As we all know, Xi'an, Shaanxi Is the ancient capital of the 13 dynasties of the mainland, and under this land, there are countless emperors and generals and their exquisite funerary products buried. People often joke: "In this place of Xi'an, if you go down with a hoe, you can dig up an ancient tomb." ”
This is indeed correct, Xi'an built a subway, dug out more than 130 ancient tombs; Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications built a new campus, the result was found before and after more than 600 ancient tombs such as Qin, Han, Tang, etc., students claimed to be "tomb descendants". All this has cast a veil of mystery over Xi'an.
However, the story I want to tell today is not in Xi'an, but in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, which is farther away. At that time, the villager Lao Xin dug out the "gold" from the ground 3 times in a row, and each time he ran to the cultural relics station to hand it in, but the cultural relics experts were in the field to investigate, fortunately, Lao Xin persevered, so that this history surfaced.
Time to go back to June 1958 in Inner Mongolia Dongsheng City Tara Ping Township, these days has been raining, which can make the 60-year-old farmer Xin Minshan anxious, his family's field does not know whether it is good or not, and finally when the rain stops, he immediately took a hoe and led the old cow to set off.
The old cow was slowly plowing the ground, Lao Xin was turning the ground vigorously, one person and one cow were doing a particularly vigorous job, suddenly Old Xin "eh" a sound, just did not know what the hoe touched, and even shook Lao Xin's hand numb, he looked down and looked carefully, only to see a yellow knot in the soil, he continued to dig, and dug some broken clay pots.
Old Xin put them in the water to wash, hey, this yellow lump turned out to be gold, there are very exquisite patterns on the broken clay pots, although Old Xin has not read any books, but he knows that these things are certainly not simple, so he immediately led the cow home, and then ran to the YikeZhaomeng Cultural Relics Workstation several kilometers away with his things.
As a result, the experts of the cultural relics station happened to go to the field to participate in some activities, only one person was on duty, he was inconvenient to go to the field of the old Xin family to check the specific situation, so he verbally praised the old Xin, and reminded him that if there is a new discovery, remember to tell him, wait for the expert team to return, come to investigate, lao Xin agreed.
On the second day, Lao Xin got up early in the morning again, thinking that he had to turn over the fallen fields today, and as a result he dug up other things, this time it was gems of various colors, including agate, turquoise, etc., enough to dig a hundred strings, piled into a small mountain bag, particularly spectacular, saying that Lao Xin was not at all impressed, it was impossible, but he still handed them over to the cultural relics station.
This hundreds of strings of jewelry surprised the knowledgeable cultural relics staff, he quickly reported the situation, and the experts from other places also immediately returned to Inner Mongolia, and as soon as they got out of the car, they rushed to the old Xin family field to dig deeply.
This time, Lao Xin did not participate in the excavation, he watched quietly from the side, that day the experts dug out more than 20 pieces of gold jewelry, as well as more agate, turquoise beads, silverware, a total of more than 800 pieces. The most exquisite of all the artifacts is the "Tiger Beast Bite Bucket Gold Ornament", which is the golden lump that Lao Xin first found, which is 225 grams long.
In addition to the craft itself, the tiger beast bites the gold medal also reveals a period of history, after more than 1 month of research by experts, the source of this batch of treasures was finally determined, they are cultural relics of the late Warring States period, which was the property that the Northern Xiongnu King and other nobles did not have time to transfer, when they experienced many wars, they buried the property on the spot, but for some reason, they could not come back to dig it up.
Today, these cultural relics have been carefully collected by the local museum, and the honest farmer Lao Xin has also received corresponding rewards.