Ancient society advocated the concept of male and female protagonists, husbands singing women with women, so that women discipline men so that men have to rack their brains to hide private money is unlikely, but the reality is not,
In the Ming Dynasty, there was a man who became famous for hiding money from his private house
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Contains secret wood carvings
An unusual thing happened at an ordinary auction in Melbourne, this funny thing comes from a wood carving as an auction item,
The history of this wood carving dates back to the Ming Dynasty
, the overall shape of a human head.
This person has a rounded head shape and a cute smile, somewhat like the image of Maitreya Buddha,
The image of this wood carving suggests that it was mainly used as an ornament during the Ming Dynasty
And it can only be used by families with a certain status, so it seems that there is nothing special about wood carving.
It has a historical atmosphere like all auction items, from which you can feel the way people of that dynasty lived and the style of decorations they liked, etc.
However, this wood carving is famous because it was secretly discovered at auction
The main purpose of the inspection is to determine the completeness and degree of fragmentation of the lot, so as to determine the initial price of the auction,
However, it was during the inspection that the peculiarities of this wood carving were discovered
Inspectors accidentally found a tiny crack in the head of the wood-carved human head
If you don't look closely, it is difficult to find, the inspectors also found that there seems to be a note-like thing in the middle of this small crack, and after discovering this anomaly, the auctioneer immediately sent it to a professional processing agency.
After the professionals conducted the survey, they finally took out the contents of the crack intact
What everyone did not expect was that what was in the crack was not a secret, nor a secret book, but a silver ticket from the Ming Dynasty.
The face value of this silver ticket is equivalent to 100,000 yuan today, which is also a considerable amount, even in contemporary times,
It is also enough for ordinary people to live for months or even a year
Not to mention that it was in the Ming Dynasty, which also proves that the family of the original owner of the wood carving is in a very good condition.
Putting such a large denomination of silver tickets in the wood carving and not taking it out until the wood carving changed hands, it can be said that it did not care much about it.
But why did the original owner hide the silver ticket in the wood carving?
Experts gave explanations in light of the social situation at the time.
Experts believe that the biggest possibility is that the original owner of the wood carving is the man in the family, because the wife is very strict, only the routine silver every month, and the financial power of the family is in the wife' place.
So he placed his private money in an undetectable place
Later, because the time of hiding the money in the private room was too long, even the man himself forgot to hide the money in the wood carving.
So the secrets in the wood carvings were only discovered and solved in an accident until today
This explanation has gained popular support.
This explanation makes the public feel closer to history, because even in today's society, hiding private money is still a big problem for male compatriots, hiding in places that are not easy to be discovered by wives, and it is easy to take them out.
Although in ancient times, the idea of male superiority over female inferiority was very serious, but women mostly handled housework and managed all the big and small things in the family.
The financial power of the family will also be in the hands of the woman
The hostess of the family manages the chai rice oil salt sauce vinegar tea, which is naturally frugal and will control the man's expenses.
And in ancient times, men with three wives and four concubines were the norm, and wives also had to control men's money for their own status, in case he was looking for flowers and willows outside, making the backyard of the family restless, if the money was enough, maybe every three to five would marry concubines.
However, the woman's discipline will cause the man to hide the money in the private room, and the man saves money little by little in the process of daily purchasing items during the New Year's Festival.
Once you've saved enough, concentrate it in a secret place
But many times such a move will attract the attention of the hostess, and in the fight you chase after me, the hostess is becoming more and more shrewd,
Hiding in ordinary places is very easy to detect, so the Ming Dynasty man hid in another way in wood carving.
After many turns, the mystery was discovered six hundred years later
Before discovering the secret in wood carving, this wood carving has changed hands many times, and we have no source to explore during the Ming Dynasty, we do not know, but we have changed hands twice since modern times.
The first time the wood carving changed hands was in the hands of an officer and soldier
This officer and soldier saw this wood carving in the market, and the shape of the head of the person who saw the wood carving was very cute, and people were overjoyed when they saw it.
The face of the human head is also lifelike
At first glance, it was a blessing, and the officers and men felt that they liked it very much, so they paid for it.
At that time, the vendors who sold wood carving did not know that wood carving had a long history, and only felt that it was an ordinary wood carving, so the price was ordinary, and the officers and soldiers bought it home, and they felt that it was very worthwhile.
It's also a pleasure to buy back a beautifully carved ornament for so little money
This wooden carving has been placed on the table as an ornament in the homes of officers and soldiers, and within a few years, this officer and soldier went to another country because he wanted to participate in the war, and unfortunately was killed, and later the officers and soldiers' families also fell in the middle of the road because of the death of the officers and soldiers, and they had to move to other places.
Everything in the house was sold
This also includes this wood carving, which was discovered by a collector who specialized in antique calligraphy and paintings during the sale, and the collector saw and collected countless antiques.
One look at the color and carving technique of this wood carving, you know that the origin must be extraordinary
He then paid for it, placed it as a collection with a group of antiques, and then accidentally lost the wood carvings during a relocation.
After many trips, he appeared as an auction item in the auction venue
The secrets in the wood carvings were discovered during the inspection before the auction, and the two owners of the previous wood carvings were accompanied by them all day long but did not realize anything, which made us lament the hiding technology of this Ming Dynasty man.
If it were not for the unexpected discovery at auction, this secret would not have been revealed for hundreds of years
postscript
This wood carving is not damaged, preservation can be called intact, coupled with its historical value, it can now be called a priceless treasure,
The silver notes found in it are essentially DamingBao banknotes
The Daming treasure banknote did not exist long in the history of the Ming Dynasty.
That is to say, because of the short time of its existence, its number is also very rare, since the ancient objects are rare and expensive, the unremarkable wood carvings contain precious and rare priceless Daming treasure banknotes.
Wood carving is nothing unusual
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It's clean inside
The Ming Dynasty man who hid his private money at the beginning may not have thought that one of his unintentional actions would cause such a great deal of attention in the future generations.
The historical story behind this wood carving also makes us have more resonance with the ancients
Men try to hide their private money, and women shrewdly search for historical scenes that seem to reappear before our eyes
In wood carving, we can not only see the exquisite carving skills, but also appreciate the historical mysteries behind it.