introduction
Liu Yuxi's "Wuling Guanhuo" says: "Jinku takes the dragon sword, and Wu Room swings swallow chicks." "Chinese civilization has lasted for 5,000 years and is a shining pearl standing in the East. The tactics of the cold weapon era need to be deployed, otherwise it can only be called a group frame, and it has considerable historical research value for the excavated ancient weapons or utensils, and it is even more eager for archaeologists.
Throughout history, with the continuous change of dynasties and the frequent occurrence of wars, many artifacts in history cannot be preserved in large quantities and intact. Generally speaking, the longer the time, the more difficult it is to preserve cultural relics, for example, there are many more Surviving Qing Dynasty cultural relics today than in the pre-Qin period.
In addition to going to museums, ordinary people usually rarely see precious cultural relics. However, there are exceptions to everything, such a thing once happened to Inner Mongolia, an old scavenger, an accident let him discover valuable cultural relics of great value.
▲Recent photos of the old man who scavengers
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In our daily lives, we meet a lot of waste pickers who go out of their way to find recyclable items to help their families and themselves improve their living conditions.
In the vast inner Mongolia region, there is such a garbage dump scavenger old man, because of the hardship of life, he often goes to the suburbs to pick up waste bottles, waste paper shells and other items.
Once, the Spring Festival was approaching, in order to have a comfortable year, the old man worked harder to collect garbage outside, he ignored the cold wind outside, and often went out before dawn.
▲Recent photo of the iron rod
On this day, he worked as usual and had been out for a morning and had not found anything that could be used. Just as he was about to give up and go home, he suddenly saw a very dazzling thing next to the garbage heap not far away, shining in the winter sun.
So the old man walked quickly over to look for it carefully, and a few shining arrows and rusty iron rods caught his eye. After the old man took a closer look, he was surprised to find that the iron rod seemed to have some gold knots attached to it, and he was very happy to be able to pick up such a good thing in the garbage heap.
▲Recent photos of the old man who scavengers
Subsequently, the old man took them home, and the old man was curious about the golden knots on the iron rods, because this one was not like welding, but more like seamless.
So the old man put the iron rod on the fire and burned it, hoping to burn the rust on the iron rod to see what the iron rod originally looked like. After a period of burning, these black iron rods, all flashing with golden light, the old man carefully recognized them, surprised, they are all real gold.
So the old man did not say a word, put down the treasure in his hand, and immediately went to the previous garbage dump, hoping to pick up the treasure again.
As the old man expected, after a careful search throughout the night, there were more than 7 pounds of iron rods in total, and he was very happy.
▲ Recent photos of the elderly scavengers whose lives have been improved
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After much deliberation, the old man decided to sell the heavy bag of gold to the town's gold and silver shops in exchange for a considerable income. When he showed them to the shopkeeper, the shopkeeper said that the gold was not of pure quality and could not be sold for a good price. After some deliberation,
The old man took the advice of his boss and decided to process the metal and refine it into gold of higher purity. After processing, the bag of iron rods was refined into 4 pounds of gold, and the old man also sold for a good price of 12,000 yuan. This was quite a considerable amount of money at that time, and ordinary people did not have tens of thousands of yuan of savings, not to mention that the old man was scavenging all day.
▲ Gold molten out of iron rods
The old man found the gold and also changed his life, every day a leisurely life, the people in the town heard the old man's things are very envious, and later one by one, one after another, more and more people know about it. The staff of the local heritage department heard about the incident
▲Cultural relics experts identify recent photos of cultural relics
After the staff repeatedly explained the purpose of the trip, the old man took them to the place where he found the iron rod. After a series of scientific identifications and repeated testing of the fragments of iron rods at the site of discovery, experts believe that the iron rods found by the elderly are precious gold tools of the Xiongnu period, and its economic value is far more than 12,000 yuan, which should be as high as 300 million yuan. You know, so far, the cultural relics related to the Xiongnu have been very rare, very few have survived, and the collection of a museum in Inner Mongolia is a golden crown of the Xiongnu.
epilogue
Archaeology plays a pivotal role in the national essence system, it is the carrier of Chinese history up to today, and the protection of cultural relics is the consensus of every Chinese, and we should have an unshirkable responsibility. In modern Times, China was poor and weak, so a large number of cultural relics were robbed by western powers and Japan, but with the expansion of China's influence, some cultural relics have returned to China, such as the rabbit head and mouse head snatched by France. Therefore, when we find items suspected of cultural relics, we must report them to the government for inspection at the first time.
Resources:
"National Treasures", "Cultural Relics Have Something to Say"