The old man dug the ground and found four "urine cans", which the experts bought for 654.38+ 10,000 yuan. How much is it worth now?

China has a long history of culture, and countless splendid civilizations and arts have emerged in this land of China. People are creating their own glory and glory in this land, and naturally there are traces left by their ancestors. Although there is no fault in China's ancient culture, not all the history is truthfully recorded. After all, listening is empty, and seeing is believing. Only by combining the words and objects in the book can we tell people that this is the real history. For example, the mausoleum of Qin Shihuang, such as Gou Jian's sword. Therefore, since ancient times, it is normal for people to find items left over from ancient times in the land. What we are going to talk about today is that a farmer in Shaanxi Province pulled out a treasure.

The spring of 197 1 is a good day for farmers to start spring, because as long as they work more in spring, they will harvest a lot of fruits in autumn. The villagers in Datong Village, Fufeng County, Shaanxi Province also started their New Year work. The villagers are preparing to dredge the river, because a smooth river can ensure the smooth irrigation of farmland. Liu Laobo is one of them. One day, the villagers worked until noon, and it was time for lunch. But Liu Laobo hasn't left yet. He wants to hold the ground in his hand for a while before going back to eat. He is still alone in this land. Before long, Liu Laobo suddenly found a hard pimple. He thinks it's a big stone, but it won't do. Stones will block the river, so he intends to dig out this "big stone" with his bare hands. He froze when he dug out what he thought was a "big stone" from the dirty soil! Because this is not a big stone, but several clay pots. The shapes of these pots are very strange. The top is round and the bottom is square.

Liu Laobo is an out-and-out farmer, so he took these four jars home. After these pots were washed with water, they were covered with green rust and looked very shabby and inconspicuous. Liu Laobo's wife doesn't understand Liu Laobo's practice. Nothing can be done with this jar. So the husband and wife put the four jars in the cellar. Then one day, Liu Laobo's three children were very naughty and found these four clay pots to be chamber pot, that is, urinals.

Time flies and rushes by. Time is up 1997. People's awareness of cultural relics is much higher this year than in the past. Liu Laobo remembered four jars he had dug in the ground. Maybe these four cans are quite famous. I don't know. So he asked the museum experts for advice. After careful study, experts found that it was a bronze ware. Obviously, bronzes were the most popular in Shang and Zhou Dynasties. Moreover, there are inscriptions on bronzes, and the number of words actually reaches 129.

You know, the bronzes of Shang and Zhou dynasties are of great archaeological value. There is a saying that if there is one more word on the bronzes, the value will double. Think about it this way, this bronze is really promising. This bronze ware is a "beast-killing coffin" in the middle and late Western Zhou Dynasty, and its inscription is also very important. It tells the scene that the king of Zhou sealed officials and rewarded them under the book order system of the Western Zhou Dynasty at that time. Sacrifice was popular in the Zhou Dynasty, and the Emperor of Zhou usually used bronzes for a series of sacrificial activities. Therefore, this kind of sacrificial animals in the Western Zhou Dynasty is of great significance to the study of the system in the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Moreover, according to experts' speculation, Liu Laobo still has three other identical beasts-killing reeds. Sure enough, as the experts expected, Liu Laobo had three pieces left in his hand. So, 1999, experts bought these four Western Zhou bronzes from Liu Laobo for 65,438+10,000 yuan. At that time, ten thousand households could be very eye-catching, which was different from the current one hundred thousand yuan. For Liu Laobo, it was also a windfall. Due to the non-replicability of bronzes for slaughtering animals, they are now worth more than 1 100 million yuan. People can only see its charm in museums.

Conclusion:

According to Chinese laws, the cultural relics excavated in China belong to the state. Liu Laobo was lucky to dig up cultural relics, and experts also paid 654.38+10,000 yuan in compensation, which is also good for Liu Laobo and the country. Because cultural relics are proud of the world because of their uniqueness and unrepeatability, it is also a powerful textual research on the contents contained in history books.

Refer to "Study on the Staging and Dating of Bronzes in Western Zhou Dynasty"