"What are these rarities?" Can it be so valuable? ”
An old man in Inner Mongolia faced the seven faint golden iron rods in front of him and couldn't help but think in his heart.
This afternoon, when he took the seven iron rods to the local pawn shop, the treasurer inside told him that if these iron rods were pawned here, they could be used for a few hundred dollars. But if you take it and melt it, the gold inside is selected, and it can even be used as more than 10,000 yuan.
The treasurer's words surprised the old man a little. He couldn't have dreamed of it,
Such an old man who makes a living by picking up rags and pieces can one day become rich overnight and become a "ten thousand yuan household".
You know, it was in the late 1970s.
Therefore, in the era when reform and opening up had just begun, it was already very enviable to become a "ten thousand yuan household". After all, at that time, an ordinary worker's monthly salary was only a few tens of dollars.
After listening to the advice of the treasurer, the old man immediately ran to the nearby smelter, put the seven sticks into the furnace with a temperature of thousands of degrees, and melted them into a basin of molten iron. Then he picked out the gold inside, dried it into gold nuggets, took it as 18,000 yuan, and made a windfall.
It became the only "10,000 yuan household" in the village.
But what the old man did not expect was that soon after, the Cultural Affairs Bureau from Beijing came to the door. And the words of the staff surprised the old man even more.
It turned out that those seven metal rods were actually very powerful! What's going on here?
The scavenger old man accidentally picked up the "treasure"
With the reform and opening up, the mainland's comprehensive national strength has been continuously improved, and the living standards of the people have become higher and higher. This year's per capita GDP has exceeded the mark of $12,000, which can be said to have officially entered the ranks of modern powers.
However, although the living standards of the people today are very different from those of decades ago, there are still some people whose lives have not been completely improved, and people wandering around the streets can still occasionally see some.
If those who sing on the street are for hobbies, and those who beg on the side of the road because of illness are tormented by fate. The "scavengers" who go around picking up things are only for a meager income.
In the eyes of everyone, scavengers do the lowest level of work in this society, and most people look down on the income they earn by picking up rags.
However, a few decades ago, there was a popular "scavenging fever".
It is often the case that someone has made a fortune by scavenging for waste.
In Inner Mongolia in the 1970s, such an amazing "scavenging miracle" occurred.
As we all know, Inner Mongolia can be regarded as a large province with a large area of land on the mainland, but because most of them are grasslands, there are relatively few cities, so it has also caused the whole of Inner Mongolia to be a sparsely populated scene.
The suburbs where the scavenger man lived were even more sparsely populated, with only a few thousand people in a radius of tens of kilometers.
In such a deserted area, the old man usually can't pick up much. On weekdays, you can only rely on luck to go to the nearby garbage dump to see if you can find some plastic or discarded wood today, and if you can find some financial products in the garbage heap full of flies, it is very good.
This afternoon, after lunch, the old man came to the nearest dump as usual.
Facing the garbage heap, the old man picked up the wooden stick in his hand and skillfully rummaged through it. After searching for ten minutes in a row, the old man could not find anything new from this garbage heap. Just took a few tin cans that had long been rotten and ready to leave.
But as soon as I turned around, I found a shiny thing in a corner not far away.
So the old man, curious, hurriedly went up to see what it was.
When I arrived in front of me, I looked at it, and it turned out to be several metal rods. The old man counted carefully, and there were seven large metal rods in it.
"Who didn't want to throw this here?" Now I'm going to be rich!" ”
Looking at these seven sticks, the old man was very excited, at that time, metal scrap was still relatively valuable, if it was iron waste, it could even be sold for 1 dollar a pound.
You know, but the purchase of ordinary items is counted according to "points", and one dollar can be equivalent to a hundred yuan now. Therefore, the seven metal rods picked up by the old man are likely to be worth his hard month's income.
So he rode a tricycle and took the metal rod to the pawn shop in the city and asked the boss to help him evaluate. But what the old man did not expect was that after sending it to the pawn shop, he found that there was a gold component in it, and after melting it, the gold inside was taken out, and it could even be sold to more than 10,000.
So the seven sticks suddenly transformed the old man from a "scavenger" dressed in tatters into a well-dressed "ten thousand yuan household".
After the old man got the money, he returned to his hometown, built a new house, changed a new set of furniture, and married his son and daughter-in-law, becoming a well-known "big family".
But before the old man could get away from the surprise of getting rich, he was approached by the staff of the Cultural Affairs Bureau from Beijing.
The garbage dump "waste" turned out to be a national cultural relic
In the mouth of the staff, the old man learned,
The few metal rods he had picked up turned out to be priceless artifacts. Under the analysis of the Cultural Affairs Bureau, the value is as high as 300 million!
This greatly shocked the old man. Don't say that he has never seen three hundred million dollars, even more than 100 million, ordinary people like him are usually difficult to reach.
"Could it be that he picked up Sun Dasheng's golden hoop stick?"
The old man didn't know what kind of treasure could have such a high value.
It turned out that the seven metal rods picked up by the old man were actually entrenched on this grassland two thousand years ago
Huns
Forged goldware.
And the reason why these gold objects can have such a high value,
First, because the ages are so far apart, and secondly, because these artifacts are conducive to the study of the Huns who have long since disappeared into the desert.
