At that time, the Beijing Palace Museum selected more than 700 exquisite cultural relics to participate in the exhibition, which was the first time that the China Palace Museum and ancient cultural relics went abroad in the name of the country to participate in the international cultural relics exhibition. Shang Yan and Mr. Fu Zhenlun from the Institute of Cultural Relics of the Forbidden City attended the exhibition. At the exhibition, they saw so many precious cultural relics of China lost overseas for the first time in a foreign country. As experts on cultural relics in the Forbidden City and China, they really felt cordial and deeply moved. They were particularly attracted by a bronze ware representing the British Museum. Now it has been collected in the British Museum and can be exhibited as a representative of the British Museum, which shows its preciousness.
This bronze ware is about 20 cm high, and its body is beautifully decorated. Based on years of experience in cultural relics work, two experts know that this bronze ware should be a kind of vessel and sacrificial vessel in ancient China-Gui.
What shocked them even more was that there were dozens of inscriptions on this bronze, which were quite rare and precious. At home, some cultural relics experts have heard of this bronze ware-Gui, but no one has seen it, let alone the specific situation. Is this A Gui bronze cultural relic known only by its name but not by its appearance a precious cultural relic?
Zhuang and Fu Zhenlun immediately asked the British Museum to allow them to make rubbings for this bronze, so as to bring it back to China for study. The staff of the museum agreed to their request.
After the rubbings were brought back to China, they immediately began to study them. The precious inscription of 68 words cast on the bronze ware finally solved the mystery of the life experience of this mysterious bronze ware.