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The garbage in your eyes is a valuable treasure in the eyes of others. This phrase is most appropriate in the world of cultural relics. Some cultural relics, even national treasures, have been treated as garbage and waste in the folk, but due to coincidence, they were finally fortunately discovered by the wise people and saved.
For example, the following first-class national treasures have this bumpy experience:
1. Hongshan culture jade pig dragon
In August 1971, Zhang Fengxiang, a villager in sanxing Tara Village, Weng Niu Te Banner, Inner Mongolia, suddenly dug a stone cellar in the fruit forest.
Driven by curiosity, he decided to explore the cave. At the bottom of the cave, he felt something like a hook, but it didn't catch his attention at the time.
After returning home, he thought carefully that even if it was scrap iron, it could be used to sell for money, so he returned to the scene and picked up the "iron block".
However, Zhang Fengxiang did not sell it to the waste collection station, but took it to the Weng Niu Special Banner Cultural Center.
At that time, the Hongshan culture had not yet been discovered, the staff of the cultural center did not know what it was, and Zhang Fengxiang did not know how much money to spend.
Therefore, a comrade in the cultural center made up his own mind and used thirty yuan to collect this cultural relic. Later, I learned that this was a Neolithic artifact.
Second, the Northern Song Dynasty Qingming Upper River Map
As a painting from the Northern Song Dynasty, the "Map of the Upper River of the Qingming Dynasty" has a history of nearly a thousand years. In 1911, the "Qingming Upper River Map" originally preserved in the Qing Palace was smuggled by Puyi to the northeast pseudo-Manchukuo, and in 1945, Japan was defeated, the puppet manchukuo was at the end of the road, Puyi escaped, a large number of cultural relics and treasures were destroyed, and people thought that the "Qingming Upper River Map" had been burned in the war.
But what is surprising is that in 1951, when Yang Renkai, a scholar of culture and science, was cleaning up the cultural relics of the Northeast Museum, he found the original "Qingming River Map" in a pile of defective products, which is simply a legend!
III. Wang Xizhi's "Han Che Ti"
Wang Xizhi's "Han Cut Thesis" (Tang facsimile)
"Han Cut The" is considered to be Wang Xi's Chapter Grass God Work, with simple penmanship and lofty artistic conception. At the beginning of the last century, after being taken out of the palace by Puyi, he disappeared for decades.
In the 1960s, many folk calligraphy and paintings were collected at waste collection stations, and most of them were thrown into mixing furnaces and turned into pulp. As an appraiser of cultural relics, Liu Guangqi's task is to rescue precious cultural relics from them, which is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack.
But it is also coincidental that at a waste collection station on Taihu Road in Tianjin's Hexi District, Liu Guangqi saw a bundle of waste paper that was a bit special, and when he opened it, it was two calligraphy works of "Xizhi"!
One is "Han Cut Thesis", and the other is "Dry Vomit Post", which is exactly the two calligraphy treasures of Tang Dynasty Wang Xizhi that were lost by Puyi. There are only six surviving calligraphy and inkblots (Tang G) of Wang Xizhi on the mainland, and the Tianjin Museum has two pieces in the collection, which is inseparable from Liu Guangqi's merits.
4. The Shang Dynasty Four Sheep Fang Zun
As long as the students who have taken the history class, no one knows the Four Sheep Fang Zun, this cultural relic has appeared in the textbook, which shows its weight.
This Shang Dynasty bronze fangzun was dug up by several farmers in Hunan in 1938, and later sold to antique dealers for 248 pieces of ocean, and was seized by the Republic of China government in the process of reselling antique dealers.
In the ensuing Outbreak of World War II, Changsha was bombed by the Japanese army, and the Four Sheep Fangzun disappeared without a trace. Until 1952, under the investigation of the cultural relics department, the Four Sheep Fangzun, which had long been blown into dozens of pieces, was found in the corner of a bank warehouse, and after nearly a year of restoration, the complete national treasure we see today was obtained.