Unexpectedly, these cultural relics of great significance were burned to the ground. When they heard the news, the entire Cultural Affairs Bureau was heartbroken.
But the old man did not get any punishment for this,
Because the protection mechanism for cultural relics at that time was not perfect, there was a lack of legal basis in this regard. In addition, the old man did not know that these were cultural relics at that time, and they were also discovered by accident, so there was no subjective crime of deliberately damaging or selling national cultural relics.
But how did the Cultural Affairs Bureau know about this?
As mentioned above, the protection of cultural relics at that time was not as comprehensive as it is now, so it often happened to secretly sell national cultural relics in private. Previously, in Inner Mongolia, there were also cases of reselling Xiongnu cultural relics.
In 1972, there was a case of mass robbery of Xiongnu tombs.
At that time, the Beijing Cultural Bureau told the relevant staff in Inner Mongolia that if such incidents occur in the future, they must contact them in time and send experts to maintain the cultural relics as quickly as possible.
Therefore, when the deeds of the old man reached the ears of the local government, the relevant staff immediately reported it to the Cultural Affairs Bureau in Beijing. But by this time it was still too late.
So why do the Inner Mongolia region often unearth Xiongnu relics? This has to start more than two thousand years ago.
Speaking of the Nomadic Peoples of the Xiongnu, they have left a long footprint in the five-thousand-year history of the Chinese nation's civilization.
In the pre-Qin period, in the northern grasslands, the Xiongnu, with their belligerent character and strong strength, gradually encroached on some small tribes in the surrounding areas, gradually formed a huge force, and eventually became the overlord of the entire grassland.
After losing their opponents on the steppes, the Huns set their sights on the fertile lands of the south. Therefore, they often sent troops to the south to invade the territory of the Chinese nation, bringing great harm and disaster to the surrounding people.
During the Qin Dynasty, after Qin Shi Huang unified the world, in order to stabilize the Qin Dynasty and resist the attack of the Northern Xiongnu, it took a lot of manpower and material resources to build the Great Wall that has been passed down for thousands of years.
But even this did not completely solve the scourge of the Huns.
It was not until the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty that this problem was fundamentally resolved.
At the time
"Dahan Double Wall"
——
Wei Qing and Huo went to the disease,
After years of conquest, the Xiongnu were beaten to the northern desert.
Later, under the fierce attack of the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu finally could not hold on and split. The Southern Xiongnu in the south surrendered to the Han Dynasty, while the Northern Xiongnu, who were unwilling to surrender, fled further north, and could no longer pose a threat to the Chinese nation.
After the Tang Dynasty, the Xiongnu completely disappeared into the long river of history and disappeared without a trace.
Later, it was said that the Huns ran to Europe and were the ancestors of the Eastern Europeans. But this claim has not been confirmed until now.
Because the Xiongnu had been entrenched in the Mongolian steppe region at that time, they also left a large number of cultural relics and tombs here.
Although the Huns were nomadic peoples on the steppe, the level of production was still in the stage of slave society at that time.
However, the smelting technology of the Xiongnu was very good, especially their ironmaking technology was even comparable to that of the Han Dynasty.
Therefore, in the tombs of the Xiongnu, some very exquisitely crafted iron and gold tools can often be found.
The protection of cultural relics has a long way to go
Looking at the whole world, in any country, cases of lost cultural relics are not uncommon. Especially in our country, which has a history of 5,000 years, in the vast historical inheritance of Chinese culture, many cultural relics of great significance to civilization have been lost in the long river of time.
Like what
Qin Shi Huang's Chuanguo Jade Seal, Wang Xizhi's Lanting Order
And also
Murals on the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang.
These works of art, which are born from the mysterious wisdom of the ancients, are the treasures of the Chinese nation and the essence of Chinese history, but unfortunately they have disappeared into the world for various reasons.
Cultural relics are the relics left over from the entire historical development of human groups, and cultural relics are also the carriers that record the evolution of civilization.
It can reflect the social form and humanistic changes of this civilization at various historical stages from different angles, which is of great significance for us to study the origin and development of the entire civilization.
After the founding of New China, the protection of cultural relics has always been a very headache for the government and the people.
In these decades, tomb robberies for the purpose of stealing treasure have occurred from time to time. Even if the relevant laws have become perfect today, there are still incidents of cultural relics being stolen and lost abroad.
In the beginning, in order to recover the twelve beast heads of the Yuanmingyuan that were robbed by the British and French coalition forces, the central government and non-governmental patriots did not know how much energy it took to recover 8 of them in decades, while the remaining 4 were still circulated abroad and difficult to recover.
These cultural relics do not belong to a single person, nor to the government, but to the people of all of China.
If one sells one's country's cultural relics to others only for the sake of some monetary gain, then the dignity of being a Chinese will be lost.
A person who does not respect his own civilization will eventually be looked down upon by others.
For every law-abiding Chinese, the protection of cultural relics is our responsibility and obligation, if the signs of cultural relics are found must be reported to the relevant departments, resolutely can not be hidden, otherwise in addition to the punishment of the law, but also by thousands of people to blame.