preface
When it comes to cultural relics, we have to mention the treasure of the town hall of the Baoji Bronze Museum -
Ho Zun
。 The reason why this cultural relic can make a deep impression on people is that He Zun is the earliest proof of the word "China". However, this 3,000-year-old national treasure was thrown into the waste station, almost burned, and eventually discovered and bought by archaeologists.
01
One night in June 1963, a villager surnamed Chen in Jiacun Town, Baoji County, rented two rooms next door because the house was too small
。 Two months later, when the Chen family was walking in the backyard, they suddenly saw a bright light on the adobe in the backyard. Curious, the two little mouths dug up the soil, and soon a strange-looking bronze vessel was removed.
The bronze is 38.8 cm high, 28.8 cm in diameter, and the surrounding area is jagged, and the whole bottle is small and large, open.
Since the two did not understand the cultural relics, they only used them to hold grain. Later, the couple went out with an affair, so they handed it over to their brother for safekeeping.
To say, it is not that the family does not enter the door, the brother is also a person who does not know the goods, and even
Because of the lack of money, he sold the heavy bronze 30 yuan to the scrap station.
The owner of the waste station did not want it at first, but out of kindness, he gave his brother 30 yuan. At that time, people's cultural level was generally not very high, and in addition, it was really difficult to regard this bronze as a cultural relic just by looking at the appearance.
02
In September 1965, a cadre named Tong Taifang of the Baoji City Museum found the bronze at the scrap station
Immediately, he felt that this item was very valuable. Then he reported to the leader,
The relevant leaders of the museum attached great importance to it and immediately asked him to buy the bronze back for 30 yuan
。 Then, after the preliminary identification of archaeologists,
This is believed to be a bronze wine vessel from the early Western Zhou Dynasty
。
Although it is a bronze ware from the Western Zhou Dynasty, its value cannot be identified because there is no relevant inscription on the bronze. It was a habit of people at that time to make records on utensils, but this artifact did not leave historical information, which is really confusing. Since there is no record, it is just a matter of ordinary cultural relics and placed in the Baoji City Museum.
03
until
In 1975, China's State Administration of Cultural Relics mobilized a number of cultural relics from all over the country to hold a national exhibition of newly excavated cultural relics in the Forbidden City, and He Zun was among them
。 In order to do a good job in the preparatory work for the exhibition of cultural relics, to this end, Mr. Ma Chengyuan, director of the Shanghai Museum and also responsible for the preparatory work this time, wrote in "Chu Ci Fisher Father": "Why do you think deeply and exalt yourself?" "It was thought through all day and again, trying to figure out the value of this bronze.
One day, Mr. Ma Chengyuan was doing the rust removal of the bronze statue as usual, and suddenly, he touched the bulging part of the bottom of the bronze, and he was very happy. Immediately looked closely, and finally he
At the bottom of the inner gallbladder was found the Shang Zhou text, an inscription with 12 lines and 122 words
In the end, through the deciphering by historians, it was found that this was the diary of a Zhou Dynasty courtier, who was named He and was rewarded by the King of Zhou for his meritorious work, and the reward was this bronze. The emperor's admiration naturally made the courtier very happy and proud, and he immediately waved a large stroke of the pen,
I wrote down the bold words of "Zhaozi China", which translates to "I want to live in the central government."
This is the first time in the history of the mainland that the word "China" has appeared. As a result, this bronze also has its own name - He Zun. It turns out that the chinese word can be traced back to the Shang and Zhou Dynasties.
epilogue
Cultural relics have witnessed the growth of a nation, witnessed the rise and fall of history, and are the cornerstone of Chinese civilization. An ordinary cultural relic can bring us great wealth, this wealth is not only its value itself, but also lies in the story behind it, and the social environment at that time, which has given us archaeologists great help to better study Chinese history, and also better support people's understanding of that era.