preamble
A culture that does not accompany power will become a culture of extinction tomorrow. --Churchill
For a country, in addition to the importance of this economic power, the soft power of this culture is also very important. Culture is the most basic root of people for a country. If there is no culture, for a country, the country may have no history, no existence. So now many countries are vying for the soft power of this culture. The mainland is a country with more than 5,000 years of history and culture. In the long history and culture of the mainland, there have been many splendid treasures. The continent is also one of the most complete preserved countries in the world for ancient cultures. But many of our country's cultural relics are still in exile in other countries and have not returned. If there is an artifact that returns from the United States, it gives a strong proof to our history. What kind of artifact is this?
A long history of ancient culture
China's ancient culture has been baptized for thousands of years, and to this day it is still shining and not forgotten by the world. Our ancient excellent culture has brought a lot of enlightenment to people today. Before the Qing Dynasty, our country was still a relatively powerful country. However, because the rulers at that time adopted a wrong policy of rule - closing the country to the outside world and not establishing diplomatic relations with other countries, after the Qing Dynasty, the comprehensive strength and economic development of our country were far behind other countries overseas. In this way, China gradually declined from the world's largest country.
As the saying goes, backwardness means being beaten, and because of backwardness, our country has been oppressed by many countries in the process of modernization. In the course of modern history, it is a humiliating history for our country, because we have experienced the Opium War, the Sino-Japanese War, and the Eight-Power Alliance's invasion of China. In these wars, we were also forced to sign humiliating treaties that humiliated our country, bringing deep shame to the history of our Chinese nation. In these wars, the history and culture of the mainland have also suffered serious damage.
The war had a very big impact on the cultural inheritance of the mainland. Because some of the historical treasures of the war continent were forced to drown in the war, or forced to be plundered by other bad people. For example, the Yuanmingyuan, a treasure in the history and culture of the mainland, is a cultural treasure destroyed by war.
Because many cultural relics on the war continent have been forcibly displaced, it is difficult to find them back. Therefore, this also brings great obstacles to our descendants to explore culture, and brings great difficulties to the mainland cultural relics scholars to find these cultural relics. However, in modern times, the development of the mainland has changed the appearance of poverty and backwardness before, and after the reform and opening up, the mainland's economic strength and comprehensive national strength have been continuously improved. Its position in the world is also constantly recognized by other countries. Now I have the strength to search for these treasures left behind in other countries. Through the continuous efforts of the state and some scholars and well-wishers, some precious cultural relics of the mainland have been returned to the embrace of the motherland one after another in recent years.
Encounter bronzes on the stalls
Today I want to talk about this treasure, which a scholar stumbled upon on a stall in the United States is a relatively old bronze. When the expert was wandering around the American market, he noticed this special object at the first glance. This special object, the shape is more peculiar, after careful observation by experts is a bronze vessel. And the shape of this bronze is similar to some of the pots we use in cooking now, and compared with the bronzes we have touched before, the shape of this bronze is relatively different.
The value of bronzes
After the bronze came back, after the research of the relevant personnel of our national conservation area, it was found that this bronze was indeed not small. And the cultural value contained in it is also very high. The first is the text engraved on the bronze. The writing on this bronze vessel belongs to the unique script of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and these experts believe that these writings may belong to ancient scriptures, but careful observation of these words is very close to the inscriptions.
At that time, many scholars in China studied this bronze and believed that this bronze would definitely bring us a lot of valuable historical information. After the investigation of experts and scholars, the historical text on it was finally transcoded and translated into modern characters by us. First of all, the bronze is engraved with 98 ancient characters, and these ancient texts are mainly about the great achievement of Dayu Zhishui at that time. As we all know, the Great Yu ZhiShui is a very famous historical event in the history of our country.
It is precisely because of the legend of Dayu Zhishui that our country believes that there is a Dynasty of xia dynasty in the history of the mainland. However, in order to demean our history, Western countries have always denied the existence of the Xia Dynasty, believing that these are just legends, and our country has no physical evidence to prove it. If the facts stated above in this bronze are true, then this will give us another chance to prove the existence of the Xia Dynasty, an opportunity to prove the history of our country. Therefore, the value of this bronze is particularly high. At that time, many historians were very excited and shocked, hoping to find more historical secrets from this bronze.
epilogue
Culture is especially important to each and every one of us. We are exposed to a variety of different cultures every day. These cultures bring a lot of feelings to our lives.
It is hard to believe how sad it would be if one day our history and culture were discredited and forgotten by ourselves. Therefore, we are now the relevant cultural relics departments of our country, which are working very hard to protect the history and culture of our country, and are trying to find back those cultures that were forced into exile outside for historical reasons. Bringing these cultures back to their roots gives us a better understanding of history.
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