China's history of 5,000 years is splendid and brilliant, and the rich legacy left by our ancestors is even more numerous. Cultural relics, as a witness to history, their value is often immeasurable.
The writer Ma Boyong once said: It is easy to identify treasures, it is difficult to identify people, people can appreciate antiquities, and antiquities can also identify people.
Behind every artifact is a story. In the field of cultural relics, some rare treasures that have been handed down to the world often have a special experience passed down from generation to generation.
And this experience not only enriches its humanistic connotation, but also reproduces the human nature of all kinds.
Rare treasure four dragon gold bracelet
In the Xianyang City Cultural Protection Center, there is such a treasure, which is called the Four Dragon Gold Bracelet.
The "Four Dragon Gold Bracelet" is made of pure gold, with a diameter of 6.5 cm and a thickness of 1 to 1.7 cm oval shape, composed of two semicircular flat bodies, each semicircle is a dragon body twisted together in a reciprocal disk.
At opposite the two faucets, the process of wearing the button is used. The cylinder refers to the cylinder on the bracelet, the ends are spherical, and the middle is a protruding flower bud pattern.
Around the bud are four symmetrical cross petals, semi-open, and at the same time resemble two dragons, grasping the beads.
The interface of the bracelet can be moved to adjust the size, the dragon body is concave and externally drummed, and the dragon scales, eyes, ears and whiskers are vivid and clearly visible.
According to its overall two sets of two sets of two dragon flower play beads, cultural relics experts finally named it "Four Dragon Gold Bracelet" or "Four Dragon Play Bead Pure Gold Double Sheath Bracelet".
The "Four Dragon Gold Bracelet" is exquisitely designed and vivid, and its craftsmanship can be earth-shattering.
It is definitely an artistic treasure. Even in terms of the current gold jewelry process, its craftsmanship is first-class. However, this "Four Dragon Golden Bracelet" was from the hands of craftsmen from the late Sui to the early Tang Dynasty.
Such a cultural relic with great artistic value and historical value can definitely be called a national treasure. But who would have thought that when such a treasure was first unearthed, it would be privately taken for its own use and almost destroyed.
The story begins thirty-four years ago.
Thirty-four years ago, the ancient tomb of 1500 years old in Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, is now alive
In 1988, the construction of Shaanxi Xianyang International Airport began. As the ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties, Xianyang went through many dynasties from the Western Zhou Dynasty, such as qin, western Han, new, eastern Han, western Jin, former Zhao, former Qin, later Qin, Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui, and Tang.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, xianyang often excavated some ancient tombs with a long history, so before the construction of Xianyang Airport began, the Cultural Relics Bureau would check the location of the airport with historical and cultural relics experts to avoid digging up the place where ancient tombs might appear as much as possible.
Because the huge excavator and the drill bit used to release the wind cannon are not a joke. If you are not careful, you may destroy the remains of the ancient tomb.
Despite meticulous investigation by experts, a large tomb was found during the construction of the M2 plot of the airport.
When the tomb was unearthed, experts came to the scene again to investigate, and found that this was a huge ancient tomb up to 36 meters long, although it was impossible to confirm the identity of its owner for a while, but only in terms of the length of the tomb, it can be preliminarily concluded that this is a princely level tomb.
Later, experts found an epitaph in the tomb that recorded the identity and life of the tomb owner, and finally confirmed that the tomb was the tomb of He Ruoshi, a famous general from the Western Wei to the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and the wife of Dugu Luo, the eldest son of Dugu Xin, one of the Eight Pillar Kingdoms.
After determining the identity of the tomb owner, all the experts on the spot were shocked, to know that 1500 years ago in the Western Wei period, there were very few cultural relics handed down, because it was an ethnic minority regime, most of the research on the Western Wei since then is derived from the records in the history books, and there are very few cultural relics as evidence.
The excavation of this tomb has an immeasurable role in the study of the history of the Western Wei Period, coupled with the special identity of Dugu Luo's wife He Ruoshi, every piece of cultural relics unearthed in his tomb is a national treasure.
At that time, experts immediately blocked the archaeological excavation site on the M2 plot. And organized the backbone of experts from the Shaanxi Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau to excavate He Ruoshi's tomb.
However, due to the lack of manpower at that time, in addition to the core area being directly cleaned and inspected by experts, a large number of external clean-up projects were contracted to local migrant workers.
