In July 1991, Chen Haigui, a farmer in Sha Tin Town, had a strange dream in which a white fox burrowed into a cave next to his family's mountainous area and always turned back to him. He told his son Chen Pansong about this dream, and Chen Pansong took people to the cave to check it out, and when he went inside, there was a unicorn-like thing shining green in the cave.
Locals call that the mountain is called Hongzhu Mountain, Chen Haigui originally planted peanuts there, but every time the peanuts are ripe, all kinds of wild animals in the mountain will come to steal food, especially foxes, not only stealing to eat but also destroy crops, especially annoying, Old Chen and his son Chen Pansong patrol every night to drive away animals, or there is no way to stop the fox, once, they followed the fox footprints all the way to find, found a small cave, arranged a few traps outside the cave, and did not have any effect, in the end, Helplessly, Lao Chen had to give up this hard-cultivated mountainous land.
That cave was the place where Lao Chen found the fox trail at that time, its entrance was narrow, but the inside was wide and dry, Chen Pansong took a look at it with a flashlight, and found that it was a monster with a head and feet, and the color was dark, the monster stood on the rock at the top of the cave, flashing a pale green glow under the light, it looked very strange, Chen Pansong was a little scared, did not dare to look closely, slowly retreated from the cave, and told Chen Yufeng and Chen Qingzhong, who were waiting outside the cave: "There are monsters in the cave." ”
Hearing that there was a monster, Chen Yufeng and Chen Qingzhong had the courage to climb into the cave, and also saw the strange thing that flashed green light, after they came out of the cave, the three of them discussed it and decided to go back to the village with tools to dig it up.
Chen Pansong and the others returned to the village, looking for hoes, shovels and other tools, and then found a few young people from the same village to accompany them, saying that they were going to dig monsters in the mountains.
The crowd returned to the cave, used tools to pry open the rocks piled up at the entrance of the cave, entered the cave together, and took out the strange thing, which was about thirty or forty pounds, with horns on its head, a pattern on its belly, and a chubby shape, and its material was neither iron nor copper, but one thing was certain: it was an antique relic. Subsequently, the people dug up more than thirty cultural relics in the cave, including some shellfish and pottery, and they placed these cultural relics in Chen Nanxian's home for unified storage.
The news of the discovery of cultural relics in Longzhong Village did not go away, and soon, all kinds of cultural relics dealers flocked to Longzhong Village to purchase cultural relics, at the same time, the local cultural department also learned of this news, immediately sent people to investigate, and actively did work for local villages to publicize the knowledge of cultural relics protection, and finally, Chen Pansong and others under the mobilization of the cultural relics department, all these cultural relics were donated to the Hexian Museum, and the Hexian Museum awarded Certificates and 200 yuan bonuses to Chen Pansong and 10 other people in order to commend their contributions to the protection of cultural relics.
Experts on the cultural relics cleaning and measurement found that the statue is 53.7 cm high, 23.5 cm wide, 50 cm long, weighing 21.5 kg, the head of the vessel has horns, resembling the ancient legend of the unicorn, the abdomen is round, the four legs are healthy, very dynamic, the body is engraved with a kind of ornament called "夔", very gorgeous; the lid on the back is a coiled dragon, the tail is attached to a phoenix, the phoenix curiously tiptoeing at the dragon in front, the overall shape is cute, full of blessings.
After the identification of experts from the National Museum, these cultural relics are objects from the Spring and Autumn Period, and the strange-looking cultural relics, named Qilin Zun, are the wine vessels used by the king-waiting class in Guangxi during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.
Guangxi in the Spring and Autumn Warring States period belongs to the Baiyue region, Baiyue climate is humid, there are many insects and snakes infested, so baiyue people have the habit of taking snakes as totems, Hezhou is located in the central plains and baiyue hub land, its culture has both the central plains and baiyue two characteristics, qilin zun is the use of wine utensils by local nobles, its shape and ornamentation show obvious central plains cultural characteristics, body shape and panlong phoenix and other carvings, but also revealed the rich baiyue cultural characteristics, from it, we can see the chinese nation multi-ethnic integration of the remarkable characteristics, extremely rare and precious, It is also the only bronze vessel found in the mainland that integrates the three major divine beasts of qilin, dragon and phoenix.
Qilin Zun was later identified as a national first-class cultural relic, as a national treasure was selected into the collection of the National Museum, since 1993, as a cultural relics messenger, it has been exhibited abroad many times, known as "showing the historical process of the mainland's unified multi-ethnic country and the typical cultural relics of the Chinese civilization with a long history and splendid civilization".
The cave tomb that found the Qilin Zun was determined by the Hezhou City Cultural Relics Unit as the Eastern Zhou Ancient Tomb, as for the Chen Haigui family who found this cave tomb, they still live an ordinary life, the locals talk about the dream of the white fox that Chen Haigui did, they all say that it is not an ordinary fox, but the Qilin Zun illusion, it entrusts the dream to Chen Haigui, is to guide the villagers to find this ancient tomb more than two thousand years ago, the treasure has a spirit, has spent two thousand years in the dark, it wants to let future generations open the treasure house, see the sky again, The treasures left by the ancestors to the future generations are displayed in front of the world.
