Chapter 1104: National treasure among national treasures

In 1970, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization passed a very long convention called "Methods and Conventions on Prohibition and Prevention of the Illegal Import and Export of Cultural Property and the Illegal Transfer of Its Ownership", which stipulated that "the convention is only applicable to this convention. After a country takes effect, the country makes a request for reclaim.' And it is only ‘the cultural relics stolen from the territory of the country and the cultural relics illegally exported after the entry into force of the state’s country’s. China Xia joined this convention in 1989.
What does this convention mean? After 1989, the illegal cultural relics that Huaxia had flowed out could be returned by virtue of this convention, but the things taken before that would not be returned. Therefore, it is fair to say that Huaxia’s treasures are kept in museums all over the world, but Huaxia has nothing to do. But the treasures that were stolen before the birth of this convention in 1970 could not be returned by countries around the world.
But after that, there are still countless people smuggling cultural relics out of the country or importing them. How do they whitewash these cultural relics? First of all, a fake identity will be fabricated for this cultural relic. For example, this batch of Colombian treasures will fabricate a reason similar to what was brought back by a local Chinese rich man when he returned to the country when the peasant uprising in ancient Colombia in 1948 took refuge. This is in line with The whitening years.
Then I started putting this thing in a small auction, selling it myself and buying it back. This was to build an auction record file. After repeated several times, I went to auction it at a high-end auction house. After going back and forth, the cultural relics would have a copy. Sequence of files. Or a ‘legal’ identity. It’s easier to do this in China: Before 1970, did China have an auction? Just forge it, just say what you say.
But curator Wang directly rejected Xiao Peng's proposal. It was because the things Xiao Peng brought out were so scary!
In the first box were a few thin relief stone slabs, carved with people dancing, the lines were very simple, but very round.
"What are you doing with a few broken stones?" Old Sun asked puzzledly.
Xiao Peng smiled and said, "It's nothing, I'll make the floor at home."
Of course he was joking, but he knew what it was.
But Curator Wang obviously didn’t have a sense of humor. He stared and shouted,
Boss Xiao, what are you going to do? Holding such a treasured local board? Do you know what it is? This is a relief of dancers from the Alwan Mountain site. It is synonymous with the entire site! Now what we see in Mount Arwan is only a fake! And it must be genuine."
Xiao Peng hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Don't get excited, don't get excited. I'm just kidding. I have seen a piece in New York and know its value."
"What's its value?" Old Sun asked curiously.
Curator Wang sighed: "Just like the position of the stepmother Wuding in China..."
"National treasure!" After hearing this, Mr. Sun glanced at the rectangular slates. The jewelry that Xiao Peng donated to the museum is definitely very valuable, but compared with this national treasure, it is not a concept.
What's more, this Xiao Peng kept saying that he donated things with cultural relics worth higher than economic value to the museum, but it turned out to be good, and the cultural relics with the highest value are still here.
He is also curious now: "What are these other things? This thing is pretty oozing!"
He saw a human-shaped sculpture of a human. Although it was a humanoid, it had a head, arms and legs, but it looked a little crippled: it had the face of a cobra and was covered in snake scales; it had four fangs outstretched, and under the fangs are' Snake Xinzi's tongue; four hands were opened, the abdomen was cut open to reveal a human head, and the gurgling blood flowing out became like two snakes.
Curator Wang called a middle-aged person behind him: "Little Liu, come and take a look at these things. Let me introduce you to him. This is Liu Xin, an expert in Indian culture."
Liu Xin took a breath after seeing the human-shaped statue, put on his glasses and observed, "This is the goddess of the earth in Mayan culture, and the mother of all gods in their mythology. There is a stone earth in the Mexican Museum. The statue of the mother is known as their'national treasure'. I have visited it and compared this silver sculpture to this silver sculpture in terms of raw materials, fine workmanship and cultural value."
After hearing this, Lao Sun was silent for a moment: "Is it another national treasure?"
Liu Xin nodded without thinking.
In the other box are several copperware.
Although the Indians are said to be from the Chinese and Shang dynasties, what is interesting is that the Indians do not have a bronze culture, only a red copper culture that uses natural copper. So many people say that Chinese bronzes were passed down from the West.
This statement is actually open to discussion. After all, the Indians have not learned the technology of smelting and casting copper for thousands of years. The copperware they use is made of natural copper directly. Since there is no smelting technology, how can they have bronzes and other copper alloy items? Copper was not a necessity for the Indians, so there was no development.
