At that time, they discovered that the car contained bronze objects that had been cut into small pieces by criminals using violent means!
Obviously this is an illegal thing. These bronze cultural relics should be resold by tomb robbers, but by some strange combination of circumstances, they were intercepted by the traffic police!
Subsequently, the public security department handed over a total of 8 bronze objects to the Xishan History Museum.
After reporting it to local archaeological relic experts, the museum’s cultural relic experts couldn’t sit still when they first saw these things!
After a series of verifications, it was determined that these antiques were bronze dragon ornaments belonging to the Qin Dynasty.
Speaking of the discovery of these two green dragons, it must be an accident.
According to the police officer who reviewed the incident at the time, local farmers dug them out of the ground and thought of selling them together as scrap metal because they were too heavy.
But afterwards, in the eyes of experts, they recognized that this was an important artifact among antiques, and it was a unique artifact of the Qin Dynasty.
Speaking of this antique blue dragon weighing more than 90 kilograms, experts cannot really determine who it belongs to. They can only suspect that it was the base of the musical instrument used by Qin Shihuang at that time.
Why is it explained this way? Experts said that this antique is composed of two blue dragons, and it seems that it exists to fix something.
After all, it weighs more than 200 kilograms. In ancient times, it was absolutely impossible for an ordinary royal family to use such a large bronze vessel with dragon patterns.
The two giant dragons are intertwined and are composed of eight large pieces in total.
The two dragons are a product of the Qin cultural period.
Therefore, experts have tentatively decided that these two treasures are a set and belong to the base of a certain musical instrument. They are royal-level treasures.
Most people may not even have the chance to see it.
These eight huge bronze components should be the products of cutting a huge bronze vessel.
Criminals brutally "dismembered" them in order to facilitate hiding and transportation!
After a long period of careful splicing, experts restored the true form of this bronze vessel.
When it was completely presented, everyone present was stunned...
These are two coiled bronze dragons, nearly two meters long.
The overall weight is about 200 kilograms. The body of the double dragon is hollow, the head is slightly square, and the dragon body is made of separate castings and welding.
Experts judged that this coiled bronze dragon should be a pair (four), but it is a pity that the other remaining parts are unknown...
Although at this moment, the bronze double dragons are lying quietly, they are still ready to fly to the sky anytime, anywhere!
Experts judged that this was a bronze artifact from the Qin Dynasty during the Warring States Period.
For more than two thousand years, how rich artistic imagination and superb skills did ancient craftsmen have to make the dragon so "lifelike"?
Faced with such a group of unprecedented Qin Dynasty cultural relics, experts are eager to find out what it is used for?
Because there has never been such a shocking bronze artifact in the currently known archaeological excavation data!
However, no useful information was obtained from the interrogation conducted by the public security department.
There is no way of knowing where this bronze came from, whether it was robbed from an ancient tomb or through other means...
If this clue is broken, we can only find the answer from ancient documents!
At present, cultural relic experts still hold several different interpretations on the use of this "Qin Dynasty bronze dragon".
The first one is that it is a sacrificial ritual vessel, which may have ten giant dragons, two in a group, respectively placed in different directions.
The second is that it is the base of a giant ancient musical instrument.
Experts were inspired by the large-scale bells unearthed from the Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng, and these five-ton bells had several large bronze figures as bases...
In fact, according to the ancient books "Kaogong Ji" and "Historical Records: The Chronicles of Qin Shihuang", after Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, he recycled the bronze weapons of the six countries on a large scale, melted them and recast chimes and other large ceremonial instruments.
Based on the character of Qin Shihuang, it is entirely possible to cast such a majestic bronze instrument to demonstrate the supreme royal power!
This "bronze dragon" brings people infinite visual impact. Everyone who sees it for the first time is impressed by its majestic majesty!
Today, it has become the "Treasure of the Museum" and the "National Treasure of Internet Celebrities" of the Xishan History Museum, and it greets the admiring eyes of viewers from all over the world every day...
If there is any regret, it is that the origin of the dragon is still a mystery!
During the Warring States Period more than two thousand years ago, who was qualified to own such a stunning bronze dragon?
What kind of "king" is he?
Now these two giant dragons have been placed in the Chang'an History Museum and have become the museum's treasures.
After careful observation of the two green dragons, experts at the time said that the farmer who said he dug up the two green dragons must have lied.
A heavy weapon like this must have been found in an unusual ancient tomb.
And it is not a cultural relic that has appeared in history, and it is definitely not dug out by farmers.
Maybe the original farmer was a local master, otherwise no experts would have recognized it.
The entire green dragon is composed of large pieces of bronze, and the dragon body is hollow. The dragon body has fish scale patterns, and the tail is curled into a hollow cone.
This kind of tension is not something modern people can understand.
Not to mention the common people of that period.
Because this thing is very valuable, and no examination data has been left behind.
Therefore, it is estimated that even the common people of that dynasty may not have seen this cultural relic, and they may not even know what it was used for.
It's a pity that such an important museum-protecting tool is like this. In the end, experts couldn't determine what it did.
In the end, we can only infer based on historical documents that this is the base of a large-scale cultural relic used in the Qin Dynasty, and it is only a part of it.
Only this explanation can work, due to the rarity of this cultural relic, coupled with the uniqueness of this cultural relic.
It is undoubtedly the most mysterious treasure of the museum. It is no wonder that experts regard it as a component of Qin Shihuang's musical instrument.
It's a pity that the current replica is only a remaining part. At most, it can only be slightly repaired to make it a whole.
Of course, repairing this thing is not easy.
If it turns out that Chen Wenzhe knows how to restore ancient bronzes, but he is definitely not very professional.
However, he had just seen the restoration process of the Prince's Wuding and the Cloud Pattern Copper Forbidden.
And he also learned a lot about the restoration of cultural relics during this process. It can be said that he now knows a little about the restoration of various cultural relics.
The reason why he is not proficient is because he has not had time to learn.
Even so, looking at the two green dragons in front of me at this time, I can feel that their shapes are already very good.
This kind of craftsmanship must have come from a master.