Today's million-dollar antiques, during the Republic of China, farmers dug into the obscure breath, the reason
Today, many archaeologists are also very excited when talking about one thing, that is, tomb robbery, in China's tombs are basically ten rooms and nine empty, there is no one left, experts are watching this one after another empty tombs, get boo, all the efforts are in vain, of course, it is very heartache. Then there is also a question here, why do foreigners rarely rob tombs? Are foreigners not interested in anything in the tomb?
The wind of thick burial
It is people who want to get rich, this is the essence of man, and foreigners of course also want to get rich, you say that an old foreigner in his hometown, and then know that there is a tomb of a grand duke buried under his feet, will you dig it yourself? It is not very likely, because people from famous families basically have family traditions and inheritance, so you can't enter these tombs. But even families that have fallen are unlikely to be dug up, on the one hand, others think this matter is inhumane, on the other hand, because there is nothing to dig.
Yes, the reason why foreigners are not as rampant as Chinese tomb robbery is mainly because there is a characteristic of ancient China, that is, there is a thick burial style. Even if it is a relatively small family, basically it will be buried thickly, especially for the elders, the old man may not have smoked much good tobacco before he died, and after death, he stuffed it for you, a bunch of descendants shelved that crying, who did not take more good things to accompany the funeral, as if it seemed unfaithful and filial piety, and there was no money in the family.
There are also many kinds of cultural relics
The ancients' thick burial style is really too prosperous, so it is because the money in the tomb is particularly valuable, maybe as long as you dig a better tomb, you can directly keep half a lifetime of food and clothing, many people can't resist this temptation, and then they became a tomb robber, and even the legend also gave birth to 4 schools such as moving mountains and unloading mountains. You see, the profession of tomb robber has been systematized, and even divided into 4 sects, how crazy it must have been at that time.
In fact, cultural relics are also divided into many kinds, then tomb robbers will also have some rules when stealing cultural relics, not all the things in the tomb, as long as they are old, they are very valuable. Let me tell you this, as long as a thing was very valuable in ancient times, then this guy must be very valuable today, if it is something worthless in ancient times, it may still be worthless today.
Tang Sancai is actually an "obscure"
The cultural relics of the ancient period are basically bronzes, while the modern cultural relics in addition to the porcelain of the Ming and Qing dynasties, Tang Sancai is more talked about. But you may not believe it when you say it, in fact, Tang Sancai is an obscure thing, in the Republic of China period, if someone accidentally digs out this thing in the ground, then it will be smashed directly, and directly exhale obscure.
Is it because Tang Sancai is not valuable? In fact, this is not the case, Tang Sancai is those rich people for funerals and specially cast handicrafts, craft value and collection value are very high, the reason why in the past by others to be considered obscure things, because it was already a dark object from the moment it was built.
Grave robbers are disgusted
The difference here is very big, that is, many of the things that the prince buried with him were things that were used before he was born, such as which cup was used before he died, which carriage jade pendant was used, and so on, and then the person died, and these favorite things were buried together.
However, Tang Sancai is a special instrument, it is cast out of the role of only one is to accompany the funeral, if you abandon the age and collection value, craft value, then this thing is equivalent to the paper people we burn today, paper money, and the treasures used before death can be the same?
You say that this tomb robber dug out a teapot or other treasure used by a certain prince before he died, and then he would definitely be able to sell it for a good price and dig out Tang Sancai to give to others, but wouldn't it be a curse on others to die? (Note: It is called Tang Sancai because from the Song Dynasty onwards, people no longer used it for funerals, but instead burned paper money, and this custom continues to this day.) ）