In 1965, Pei Shan, a farmer in Acheng County, Heilongjiang, inadvertently picked up a dragon-shaped "copper guy" .
After handing it over to the experts for appraisal, the other party said that it was a fake, which belonged to "modern handicrafts", and then bought it from Lao Pei at a price of 18 yuan.
26 years later, this dragon-shaped "copper guy" has become the treasure of the museum' town hall, and has also been rated as a first-class cultural relic, with an estimated value of 90 million.
What is the real body of this "copper guy"? In the 26 years since then, what happened to the life of the peasant Lao Pei?
In the autumn of 1965, the pigsty of Pei Shan's family, a farmer in Nancheng Village, was washed away by torrential rains, so he planned to repair his own pigsty.
But his family was so poor that he didn't have much money to buy bricks, so he prepared to dig some bricks from the ancient city wall near his home.
Because the bricks here are particularly heavy, he can only dig a few pieces at a time and transport them home little by little.
Suddenly, one day, he was digging bricks with a hoe when he suddenly heard an extremely crisp noise, similar to the collision between metals.
When Pei Shan heard this, he wondered if he had dug something up, so he hurriedly shoveled it out, picked it up and looked very heavy, and under the layers of loess wrapping, he couldn't see what it was.
But since he dug it up, it was a pity to throw it away, so he took him home by the hand.
After arriving home, Pei Shan washed it with water and put it under the kerosene lamp to see that it was a yellow "dragon" shaped object, about 20 centimeters high.
But the strange thing is that this "dragon" has a strange shape, it is actually sitting, and its tail is tilted upwards, which is not the same as the appearance of the dragon in the album.
When he saw that it was yellow, Pei Shan was shocked: Is it not gold?
At this time, he remembered what the old man in the village had said, as long as he rubbed the brick, he would know whether it was real gold.
However, after rubbing it over and over again with great joy, he found that it was not gold, and then bit it with his teeth, deducing that it should be brass.
A brass ornament... Pei Shan couldn't see what doorway he was looking at the left and right, and he didn't know what to do with it, so he casually put him in the cupboard and put it for 9 years.
One day in 1974, Pei Shan, who was idle, sorted out the old objects in the house, saw this "brass sitting dragon" again, and took it out of the cabinet with his bare hands.
After playing with it for a while, when I went to bed at night, I casually put it on the bookcase near the window, and the strange thing was that there was a long and miserable "whining" sound in the house that night, like a whistle.
Pei Shan, who was sleeping, was suddenly awakened, he hurriedly got up to find the source of the sound, and after a while of overturning the wall and overturning the cabinet, he found that the sound was actually coming from the "dragon" shaped object.
Pei Shan felt strange, thinking that a bug had burrowed into it, and after stepping forward to pick it up, a louder cry came out of it again.
Frightened, Pei Shan was excited, and hurriedly threw it aside, the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became. At dawn, he immediately called the old acquaintances in the village to the house and helped him palm his eyes.
Everyone watched for half a day, and did not study a source, but considering that it was dug under the ancient city wall, some people suggested that Pei Shan take it to the experts of the county cultural center to see, perhaps this guy is a cultural relic.
So, the next day, Pei Shan took it to the county cultural center.
But he never expected it, but the result was unexpected...
When he arrived at the county cultural center, Pei Shan handed it over to experts for appraisal.
After a series of observations, the other party said that this is just a modern imitation of the handicraft, a fake, no value, and said that it will not be accepted.
Because, in the existing cultural relics at that time, the dragon relics were either coiled or lying down, and the appearance and form of this "brass sitting dragon" were contrary to them, and no similar objects had been excavated before.
As soon as Pei Shan heard this result, he told the other party about the strange screams it would scream at night, and at first everyone did not believe it.
It can be seen that Pei Shan said that he was sincere and very persistent, so out of the rigor of the work, the other party decided to accept this "brass sitting dragon" at a price of 18 yuan and carefully study the principle of strange sounds.
After a series of studies, from its material and appearance, experts identified it as indeed a cultural relic, but the specific historical value did not give a clear conclusion.
As a result, the "brass sitting dragon" was placed in a small corner of the Acheng County Exhibition Hall, staying for 16 years.
Fortunately, in 1990, experts from the Heilongjiang Provincial Museum went to Acheng County to investigate, and when they visited the Acheng Cultural Relics Exhibition Hall, they found a strangely shaped "brass sitting dragon" in the corner.
At first, he was simply attracted by its unusual shape, but after careful observation, the expert suddenly felt that it was very familiar.
He seemed to have seen the text describing it in some ancient book, but he was not sure about it, so he decided to take it to Beijing to study it carefully.
After the research of many experts, the identity of the "brass sitting dragon" was identified, which is an ornament on the rut of the emperor during the Northern Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty, usually placed on the top of the carriage, which is a symbol of imperial power, which is nearly 900 years old, very rare!
The location of Acheng City is the capital of the Jin Dynasty, Jin Shangjing, and the ancient city wall of the "brass sitting dragon" was dug out, which is also the Jin Dynasty city wall with a history of nearly 1,000 years.
The Jin Dynasty ruled in Jin Shangjing for 38 years, and experienced 4 generations of emperors before and after, leaving behind many cultural relics worth studying.
According to the History of Jin:
On all four sides of it are dragons, clouds, fire beads, squares, silver wire wrapped nets, pearls and cloud dragons, spiny leaves of the Sahasrara, and there are anemone flowers and sitting dragons.
Jin Xizong was the first emperor to ride this kind of big dragon, but since the late Jin Shizong period, the sitting dragon has been changed to a phoenix, so this "brass sitting dragon" is extremely rare and belongs to the world's treasures.
As for why there is a strange sound of "whining" in the middle of the night?
After studying the structure of the "brass sitting dragon", experts said that its whole is hollow, the dragon's beak is designed as a half-open eagle's beak structure, and the back is hollowed out, so its whole will leave a lot of small gaps.
When the wind blows, the wind will enter the hollow body along the mouth, and then leave through the gap in the back, thus forming a vibration of the air flow, and the human ear hears the strange sound of "whining".
This also explains why it is quiet as usual in the cabinet of Pei Shan's house, but it is strange when placed by the window.
In 1991, the "Brass Sitting Dragon" was collected by the Heilongjiang Museum and became the treasure of the town hall for the world to admire. Experts have made an estimate of 90 million yuan, and it is also known as "China's first dragon"!
In 1999, it went to Canada to participate in the "Rising Black Dragon" exhibition, which caused quite a stir.
In 2008, as one of the representatives of China's excellent traditional culture, it was exhibited to the world and was praised continuously.
Pei Shan, who personally discovered it, became a well-known local figure due to the discovery of this national treasure, and many people came to ask about the details of the "brass sitting dragon" found that year.
Every time he led his friends and family to the museum to visit the Brass Dragon, he proudly told them that he was the one who found it and handed it over.
Today, through 900 years, the "brass sitting dragon" has become the symbol of Acheng City, and its statues and patterns are all over the city.
Its 1:50 scale enlarged sculpture, standing at the entrance of the Ha'a Expressway, has become a landmark statue of the city, perfectly reproducing the beauty of the craftsmanship of that year!