The Chinese nation has a long history, has experienced countless changes, and has left behind many precious cultural heritages. These cultural relics are not only our national treasures, but also the soul of our nation. They bear witness to our glory and suffering, and also show our wisdom and creativity.
It is said that the prosperity of antiques and troubled gold, now is the era of peace and prosperity, people's enthusiasm for cultural relics is getting higher and higher, and various treasure hunting programs emerge in endlessly, making people dizzy.
Some people took out their family heirlooms for experts to identify, which also opened the eyes of the audience. Others look for traces of artifacts, hoping to discover some hidden secrets.
You may not believe that the pie in the sky really exists, and it fell on a scavenger, but knowledge determines vision, a good windfall, and in the end, it was a chicken and egg beating, and it lost 300 million!A surprise for the scavengers.
This scavenger is called Lao Wang, an old man from Inner Mongolia. His life was very hard, and he barely survived by picking up scraps and selling them for money.
The territory of Inner Mongolia is vast, with many desolate places and sparsely populated. Lao Wang often went to these places to scavenge for waste, hoping to pick up something useful.
Generally speaking, the things that waste pickers can pick up are some discarded items, such as mineral water bottles, waste cartons, scrap iron, etc. If you're lucky, you'll be able to pick up some metal, which can be considered a good income. But Lao Wang's luck was far beyond his imagination.
In the winter of 1979, Lao Wang went out to pick up waste as usual, and he came to a garbage dump in the suburbs and began to look for something valuable. But the luck was really bad, there was nothing that could catch the eye, Lao Wang was a little disappointed, and wanted to change places to see.
Lao Wang looked around, and suddenly found a place with a faint light, he walked over curiously, but he didn't expect to find something unusual.
Lao Wang found some bronze-colored arrowheads, as well as some rusty iron rods, and some small golden particles stuck to the iron rods. These arrows and iron rods glow with a hint of gold in the sunlight.
Lao Wang is an old cannon in the scavenging world, and he knew at a glance that this thing was different from the rags he usually picked up, and he thought that this must be a good thing, so he quickly put them into a bag and brought them home.
When Lao Wang returned home, he immediately lit a fire and burned what he had picked up. He thought that these things might be metal, and if he burned them, he could see them.
But these things are very strange, there is a thick layer of mud pasted on them, and they have not changed after burning for a long time, Lao Wang did not give up, found a piece of torn linen and began to rub it, rubbed it twice, and the originally inconspicuous iron rod actually emitted a misty golden light!
When Lao Wang saw the gold in the fire, he couldn't believe his eyes. He hurriedly ran back to the garbage dump, took a ** bag, and continued to look for the place where he found the gold. It took him the whole night to find several more iron rods, happily put them in sacks, and carried them home. When I got home, I weighed seven pounds.
The king suddenly had so much gold, and he didn't think much of it, and the next day he went to a gold shop in the town to sell it for money.
Along the way, Lao Wang's mouth has never been closed, and now he is about to turn over, more than 7 catties of gold, so that he will not have to worry for the rest of his life.
What he didn't expect was that the owner of the gold shop was not interested in his gold. The owner of the gold shop looked at Lao Wang's gold and said that the gold was not pure, and there were many impurities, which needed to be smelted and purified before they could be sold for a good price. He also told Lao Wang that if he left the gold in the shop and asked him to help smelt it, he could give Lao Wang a higher **. When Lao Wang heard this, he thought it was a good idea, so he agreed.
As a result, this bag of iron rods was smelted out of four catties by the owner of the gold shop, and gave Lao Wang 12,000 yuan. This is the 70s, 12,000 yuan is definitely a lot of money, and Lao Wang has changed from a penniless scavenger to a 10,000-yuan household.
Soon, everyone in the village knew that Lao Wang had made a fortune by picking up rags in the east of the village, and Lao Wang did not shy away from it, boasting about his good luck with the villagers all day long.
Soon, the news reached the ears of the local antiquities bureau. The experts of the Cultural Relics Bureau heard the story of Lao Wang and immediately guessed that what Lao Wang picked up might be some ancient cultural relics, how could there be such a large number of gold sticks buried in the garbage heap, and the purity was not enough, these characteristics are in line with the characteristics of cultural relics.
The archaeological team hurriedly contacted Lao Wang, wanting to go and see the place he picked up and conduct some investigations.
Experts from the Cultural Relics Bureau went to the garbage dump with Lao Wang, and according to Lao Wang's guidance, they found the place where he picked up the gold. They dug there for a while and found some scraps discarded by Lao Wang. They carefully examined the scraps, and after some testing and restoration, they were able to determine the true identity of the iron bars.
These iron rods, in fact, are gold artifacts of the Xiongnu period, which are ornaments used to decorate the head and body. They have round, semicircular, curved, etc., and have patterns of various animals on them, such as tigers, eagles, horses, sheep, etc.
These animals not only reflect the lifestyle and economic type of the Xiongnu, but also represent their totemic worship and symbols of power. The craftsmanship of these goldware is very exquisite, using a variety of techniques such as round carving, relief carving, openwork carving, filigree, inlay, etc., the gold is shining, the color is bright, and it is breathtaking.
The experts of the Cultural Relics Bureau were amazed, and they believed that these gold objects were the crown and crown belt of the Xiongnu Shan Yu, the treasure of the Xiongnu culture, and the witness of the Silk Road in the grassland.
They quickly informed their superiors and requested that the gold artifacts be transported back to the museum as soon as possible for more detailed identification and protection.
It is not an exaggeration to say that these iron rods are national treasures, and according to estimates, the value of these cultural relics must be 300 million. Cultural relics experts are distressed and only pat their thighs, and the good end of the country's heavy weapon has been melted into the most useless **!
Lao Wang also regretted it, so he passed by the billionaire, but if he could sell them to cultural relics dealers, although he could get a lot of money, but it was more likely that he would like to mention a set of "silver bracelets", he didn't know whether he should be happy or sad, he could only smile bitterly and accept the praise and gratitude of the experts.