The old man picked up an iron lump by the river and handed it over decisively. It turned out to be a thousand-year-old national treasure.

An old couple who collected scraps in Huzhou discovered a strange-looking and heavy iron lump when they were picking up scraps by the river. Instead of selling it as scrap metal, they immediately sent it to the police station and handed it over. Later it was confirmed that it was a precious cultural relic with a history of thousands of years.

The official public account of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee, "Ping'an Ding", posted that a few days ago, two old men were picking up scraps by the river as usual and accidentally discovered this metal object.They felt that the items felt heavy and had primitive patterns on the surface, making them obviously not ordinary scrap metal. After discussion, they decided to send them directly to the police station.

After receiving it, the police inspected it carefully and found that the object was slender in shape, with green rust stains and faint patterns on the surface, and it looked very much like ancient bronze. By comparing data,Preliminary judgment may be that it is the bronze instrument gōu diào used in the Wuyue area during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Cultural relic experts came to the scene and identified that,The history of this artifact is no later than the Song Dynasty, at least a thousand years ago. Its shape is highly consistent with the bronze inscriptions of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, and it has high historical, artistic and scientific value.

The gourd is an important ritual instrument in the Wuyue culture. It is mostly used for sacrifices and banquets. It has similar functions to chimes. It can reflect the casting technology and ritual and music system at that time, and is of great significance for the study of ancient culture.

At present, this bronze sentence has been handed over to the Huzhou Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau, which will be further inspected, cleaned and dated. It will also have the opportunity to be displayed in the museum so that more people can see this thousand-year-old cultural relic.

The local cultural relics department highly praised the behavior of the old couple., Our country’s laws stipulate that all cultural relics unearthed within the territory belong to the state. The police also reminded citizens that if they encounter similar suspected cultural relics, they should hand them over in time to jointly protect historical relics.