What are some of the cultural relics that have been treated as worthless waste and garbage?

He Zun, a bronze ware of the Shang and Zhou dynasties: A farmer found it in his own field and took it home as a container to use it, but later his life was too difficult, so he spent 30 yuan to sell He Zun as a scrap. After several turnovers, He Zun was finally discovered by people who knew about antiques, and now it is a national treasure.

The most pitiful should be the copper dollar and the silver dollar, the copper dollar has dissolved and hit the foot stove, Tang Pozi. And the silver dollars have been locked with a hundred locks, and the silver bracelets have been made.

I think students who have studied history know that oracle bone inscriptions were used as a medicinal material for oracle bones at the beginning, and it was only later that people discovered them, and the words on them were gradually protected.

The oracle bone inscription on the tortoise shell was used as a medicinal material at the beginning, and it was also a relatively cheap kind, and after the text on it was discovered, its ** was greatly valued.

There are many artifacts that were once considered worthless scrap, but when we learn about other documents, it becomes even more valuable.

The jade dragon in Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, now a top national treasure, started as a farmer named Zhang Fengxiang who was building terraces in his orchard, found a stone cave, and then pulled out something like a hook from the stone cave. After he took it home, he didn't think it was a good thing, so he threw it to his younger brother to play, and the younger brother tied a rope to it, and dragged it as an iron hook to play, dragging and dragging, and found that the dirty thing on it was gone, revealing the true color of jade. Zhang Fengxiang felt that this thing had a bit of a background, so he sent it to the cultural center, which felt that it was a cultural relic, but he couldn't say it, so he bought it for thirty yuan, and then threw it at the bottom of the box and didn't care, until a site was found in Liaoning, which excavated something similar to this, and then turned it out again, and at a glance, this is a jade dragon, one of the earliest dragon images in China.

In 2008, Zhang, a retired librarian from the Hunan Museum, went to a scrap yard to sell newspapers when he found a piece of scrap copper, which had a very special pattern on it, the cloud and thunder pattern, which was a unique symbol on Shang Dynasty bronzes. Later, after a number of colleagues and experts, all the copper sheets were finally recovered at the scrap yard. The owner of the scrapyard gave the old pieces to the museum at any time.

This Shang Dynasty wine vessel has been restored to its former glory.

and Shibi. A piece of jade that was famous in ancient China, especially after being carved into a jade seal by Qin Shi Huang, became a symbol of monarchy, and the emperors of all dynasties regarded it as a treasure and an important weapon of the country. We don't know what it looks like, but it has been passed down from generation to generation that it is famous and precious.

In fact, at first, Heshibi was only regarded as a worthless stone.

In 1957, Yin Siyi, a farmer in Huaxian County, Shaanxi Province, was plowing his own field, and suddenly ploughed into a hard thing. I didn't think it was a good thing, but the shape was relatively complete, and it was a pity to throw it away, so I took it home, and it happened that there was a lack of a chicken food bowl at home, so I used this ceramic bowl as a basin to feed the chickens. In the second year, an archaeological team came to the village to excavate Yangshao culture, and publicized it in the village.

When the villagers heard that the chicken feeder in their own house seemed to be unusual, they invited the archaeologists to their homes to take a look, and they understood that this was a Neolithic thing, and this tripod has become one of the cultures that China prohibits from going abroad. Finally, a foreign one, although it is not garbage, is almost like garbage. One year, an American took a fancy to a painting in the second-hand market, it was very ugly, and he didn't think it was worth anything at all, but he thought it was weird, and it was priced at eight dollars, and he sold it for five dollars, and when he got it back, he was told that it might have been painted by Jackson Pollock.

Eventually, a fingerprint was found on the painting, which was signed as Jackson Pollock's fingerprint, and the paint was the same as the paint used by Jackson Pollock's studio, and it was finally determined that the painting was genuine, valued at $50 million. Actually, I also have a garbage thing in my house, which has no practical function at the moment, and is just placed in the corner, but I always feel that sooner or later, someone will tell me that it is a unique product.

