Farmers donated a bundle of "firewood", and the museum awarded 1800 yuan, and later the national treasure banned them from leaving the country

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic, warlords were everywhere in the country, wars were frequent, external and internal troubles, and many tomb robbers were rampant, stealing the tombs of a large number of ancient emperors, especially the royal family of the Qing Dynasty.

Lost treasures

These people sold the stolen cultural relics abroad, resulting in many cultural relics never returning to the motherland and being exiled abroad. Coupled with the robbery of the Eight-Power Alliance, the Yuanmingyuan was not only burned down by these invaders, but also caused many rare treasures to be robbed and became the treasures of foreigners.

To this day, I don't know how many treasures of the Chinese nation are still in the hands of foreigners, exhibited in the British Museum or private museums, documenting the crimes of these people.

Naturally, some of the treasures obtained through these illegal means also fell into the hands of capitalists and squires. For example, the best part of the rare treasures that Sun Dianying stole from Cixi's tomb fell into the hands of Chiang Kai-shek and the Kong family.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic, there was such a big capitalist in Shandong- the Ding family.

The Ding family is a big family, rich in wealth, and the pawnshops, money banks and other industries under the family name are all over the country, which can be described as a gentry of one side. The annual income of the Inding family can catch up with the annual fiscal tax revenue of the Qing government, which has been lost, and the wealth is invincible to the country.

The owner of the Ding family also got a title of "Ding Million", and the place where such a large family naturally lived was not an ordinary place. For example, the famous Jinshang Qiao family has a Qiao family compound that has been handed down to this day.

The Ding family naturally did not fall into the Qiao family, and its ancestral home was built during the Yongzheng period, during which it was also with the development and growth of the family, as well as the prosperity of Ding, constantly purchasing homesteads, expanding and repairing, and finally becoming the most luxurious residence in the local area.

Even if the scale of the Ding family's development is brilliant and the wealth is accumulated, it cannot resist historical changes and dynastic changes. With Puyi's announcement of abdication, the Qing Dynasty also officially collapsed.

The Ding family also gradually closed many shops in the turbulent times, retaining the main industries. Coupled with frequent wars and warlord extortion, the Ding family's industry has gradually shrunk.

With the defeat of the Japanese in the war of aggression against China, they fled back to Japan. Civil war broke out, and the People's Liberation Army gradually won in this arduous battle. Especially in the Shandong battlefield, after the victory of the People's Liberation Army, it liberated the local peasants who were oppressed by the local gentry and implemented land reform.

The Ding family fled

As the largest family in the region, the Ding family is naturally the first to be dealt with. Therefore, after receiving the news that the People's Liberation Army was coming, the Ding family hurriedly packed up their belongings and fled. So after several generations of ancient houses, there are naturally many rare treasures, and the Ding family is in a hurry, naturally there are many things that cannot be taken away, nor can they be handled in advance, and the most convenient gold and silver soft and antique collections can only be taken away first.

Like some furniture, clothes and bedding, kitchen utensils, etc., naturally can not be taken away, can not be taken away. The Ding family ran away all night, walking silently, without any wind leakage.

However, the long-term workers and servants who worked in the Ding family were miserable, and the wages for several months had not yet been settled. Therefore, after discovering that the Ding family had escaped, these servants also took a lot of items from the remaining items and returned to make up for their losses.

Among them was a very honest forest chief worker, who had been working in the Ding family. Although he saw the Ding family go to the house, his humble and simple temperament still made him not take anything back. However, Lin Changgong, who did not get paid or take the Ding family's things, naturally returned home and naturally avoided his wife's meal.

The wife was very puzzled by Lin Changgong's behavior, and this was not the time to be honest, after all, the owner was afraid that the People's Liberation Army had run away, and how could he dare to come back in the future. Even if he doesn't take it, others will take it all.

Moreover, the salary of these months was originally the cost of the family's livelihood, which was good, and in the end nothing fell. For the sake of his family's life and a few mouths, Lin Changgong had to return to the Ding family, hoping to find something from the Ding family that he could take away.

However, this valuable thing could not be turned by his belated man, and he had already been robbed by those servants. After walking around the Ding family several times, Lin Changgong finally picked up a few scroll calligraphy paintings wrapped in baggage in a corner.

After returning home, the wife for Lin Changgong is a number of drops, this calligraphy and painting looks no different from the general hanging at home, a look is not worth much, it is not as good as broken copper and iron, how much money can be exchanged.

See the light at the end of the tunnel

However, at this point, it can only be like this, and the wife does not expect Lin Changgong to go on, after all, the days will continue. Lin Changgong's salary was not earned, and he was counted down several times a day by his wife, and even if he honestly felt sullen.

Without a word, he carried a bunch of calligraphy and paintings to the firewood room, ready to cook on the fire at night, directly when the firewood was burned, and it could still be used a little. However, the mounting process of these paintings is very good, even when they are firewood, they cannot be burned. In desperation, he could only throw this pile of painting scrolls in the firewood room.

However, I did not expect that a few years later, this pile of "firewood" would come in handy. After the founding of New China, in order to protect the cultural relics of the displaced people, the state began to call on the people of the whole country to take the initiative to collect them.

Lin Changgong naturally also learned this news from the people in the same village, and it happened that the people in the same village also donated cultural relics from their families. Lin Changgong saw that this was not much different from the bundle of painting scrolls that were not in his own home.

So Lin Changgong went to ask the cultural experts who came to the village to publicize it, indicating that there were also such paintings in his home, and there were many of them.

Cultural relics experts naturally feel that what Lin Changgong has in his home is just an ordinary painting. However, at the insistence of Lin Changgong, cultural relics experts still followed him home to check. Therefore, Lin Changgong returned home and turned over the pile of painting scrolls from the corner of the firewood room, which had long been covered with dust, but no one had ever moved, but it was well preserved.

When the antiquities experts opened the scrolls, these paintings have long been heard in history, lost ancient paintings. But no one expected to be in a farmer's firewood room, and there were dozens of paintings.

These painting shafts are precious cultural relics that cannot be sought, and cultural relics experts are happy to bring these paintings back to the museum for cultural relics identification. After identification, 53 of the more than 70 calligraphy and paintings are precious cultural relics, and one of them, "Ancient Buddha Map", is of immeasurable value.

When the Ding family fled, it was likely that they were in too much of a hurry, and after packing up the calligraphy and paintings of this baggage, they forgot to take them away or lost them. After all, there are too many rare treasures that the Ding family wants to take away, and it is normal to lose them occasionally.

However, no one expected that what was lost was such a precious cultural relic, which would play a vital role in the study of Chinese history, culture and art appreciation.

Lin Changgong also won a reward of 1800 yuan from the museum for his outstanding contribution to the donation of cultural relics. Although this money is nothing today, it was a huge amount of money when it was first liberated.

Therefore, Lin Changgong is very happy, this matter has been several years, Lin Changgong's lost wages in that year have finally been compensated, and finally he can have an account for his wife.