Because of the continuous change of history, many historical relics have been dusted everywhere. Sometimes historical artifacts can also be found in an unremarkable pond. And the people who discovered this precious historical relic are only a few elementary school students.
Of course, elementary school students do not know the relics of this thousand years, and only take them home as strange stones as souvenirs. When I took it home, things went haywire. The "strange stones" they fished were actually millennia of gold wrapped in mud.
Gold is already an expensive thing, let alone gold a thousand years ago, in addition to the value of money, there is also the value of history and culture, which is immeasurable. Artifacts are national treasures. After the parents handed in the gold, it became the treasure of the museum. The history of this cannot be said in just two words.
Elementary school students who fish for fish
On an afternoon in April 2007, four elementary school students agreed to play with a boat in a villager's pond. But because the owner of the pond had something to do, he went out. Because it was agreed in advance, the owner of the pond also let the four primary school students go to the wooden boat to play by themselves. However, because the owner of the pond started the pond yesterday, most of the water in the pond was discharged.
They had just picked up the boat, and before they could paddle a few times, the boat sank to the bottom. There's no fun at this point. But the elementary school students couldn't spare, so they decided to go fishing for fish. A few of them walked along the pond to see if they could catch some small fish and shrimp, but there were only river mussels dying in the sun.
Several people threw the river mussels back into the pond. But as they threw them all the way, they suddenly touched a strange stone. They picked up the stone and thought it was strange, not knowing the irregularly shaped object, which was covered with mud, but there were some places that glowed with metallic luster and looked golden.
Later they decided to take this strange stone home as a souvenir. They washed the stones and took them home one by one. As a result, I met other villagers on the road. The villagers saw the stones in their hands, asked them to come and look at them, and buttoned them with their fingers.
Then say that these stones are of no use to them. But she could just bring it back to make up the pot, and wanted to buy these stones for fifty dollars.
A pond where gold can be found
As soon as he heard that the stones could be exchanged for money, one of the elementary school students agreed. But several other elementary school students thought it was a souvenir and were reluctant to sell it to her.
She saw herself being rejected and chased them all the way to buy it. But several elementary school students were resolute and unwilling to sell to her.
Seeing that there was no way to trade successfully, she simply asked where they found the stones. A few elementary school students told her the whole thing and said that they had picked it up in the pond over there. The villagers listened and left. When several elementary school students returned home, they told their parents the origin of the stones.
One of the men's father was puzzled, so he took the flashlight to the pond and fished up the same stone. After careful identification, he determined that it was a piece of gold, and it was no wonder that the villagers wanted to buy the stones with money.
Later he dug a few more times and found six more pieces of gold. The villagers who knew that gold could be dug up here also brought their families to fish, and in the end these villagers fished out a total of twenty-one pieces of gold. The miracle of being able to fish out gold in the pond spread. The pond was full of people, all going to collect gold.
Artifacts after the investigation
Later, someone called and said that a lot of unknown gold had been dug up here, and someone wanted to take it for themselves. There are even some antiquities dealers who come to the village and want to buy the gold at a high price. The person who answered the phone listened and quickly went to investigate and understand the situation. He went to the village and went door to door to inquire about it.
I thought it was villagers talking nonsense, but I didn't expect it to be true. He took a piece of gold, handed it to the police station, and reported the situation. The police station also transferred the gold to the Cultural Relics Bureau for investigation, and after expert identification, it was finally determined that it was a thousand-year-old currency.
This gold is called "Yin Ye", which is the currency of the Chu state during the Warring States period. "Yin Ye" is the earliest gold currency, which belongs to the national first-class cultural relics. The value of the artifacts is very high. The expert analyzed the origin of the gold and quickly went to the pond with the people to investigate. Through the analysis of the fish pond, it was finally determined that these currencies were indeed "Yin Ye".
Yi Yi
The discovery of artifacts in ponds is no small feat. After the experts reported the matter, the city demanded that other gold be recovered. An investigation team composed of cultural relics experts and police stations went to the village, went door to door to question the villagers, and carried out publicity work on the protection of cultural relics in the village.
Later, eleven villagers voluntarily handed over the gold. A total of twenty-one pieces of gold, these twenty-one pieces of cultural relics were taken away by experts, included in the local museum, and became the treasure of the town museum.
The value of cultural relics
Experts have carried out in-depth excavations around the fish pond, and after investigation, experts have found that this is a salt-making site in the Tang Dynasty. So in the deeper soil, clay pots from the Chu kingdom were also found.
Because no other items of the tomb were found, experts determined that the gold was sprinkled in the salt pit by the Chu people for sacrifice.
Later, after thousands of years of change, the salt pit here became a fish pond, so the gold was found in the fish pond. The historical value of these golds is immeasurable, and it is precisely because of the existence of these golds that it confirms that the ruling forces of the Chu State once reached the Jiangsu area.
For rigor, they also specially asked the top research experts of the Archaeological Research Institute to identify. Through the history confirmed by these pieces of gold, these experts have filled the gap in the rule of the Chu state in history, and it is a great contribution to the improvement of history.
In addition, the value of "Yin Ye" in the world is also extremely high, in the world only the Persian Sassanid Dynasty gold coins can be compared with "Yin Ye", "Yin Ye" can be cut and deformed at will, and have to praise the wisdom of the ancients.
The history of the fish pond
No one could have imagined that a group of elementary school students could catch fish and have such a shocking and unbelievable event. I thought it was just an ordinary gold nugget, but it turned out to be a thousand-year-old currency, a national treasure. And because of the history confirmed by these nuggets, the value of the gaps filled is immeasurable.
Without the fishing of these schoolchildren, this history may be blank for a long time, and there is nowhere to find it. Later, in order to commend these villagers for voluntarily handing over gold, the state specially awarded these villagers with awards. At this point, this legendary history of treasure digging has come to an end.
Don't underestimate any place, maybe you can inadvertently discover the history. And these treasures are often unearthed in the most ordinary and unexpected places.