But in any case, the natural copper culture of the Indians is still a wonderful flower in the world culture.
In the early days, copper was usually on the surface and coexisted with brightly colored copper ore such as malachite, so it was easily discovered by the ancients. In their eyes, this copper is nothing but a colored stone. Now in the languages ​​of some Indian tribes in North America, copper is also called
red stone
,
yellow stone
,
soft stone
and the like, and these coppers can be beaten into the shape they want, so Indian People like to use this natural copper to make jewelry and tools.
Liu Xin picked up a red copper square pot and looked at it for a long time: "This is a copper square pot carved into a statue of the Indian rain god. It is all hand-made. You can see that its facial features are well-proportioned, and its big eyes are deep and energetic. Simple and generous, it looks very solemn. This should be an item used by Indian tribe leaders to sacrifice."
"These two human-shaped bronze sculptures, one is a warrior covered with a jaguar pattern; this bronze sculpture wears a serpent's helmet and is covered with condor feathers. This is the image of the Indian's bravest warrior. Once again, the sculpture has never been discovered before, only in the murals of the Totok civilization. These three bronze sculptures should be from the same master sculptor. This may also be his only work, which has never been found before. Similar items! This is unique!"
Old Sun blinked after hearing this: "Is it a national treasure again?"
Liu Xin didn't even think about it: "Yes, no doubt!"
Old Sun didn't know what to say, and pointed to the last box next to him: "What's inside?"
Liu Xin sighed: "I dare not comment on the things there."
Old Sun was puzzled: "What do you mean?"
Liu Xin walked to a golden disc and wanted to move it. Even though the golden disc was only the size of a pot lid, it was at least 300 kilograms. After trying it once, he gave up directly: "The National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico has a treasure of the town, called the'Solar Calendar Stone'. The most conspicuous place to go to the entrance of the museum is the 3.6-meter-diameter circular stele. At that time, Mexico established the National Museum of Anthropology because of that stele. The stele is unique to the Aztecs of Central American Indians The creation was carved on a monolith. It was a monument dedicated to the sun Tonatiu by the Aztecs. It was originally decorated on the wall of the Notitlan Temple. This Notitlan Temple was It was destroyed by the Spanish, but the solar calendar stone remained miraculously until it was discovered again in 1790 and kept in a museum."
Old Lu interjected, "What does this disc have to do with that disc?"
Liu Xin sighed and explained to everyone: "There has been a saying that there were two solar calendar stones in the Notitlan Temple back then, one is a huge stone sculpture, and the other is made of pure gold. Look at the middle of the disk. There is a big sun and four suns next to it. This is because the Aztecs believe that since the birth of heaven and earth, they have experienced four suns, destroyed by wind, earth, water, and fire. The last sun is Tonatiu , Their sun god. The big sun in the middle of the disc is Tonatiu, the four small suns on the side are the other four, and the twenty small grids in the surrounding circle correspond to the twenty days of the solar calendar. In the image, the top circle is flowers, gems and other patterns, which means to praise the sun god. If I guess right, this is the golden solar calendar stone in the Notitlan Temple."
"And this is not the most precious, but the most precious is this set of gold jewelry." Liu Xin pointed to the last thing.
Old Lu was speechless after seeing this: "All the strong men who can carry this stuff?"
This set of jewelry includes a gold mask; a pair of square gold earrings; a necklace that looks like an armor breastplate; a pair of gold bracelets ten centimeters wide; ten rings and two rings on the toes; There are also a few gadgets that I don’t know where they are wearing; at the end, there are two small golden balls, probably toys that make people like them. This set of jewellery is at least a dozen catties, and it's not a strong man who really can't wear it.
"This was originally not brought by a living person. It was the burial of the dead. It has the same effect as the jade noodles unearthed in the Mayan civilization." Liu Xin replied: "It has never been discovered before. This should be a position in the Maya civilization. The sacrifice of a very tall leader after his death."
Yang Meng interrupted and asked, "How do you know it was used by the posterity?"
Liu Xin pointed to a long gold tube that resembled the fake nails worn by the princess of the Qing Dynasty of China and said: "This thing is worn on Xiaodingding. Do you think living people can carry it? Sun Lao, all these things are National treasure class."
After Liu Xin finished speaking, Curator Wang shrugged to Xiao Peng:
Now I know why I said these things can’t be whitewashed, right? If these things are known to the Indian countries in Central America, they still don’t know how to make trouble. Yeah!"
Yes, it's really troublesome.