In fact, we made a mistake before coming here. We originally thought that the Xixia bluestone sculpture was dug out of the ground, but we didn’t expect that it was used as a manhole cover. Uncle Hu Lu accidentally picked it up.
.
It was this thing that attracted us to Yinchuan.
I guess it's what I thought. If we can dig up Xixia tombs this time, we will definitely make money, because there are too few cultural relics in Xixia and too few tombs. Even the Xixia collection in Yinchuan Museum is mainly made of rubble carvings.
Gravel bricks are mainly used, and there are some high-quality ones, but not many.
I asked the boss what to do next. Should we continue going down the well to look for things?
He glanced at the dry well and said to himself: "Let's look around again. Apart from the pieces of rotten iron, there might be something valuable."
I nodded and said yes, if the thief doesn't get away with it, I'll always feel like I'm losing money unless I find something valuable.
He nodded and said, "Then, Yazai, are you going to go down?"
"No, no, no," Douyazai shook his head desperately and said, "I was just bragging, and I don't want to do it again. I just trampled on 80 or not 100 dead people's bones. Yunfeng is brave, I think it's still Yunfeng
It’s more appropriate to go down.”
"Yunfeng, what do you think?" Douyazai asked me. .??.
If I call you a coward, I will do it.
He sent me down with a rope, Dou Sprout shouted and then threw me down with the cyclone shovel.
Although there are many dead people's bones underground, it does not smell bad, it just has a sour and moldy smell.
A few shovels were able to dig out a few bones. After digging for more than half an hour, I did make new discoveries.
Dou Sprout was so impatient and careless that he missed this thing.
I picked it up and wiped it with my sleeve.
This is a piece of jade, about half the size of an adult's palm. The jade flesh is green and yellow. Although the carving is simple with only a few strokes, the carving shows the appearance of a jade bear.
Jade bear from the Xixia period.
Although the material of this thing is not Hetian white jade, it is also made of fine local sapphire. It is warm and moist, slightly oily. It is considered an object. If you meet a buyer who likes ancient local jade, you can easily sell it for several thousand or ten thousand.
The problem is not big.
I blew the dust off the jade bear, put it in my pocket, and patted it twice.
More than 700 years ago, if these people were killed by the Mongols, then there should be some things left behind. They ate meat seven hundred years ago. I can lick the bowl seven hundred years later. It would be too much to leave it alone.
wasted.
As expected, after rummaging carefully, I found another chopstick-shaped object with hairpins. I initially determined that this object should be part of the headdress of Xixia women. This object did not appear on the heads of women in the Song Dynasty.
The gait is exquisite, but with some craftsmanship, it can probably be sold for a thousand yuan.
I got addicted to digging and wiped my sweat. I believe there must be some big stuff down there. There are maybe one or two Xixia soldier badges with Xixia inscriptions on them.
I stood down in the well and discussed it with the leader, and finally decided to clean up the well. I don’t know how deep the soil is, and maybe all the big and good goods are hidden under the well. In this way, even if we can’t find Blackwater City in the end,
With these, plus the Alxa blood agate rough stone, I have a guaranteed guarantee for this trip to Yinchuan.
We didn’t bring a bucket, so we relied on Uncle Hu Lu’s help. He helped us weave two straw frames out of tree branches. The weaving was very good. As long as we laid a layer of cloth at the bottom of the straw frames, it worked smoothly and there was almost no leakage of soil.<
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A few of us men took turns to go down into the well to load soil, while the rest of us used ropes to pull the soil out of the well. It didn't matter who worked for how long. When we got tired, we would change people.
It was Dou Sprout's turn to go down the well, and I saw this boy mumbling in the well: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry everyone, this is a mass burial well, the feng shui is not good, I will send you up in batches.
I'll send you up to wash, dry, and tidy up."
I yelled at Dou Sprout to stop talking nonsense and hurry up and get to work.
Most of the bones were picked out from the soil brought up from the bottom of the well, and more and more bones were piled up. We planned to dig a hole and build a grave before we left to gather these bones for burial.
It's better than staying in a dry well in the dark.
"Go, what is this?" Dou Sprout suddenly shouted excitedly: "Come and see, I found a treasure!"
Bean Sprout turned over and found an oval seal the size of a child's fist. Wash it with water. You can see Xixia characters at the bottom of the seal.
Dou Yazai asked excitedly, "What is written on the seal? Is it the official seal of a high official? Is it valuable? How much can it be worth?"
What does the Tangut script engraved on the seal mean? No one can answer this question.
Because no one present knew Tangut.
