Don't cut a thousand flowers like a good color, settle the flower stand, and it is crystal, glass, azure Ru kiln, gold vase, just in the middle of the agarwood Zhuoer, settle the white jade mill flower merchant, about two feet high, two feet three inches in diameter, and insert fifty-five branches of the red of the temple. ——Zhou Mi "The Past Of Wulin"
preface
Chinese porcelain has a long history, and the development of porcelain ushered in a small climax in the Song Dynasty, there are many types of porcelain in the Song Dynasty, and there are many kinds of shapes, and the porcelain of the Song Dynasty is also very collectible because of the glaze color and craftsmanship. For ordinary people, it is also very valuable to have a porcelain of the Song Dynasty. In 1991, in The Goldfish Village in Sichuan, Wen Bizhen found a large number of Song Dynasty porcelain in her vegetable garden.
When her husband died, he chose his own vegetable garden as a cemetery
This woman named Wen Bizhen, and her husband are farmers in Jinyu Village, the two have been very good since they got married, but helplessly in 1991, her husband died, Wen Bizhen even if she was sad and sad, she also had to take care of her husband's posthumous affairs, with the help of her husband's eldest brother, Wen Bizhen found someone to pick a feng shui treasure for her husband, just in her own family's vegetable garden, but when digging a grave for her husband, she dug a very hard thing.
In fact, the cemetery is not used by Wen Bizhen to dig, but because of the deep feelings with her husband, Wen Bizhen wants to finally do something for her husband, Wen Bizhen and several other people dig a graveyard for her husband, after digging it, Wen Bizhen feels that the purpose is a little small, and she feels that her husband is buried in it or she still has to dig a bigger one, so she put a shovel next to her, and as a result, she encountered a hard object, carefully dug out to see that it was a piece of porcelain.
Report to the relevant departments
Although Wen Bizhen was a rural woman, she vaguely felt that it was not a trivial matter to dig out such a thing, so she continued to dig a few more times in the direction she had just dug, and the result was that she dug some more things. Moreover, it is said that this place used to be the place where the treasure was hidden in the landlord's family, so Wen Bizhen and her husband's brother discussed that the matter should be reported to the state.
And because some things have been dug up, Wen Bizhen is worried that someone will stare at this place, and in the time of waiting for the state to send people, Wen Bizhen and her relatives at home are staring here all the time, afraid that someone will secretly take away one or two of the dug things, until the archaeological team came to find that there are a lot of Song Dynasty porcelain buried here.
A total of 985 pieces of Song Dynasty porcelain were unearthed
After the archaeological team came, they excavated this Wangjia vegetable field belonging to Wen Bizhen's husband, and found a total of 985 pieces of Song Dynasty porcelain here, and a total of 38 national first-class cultural relics were identified. And in addition to porcelain, there are some bronzes and stone carvings here, which add up to nearly 2,000 artifacts in total.
Among the porcelains found, one of the blue glazed lotus leaf shaped lid jars is very exquisite in both color and shape, and is now also exhibited in the Sichuan Song Porcelain Museum, many people who have come to this museum are full of praise for the shape of this blue glazed lotus leaf shaped lid jar, and the development of Song Dynasty porcelain can also be understood from this blue glazed lotus leaf shaped lid jar.
summary
Although she accidentally dug up a lot of cultural relics in her own home, Wen Bizhen and her family decisively chose to hand over these cultural relics to the state, and she also received a reward of 500 yuan for this move. Even after knowing the price of these cultural relics, Wen Bizhen did not regret her approach.
I really admire Wen Bizhen, because she did not choose to donate these cultural relics to the state free of charge, so that these porcelains that have traveled through thousands of years can be exhibited to the outside world and let more people know about the porcelain of the Song Dynasty.
【References】"Wulin Old Affairs", "Notes on Song Porcelain"