The archaeological team brought back to the Cultural Relics Research Center after compiling, photographing and sealing the cultural relics excavated from He Ruoshi's tomb one by one.
The rest of the tail sweeping work was directly handed over to Anzhi Anzhi, director of the office of the Archaeological Research Institute involved in the excavation of the ancient tomb.
The chief of staff is generally not an expert, but has always undertaken manpower transfers and logistical arrangements.
After the main excavation work was completed, the experts entrusted the heavy finishing work to Anzhi. In turn, He subcontracted these jobs to migrant workers.
Two of the peasants, "Luo Yuewa" and "Wu Pengchang", made amazing discoveries when cleaning up the mud in the tomb. It turned out that the expert had left a bracelet when cleaning up the cultural relics, and this bracelet was dug up by these two people.
The national treasures left behind during archaeology came to the hands of Anzhi
Look at the golden dangling bracelet in front of you, the workmanship is extremely exquisite. "Luo Yuewa" and "Wu Pengchang" did not dare to keep it privately, and were ready to hand it over to the state.
So the two took the initiative to find Anzhi.
Speaking of this Zhen Anzhi, although he is not a real expert, he has served in the office of the Cultural Relics Bureau for many years and still has a certain ability to identify.
In addition, he still has a certain research on the cultural history of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, so when the two told Zhen Anzhi about the discovery of the lost cultural relics, Zhen Anzhi immediately made a preliminary appraisal of the cultural relics handed in.
Zhen Anzhi looked at the pure gold bracelet handed over by the two migrant workers and was deeply impressed by his exquisite craftsmanship. At a glance, Zhen Anzhi can conclude that this bracelet is absolutely priceless, and this kind of "big opening" thing at a glance will never look away.
After receiving the treasure, Xuan Anzhi immediately consulted the list of cultural relics registered at that time and found that there was no record of the bracelet.
So Zhen Anzhi immediately had an evil idea, that is, to take such a national treasure as his own.
He made a verbal praise to the two farmers, and frightened the two farmers, saying that fortunately they picked it up and handed it in, otherwise they would definitely be considered to have stolen cultural relics and might be sentenced.
Hearing This, the two farmers were frightened. So Anzhi told the two that this was a national treasure and that his excavation must be kept secret.
After listening, the two nodded their heads in agreement, so Anzhi asked the two farmers to sign a confidentiality agreement, promising not to announce the excavation of the national treasure to the outside world.
In this way, Zhen Anzhi tricked and frightened the two farmers into signing a confidentiality agreement, and suppressed the fact that the two people had been commended for picking up gold.
Since then, the news about this bracelet has only been known to Anzhi. Later, sure enough, the two farmers who were tricked by him returned home and honestly followed the instructions of Anzhi, and never mentioned anything about the discovery of the bracelet.
He brought home the national treasure, which he believed was henceforth his personal collection. Just wait for the right opportunity and sell it for a good price.
But what Zhen Anzhi did not expect, the family did not have a coincidence, a book was involved in an unexpected emotional dispute, and almost let this national treasure completely fall into the folk and lose track.
After carefully wrapping the gold bracelet in cloth, He did not rush to take it home, but quietly put it back in the office drawer. In this way, even if something happens later, I have something to say.
After a period of collation, the Shaanxi Provincial Bureau of Culture and Culture released a list of cultural relics found in the remains of He Ruo's tomb. After confirming that there was no information about the gold bracelet on the list of cultural relics, Zhen Anzhi finally breathed a sigh of relief.
After a while, Zhen Anzhi was sure that no one knew about the gold bracelet, so he quietly brought the gold bracelet back home carefully from the office drawer.
The "Immortal Jump" of The Lover of Zhen Anzhi
In the 1980s, scholars and public officials like Anzhi Were hot in society.
Therefore, Zhen Anzhi has always been surrounded by many women. These women surrounded themselves with all kinds of purposes, some sincerely admiring The status of Zhen Anzhi, and some just wanted to get some benefits around them.
Among these people, a female textile worker named Ba Yanfang has maintained this ambiguous relationship with Zhen Anzhi.
Because Ba Yanfang is good-looking, Zhen Anzhi also likes her. But what kind of woman is Ba Yanfang?
In today's words, it is a complete "green tea", although it revolves around Xuan Anzhi all day long, but Zhen Anzhi has not bargained a little on it, and even has ambiguous relations with several men.
