During the Northern Song Dynasty, the "Lantian Silu" imperial court held important positions, these four officials and eunuchs grandfather Lü Tong once served as Dr. Taichang, his father was Bibu Langzhong, and in the third generation, he was more prominent, among which Lü Dafang was the prime minister, and several others were also officials in the imperial court, and these four were also quite accomplished in classics, history, epigraphy, geography, literature and other aspects.
preface
As the saying goes, "Lao Tzu's heroes are good men", as one of the "Four Lüs of Lantian", Lü Dalin was a Jinshi family in the Song Dynasty, and he himself was more interested in academic research, and there were many works in his life, but many of these works have been lost, and he also liked the collection of bronzes in his later years. However, his descendants did something that disgraced their ancestors, digging up the ancestral graves of their own families, hoping to exchange the cultural relics inside for money.
Descendants moved their minds to dig up ancestral graves
Although the Lü family once had such glory, but later this big family still went into decline, and Lü Fuping's generation never returned to its former glory. Lü Fuping was a native of Lantian County, Shaanxi Province, and as a descendant of Lü Dalin's branch, he always knew that his ancestors were very powerful in the Song Dynasty.
Because Lu Fuping is not a self-motivated person, there is no serious job, all day is to do odd jobs to make some money, when there is no problem, he will wander around the village, and the family life is not good. One day Lü Fuping had an idea, he felt that since his family had been a high official in the Song Dynasty, there should be some cultural relics in the cemetery, and those things should be quite valuable, so Lü Fuping moved his mind to dig up ancestral graves.
There is no ambiguity in saying that it is done
After having this idea, Lü Fuping immediately began to implement it, first he found his friend Qiu Zhaojun, expressed his idea, and promised to give Qiu Zhaojun half of what was dug up in the cemetery. Together, the two of them felt that they could do it, so they bought explosives to blow up the grave of Lü Fuping's ancestors.
The two men took a total of 119 cultural relics in the cemetery of Lü Fuping's ancestors, and as ordinary farmers, the two of them did not know the value of these cultural relics, and the two people discussed that someone would bid for tens of millions and sell all of them without leaving one. Just when the two were dreaming of getting rich overnight, the police had already targeted them.
Lü Fuping and his accomplices
Just when the police were arresting Lü Fuping and his accomplices, Lü Fuping also said with a straight face that his ancestors were the prime minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, and he was taking things from his own home, so why should he arrest him. After investigation, this person named Lü Fuping is indeed a descendant of Lü Dalin's branch, but it is also true that more than 60 lost cultural relics were found in his home.
In this way, although Lü Fuping dug the ancestral grave of his own family, the purpose was to seek private interests by illegal means, even if the grave was Lü Fuping's ancestor, his such an approach was also a violation of the law. In the end, Lü Fuping and his accomplices were sentenced according to law for stealing cultural relics, and all the cultural relics stolen by the two from Lü Dalin's tomb were recovered.
summary
Lu Fuping did not want to work hard to get rich, and all he thought about was the road of crime that he had earned for nothing and eventually embarked on. What is even more ridiculous is that until the police took him to the scene of the crime to identify the evidence of the crime, he still believed that he was taking what he owned and was not a crime. It can be seen that Lü Fuping's legal concept is very weak.
For cultural relics, everyone should actively protect them, and when they find cultural relics, they should immediately report them to the state, and they should not obtain cultural relics in the form of illegal crimes for their own private interests and sell them privately. The value of cultural relics lies not only in its price, but also in its own research value, etc., calling on the general public to attach importance to the protection of cultural relics.
【References】History of the Song Dynasty, Archaeological Map, Bang Lu and Shu Xueshi