The bronze wine pot of the Warring States period is a national first-class cultural relic. The lid is in the shape of a bird, and the ampulla is gourd-shaped, so it is called a bird-covered gourd pot. There is a loop buckle at the bird cover, which can be opened and closed freely.

The neck to the abdomen of the pot is decorated with two delicate wide bands and six beaulieu patterns. The bird's tail on the lid is connected to the handle by a chain link, which is divided into four sections, each of which is decorated with a snake pattern with its head facing up and the tail rolled into a ring. The bird lid gourd pot was accidentally discovered by cultural relics workers in the scrap acquisition station of Suide County, Shaanxi Province, when it was in a different place and unrecognizable, and it was known by experts that it was a Warring States bronze, which spared it from being dissolved in the refining furnace.

It is an ancient vessel, equivalent to today's large bowls, with pottery and copper. Ban Gui is a bronze Gui of the Western Zhou Dynasty, because its owner is called "Ban", so according to the general bronze naming principle, it is called Ban Gui. There is an inscription of 198 words on the ban, which records the Western Zhou Dynasty nobleman Mao Boban, who followed Mao Gong's expedition to Dongyi, and after the victory, Ban cast this bronze gui to commemorate.

We know that in the hand-me-down documents, the records of the history of the Western Zhou Dynasty are relatively scarce, and some of the documents are recompiled by later generations, and the credibility is doubtful, while the inscription of Ban Gui was written by the people at that time, and the credibility is very high, naturally, and its historical value is also very high. According to the records of the "Western Qing Dynasty Gujian", Ban Gui was unearthed in the Qing Dynasty at the latest, and was included in the Qing Palace, becoming Qianlong's private collection. Later, in the Gengzi Rebellion, Ban Gui was plundered by the Eight-Nation Alliance, and since then it has been lost to the people, and I don't know where it is.

In 1972, the staff of the Beijing cultural relics cleaning and sorting team saw Ban Gui in a scrap metal ** station. It's a pity that Ban Gui has been smashed to pieces at that time, and he is preparing to return to the furnace for retraining!

There are many cultural relics and treasures in our country, but many of them have been regarded as "worthless" waste and garbage. Let me give you a few examples.

In 1957, a ceramic bowl was unearthed in a field in Huaxian County, Shaanxi. At that time, the farmers felt that it was a pity that they did not lose it, and took it to feed the chickens. Then the archaeological team came to the village, and the villagers remembered the ceramic bowl and handed it in, and after the archaeological team identified it, it was found that it was something from the Neolithic Age.

We all know that Empress Lu is a very powerful person, and her seal is also the seal of China's first queen, which is priceless. But it was not considered a treasure back then, it was picked up by a primary school student, but he also wanted to grind the seal and then use it himself, but he didn't expect it to be too hard so it was not polished off, and his old father went to the province to find out the value of this jade.

There was also a bronze sake jug during the Warring States period, which was found by cultural relics workers at the scrap yard, and it is conceivable that everyone must have thrown it away as useless garbage. Fortunately, it was picked up by antiquities workers at the time, otherwise it might have been buried.

Another time an American bought an ugly painting for $5 in the second-hand market, which turned out to be genuine, worth $50 million. I can't even think of it.

In fact, there are many such things, and many cultural relics are often unable to see their true appearance because they are too ugly or too old. In addition, there are too many fakes nowadays, so in many cases, people will even sell real paintings as fakes, so that many cultural relics and treasures are discarded as garbage, which is a pity.

However, if they are indeed cultural treasures, they will definitely be discovered by cultural relics workers, and their value will not be hidden, it is only a matter of time.

Hongshan Yulong, an Inner Mongolian farmer thought it was an iron hook for children to play with, and was later used by a staff member of the cultural center.

People have no knowledge of cultural relics, and many people have dug up treasures that they thought were useless, and ancient porcelain was used as a food bowl for feeding cats.

The treasures that are usually dug up by ordinary people end up as scrap products and do not know the goods.

China's first jade dragon was just discovered by a farmer and thrown to his younger brother to play with.

Back then, a farmer dug up Tao Yingding and took it home as a pot to feed the chickens.