introduction
China has a splendid history of 5,000 years, and in the long river of time, the ancestors have left us many precious cultural relics.
As we all know, cultural relics play a vital role in our study of the face of ancient society because of their unique historical, scientific and artistic values.
However, the cultural relics that have survived in the world are after all a minority, and even fewer are cherished and passed on. Because many precious cultural relics are buried deep in the surface, the deeds of cultural relics found during construction site operations often occur.
Such as the discovery of the Jinsha ruins, the discovery of the ruins of the Shu King's Mansion, etc.
However, picking up cultural relics while scavenging is a very rare thing. A scavenger in Inner Mongolia picked up rubbish on weekdays, and even picked up valuable cultural relics.
▲Recent photos of the old man who scavengers
Inner Mongolia is sparsely populated, and most areas are almost uninhabited, and this old man often goes to the suburbs to pick up mineral water bottles, and some waste paper shells subsidize the family. The Spring Festival is approaching, the old man is still scavenging around as usual, but after going out for a morning, there is nothing to gain, and the old man begins to sullen and unhappy.
Just as the old man was about to go home, he suddenly noticed a shining thing in the garbage heap not far away, so he walked quickly to the front to see what it was. Only to see some arrows and some rusty iron rods appear in front of them, and their bodies seemed to still have some gold knots attached to them, which led to a flash. The old man was overjoyed, thinking that although these things were tattered, they were worth more than the paper shells.
▲Recent photo of the iron rod
So he hurriedly brought these things home and prepared to burn the rust away with a torch. As a result, after putting the things on the fire and burning them, the old man suddenly realized that these things were actually gold.
The old man hurried back to the place where he found the iron rod, hoping to find it again in the garbage heap. After a night of careful searching by the old man, he actually picked up a total of 7 pounds of iron rods. Carrying a heavy bag of iron rods, the old man strolled toward the house. The large amount of gold made the old man seem to see the hope of life, and he got up early the next morning and carried a pocket of gold to prepare to cash out the treasure in his pocket.
Who knew that when he got to the gold and silver shop in town, the owner of the shop told him that the gold was not particularly pure. The old man was eager to sell, and after consulting with the boss, decided to melt all the treasures in this pocket to refine the purity of gold and obtain higher economic benefits.
▲ Gold molten out of iron rods
In this way, the iron rod of this pocket was refined by the owner of the gold shop to extract 4 pounds of gold, and the old man also made a profit of 12,000 yuan. At that time, the purchasing power of 12,000 yuan was not comparable to today, and it could be said that it was a huge amount of money. The old man made a living as a scavenger, and his life was already poor, from a problem of food and clothing overnight to sitting on a huge fortune, so that his life was comfortable and leisurely.
The people of the town heard the story of the old man and were deeply envious, hoping that they could find such a pocket of gold. Under the extensive discussion of ten and ten hundred, the story of an old scavenger who saw gold spread in the local area.
▲ Recent photos of the elderly scavengers whose lives have been improved
After hearing the story of the old man, the local cultural relics department keenly guessed that the old man's pocket of rusty iron rods and arrows was likely to be ancient cultural relics. The relevant personnel of the cultural relics department immediately drove to the town and came to the place where the old man lived and saw him.
After explaining the reason, the old man took the staff of the cultural relics department to the place where the gold was found. After the investigation of the place of occurrence, cultural relics experts repeatedly scientifically measured and restored the iron rod waste extracted by the old man, and determined that these iron rods were very rare gold objects in the Xiongnu period, and the amount of existence was very small.
▲Cultural relics experts identify recent photos of cultural relics
After asking the old man about the weight of the iron rod and related surface characteristics, experts believe that the economic value of this gold is far more than 12,000, up to more than 300 million.
Such an ending made everyone present deeply regret that some such precious cultural relics had been destroyed in this way, which was really painful, and many experts were angry and tearful. Cultural relics of the Xiongnu period are very rare, and most of the gold and silver objects found today are gold and silverware, weapons, etc., among which the golden crown ornaments of the Xiongnu period are the treasures of the Inner Mongolia Museum.
epilogue
The ability to identify cultural relics is not proficient in everyone, so many cultural relics are inadvertently discarded or sold by the world, and the protection of cultural relics should not only look at their rich economic value, but should correctly look at their historical and cultural values. When rare and suspected ancient objects are encountered, it is the correct way to protect the value of cultural relics by notifying the cultural relics department at the first time.
Resources:
"National Treasures", "Cultural Relics Have Something to Say"