"Can you get there?"
A tall, thin child heard the movement and shook his head helplessly. At this time, the three of them were at the highest point of the Ruiguang Pagoda, trying to dig the bird's nest in the tree.
But the bird's nest was too far away from them to reach it, and in desperation, they had to return to the same way.
One of the boys was very reluctant and kept looking around to see if there was any other suitable place to dig a bird's nest. When he descended to the third floor of the Ruiguang Tower, he suddenly found that there was one not far away
The mouth of the cave is dark
So he hurriedly beckoned, "Come, there's a hole here, and from here you should be able to get to the bird's nest." ”
The three of them discussed it and immediately went inside. But what no one expected was that this unintentional move was unexpectedly solved
This pagoda hides a thousand-year-old secret.
Under a loose stone brick, they found an inconspicuous black chest with many treasures in it.
The experts soon heard the news and, through a cautious appraisal, they found one of the artifacts,
It's worth a lot.
So what exactly is this treasure? Why is it in this tower?
Bear children playing almost damaged the national treasure
In 1978, three primary school students in Panmen, Suzhou, took advantage of the teacher's lack of attention and began to upload small notes in the classroom, agreeing to go to the bird's nest near ruiguang pagoda after school.
But just as the note reached the third person, the teacher turned around and noticed their small movements.
The teacher grabbed the note from their hands, looked at it and roared, "Get me out and stand!" ”
Outside the classroom, the three students stood there with their heads bowed, while their teacher was furious and asked them to call their parents tomorrow and return to the classroom to continue their classes.
However, these three primary school students were very skinny, and they did not pay attention to the teacher's words at all.
After school, they ran directly to the vicinity of Ruiguang Pagoda to dig up the bird's nest.
Due to the disrepair of the Ruiguang Tower, the ladder inside the tower has also been broken, and it is impossible to enter it.
Parents in this vicinity have also instructed their children not to play near the tower, let alone directly enter the tower.
But the three children did not care, they first played outside the tower for a while, then put down their school bags and clothes, ready to climb to the top of the tower to dig up the bird's nest.
At that time, the Ruiguang Pagoda was still in a closed state, and the three children could not go directly in, so they chose to climb from a large tree next to them to the top of the tower.
The so-called newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, and when they climb to the top of the tree, they jump directly from the tree to the tower. But because the nest was relatively high, they folded a stick from the tree. But even so, they still can't reach it.
Reluctantly, they prepared to return the same way, and just as they were descending to the third floor, one of the tall skinny children found a hole.
He crawled near the mouth of the cave, brushed away the weeds near the mouth of the cave, and looked inside, just in time to see the location of the bird's nest.
"Hey, don't go, you can get to the bird's nest from here, let's go in from here." The child who found the entrance to the cave said.
The other two walked in and looked at it, and when they saw the darkness inside, they retreated.
"It's so dark inside, there will be no monsters, I don't want to go in, let's go." A boy with glasses pulled them along and tried to walk back.
"Afraid of something, manly husband, how can you be afraid of the dark." If you're afraid, go ahead, and I'll go in and have a look for myself." "The child who found the entrance to the cave took up his stick and climbed in through the opening.
"I'm a man, and I'm not afraid." Another tall, thin boy followed suit.
The bespectacled boy saw that they had all gone in, took a deep breath and followed them in.
The three of them crawled in slowly, and the hole was pitch black and nothing could be seen. The bespectacled child pulled a flashlight out of his pocket and lit up the entire opening.
"Okay, little glasses, you're well equipped." The other two children put their arms around him and said.
"Hey, isn't that what's going on TV, and adventures are definitely going to be geared up." The bespectacled child rubbed his head and said.
After entering the cave entrance, the three children took sticks and knocked and beat. One of the chubby children was still shouting loudly inside the tower, trying to hear his own echo.
Just then, they suddenly heard a "creaking" sound under their feet, and the bespectacled boy sat paralyzed on the ground in fright, and the flashlight in his hand fell to the ground.
"Cowardly, shy face." The other two children took the flashlight in his hand and began to walk forward in the direction of the sound.
As they walked, they noticed that the sound was coming from under their feet. The fat child chopped the ground and found that the bricks under his feet were loose.
The three children looked at each other, expectant and worried.
"Is there any treasure underneath this?"
"There must be, hurry up and open it."
Curiosity eventually triumphed over fear of the unknown, and they pried open the bricks under their feet and shined a flashlight inside, revealing a dark hole underneath.
"Want, want to go down? Below, it's quite dark below. The bespectacled boy said hesitantly.
"When, of course, manly husband, how can he back down because of this little thing?" The chubby boy said with his waist crossed.
In this way, the three children carefully climbed into the cave at their feet.
In the light of the flashlight, they found a very large black wooden box, and the three children were very excited and wanted to carry the box out.
But the power of the children was limited after all, and even if they had already exerted the strength to suckle, they did not carry the box out.
"If not, let's not carry it, just open the box." The chubby boy gasped and said.
"I agree. But fat man, you usually eat a few large bowls of rice, and you can't make it strong at key moments. The tall, thin boy crouched by the box and said.
The fat boy tried to say something, but was interrupted by the boy with glasses, "Don't argue, quickly open the box and see what treasure is inside." ”
The three boys took out their sticks and pried the box open with force.
At the moment when the box was pried open, a golden stupa came into view.
The three children looked at what was in front of them and invariably let out exclamations.
"This, this is also too beautiful."
"Don't look at this first, there must be a lot of treasure in it."
Then they continued to rummage through the box and found a dozen sutras and some gilded Buddha statues.
"What's the use of these broken books, it's better to burn them." With that, the fat boy took a lighter from his pocket and lit the scripture on fire.