5. He Zun in the early Western Zhou Dynasty
As Chinese, this artifact should be remembered. Because it is the earliest physical proof of the word "China" recorded in the current discovery, the inscription inside He Zun is engraved with "Zhaozi China".
Its discovery is also legendary, in 1963 it was planed out by a farmer in a dirt cliff behind the house, the farmer did not know what it was used for, he put it at home as a grain storage tank, and later sold it as scrap copper and rotten iron, sold for 30 yuan!
In the end, it was found and bought back by the museum's experts at the scrap station, which saved this national treasure of great significance to China!
VI. Western Zhou BanGui [guǐ]
This Western Zhou Bangui in the Capital Museum has a history of more than 3,000 years, and there is a 198-character inscription on it, which is an important object for the study of history and an absolute national treasure.
This bangui has been excavated as early as the Northern Song Dynasty and has been used as a palace collection since then, but when the Eight-Nation Alliance came in 1900, it disappeared in the chaos of the war.
It was not until more than 70 years later, when it was discovered by cultural relics workers in Beijing in a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron that was about to be sent to the furnace, that this gave this national treasure a second life!
7. The Shang Dynasty beast face pattern bronze statue
This Shang Dynasty beast face pattern bronze statue is now in the Hunan Museum, its discovery was in 1962, fortunately, at that time, cultural relics experts also had the habit of tracking national treasure cultural relics at the waste recycling station, it was accidentally found in the waste recycling station.
The scrap copper and iron in the recycling station were recovered from various places, and the discovery of this bronze statue was originally due to the discovery of a small copper sheet, because experts felt that it was unusual, and there was an incentive for further excavation.
This search, just found more than 200 copper pieces in those scraps, packed 27 bags back, and finally pieced together the bronze statue of the beast face we see today!
8. Warring States bronze wine jug
In 1967, at the waste station in Suide County, Shaanxi Province, a cultural relics worker found that a metal object with a different head and a blurred face that was about to be smelted seemed to be somewhat "extraordinary"...
Later, it was identified as an exquisite bronze wine jug from the Warring States period, a national first-class cultural relic. Cultural relics and artistic value are extremely high, it is called a bird lid pot.
9. Neolithic Tao Yingding
One day in 1957, Yin Siyi, a farmer in Taipingzhuang, ploughed the ground in the east of the village, a sudden shock, the plough hit a hard object, he thought it was a stone in the ground, he was ready to dig out the stone, who knew that digging out the virtual soil of the plough pine, but it was a bird-like shape of pottery, which was later famous in the world.
But he didn't know at the time that he had dug up a national treasure, took it home, and made a chicken food bowl.
In the autumn of 1958, an archaeological team composed of teachers and students of the Department of History of Peking University discovered the famous Yangshao cultural site in Quanhu Village in Huaxian County. While the archaeological team is excavating at the site of Izumi Village, it is also conducting investigation work nearby.
Taipingzhuang is the western neighbor of Quanhu Village, two villages villages, di lianpan, Yin Siyi saw the archaeological team's hot work, he took the initiative to tell the archaeologists who came to the village to investigate and publicize that he had dug up a piece of pottery, and sent Tao Yingding to the archaeological team, which made this precious cultural relics appear in the world, and finally collected by the National Museum.
10. Spring and Autumn Gao Zi Ge
Gao Zige is a weapon of the Spring and Autumn Period, a first-class cultural relic, and is now in the collection of the Shandong QiGuo History Museum. It was first discovered in 1970 by a local rural kid who sold for $5.97 as scrap.
Later, it was discovered and reclaimed by the cultural relics department, and it was not until 16 years later, when it was found that this child of Gao Zige had grown up, and once he visited the museum, he saw that the waste he had sold had become a national treasure for exhibition, so he told the staff the story of his discovery of Gao Zige.