After all, this woman named Ba Yanfang just wants to get some more financial benefits around Zhen Anzhi.
After getting the bracelet, Jian Anzhi immediately called Ba Yanfang to his home, and showed off in front of Ba Yanfang, saying that the bracelet in his hand was a priceless treasure, and also boasted that as long as the other party followed him, Xuan Anzhi would give this bracelet to Ba Yanfang.
Where did Ba Yanfang know what cultural relics value Was said in The mouth of Zhen Anzhi, he only knew that what He was holding in his hand was a genuine gold bracelet.
At that time, the gold price was about 60 yuan per gram, which was equivalent to a month's salary of an ordinary young worker. Seeing the gold bracelet in front of her, which weighed more than 100 grams, Ba Yanfang moved her mind at that time.
Ba Yanfang flirted with Anzhi while flirting with her, while quietly telling her about it after returning home.
Not long after, Ba Yanfang and his nephew planned a good play of "Immortal Jumping".
Needless to say, he also knew what was happening in this, and Xuan Anzhi was arrested.
Ba Yanfang's concubine was on the spot to blackmail Anzhi not to pestering Ba Yanfang in the future, and to take the gold bracelet from Anzhi's home as "compensation" for Ba Yanfang.
The treasure thieves will eventually be punished, and the sky-high national treasure will be returned
Ba Yanfang knew that Anzhi's ass was not clean, and thought that she had eaten Zhen Anzhi. But where do you know, after the two left, Zhen An Zhi wanted to get angrier, and finally chose to call the police.
After listening to Anzhi's retelling, the police immediately attached great importance to it, and also contacted Anzhi's unit to confirm it.
The Shaanxi Provincial Bureau of Culture and Culture was also shocked after hearing the police's description, and specially sent someone to the public security department to assist the police in handling the case.
In the end, under the strict control of the police, in less than a week, Ba Yanfang and his sister-in-law were both arrested and arrested, and the cultural relics were returned to the Shaanxi Provincial Cultural Administration.
After Ba Yanfang's explanation, Zhen Anzhi brought the national cultural relics back to his residence more than once and showed them to them many times. Only a few of these cultural relics are mostly unknown to Ba Yanfang, so there is no crooked mind.
In the face of Ba Yanfang's accusations, Zhen Anzhi has always been cunning to argue that the other party has framed him, only admitting that he has told the other party about cultural relics, and does not admit that he has the intention of taking possession for himself.
Moreover, Jian Anzhi also said that at that time, this "Four Dragon Golden Bracelet" was forgotten after he got it, and originally wanted to give it to the state.
However, due to The Strong Sophistry of The One, Shaanxi Province acquitted him for many reasons, including insufficient evidence, at the first instance trial of the case. However, as soon as the trial results came out, it caused great social repercussions.
Under the pressure of public opinion, the procuratorate once again re-examined the case of cultural relics theft, and after meticulous evidence collection, with the cooperation of the Shaanxi Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau, the crime of stealing state cultural relics by Zhen Anzhi was finally confirmed.
And this "Four Dragon Gold Bracelet" has been evaluated by cultural relics experts and has been estimated to be 300 million.
The case of Zhen Anzhi is a typical example of a particularly large amount of money and a particularly serious situation. In the end, the Shaanxi Provincial People's Court issued a final judgment, and Anzhi was convicted of stealing national precious cultural relics and sentenced to 11 years in prison.
At that time, newspapers at the provincial level in Shaanxi reported on the case, and after the final results came out, the people of the whole country applauded.
Stealing national precious cultural relics, both domestic and foreign, is a felony.
According to the interpretation in the International Criminal Law and the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China: "The crime of stealing national precious cultural relics is an act of stealing national precious cultural relics in violation of the provisions of international conventions on the protection of artistic treasures for the purpose of illegal import, export and transfer of possession."
Its main feature is that it is subjectively intentional and must have the purpose of illegally importing, exporting and transferring the possession of national precious cultural relics, thus objectively achieving the crime of stealing national cultural relics. ”
Zhen Anzhi took the "Four Dragon Golden Bracelet" for himself and transferred the gold bracelet to Ba Yanfang in the form of "compensation", which objectively achieved the crime of stealing the country's precious cultural relics.
After Zhen Anzhi was imprisoned, this national treasure-level art treasure "Four Dragon Gold Bracelet" finally returned to the hands of the state and the people.