Cultural relics in the decades ago, this thing is indeed not known to the people, because of this reason led to a large number of cultural relics were artificially destroyed, and some people working in the field will dig out some cultural relics from time to time, such as what bronze, and do not know the gold and jade of the people, generally will choose to sell as scrap iron, of course, at that time the price of scrap iron, scrap copper is also good, you can also make a small money.
The following thing to tell is like this, a villager accidentally dug out a 3,000-year-old bronze, but did not know the origin of this bronze, he sold it as a waste product for 30 pieces, think about it is indeed very depressed, obviously can get rich overnight, but in vain missed such a good opportunity, this can only be said to be fate!
Things happened in 1963 in Baoji, Shaanxi, not to mention that Baoji dug out the bronze is really no one believes, after all, here is the "bronze town" reputation, when there was an ordinary villager called Chen Dui, because Chen Dui found that the backyard of his old house was washed away by the torrential rain the other day, if not repaired, then the house will definitely enter a lot of water.
For this reason, Chen Dui decided to take time to repair, so it was not long before Chen Dui began to repair the soil, but the unexpected thing still came suddenly, just when Chen Dui was digging soil, he accidentally dug out a "knot" covered in green, at first it was only a small part, but he did not expect to dig to the end, and there was actually a quite large "knot".
Chen Dui probably estimated that this "knot" was 40 centimeters high, and this weight was quite heavy, a full 30 pounds, at that time Chen Dui was thinking about what this thing was? But helplessly, I really don't know the origin of this "knot", only know that this thing can be sold as scrap iron, or it can be worth a lot of money.
However, Chen Dui did not sell it immediately, but only began to act 2 years later, when Chen Dui and his wife had a business trip, they dug up this "knot" for their brother Chen Hu to keep, and in 1965, brother Chen Hu took this "knot" to the local waste collection station, and finally sold 30 yuan, not to mention that this 30 yuan was not a small number at that time!
Fortunately, there was an expert from the Baoji Museum at that time who saw this "knot" lying on the ground at the waste collection station, he felt that this "knot" was not simple, but he could not confirm whether it was a cultural relic, for the sake of insurance, he decided to report to his superiors immediately, and hoped that he could fund the purchase of this "knot".
In fact, this "knot" is the Western Zhou sacrifice vessel "He Zun" 3,000 years ago, which is also a kind of wine vessel, and the most important thing is that this "He Zun" actually has a 122-word inscription on it, two of which are "China", which shocked the domestic archaeological community, and this discovery can be said to be of historical value.