How was the national treasure "wrong gold and silver wrapped around a copper pot" discovered? What is its artistic and historical research value?

1982 10, sunny. Wan, the captain of Mahudian Mahu Village Highway in Xuyi County, Jiangsu Province, led a dozen farmers to clean up rice fields and build canals. At noon, Wan's brother Wan Yiquan suddenly asked everyone to see it. He dug a hard object in the ground and everyone was busy. There is a dark round object lying in the mud. I don't know what it is.

Wan carefully identified it and felt like the lid of an object, so he asked everyone to dig down nearly two feet. A big pot suddenly came into view. The jar is full of golden things. After everyone carefully dug it out, Wan took it home and cleaned it carefully, and the cauldron was exposed.

The pot is more than 20 centimeters high, and the mouth of the pot is covered with a Jin Shanshan leopard-print golden beast, which glows. There are all kinds of gold nuggets in the pot, including gold, horseshoe gold, toe gold and many other types. The whole pot body is beautifully made, but the only pity is that the outer lower part of the copper pot is seriously corroded and separated from the ring foot, and there are some defects.

Faced with such a situation, everyone is very excited. The first time I saw so much gold, I thought it was God who made Wanjia rich. The family suggested sharing the gold equally with everyone, and then awarding the pot to the third child.

This suggestion excited everyone, but Wan He and Wan Yiquan were more reasonable and disagreed.

The two brothers suggested that these things be sent to the local government for expert appraisal. If it is really a national treasure, it should be handed over to the state, and no one can keep it for himself. Finally, the golden jar was sent to the government department and identified by archaeologists as a precious cultural relic in the Warring States period, which played an extremely important role in historical and archaeological research.

The local government commended Wanjia Brothers and awarded a bonus of 5,000 yuan.

Archaeologists conducted an on-site investigation of the excavated cultural relics and identified them as Nanyaozhuang cultural relics in Xuyi County, located 22.5 kilometers southeast of the county seat.

Through re-excavation, 38 cultural relics were unearthed in * * *.

One of the rare cultural relics is the wrong gold and silver rewinding copper pot; There is also a golden beast that looks like a tiger leopard, weighing 9100g and containing 99% gold. In addition, there are 1 1 gold plates of Ying 'ai and 25 gold cakes with a total weight of 1 1000 Jin.

This is the most unearthed gold in China.

According to experts' research, the northern part of Xuyi is the place where the story of Guan Zhong and Bao Fenjin took place. Guan Zhong and Bao are good friends. They know each other and have cooperated in business and profit sharing. This excavation seems to confirm the truth of the historical story. Experts also speculated that this kiln last entered Tibet in the Western Han Dynasty.

Let's take a look at this rare treasure-the wrong gold and silver are wrapped around the copper pot ~

Gold and silver staggered copper pot, also known as Chen pot, is a kind of bronze ware with hollow patterns. Experts believe that this cultural relic has been buried underground for more than 2000 years. Because the pot was filled with more than 20 kilograms of gold, the pot was subjected to continuous heavy pressure, bimetal and stress corrosion occurred, so the hollow ornamentation at the lower part of the ampulla was not completely broken.

However, it is still flawed. The imperfection of the lower part of the pot does not affect the exquisiteness of bronze casting technology and bronze art, on the contrary, it makes people feel exquisite and gorgeous.

Gold, silver and bronze pots are important historical relics at the national treasure level, and they are also one of the top ten national treasures in China. It can be seen that its status is currently collected in Nanjing Museum.

Let's carefully appreciate the exquisite and artistic value of the national treasure ~ ~

A copper pot with gold and silver intertwined, decorated with multiple tassels and interlaced gold and silver threads. Hollow-out technology is the characteristic of casting in the Warring States period, and it is also the only bronze ware named after this technology. The weight of the pot is 5.59 kg, the height of the lid is 24 cm, the caliber is 12.8 cm, the abdominal diameter is 22.2 cm, and the round foot diameter is 13.8 cm.

The staggered gold and silver rewinding copper pot is unique in shape and can be called chinese odyssey.

There are many checkered moire patterns on the neck and abdomen of the pot, and there is a net coat outside the pot, which is made of coiled dragons and gorgeous plum blossoms. The shoulder of the pot is decorated with 48 dragons and 48 rows of plum blossoms, accounting for 144. You can imagine how gorgeous and luxurious it is.

There are 48 staggered dragons, 48 rows of clubs and 432 * * * in the ampulla. There are four crouching beasts and four animal face rings on the surface of the transverse hoop of the net sleeve. The lying beast is shaped like a tiger, covered with staggered gold and silver squares, with turquoise and staggered gold clouds on its forehead. The fineness is amazing.

This kind of bronze pot is exquisite, complicated and labor-consuming. Casting like this, it is obvious that all parts are cast one by one, and then welded one by one, but it does not affect the seamless aesthetic feeling of the whole copper pot at all, and it also perfectly shows the superb skills of bronze craft in the Warring States period.

Most of the cultural relics we excavated have inscriptions, and this copper pot is no exception.

This copper pot has three inscriptions, 1 located at the mouth of the pot, which reads "Five Prizes for Chromium in Twenty Hardware". What does this mean? It is the number, name and volume of the vessel, and "one" and "one" are the special quantifiers of the Yan State in the Warring States Period, indicating the meaning of fighting and rising, so it is inferred that this copper pot is an artifact of the Yan State.

The second inscription is located at the foot of the copper pot circle, and the content is "Queen's Right Wine", which is presumed by experts to be the user's inscription; Third, on the outside of the outer circle, the content of 29 words looks a little headache. "In the five years of Qiaowang, I laid the foundation stone and later established my career. Meng Dongrong started his army and I hid the pavilion together." Chen Zhangnei, buy the state. "

Experts know nothing about this. Later, compared with the square pot of Zhang Chen who lived in the United States in the late Qing Dynasty, the results showed that the two pots had the same characters, just a circle. Therefore, the coexistence of two kinds of pots in Fiona Fang is fate and a more complete arrangement. Therefore, the wrong gold and silver rewound the copper pot, also known as the Zhangchen round pot.

To sum up, the gold and silver staggered copper pot has exquisite craftsmanship and superb casting technology, which brings together the representative works of pre-Qin crafts in China and provides us with historical research value. It is indeed one of the top ten national treasures of towns and institutes unparalleled in the world.

(The pictures in the article are from the Internet, if there is any intrusion)