There are more than 6,000 characters in Xixia script, and the strokes are so numerous that they are difficult to recognize. Some characters have more than a hundred strokes. Xixia script was a dead script before the late Qing Dynasty. I don’t think even the old researchers at the Yinchuan Museum can recognize a few of them.
There are more than 6,000 words. If you can recognize more than 100 words, you will be considered great.
This seal later sold for more than 30,000 yuan. Looking back now, I feel that it was a huge loss. I would not sell it for even one million yuan now.
The work of cleaning this dry well cannot be completed in a short time. When camping at night, a few of us suffered without tents and sleeping bags. The temperature difference between day and night in Alxa is too great. It is too hot during the day and too cold at night. In addition, we must be careful.
Watch out for any invisible reptile poison on the ground.
On the third day of the cleaning work, the bulk goods were finally shipped.
Qin Xingping brought up a basket of soil from the well. Without turning the soil over, he could see that there was a gilt bronze Buddhist statue in the soil.
The gilt is quite worn. It is a Buddhist statue of a protector, about twenty centimeters long, with a pair of small wings on the back. The Buddha's face looks like a glaring Vajra, with protruding eyeballs and upturned lips. There is something special about it. Although the face looks like a man's,
But the Buddha statue is graceful and slender, and it is indeed a female protector from Tibet.
We didn't know this female protector at that time, because we didn't know it. Things are rare, which means they are valuable.
How much is it worth?
Worth 600,000
If you are interested, you can check out the 2002 Jiade autumn auction of high-quality Buddha statues. At that time, the statue was labeled as a 12th-century Dakini protector statue. The starting price was 12 renminbi, and the final hammer price plus commission was more than 60 renminbi.
Yes, the Buddha statue market only started to rise sharply after 2008. The price of good things has been increasing year by year. Before 2008, especially the period from 2000 to 2005, it was the cold winter for Buddhist statue art. Yong Xuanguan is not good at it.
Just a statue
Later, I asked a friend, and he told me that Dakini is indeed the protector of Tibet. Dakini is translated as Chajini in Sanskrit, which means a woman walking in the air. It represents wisdom, strength, openness, and compassion. The legend is like the world.
If there are suffering women, you can recite the Dakini mantra thirteen times under the mulberry tree. At that time, the Dakini will fall from the crown of the mulberry tree and lead the suffering earthly believers to a blissful rebirth. In fact, we made a mistake before coming here.
, I originally thought that the Xixia bluestone sculpture was dug out of the ground, but I didn't expect that it was used as a manhole cover, and by some strange combination of circumstances, Uncle Hu Lu picked it up.
It was this thing that attracted us to Yinchuan.
I guess it's what I thought. If we can dig up Xixia tombs this time, we will definitely make money, because there are too few cultural relics in Xixia and too few tombs. Even the Xixia collection in Yinchuan Museum is mainly made of rubble carvings.
Gravel bricks are mainly used, and there are some high-quality ones, but not many.
I asked the boss what to do next. Should we continue going down the well to look for things?
He glanced at the dry well and said to himself: "Let's look around again. Apart from the pieces of rotten iron, there might be something valuable."
I nodded and said yes, if the thief doesn't get away with it, I'll always feel like I'm losing money unless I find something valuable.
He nodded and said, "Then, Yazai, are you going to go down?"
"No, no, no," Douyazai shook his head desperately and said, "I was just bragging, and I don't want to do it again. I just trampled on 80 or not 100 dead people's bones. Yunfeng is brave, I think it's still Yunfeng
It’s more appropriate to go down.”
"Yunfeng, what do you think?" Dou Sprout asked me.
If I call you a coward, I will do it.
He sent me down with a rope, Dou Sprout shouted and then threw me down with the cyclone shovel.
Although there are many dead people's bones underground, it does not smell bad, it just has a sour and moldy smell.
A few shovels were able to dig out a few bones. After digging for more than half an hour, I did make new discoveries.
Dou Sprout was so impatient and careless that he missed this thing.
I picked it up and wiped it with my sleeve.
This is a piece of jade, about half the size of an adult's palm. The jade flesh is green and yellow. Although the carving is simple with only a few strokes, the carving shows the appearance of a jade bear.
Jade bear from the Xixia period.
Although the material of this thing is not Hetian white jade, it is also made of fine local sapphire. It is warm and moist, slightly oily. It is considered an object. If you meet a buyer who likes ancient local jade, you can easily sell it for several thousand or ten thousand.
The problem is not big.
I blew the dust off the jade bear, put it in my pocket, and patted it twice.
More than 700 years ago, if these people were killed by the Mongols, then there should be some things left behind. They ate meat seven hundred years ago. I can lick the bowl seven hundred years later. It would be too much to leave it alone.
wasted.
