5 pieces of "town and national treasures" picked up: enough to show that there are national treasures in the folk
Many cultural relics, even national treasures, were once treated as waste and garbage in the folk, and were discovered by chance by people who knew the goods, which was preserved.
For example, the following 6 first-class national treasures have had a bumpy experience:
Neolithic Pottery Eagle Ding
In 1957, Yin Siyi, a farmer in Taipingzhuang, Hua County, Shaanxi Province, found a strange piece of pottery while plowing the land. This piece of pottery is gray-black throughout and resembles an eagle, which is the Neolithic pottery eagle ding that became famous in the world. At that time, Yin Siyi did not know that he had dug up a national treasure, so he casually took it home and made a chicken food bowl.
In the autumn of the following year, an archaeological team composed of teachers and students of the Department of History of Peking University discovered the Yangshao cultural site in Quanhu Village in Huaxian County, and Yin Siyi remembered his "chicken food bowl" and took it out and handed it to the archaeological team. Since then, this treasure has finally escaped the fate of the "chicken food bowl". It is now in the collection of the National Museum of China.
Empress Yuxi of the Western Han Dynasty
This empress jade seal was discovered by Kong Zhongliang, the son of Kong Xiangfa, a poor farmer in Hanjiawan Commune.
One afternoon in September 1968, Kong Zhongliang came home from school, walking on the road, and suddenly found a white glowing thing by the side of the canal of the Wolf's Family Ditch. Kong Zhongliang dug it out and removed the dirt, which turned out to be a square piece of jade with a small animal carved on it and four words engraved on it, as if it were a large stamp. Kong Zhongliang went home to discuss with his brother and prepared to grind out the words on the seal and carve a new chapter. Just when his father Kong Xiangfa was going to Xi'an to run errands for the team, he asked his father to take him to the city to carve.
Kong Fan asked about the origin of the jade, carefully looked at the ancient characters, recalled the propaganda of the party and the state on the protection policy of cultural relics and the introduction of cultural relics knowledge after liberation, and he felt that it was not an ordinary stamp, but a cultural relic. The next day he went to Xi'an, found the Shaanxi Provincial Museum, and after the identification of cultural relics and archaeologists, he identified it as the Empress Yuxi of the Han Dynasty and donated it to the state.
Red Mountain Jade Pig Dragon
The most typical artifact of the Hongshan culture is the jade pig dragon. The Jade Pig Dragon was first introduced in 1975. In the summer of that year, the personnel of the Liaoning Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology inadvertently saw an extremely rare cultural relics treasure at the Weng Niu Te Banner Cultural Center in the field archaeological work from Chifeng City (then under the jurisdiction of Liaoning Province) to The Keshketeng Banner: a large-scale round carved jade dragon.
This jade dragon is hook-shaped, 26 cm high, polished throughout, dark green, the posture is coiled and leaping, a long hyena is raised on the neck, the tail tip is folded up, and the posture is like a "C" shape, resembling the pictographic "dragon" character in the oracle bone. This jade dragon was dug in the spring of 1971 by Zhang Fengxiang, a villager of Weng Niu Special Banner Three Star Tara, when planting trees and digging tree pits, and was later collected by the Weng Niu Special Banner Cultural Center. According to the name of the place found, it was named Samsung Tara Jade Pig Dragon.
Western Zhou Bangu
One day in June 1972, Hu Yuheng and Hua Yiwu of the Beijing Municipal Cultural Relics Administration office came to the non-ferrous metal supply station of the Beijing Material Recycling Company to select cultural relics.
According to Mr. Hua Yiwu's recollection, they began to select at 9 o'clock in the morning, and at more than 12 o'clock in the afternoon, they found three pieces of bronze fragments from the scrap copper pile, one was the wall of the vessel, one was the bottom of the vessel with an inscription, and the other was the foot of the vessel. They initially believed from experience that it should be an important bronze.
After the bronze identification expert Mr. Cheng Changxin carefully examined the ornaments and some inscriptions, it was determined that it was a bronze vessel with inscriptions from the Western Zhou Dynasty, so everyone carefully searched in the scrap copper pile, and finally found the fragments of the mouth, abdomen, ears and other fragments of the utensils. After careful docking and identification of the inscription, it was finally determined that this cultural relic was a Bangui of the Western Zhou Dynasty. As soon as the matter was announced, it caused shock in the academic community.
Western Zhou He Zun
He Zun was an early standard instrument of the Western Zhou Dynasty. It was excavated in the backyard of the Chen family in Baoji Jia village town in 1963, and was later sold to the waste collection station, and was discovered and collected by the Baoji Museum in September 1965. Originally known as the "Gluttonous Bronze Statue", it was not until 1975, when it was transferred to the Beijing Exhibition, that the inscription at the bottom was discovered by Mr. Tang Lan of the Forbidden City, and since then it has multiplied in value and has been designated as a national treasure. Because the author of this gluttonous bronze statue is called "He", therefore, this bronze statue is officially renamed "He Zun".
He Zun is 38.5 cm tall and has a caliber of 28.9 cm. Weighs 14.6 kg. The inner sole of the zun is cast with a 12-line 122-character inscription. Now it is in the treasure of the Chicken Bronze Museum. It is the first batch of cultural relics prohibited from going abroad (border) for the State Administration of Cultural Heritage to exhibit cultural relics and national first-class cultural relics. The He Zun inscription has the four characters "Zhaozi China" and the word "China" is the earliest recorded in the existing literature.
"China", three thousand years has been engraved between inches, buried deep underground. Three thousand years later, the 9.6 million square kilometers of land connected to it were all named by it: China.