Our country has a long history, and countless rare treasures have emerged in countless years, and many of them are famous in history. However, due to wars and other reasons, many of China's treasures are missing, including four top national treasures, the most expensive of which is worth tens of billions of yuan. So, will these four top national treasures still appear? Today, let's take a look.
Kyushu Ding
In the early years of the Xia Dynasty, Dayu divided the world into nine prefectures, and the prefecture was set up as a state pastor. Later Xia Qi ordered the casting of Jiuding, and painted the famous mountains and rivers, scenic places, and strange objects in various states across the country into a atlas, and then sent selected famous craftsmen to imitate these paintings on the body of Jiuding, symbolizing a state with a ding. Jiuding symbolizes Kyushu and shows that the Xia King has become the co-lord of the world. It can be said that Jiuding is no longer a simple nine bronze dings, but a symbol of the world.
After the fall of the Xia Dynasty, the Shang Dynasty took over Kyushu Ding. Subsequently, Zhou annihilated Shang, and Jiuding once again transferred to the hands of Zhou Chao. In the last year of the Zhou Dynasty, the Zhou royal family declined, and all the princes coveted Jiuding. According to historical records, after the Qin army captured The King of Luodong Zhou, he fell into Weishui on the way from Weishui to Xianyang, and his whereabouts are unknown! From this record, it can be seen that Jiuding sinks in Weishui. It is believed that although Jiuding has gone through thousands of years, it is very likely that it will see the light of day again at the bottom of the Weishui Water.
Pass on the national jade seal
The State of Qin broke the State of Zhao and obtained the peerless Jade and Clan Bi. After Qin Shi Huang unified the world, he ordered Li Si to carve the jade seal of the country with a small seal, and the front was engraved with eight insect and bird seal characters of "Ordered by Heaven and Shou Yongchang" as a relic of "Imperial Power, Heavenly Grant, Orthodox and Legal". After the Qin Dynasty, the jade seal of the country became the testimony of the orthodox emperors of our country. Power is crazy, and those who want to seek the throne of the emperor in the past have competed for it, resulting in the chuanguo seal changing hands repeatedly, and later, the late Tang Emperor Li Congju and the empress dowager Cao shi set themselves on fire in Xuanwu Lou, and the chuanguo jade seal disappeared.
Subsequent emperors not only searched for the Chuanguo Jade Seal, but also the emperors of the Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties, in order to prove their legitimacy, even forged the Chuanguo Jade Seal. As for where the Chuanguo Jade Seal is, it has always been a mystery. Such a treasure will never disappear in a vacuum, it is very likely that it has been buried in an ancient tomb and made a burial item, and further archaeological discoveries are needed to make it reappear as soon as possible.
Orchid Pavilion Prologue
Wang Xizhi is known as a book saint, and the Orchid Pavilion Preface is his pinnacle work, known as "the first line of the world". After Wang Xizhi's death, the authentic manuscript of the Orchid Pavilion Preface went through several twists and turns, and finally fell into the hands of the Tang Dynasty debaters, who were later deceived by Tang Taizong Li Shimin. Later, Li Shimin ordered the calligraphers at that time, Yu Shinan, Chu Suiliang, Ouyang Qing, and others to copy the "Orchid Pavilion Preface", and the "Orchid Pavilion Preface" that we see today is a copy.
Regarding the authentic manuscript of the Orchid Pavilion Preface, one theory is that after Li Shimin's death, it became his burial object, but it was stolen by Wen Tao at the end of the Tang Dynasty and later destroyed by the war. Another theory is that the Orchid Pavilion Preface was buried as a burial object in the Qianling Tomb where Emperor Gaozong li zhi and Wu Zetian were buried together. Of course, all this is a legend, but we prefer to believe that it was buried in the Qianling Underground Palace, waiting for posterity to take it out.
Peking man skull
In the winter of 1929, archaeologists began to excavate in Zhoukoudian in the southwest corner of Beijing and found some complete ape man skulls dating back about 600,000 years ago, named Beijing Ape Man, also known as Beijing Man Skull. As soon as this discovery was announced, it immediately shocked the world. Some experts estimate that its value is more than tens of billions, but its true academic value cannot be measured in money.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, in order to protect this important national treasure, the Peking man skull was handed over to the U.S. Marine Corps, which was about to leave Beijing and withdraw to the United States. On December 5 of the same year, the unit took a train to Qinhuangdao, but due to the subsequent outbreak of Pearl Harbor, Japanese troops captured American soldiers in Beijing, Tianjin and other places, and the whereabouts of the Peking man skull have been unknown. In March 2012, new clues emerged in the "Mystery of the Missing Skull of a Peking Man," which may have been buried somewhere under land in Qinhuangdao. But it has not yet been found, and there are three possibilities for the whereabouts of the Skull of the Beijingers: first, they were buried under some land in Qinhuangdao; second, they were obtained by the Japanese, secretly brought back to Japan, and hidden; third, before the US troops were captured, they were secretly transported back to the United States, and hidden for research. Of the three speculations, it is preferable to believe that it is buried somewhere underground in Qinhuangdao, but it is most likely to be secretly hidden by the United States and Japan.
epilogue
Kyushu Ding, Chuanguo Yuxi, "Orchid Pavilion Preface", and Beijinger Skull are all china's top national treasures, which have been lost due to war and other reasons. But I believe that a national treasure like this must be buried in a secret place, and one day it will be seen again, so let's wait and see.