In the history of the world, gold is a symbol of wealth, in people's hearts, people who can have a lot of gold in their families are rich people, as long as they have gold, they can change from poor eggs to rich people.
Compared with gold, other items seem to be worthless, but in the world, there are indeed many things that are more precious than gold, such as exquisitely crafted crafts, cultural relics with historical culture, and these items are more valuable than gold.
In a rural area of Xuyi, Jiangsu Province, the old man took the initiative to hand it over to the state after digging out 40 kilograms of gold, but experts are more concerned about the jar containing gold.
The broken vase dug out by the old man contained gold
On February 10, 1982, Wan Laohan, the eldest of the Wan family, and his younger brothers Wan Laosan and Wan Laosi followed the squad leader to the canal 100 meters away from the village to clean up the silt.
The work of cleaning the canals is very important, and dredging the silt is conducive to their next production work, which is very simple, but it also requires a lot of labor.
More than a dozen people came to the canal in a big way, and under the arrangement of the squad leader, they quickly divided the construction site for everyone to be responsible for.
At that time, there was a place where the amount of silt was very large, and almost no one was willing to take charge, at this time, Wan Laosan stood up and took the initiative to take on the task of cleaning up this construction site.
Wan Boss, and his younger brother Wan Laosan's construction site are connected together, the brothers fight side by side, full of energy, Wan Boss as the eldest brother, thinking of hurrying to finish his work, can go to help his brother.
Just as he was immersed in hard work, he suddenly heard a crisp sound from his brother's side, and after that, he heard his brother's shout: "Big brother, come and see, what did I dig up?" ”
Hearing the shouting, Wan Da da rushed to his brother's side, only to see a circular artifact similar to a vase lying in the mud, with a lid on it, and most of the bottle body was still under the silt.
Wan Laosi, who heard the movement, also ran over to help, and at this moment, almost everyone in the production team gathered around the three brothers, and the three brothers slowly dug out the vase while blocking others from moving.
The vase was buried very deeply, and the three brothers dug down nearly two feet before they saw the full picture of the vase, and everyone's eyes widened at this time.
Only to see that the vase was actually filled with golden gold, and the production team members gathered together and discussed with all kinds of tongues,
They thought that if the gold was evenly distributed, every household would get a lot in their hands.
The three brothers of the Wan family did not want to steal the treasure to their own home, they struggled to block the villagers who wanted to take the vase away, and at the same time used their bodies to form a wall of flesh to bring the vase back to the wan lao's family.
They poured out all the gold, washed it and weighed it on a scale, which weighed 40 pounds.
Wan Laosan's wife watched, excited, and she proposed that the gold could be taken out and divided equally among the three families, while her husband, because of his greatest contribution, could take the vase together.
But the three brothers of the Wanjia family are very clear-headed, and they feel that the gold is certainly not simple, because the gold inside is not a simple nugget, but also has been shaped into some shapes.
None of them could see what the gold was portraying, but all three realized that these beautiful nuggets might be inextricably linked to artifacts.
If they are really national treasures, then they belong to the state, so the three decided to send the gold they dug up to the township cultural relics appraisal office for professional appraisal.
The three brothers quickly reached a consensus, and After hearing the analysis of the three people, Wan Laosan's wife also realized that her thinking was a bit too simple, and she very much agreed with the three brothers' ideas.
The process of offering treasures is fraught with difficulties
In order to prevent accidents on the road, the three brothers, after discussion, decided that Wan Boss would take two of them and rush to the government office in the township to let the experts identify it first.
The rest were put into a large box by the three brothers, guarded by Wan Laosan and Wan LaoSI.
On the day of departure, Wan Da Da wrapped two pieces of gold in a newspaper and went out at 9 a.m., because the news that the Wan brothers dug up gold had already spread in the village, and Wan Da Da's plan was not smooth.
The newspaper wrapped in gold was held dead to his chest by Wan Dadao, and every few steps he took, a villager would stop him and want to see the gold in his arms.
Afraid of the danger of gold, the pace of Wan Da's footsteps is getting faster and faster, the villagers swear not to give up, dead behind Wan Da, Wan Da had no choice but to speed up his steps, and finally ran directly.
In this way, Boss Wan walked like a fly on two legs and ran directly to the township government, and according to the boss's recollection, they were in a meeting at that time, and they directly rushed to the rostrum and stuffed the gold into the hands of Secretary Dai Tianquan.
