On the morning of April 22, Xu Zhichang, a villager in Datianba Village, Jiqing Town, Zhongjiang County, Deyang City, Sichuan Province, was working in his own field when a steel braze went down and stabbed a hard object. Xu Zhichang muttered as he cut through the dirt and found two iron pots clasped together, containing 12 pieces of porcelain and other agricultural tools. After Xu Zhichang's family called the police for help, the Cultural Relics Department of Zhongjiang County rushed to the scene and found that the "cellar" iron pot contained a total of 15 cultural relics containing porcelain and iron tools.
On April 27, Red Star News reporters learned from the Zhongjiang County Museum that after preliminary identification by experts organized by the Deyang Archaeological Institute, the age of the cellar artifacts was the Yuan Dynasty.
Villagers digging the ground:
A steel braze went down and stabbed the cultural relics in the cellar and quickly called the police
On the morning of April 22, Xu Zhichang, a villager in Datianba Village, Jiqing Town, Zhongjiang County, was doing farm work in his own field as usual.
He took a steel shovel and dug the rape stalks in the field. A steel braze went down, a muffled sound of "bang", the steel braze poked at the hard object, "Dug the stone, right?" Xu Zhichang, who is more than 60 years old, muttered while cutting open the dirt and got an unexpected surprise.
"It looks like an iron pot, and there's a bowl in it." Xu Zhichang introduced that the "treasure" dug up was two iron pots buckled together, which contained bowls and farm tools.
He hurriedly asked his family to come to see "Strange", and after his daughter-in-law, Ms. Liu, saw it, he quickly dialed 110 to call the police for help.
Afterwards, some villagers said that the Xu family took the initiative to hand over cultural relics and "missed the opportunity to get rich." ”
Ms. Liu admitted that she didn't think about anything at that time, and chose to call the police for the first time, "These things are just a bowl in our home, and it can produce greater value when handed over to the country." ”
"This thing should have been handed over to the state." Elder Xu Zhi introduced that he hoped that when future generations visited the museum, they would be able to proudly say that "this cultural relic was discovered by the ancestors and handed over to the state."
Expert Identification:
Belonging to the Yuan Dynasty cellar, the blue-glazed Pisces porcelain bowl is particularly exquisite
"When we arrived at the scene, the farmer had already opened the iron pot and there were 15 cultural relics inside." Tian Yue, director of the Zhongjiang Museum, introduced that after the Zhongjiang County Cultural Relics Department received the notice from the public security department on the same day, the staff rushed to the scene and found that the burial method was an iron pot cellar, 0.8 meters deep from the surface, and the iron pot contained porcelain and iron ware for a total of 15 cultural relics. The iron pot with the buckle was partially damaged when it was unearthed, and the utensils in the pot were basically preserved intact and the rust was thick.
▲ The "cellar" of the Yuan Dynasty dug up by the villagers.
▲ Porcelain in the "cellar".
"There were 12 bowls, 2 farm tools and iron pots. Except for the broken iron pot, other utensils are well preserved. Tian Yue introduced that a blue-glazed "Pisces Pattern" porcelain bowl is particularly exquisite, and this porcelain bowl has also been found in Zhongjiang before.
▲ Blue glazed "Pisces pattern" porcelain bowl.
According to the preliminary appraisal of experts organized by the Deyang Archaeological Institute, the era of the cellar artifacts is the Yuan Dynasty. Liu Zhangze, director of the Deyang Institute of Archaeology, introduced that these cultural relics have important value for understanding and understanding the local production and life in the Yuan Dynasty.
The Law on the Protection of Cultural Relics of China stipulates that all cultural relics left behind in the underground, internal waters and territorial waters within the territory of the People's Republic of China shall belong to the State; in the course of construction projects or agricultural production, any unit or individual discovering cultural relics shall protect the site and immediately report it to the local administrative department for cultural relics.
Tian Yue introduced that Xu Zhichang, a villager in Datianba Village, Jiqing Town, Zhongjiang County, reported and handed over cultural relics in a timely manner, so that the cultural relics have been effectively protected. In the next step, the local cultural relics protection department will reward him. For this batch of cultural relics, it will be sorted out and displayed to the public at the Zhongjiang Museum.
Red Star News reporter Wang Mingping