At this time, the boy with glasses took out a delicate and beautiful pagoda from the box, and he held the pagoda and could not help but let out a sigh of admiration.
The fat boy next to him was also attracted to the pagoda and snatched it from the hands of the bespectacled boy to admire it. But the other party was very dissatisfied with his behavior and wanted to snatch it from him.
The fat boy clung to his death, and in the process of fighting, the pagoda accidentally fell to the ground and fell in half at once.
At this point, both of them were dumbfounded, and they accused each other. In the end, the tall skinny boy stopped them and told them to pick what they liked, and when they were finished, they hurried home.
This stopped the quarrel between the two.
After the three children took out the Buddha statue and some jewelry in the box, they each took what they liked and went home.
Rescue excavations by archaeologists
By the time the three children came out of the tower, it was already seven or eight o'clock in the evening, and their parents were discussing going to find them together.
When they arrived at the entrance of the village, they saw three children with things in their hands and happily walking home. The parents immediately stepped forward to ask where the things came from.
The three children originally explained that they had picked it up outside, but looking at the golden stupa in their hands, it didn't look like they had been found from the outside.
"Say, where did you steal it?" Parents see that their children refuse to tell the truth and are ready to teach them a lesson.
All three children were frightened and told their parents the whole story.
The child's parents immediately informed the relevant local departments and handed in the children's belongings.
The relevant departments were shocked when they saw what was handed over, and immediately sent several archaeologists to the Ruiguang Pagoda for investigation.
When the archaeologists arrived at the Ruiguang Pagoda, they looked at the closed gate and set up a high ladder to enter the tower. Following the route given by the three children, they found the dark hole.
After entering the cave, archaeologists found more than a dozen Buddhist scriptures and some Buddha statues and ritual artifacts that had been thrown on the ground.
One of the archaeologists picked up the burned scriptures and said bitterly, "These children, they have burned such valuable scriptures.
Archaeologists deduced that this was a cultural relic from the Northern Song Dynasty, and the scriptures they tore up were the "Miaofa Lotus HuaJing" made of "green paper" in the Song Dynasty.
"Bi paper" is a kind of waterproof paper made of mulberry skin, which has been more than 700 years now, and can still be preserved so completely, at first glance it looks like the old paper of modern times, and people can't help but sigh at the papermaking technology of a hundred years ago.
Fortunately, the three children only tore up one of the volumes, and archaeologists were able to restore it.
In fact, in the box, the most attractive to archaeologists is a unique style of Buddhist magic instrument.
The main body of this ritual is made of nan wood and is divided into three parts: the Sumire Seat, the Buddha Palace and the Temple, of which there are more than 40,000 pearls.
After observation, they judged that this was most likely a pearl relic, which was mainly used to hold the relics left over after the cremating of the monk's circle.
Archaeologists also believe that this artifact was a valuable treasure in the society of the time. In the view of archaeologists, the most important thing about this cultural relic is the cultural information it contains, which has great archaeological value for the study of the history and culture of the Song Dynasty.
Immediately afterwards, the experts found 9 extremely precious relics in the center of the treasure building.
as well as engraved prayer wheels
、
Turtle button amber stamp
and painted mud Guanyin and other cultural relics, which made them feel very happy.
They carefully removed the items and invited restoration experts to restore them.
The most difficult thing to repair is the broken pearl relic.
The treasure is made of a variety of materials such as agate, crystal, lake and gold, and is also made using very complex processes, some of which have even been lost.
In order to restore this cultural relic, the restoration experts have spent a lot of time and energy. At the same time, they also invited more than 30 experts to reproduce an artifact identical to the jewel relics and display it in the museum.
From the difficulty of restoration, it can be seen that the level of jewelry production in the Northern Song Dynasty is extremely high, and it also represents the high prosperity of Buddhist culture in the Northern Song Dynasty.
When experts thought of such a valuable cultural relic, they were actually snatched up by two children in their arms, and a layer of cold sweat could not help but emerge from the door of their heads.
Archaeologists know from the scriptures that the time of entry of these artifacts was in the summer of 1017 AD, and due to the high temperature, the ancients took a series of protective measures.
At the same time, the relevant local departments also sent people to repair the Ruiguang Pagoda, and also listed it as an important local cultural relics protection unit.
In view of the young age of the three children, coupled with the fact that their parents took the initiative to hand over cultural relics, the relevant departments only educated them ideologically, so that they should not be so mischievous next time.
In the Suzhou Museum, people only see replicas of the pearl relic, and no one else has seen the real pearl relics except the archaeologists of that year.
Until 2020, in the ninth episode of the third season of the variety show "National Treasure" created by CCTV, the audience ushered in a national treasure-level Buddhist cultural relic, the Pearl Relic, which is also the treasure of the Suzhou Museum.
As soon as it appeared, the pearls, agates, and crystals on the treasure building emitted a dazzling light.
Through this cultural relic that has lasted for thousands of years, the audience can see the exquisite craftsmanship of Suzhou during the Northern Song Dynasty, and also see the aesthetic standards of people in the Northern Song Dynasty and the prosperity of culture.
China has been around for 5,000 years and has a long history and culture. In the long river of history, whether it is the emperor or the common people, they will be buried under the wind and sand, leaving only relevant buildings and books, so that future generations can understand their stories.
Through them, we
You can talk to the ancients over the air,
At the same time, they can also learn more about their living habits and history and culture.
Years pass like flowing water, and in China's five-thousand-year history and culture, many cultural relics have also been destroyed due to natural and man-made disasters.
All we can do now is protect these artifacts from being artificially damaged.