It was only at this time that Wan Da Finally dared to breathe a sigh of relief, and the secretary attached great importance to the gold brought by Wan Da, and immediately called the local People's Bank to send the gold to the People's Bank for identification.
In the office of the People's Bank of China, the staff gave the appraisal results, and the gold brought by The Boss wan had a gold content of up to 99.9%, which was absolutely pure gold.
Subsequently, Boss Wan hurriedly said that there were still dozens of kilograms left in his home, and the gold had been remembered by the people in the village, hoping that the staff would seize the time to get it.
The president of the bank, who did not dare to be careless, immediately contacted the local responsible authorities, and within an hour, the village drove into three vehicles, full of local police, government officials, and bank officials.
At this time, the three houses of Wanlao have become a tourist attraction, people hear the news of digging out gold, they all want to come to see the liveliness, and the villagers of several surrounding villages have also rushed to the three families of Wanlao.
At the door of Wan Laosan's house, all of them were people, and the door of Wan Laosan's house had been crowded with nearly 1,000 people, and even some people had come from the county and town.
In order to protect the treasure they had dug up, Wan Laosan and Wan LaoSI sat on the big box, and seeing that Wan Laosan's door was about to be knocked open, the two stood up and desperately blocked.
If the government's vehicle arrives at the village a little later, perhaps the treasure will be snatched away by unscrupulous people.
Surrounded by government officials and security police, boxes containing the remaining gold were carried to the car.
It was not until 4 p.m. that the Wan family successfully delivered these treasures to the county bank vault, and the cultural relics experts immediately cleaned up the gold.
After careful cleaning, it was determined that this gold was extremely precious, not referring to the value of the gold itself, but to the cultural value it contained.
Such beautiful gold objects are jaw-dropping to the experts, including: gold beasts, gold cakes, horseshoe gold and lin toe gold.
After weighing, the golden beast weighed a total of 9 kilograms, and the rest of the gold tools combined, it also weighed 11 kilograms, which was a unique treasure.
At this time, the expert asked WanDa, how did you find so much gold?
Wan Boss then remembered that the vase containing gold, he elaborated to the expert on the experience of his three brothers discovering gold, hearing this, the expert's heart instantly excited, that vase may also be a cultural relic!
Wan Lao Han felt very surprised, would that worn-out bottle really have such a value?
According to experts, if the vase is also a cultural relic, its value should be much higher than the current pile of gold.
The next day, experts and government departments came to Wan Laosan's home again and brought the vase containing gold to the Nanjing Museum, and the experts' appraisal results shocked China.
This vase is really a relic!
Compared to gold, vases are priceless!
After careful appraisal by experts, they determined that the vase dug out by the three brothers of the Wanjia family was the Chen Zhang round pot that had disappeared that year, and the Chen Zhang square pot could be put together into a pair.
The next day, with the reporter's report, the news that Chen Zhang's round pot was discovered caused a sensation throughout the country and aroused great concern among archaeologists on the mainland.
Chen Zhang's round pot is a cultural treasure left by the mainland, and it is one of the more exquisite bronzes found in the Qin Dynasty in the mainland.
After precise measurements by experts, the height of the pot is 34cm, and the diameter of the widest place is 22cm, although it does not sound small, but compared to other bronzes, it is a small bronze.
Although the sparrow is small, the five organs are complete, Chen Zhang's round pot, almost all the advanced bronze manufacturing technology of the pre-Qin era, its exquisite degree, non-other bronzes can be easily compared.
The thinnest part of the inner wall of the pot is only 8mm thick, and in such a thin pot, the craftsmen of the Qin Dynasty can still easily excavate and embed gold and silver accessories.
When Wan Laosan dug out the body of the pot, the reason why he could see the gold inside was because the body of the pot was hollowed out, which was also the most eye-catching feature of Chen Zhang's round pot.
The hollowed-out pot body is exquisitely crafted, and the hollow pattern depicts the picture of Pan Long walking through the plum blossom bushes, the plum blossoms bloom around Pan Long, and the image of Pan Long is vivid and vivid, very realistic.
According to statistics, the ornament contains a total of 576 plum blossoms, and 96 panlongs run through it.