As expected, after rummaging carefully, I found another chopstick-shaped object with hairpins. I initially determined that this object should be part of the headdress of Xixia women. This object did not appear on the heads of women in the Song Dynasty.
The gait is exquisite, but with some craftsmanship, it can probably be sold for a thousand yuan.
I got addicted to digging and wiped my sweat. I believe there must be some big stuff down there. There are maybe one or two Xixia soldier badges with Xixia inscriptions on them.
I stood down in the well and discussed it with the leader, and finally decided to clean up the well. I don’t know how deep the soil is, and maybe all the big and good goods are hidden under the well. In this way, even if we can’t find Blackwater City in the end,
With these, plus the Alxa blood agate rough stone, I have a guaranteed guarantee for this trip to Yinchuan.
We didn’t bring a bucket, so we relied on Uncle Hu Lu’s help. He helped us weave two straw frames out of tree branches. The weaving was very good. As long as we laid a layer of cloth at the bottom of the straw frames, it worked smoothly and there was almost no leakage of soil.<
br>
A few of us men took turns to go down into the well to load soil, while the rest of us used ropes to pull the soil out of the well. It didn't matter who worked for how long. When we got tired, we would change people.
It was Dou Sprout's turn to go down the well, and I saw this boy mumbling in the well: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry everyone, this is a mass burial well, the feng shui is not good, I will send you up in batches.
I'll send you up to wash, dry, and tidy up."
I yelled at Dou Sprout to stop talking nonsense and hurry up and get to work.
Most of the bones were picked out from the soil brought up from the bottom of the well, and more and more bones were piled up. We planned to dig a hole and build a grave before we left to gather these bones for burial.
It's better than staying in a dry well in the dark.
"Go, what is this?" Dou Sprout suddenly shouted excitedly: "Come and see, I found a treasure!"
Bean Sprout turned over and found an oval seal the size of a child's fist. Wash it with water. You can see Xixia characters at the bottom of the seal.
Dou Yazai asked excitedly, "What is written on the seal? Is it the official seal of a high official? Is it valuable? How much can it be worth?"
What does the Tangut script engraved on the seal mean? No one can answer this question.
Because no one present knew Tangut.
There are more than 6,000 characters in Xixia script, and the strokes are so numerous that they are difficult to recognize. Some characters have more than a hundred strokes. Xixia script was a dead script before the late Qing Dynasty. I don’t think even the old researchers at the Yinchuan Museum can recognize a few of them.
There are more than 6,000 words. If you can recognize more than 100 words, you will be considered great.
This seal later sold for more than 30,000 yuan. Looking back now, I feel that it was a huge loss. I would not sell it for even one million yuan now.
The work of cleaning this dry well cannot be completed in a short time. When camping at night, a few of us suffered without tents and sleeping bags. The temperature difference between day and night in Alxa is too great. It is too hot during the day and too cold at night. In addition, we must be careful.
Watch out for any invisible reptile poison on the ground.
On the third day of the cleaning work, the bulk goods were finally shipped.
Qin Xingping brought up a basket of soil from the well. Without turning the soil over, he could see that there was a gilt bronze Buddhist statue in the soil.
The gilt is quite worn. It is a Buddhist statue of a protector, about twenty centimeters long, with a pair of small wings on the back. The Buddha's face looks like a glaring Vajra, with protruding eyeballs and upturned lips. There is something special about it. Although the face looks like a man's,
But the Buddha statue is graceful and slender, and it is indeed a female protector from Tibet.
We didn't know this female protector at that time, because we didn't know it. Things are rare, which means they are valuable.
How much is it worth?
Worth 600,000
If you are interested, you can check out the 2002 Jiade autumn auction of high-quality Buddha statues. At that time, the statue was labeled as a 12th-century Dakini protector statue. The starting price was 12 renminbi, and the final hammer price plus commission was more than 60 renminbi.
Yes, the Buddha statue market only started to rise sharply after 2008. The price of good things has been increasing year by year. Before 2008, especially the period from 2000 to 2005, it was the cold winter for Buddhist statue art. Yong Xuanguan is not good at it.
Just a statue
Later, I asked a friend, and he told me that Dakini is indeed the protector of Tibet. Dakini is translated as Chajini in Sanskrit, which means a woman walking in the air. It represents wisdom, strength, openness, and compassion. The legend is like the world.
If there are suffering women, you can recite the Dakini mantra thirteen times under the mulberry tree. At that time, the Dakini will fall from the crown of the mulberry tree and lead the suffering earthly believers to a blissful life.
This chapter has been completed!