Introduction: As an ancient country with a history of 5,000 years of civilization, our country has countless cultural relics and treasures handed down from ancient times to the present. Some cultural relics are protected and collected in museums by our country, and some cultural relics are heirlooms handed down as family heirlooms, so they will be treasured in personal hands. In addition to these two categories, there is also a class of cultural relics, which are usually buried deep in the ground and may be excavated when people are reclaiming land or building. And the story we are talking about today is that the brothers and sisters who dug up two tons in Qinghai and had a quantity of 70,000 ancient silver dollars, what happened to the country after handing them over?
First, the construction of water pipes
In the process of development in our country, the reclamation of land and the completion of some infrastructure construction are all necessary. Therefore, in the 1980s, the construction of water pipes in Guide County, Qinghai Province, was very important. The construction of water pipes is naturally a guarantee made by our country for people's water use, so this construction is laid by a professional engineering team sent by our country. In Qinghai Province, we also know that due to the relatively rugged terrain there, it is very difficult to carry out water pipe construction in Guide County. At that time, on one of the most difficult roads to lay water pipes, an 18-year-old girl named Tao Jinlan was building, and in the process of construction, she felt some difficulties, so she called her cousin and the two of them did it together.
2. The brothers and sisters found the silver dollar
At that time, when the water pipe was laid, it was still summer. The weather in Qinghai Province in the summer is very hot, so the two brothers and sisters are also slower in the process of construction. Pipes are usually laid only quickly in the early evening. As usual, Tao Jinlan began digging the underground pipe in the evening, but this time in the process of digging, she dug out something else. Tao Jinlan was very curious about what it was, so he dug it out, and then opened the mound to see that it was a pile of silver metal pieces. Tao Jinlan and his cousin did not know what this thing was, but they found that there were many such metal pieces when they had been digging forward, and then they handed them over to the relevant departments for study.
3. Obtain first-class merit
After sending it to the relevant departments for research, the researchers found that the pile of silver metal pieces was actually silver dollars, that is, ancient circulating currency, and these silver dollars can be said to be cultural relics. And the presence of these silver dollars here proves that there will be some artifacts around the mound. Subsequently, the relevant cultural relics department organized a team to come to excavate. They unearthed more than 70,000 silver dollars on the land, weighing two tons. After archaeological excavations by archaeologists, it was found that the pile of silver dollars turned out to be currency hidden by The General Ma Yuanhai of Xining in the last years of the Qing Dynasty. In this regard, people have also unveiled such a historical truth. The Tao Jinlan brothers and sisters who voluntarily handed over the excavated silver dollars to the state were also awarded first-class merit by the state.
Conclusion: Any cultural relic is a precious treasure of our country, and the historical, cultural and historical stories he represents are very important. Moreover, the Tao Jinlan brothers and sisters took the initiative to hand over these cultural relics to the state, which is also worthy of our praise.