There is a folk saying in China, that is, a rich family is not as good as a Jun kiln, and a Jun kiln is not as good as a Ru kiln. Through this sentence, we can know how high the value of porcelain in the Song Dynasty is. Some people may find it difficult to understand that in the antique market, a Qing dynasty porcelain was also very exquisite in workmanship, but its value was not particularly high. Why did the Song dynasty porcelain have such high value?
judging the value of an article has a certain relationship with its workmanship and the number of surviving products. During the Song Dynasty in China, the porcelains produced by five famous kilns were not only collected by domestic dignitaries, but also sold in large quantities to other countries. It was in this historical period that China porcelain became a household name. Therefore, on the whole, the number of porcelain exported in the Song Dynasty was much higher than that in China, which made the number of porcelain in the Song Dynasty less and less.
In addition, it has a lot to do with the burial customs of the ancients in China. Most of the precious cultural relics in ancient China were discovered by studying the tombs of the ancients. However, China's ancient people seldom used porcelain as funerary objects, which led us to hardly see Song Dynasty porcelain when excavating the tombs of the ancient people. In addition, porcelain is fragile, and the Song Dynasty has been hundreds of years away from modern times, which makes it difficult for us to see a Song Dynasty porcelain now, which makes the price of Song Dynasty porcelain reach an unimaginable level.
Digging a hole and accidentally digging out a national treasure
In the 199s, in a small village in Sichuan Province, China, a wife dug a grave to bury her dead husband. However, in the process of digging, the woman accidentally dug up 985 national treasures, each of which looked brand-new. Obviously, someone deliberately buried it here. When the woman saw these cultural relics, she didn't choose to possess them privately. Instead, she chose to report them to the local cultural relics department, and after handing them in, she won the 5 yuan.
this is a small village, and the villagers have lived here for generations, which can be regarded as calm and stable. A peasant woman named Wen Bizhen got married and had children here, and took care of a vegetable garden with her husband. With the passage of time, Wen Bizhen's husband passed away because of illness. After going through a series of procedures, Wen Bizhen was approved by the village to choose a wasteland to dig the grave and bury her husband.
The wife dug a grave to bury her dead husband, but when she dug down, she found that the soil below was a little abnormal. This is because if the soil has not been turned over, the overall structure should be relatively solid and not so easy to dig down. Wen Bizhen has been doing farm work for decades, and she can easily judge that the soil here has been turned over, which means there is probably something hidden below.
Wen Bizhen, who realized that something was wrong, quickly went home and found many tools, and kept digging down. With the deepening of the depth, Wen Bizhen realized that there must be something precious below. Sure enough, Wen Bizhen finally dug up the result she wanted. There was a hidden dark hole below, which probably contained precious ancient cultural relics.
Wen Bizhen is so obsessed with the cultural relics below, not to hide them, but simply to verify whether his ideas are correct. After discovering this hidden hole, she didn't go in alone for safety reasons, but told the villagers and the local cultural relics protection department about it and asked professionals to go down and investigate. Early the next morning, several cultural relics protection experts and a professional archaeological team came to the village and asked Wen Bizhen to take them to investigate near the dark cave.
After seeing this deep hole, experts and villagers at the scene praised Wen Bizhen's seriousness and responsibility. After several archaeologists went down to investigate for several hours, Wen Bizhen's guess was confirmed. There were indeed many precious cultural relics hidden in that dark hole, at least hundreds of them.
After the archaeologists removed all these precious ancient cultural relics, they counted them one by one and learned the exact number of cultural relics. Wen Bizhen intended to bury her husband, but unexpectedly dug up 985 national treasures. What is even more surprising is that all these ancient cultural relics came from the Southern Song Dynasty in China. Cultural relics of the same era are hidden in a dark cave, which makes experts very curious. There are no ancient tombs here, and the purpose of this dark cave is obviously to protect these precious porcelain. So why did the owner of porcelain dig such a dark cave and hide these precious cultural relics in it?
Faced with the national treasure, he resolutely turned it in.
After reading the local county annals, the experts found the answer in the ancient books. It turns out that this is because during the Southern Song Dynasty in China, this small mountain village has always been a military location and was devastated by war. The time node when the owner of the porcelain dug a dark hole to hide the porcelain was the year before the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty. That is to say, the owner of the porcelain learned the news in advance and knew that the Mongolian iron hoof would arrive here soon. In order to protect these precious cultural relics, he chose to hide these porcelain deep underground, and waited for someone to find them one day in the future, and finally it was discovered by Wen Bizhen by chance in modern times.
after learning the history behind these cultural relics, everyone present was very surprised. This is because the porcelain of the Song Dynasty itself is very precious. The 985 pieces of porcelain of the Southern Song Dynasty found this time, although most of them are products of small porcelain kilns, still have very high historical value, and also include a very precious lotus leaf jar. This investigation has yielded a lot, and all this is thanks to the peasant woman Wen Bizhen who found these cultural relics.
Wen Bizhen, as a peasant woman, has lived a poor life from beginning to end. If she finds these cultural relics, she has no choice but to smuggle them away and sell them to the outside world. Then the money for selling these cultural relics is enough to make her eat and drink for the rest of her life. However, in the face of the national treasure, Wen Bizhen did not consider personal interests, but chose to give these cultural relics to the state for safekeeping without hesitation. Her selfless behavior is worth learning.
Wen Bizhen found so many precious historical relics and won the 5 yuan after handing them in. However, Wen Bizhen insisted that she couldn't accept the money, because she never thought of making a profit on this matter from beginning to end. She planned to report to the relevant departments and ask them to investigate these cultural relics, not for the reward afterwards, but simply for the hope that the national cultural relics could be protected as they should.