Cultural relics are the witness of a country's ancient history, but also the image carrier of a long-standing civilization, and the protection of cultural relics is equivalent to the protection of its own history. Nowadays, in the museum, you can see the artistic masterpieces of various cultures of various eras, and the people who should be most grateful are the tireless cultural relics experts, whose hard work and efforts have made these cultural relics see the light of day, so that future generations can appreciate the diligence and wisdom of the ancient people.
Buying back cultural relics usually costs a lot of money, and the funds for the protection of cultural relics are often stretched, if only rely on the state to buy back cultural relics, it is obviously impossible, because there are too many cultural relics in ancient China, and these cultural relics that have been left out want to buy them all back, and the money to be spent is probably astronomical. Therefore, only those particularly famous artifacts, the museum will spend money to buy back.
After all, the cultural relics that the state can buy back are only a small part. In order to find more cultural relics, many cultural relics experts spontaneously went to the countryside to find cultural relics. There are many cultural relics that are national treasures, which are found by experts in the rural countryside. For example, the famous Tao Yingding and He Zun, these cultural relics that can be called national treasures are discovered by cultural relics experts. If he had not met a cultural relics expert, perhaps Tao Yingding was still making a basin for feeding chickens, and He Zun may have been disposed of by the waste station as scrap copper and rotten iron.
Therefore, cultural relics experts go to the countryside to find cultural relics, which is actually a very meaningful work. However, for people living in the countryside, most of them do not have knowledge of cultural relics protection, so many cultural relics are buried in the countryside, which can be said to be a pearl in the dust. Sometimes cultural relics experts mobilize villagers to hand over cultural relics, and they are misunderstood by people as plotting their treasures. In fact, this is really wrong to blame the cultural relics experts, because cultural relics can only be better protected in museums, and can play a role in the study of ancient culture.
However, the vast majority of people do not understand the behavior of experts to persuade people to turn in cultural relics. For example, around 2000, an old farmer named Gao Guangsheng in Tunzhuang Village, Peicundian Township, Qixian County, Henan Province, claimed to be a descendant of Zhu Yuanzhang and took out a family tree to confirm his identity. Because this genealogy is very old, it plays an important role in the study of ancient clan culture, but when experts asked whether the genealogy could be handed in, it was rejected by the old farmer.
At that time, the cultural relics protection experts in the Kaifeng area heard about Gao Guangsheng's deeds and came to Visit Tunzhuang Village, hoping to have some unexpected discoveries. Because they all heard that Gao Guangsheng was a descendant of Zhu Yuanzhang, but it has not been confirmed, the experts came to Gao Guangsheng's house to see if they could find some useful historical information. Moreover, experts also have a question as to why Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants are now surnamed Gao. If we can unravel the reasons for this, it is of great significance for understanding the migration of the Ming Dynasty.
Through the study of the Gao clan genealogy, experts confirmed that what Gao Guangsheng said was true, and that the Gao clan inhabited by Tunzhuang was indeed descendants of the Ming Dynasty royal family. Moreover, the genealogy also clearly records the reasons why their ancestors changed from the Zhu surname to the Gao surname. Originally, because of the chaos of the ming dynasty, the Ming dynasty clans everywhere became the main target of Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other large armies, and the ancestors of the Gao clan changed the surname of the seventh grandmother Gao in order to avoid the chaos of the war.
My family in the previous generations of the Heavenly Emperor, the Division of the Land, has reached the ninth. After the soldiers, followed by drifting, the jade book gold medal turned into a barren smoke vine. Therefore, it was divided by the ancestors, and although the title was verifiable, many of them were lost. From the surname of the seventh grandmother, Gao, it has been passed down for more than 70 years.
In addition to the genealogy, there is also a sacred will hidden in the old home of Gao Guangsheng, which is during the Qing Dynasty. Gao Xiaguang's canonization of Gao Xiaguang, the eleventh ancestor of the Gao clan, was written in Manchu and Chinese characters, because the sacred will had been badly damaged for a long time, and the handwriting on it was already difficult to read. However, cultural relics experts concluded from the appearance that this holy decree is also a genuine artifact.
Both the Gao Clan Genealogy and this Sacred Will have been severely destroyed because they have not been effectively protected for many years. For the sake of cultural relics protection, experts asked whether genealogies and sacred decrees could be handed over. However, he was rejected by the elderly Gao Guangsheng, who believed that the family tree was a treasure handed down from his ancestors and had great significance for the family. Therefore, even if the experts broke their legs and worn out their mouths, they did not collect these two artifacts in the end.
In fact, although the genealogy and sacred will have a special significance for the Gao family, as evidence of the roots of their bloodline, if they are not effectively protected, perhaps in a few years, these fragile papers will be destroyed by the dampness of insects. If it can be handed over to the museum, it will certainly be better protected, and more people will learn about their glorious family history. Moreover, they can also make a copy as a souvenir, which is not the best of both worlds.