As the only ancient civilization in the world that is still continuing and developing, China has a long history and a thick culture, and the related cultural relics that are constantly unearthed are the carriers and witnesses of history and culture.
Countless cultural relics have been discovered and known over time, but they have also brought up problems about the identification of authenticity, and the gap between authentic and fakes has become smaller and smaller due to the improvement of counterfeiting technology.
If the authenticity of cultural relics is mistakenly confused, it will bring great difficulties to the study of ancient history and culture. There is such a cultural relic, which has been identified as a fake after many appraisals, but the truth is that this cultural relic is extremely valuable and of great significance.
In the 1970s, there was a young man named Yang Dongfeng in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, who was still an underage student. One winter, he found a tiger-shaped copper object from the ground.
The thing is pitch black and hard, surrounded by gold inscriptions, with smooth facets and intricate bumps on one side, and presumably the other half can form a complete tiger shape.
When Yang Dongfeng saw this object, he did not feel that it was a cultural relic, it had neither a gorgeous appearance nor precious materials, and it felt more like a toy in his hand. And Yang Dongfeng did treat it as a toy at the beginning.
Compared to the sensational archaeological discoveries, the way this object appears is very low-key.
The turnaround stemmed from a family affair, and shortly after that, Yang Dongfeng's family fell seriously ill and needed huge sums of money for treatment. But in those days of poverty, it was not easy to raise the cost of treatment.
Perhaps eager for money, Yang Dongfeng remembered the large toy. Although it is with the attitude of trying it out, from the perspective of shape and texture, it may be a treasure that can be sold for money.
So he found the relevant experts and asked for help to identify it. The result was not pleasant, the expert only looked at it and shook his head in denial, the expert told him that it was a tiger charm, but the tiger charm in his hand was just a shoddy toy.
This result made Yang Dongfeng very disappointed.
At that time, there were not a few people who relied on fake cultural relics to deceive, and it was also a large province of cultural relics such as Shaanxi. Yang Dongfeng was not dead-hearted, he felt that this was an expert perfunctory him, so he found someone else to help identify.
This time, however, he didn't get the results he wanted. This time, experts believe that the tiger charm in Yang Dongfeng's hand is a imitation, although it still has not escaped the ranks of fakes, but in comparison, the status of imitations is much higher than that of toys.
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Although two experts have already given Yang Dongfeng a negative answer, he is still not dead hearted, even if it is not three, there is still one last chance.
And it was this third time that a different result occurred. Yang Dongfeng found an expert named Chen Zunxiang. Although this expert is also an authority in the archaeological community, it is not coincidental that bronze ware is not Chen Zunxiang's specialty.
However, although Chen Zunxiang was not 100% sure, with his many years of experience in dealing with cultural relics, Chen Zunxiang judged that the tiger charm in Yang Dongfeng's hand was definitely not a clumsy imitation.
Therefore, in his personal name, he made a deal with Yang Dongfeng, who was eager to use the money, and bought the tiger charm.
Now that the Tiger Charm was in Chen Zunxiang's hands, Chen Zunxiang had a wider network of contacts than Yang Dongfeng, and soon he found a man named Chen Zhi, who was a professor in the History Department of Northwestern University.
Professor Chen Zhi not only knew a lot about the history of the Qin and Han dynasties, but also had his own research on bronzes. Chen Zunxiang believed that this tiger charm from Xi'an would definitely be able to identify the right body from Chen Zhi.
Sure enough, Chen Zhi was very surprised after seeing this tiger rune, this tiger rune was most likely a tiger rune from the Warring States period.
Chen Zhi's words immediately attracted the attention and research of many scholars and experts on this tiger charm. After many studies and confirmations, the identity and status of this tiger charm have been affirmed by the academic community, and finally reborn in a new way.
The tiger charm is an ancient relic, and the general needs to show the tiger charm to verify the authority when asking the emperor to move the army, otherwise it is impossible to mobilize a soldier and a pawn.
A complete tiger charm contains two parts, one half of which is on the emperor and the other half is in the hands of the general. What Yang Dongfeng found was the left half of the Tiger Rune.
Although it is not complete, this half of the tiger rune still has great research value. The process of the Tiger Charm seems simple, but in fact it is complex, after all, it is a relic when dispatching troops, and it must have extremely complex and perfect anti-counterfeiting measures.
The anti-counterfeiting of tiger charms has begun from the time of material selection, and the proportion of various metals in the raw materials for making tiger charms, the place of origin, etc. must be consistent, and the left and right halves are the same batch, and the same casting pot is produced.
Due to the underdevelopment of ancient smelting technology, the use of the same casting pot can ensure the consistency of the finished product. In addition, the texture and seal engraving on the tiger rune are also quite exquisite.
Because it is necessary to match the two halves into one when verifying, it must be ensured that each trace must be tightly sewn, and cannot be too simple, otherwise it will reduce the difficulty of piracy.
Finally, there is the golden text on the tiger rune. These scripts were not simply embossed, but used a technique that was very rare at the time, the wrong gold seal carving.
The wrong gold craft is a high-end technology that can inlay metal wire into utensils, and the gold inscriptions on the tiger rune are all generated by gold wire inlays, which is a rare craft from the official that folk craftsmen cannot master.
Since it is only the left half, the inscription on the tiger rune is incomplete, but by speculation, it roughly means that it can be interpreted. The above mainly introduces the function of the tiger charm and its owner, and explains the information such as under what circumstances it can be used.
The general who possesses this tiger charm is General Du, so this tiger charm is also called Du Hu Fu. After the identification, the Du Hu Charm has become the oldest Tiger Charm at present, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a national treasure in a historical sense.
However, the way this national treasure appears is so low-key.
Today, this Du Hu Charm is treasured in the Shaanxi History Museum and is admired by the people of the world as a witness of history. In it, it is the inheritance of culture and history, the crystallization of wisdom and thought.
Although we already have a variety of secure encryption methods, and it is becoming more and more difficult to crack. But the moment we see Du Hufu, we will also sincerely admire the wisdom and talent of the old ancestors, and be proud of the identity of the sons and daughters of China.