On the hollow ornament, it is decorated with four banner hoops and four animal-faced street rings, which are closely connected with the hollow ornament, reflecting the subtlety of welding technology in the Qin and Han dynasties.
Decorated with four ambush beasts, the fierce tiger ambush beast is round-eyed, fierce, very lively, and exists on the banner hoop like a finishing touch.
Four animal-faced street rings, set with beautiful turquoise gemstones, the lines on the body are smooth, exquisite and very exquisite, can't help but amaze people, this pot is a unique treasure.
In the pre-Qin Dynasty, what kind of technology was used to create such a beautiful treasure?
Through the survey conducted by experts using equipment, it was found that the body of the pot is composed of 21 different parts.
This shows that Chen Zhang's round pot was not cast at one time, and the expert team spent 15 hours and used the most advanced equipment to survey all the structures of the copper pot.
The fineness of the connection part of the pot body makes the experts marvel, and the existence of Chen Zhang's round pot body, the number of processes, the exquisite workmanship, and the complexity of the production process, all of which make the experts feel amazed.
The history of Chen Zhang's round pot
The words on Chen Zhang's round pot opened up a magnificent scene of war for us, and the words on the copper pot pulled us to the battlefield of the Great War between the State of Qi and the State of Yan.
Chen Zhang was a great general of the State of Qi, very talented to lead the army, was the pillar of the Qi army at that time, due to the internal strife in Yan, Chen Zhang led the army into the interior of the State of Yan, and attacked the State of Yan in more than fifty days.
The Qi army plundered the treasures of the Yan kingdom to his command, and Chen Zhang's round pot may have been the treasure that Chen Zhang had taken from the Yan state at that time.
However, the monarch of the State of Yan was unwilling to give up, and the King of Yan learned from the experience of his predecessors, endured humiliation and burden for a full 30 years, and united the five kingdoms that were standing at that time to destroy the State of Qi, and the treasures of the State of Qi were once again exiled abroad, and Chen Zhang's round pot was likely to leave the State of Qi.
Ancient wars were accompanied by skimming, but fortunately, Chen Zhang's round pot survived and has been passed down to this day, so that we can see its amazing appearance in modern society.
What makes our hearts ache is that there should be another Chen Zhang round pot paired with the bronze Chen Zhang round pot, but this pot was plundered abroad by the invaders when the Eight-Power Alliance invaded Beijing.
At present, the Chen Zhang round pot is preserved at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, and the treasure is exiled overseas with the war, which is the regret of our people.
After handing over the artifacts
After handing over Chen Zhang's round pot to the state, the three brothers became celebrities throughout the country, many reporters came to interview, and the local government issued them certificates and subsidized them with 10,000 yuan as a reward for their gold collection.
But the chilling thing is that the three brothers are not more popular in the local area because of this matter.
Ten thousand yuan for the people at that time, almost a large amount of money, with this money, all three people built a new house, but in addition to joy, sorrow also followed,
The captains and team members who worked together at the time felt that they should also have some credit.
So they came to the township government and asked for a part of the bonus, and then the township government refused verbally, so these people were dissatisfied, and their attitude towards the three brothers became worse and worse, and they even discriminated against the three brothers everywhere in the village.
At that time, the mainland was still co-producing and paid, and in order to retaliate against the three brothers, the villagers did not even collect the grain of the three brothers, resulting in the three brothers not being able to get their labor remuneration at all.
The villagers even spread rumors everywhere, and at that time there was a saying that the copper pot was the product of the village's aura, and after digging it out, it took away the luck of the villagers.
Under the attack of gossip, the three brothers' lives were difficult, and after that, Wan Lao Iii and Wan Lao Si left the village with their families.
The money of that year has long been spent, and now the seventy-year-old Wan Da, still living a poor life, he did not reach out to the government for a penny, he said that he hoped that if one day they could not live, he hoped that the state could give them some care.
The Chen Zhang's round pot dug up by the three brothers is now stored in the Nanjing Municipal Museum, which is visited by people with a proud posture.
bibliography:
China News Network: "Xuyi Brothers Dig Out "Chen Zhang's Round Pot" Won 10,000 Yuan and Was Isolated by Neighbors for 30 Years"
CNKI: "Snow Hidden 2000 Bronze Chen Zhang Round Kettle"
Artron Art Network: "Chen Zhang's Round Pot - A Thousand Years of Drifting Dreams"