a pair of intact bronze pots that attracted the attention of archaeologists, that is, the later Lotus Crane Square Pot, lotus crane square pot has a total of two, one with a height of 125.7 cm, called "Crane Square Kettle", and the other 126.5 cm high, called "Lotus Crane Square Kettle".
At that time, this pair of lotus crane square pots was almost transported to Taiwan by the Kuomintang, but fortunately they were rescued in time by our People's Liberation Army in the end, and then due to the particularity of the lotus crane square pot, they were even designated as diplomatic gifts by the State Council, which can be seen the value of this pair of lotus crane square pots!