In fact, there are many things that are leaked in the cultural relics world, such as the famous He Zun who spent 30 yuan to buy it; and the Silk Dravidian Sutra, the collector only spent 90,000 pieces, but he did not expect to shoot more than 100 million later, and these are not the biggest leaks in history.
The leak we're going to introduce below is arguably the largest in history, and it's none. Cultural relics experts only spent 1.5 yuan from farmers to buy a 4,000-year-old black pottery, but this black pottery later became the treasure of the National Museum of China.
Has anyone heard of the Donghaiyu ruins located in Donghaiyu Village in Rizhao, Shandong? The Donghaiyu site can be said to be a collection of Dawenkou culture and Longshan culture, and in the 1960s, the Donghaiyu site was discovered by the Shandong Provincial Archaeological Team.
The official excavation of the Donghaiyu site was carried out from 1973 to 1975, with a total of three large-scale excavations, with an excavation area of about 8 million square meters, and of course, a large number of funerary items were also unearthed.
In fact, at that time, this Donghaiyu site was located in Donghaiyu Village, so cultural relics experts suspected that some villagers in the village had accidentally dug up something in recent years, but the people did not have any knowledge of cultural relics, so they did not hand in cultural relics at all.
In this way, the cultural relics expert consulted with the village cadres of Donghaiyu Village, hoping that he could help find out whether anyone in the village had ever dug out something, and if so, notify the Cultural Relics Bureau, so that they could send experts to come and identify.
Unexpectedly, there were indeed villagers who dug up things, it is reported that it is a black cup, looking very beautiful, so the cultural relics experts got the news and rushed to the villager's house surnamed Mu in Donghaiyu Village, the villagers took out the black cup that they dug up a few years ago, and after the expert saw this black cup, it really stood up immediately.
This is definitely a black pottery cup, the current can not specify its value, so in order to take away this cultural relic, can not be indebted to this villager, the expert took out 1.5 yuan to buy this black pottery cup, although the money is not much, but at that time 1.5 yuan is not very small.
And this black pottery cup is the later "eggshell black pottery cup", "eggshell black pottery cup" has a history of 4,000 years, is definitely the peak product of Longshan culture, and is absolutely handmade, why is it called "eggshell black pottery cup"? Because it is the same thickness as the "Sun God Bird Gold Leaf", it is only 0.2 mm, which is thinner than the eggshell, and the whole body weighs less than 50 grams.
And there is a clay tile in the thin tube of the next step of the "eggshell black pottery cup", and when you hold the cup, it will make a crisp sound, which is simply a beautiful piece of music, how is this made?
Obviously, someone later imitated the "eggshell black pottery cup", but the result was made, but it did not reach its charm at all, whether it was thickness or form, it was a world of difference!
Moreover, this is still a product of 4,000 years ago, Longshan people pure handmade, such a production technology is indeed to impress the experts!