Chapter 1258 Archaeologist: Believe in Science (End)
The story of a middle-aged man who turned in cultural relics and only received a reward of 500 yuan was reported in the news.
When the middle-aged man was interviewed by reporters, he also said regretfully:
"It's too shabby. I will never do it again, not even with a knife on my neck..."
The reward of five hundred yuan hurt the middle-aged man's self-esteem because after he returned to the village, the villagers also laughed at him and said he was too stupid.
The incident was posted online, where it also aroused heated discussions.
Some netizens think that it is really shabby to hand over to you something that is obviously sold for 500,000 yuan for only 500 yuan.
The state should increase the price for recycling cultural relics to encourage everyone to hand over all the cultural relics they pick up, so as to prevent cultural relics from falling into the hands of cultural relic traffickers.
However, some people believe that the value of cultural relics does not lie in their economic value, but in their research value. Increasing rewards is actually equivalent to encouraging tomb robbers in disguise, because tomb robbers can dig up ancient tombs under the pretext of reclaiming land, and then use all the things they dig out.
It's not illegal to pick it up and then go to the state to exchange it for a large bonus.
When the time comes, the state will be unable to recycle it, and the people will be unable to protect it, and they will just condone the rampant black market transactions.
What's more, increasing rewards is just like the sheep. Aren't the money for the rewards all taxes paid by the people? And most of those taxes end up falling on criminals.
The current system, although the rewards are very small, does not make you rich overnight, but it is better than nothing.
But if you sell it secretly, it will be a felony if you are caught.
In this way, ordinary people have no motivation to dig around, and they dare not sell it to private individuals when they find it. This plays a certain role in the protection of cultural relics to a large extent.
Another point of view is: Why does what you dig up belong to you? Why does what you pick up belong to you?
Citizens only have the right to use the land, but not ownership. It cannot be proven that it is yours, then it belongs to the country.
Even if this cultural relic was created by your ancestor, you are not the only descendant of your ancestor. With so many descendants, why does the cultural relic have to be yours?
In the final analysis, that cultural relic has just passed through your hands, and its final destination belongs to the people and the country, because the value of the cultural relic itself relies on the country and the nation to exist.
Gu Mo also had to admit that no matter which side he stood on, his views actually made sense from his own standpoint.
The story of Zilu receiving the cow tells people that no one will give up his own interests to save others.
Moreover, cultural relics are different from people, and once a reward-based expropriation system is formed, it will be very dangerous.
At present, the principle of doing things in most organizations is to provide symbolic monetary rewards, as well as spiritual rewards such as banners.
If it is a treasure, when it is put on display in a museum, the name of the person who submitted it will be written on the cultural relic information column.
If you want to make the country's cultural relics environment better and better, it will definitely not be done in an instant, you have to plan it slowly.
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For many years after this, Gu Mo continued to engage in his archaeological career.
She has also invented many high technologies for archeology and cultural relic preservation, as the current level of science and technology allows, which directly reduces the losses caused by the excavation of cultural relics.
These technologies are even used around the world, and Gu Mo has also relied on his inventions and professionalism to become a big name in archeology.
One time when she was being interviewed by a reporter, the reporter asked her what she thought of the current tomb-robbing novels.
"Do you think the existence of tomb-robbery novels has guided young people to an incorrect set of values?"
Gu Mo said: "The protagonists in tomb robbing novels gain financial success through free means such as tomb robbing. To a certain extent, the values conveyed are indeed misleading, but novels are novels and reality is reality. Most people will not read it because of it.
After reading a few crime suspense novels, you will actually commit a crime. You will not read a few love tragedy novels and then commit suicide for love. You will not say that you read Brother Four Drivers when you are caught drunk driving. In the same way,
Teenagers read tomb robbing novels out of curiosity. Very few people decide to join the tomb robbing business after reading tomb robbing novels. There may be some, but you cannot say that all such cases are caused by tomb robbing novels."
However, Gu Mo does not deny that there are some tomb robbing novels that do not expose tomb robbing as a crime, but rather praise their actions.
This kind of value does have a great impact on teenagers whose physical and mental health have not yet fully developed.
However, in recent years, as the state's publicity on cultural relics education has continued to increase and the public's awareness of this aspect has deepened, this impact has gradually decreased.
At the same time, the efforts of the majority of archaeologists have not been in vain. The archeology profession is no longer a misunderstood and unpopular profession. More and more young people have the courage to devote themselves to the cause of archeology, which makes the history of China more and more full.
The national heritage is getting deeper and deeper.
When Gu Mo was about to leave this plane, the institute used her high-tech archaeological research to unearth a seismometer from the Han Dynasty.
There are only a few sentences in history books about the records of seismographs.
"When a dragon's machine appeared but the ground did not move, the scholars in the capital were surprised that it was not there. A few days later, the post arrived, and the earthquake occurred in Longxi, so they all admired its wonderfulness."
"Made of fine copper, with a diameter of eight feet, a raised lid, shaped like a wine statue, decorated with the shapes of turtles, birds and beasts in seal scripts. There is a capital pillar in the middle, and eight roads running beside it, which are used to control the hair. There are eight dragons outside, with the first title being copper.
There is a pill under the toad, and the toad takes it with his mouth open. The teeth are cleverly made, and they are all hidden in the statue, covering them tightly. If there is an earthquake, the statue will vibrate the dragon and spit out the pill, and the toad will hold it. The vibrating sound is exciting, and the waiter will wait.
Therefore, you should be aware that even though one dragon is moving, but the seven heads are not moving, if you look for its aspect, you will know where the vibration is."
This is the first instrument in human history that can measure and sense earthquakes, more than 1,700 years earlier than in Europe.
Chinese people are all familiar with this instrument because they have seen it in textbooks since they were children.
However, the well-known seismometer in the textbook is actually a fake. It was copied by historian Wang Zhenduo based on the records of the Later Han Dynasty, and it used the "upright rod principle".
However, this seismograph was later rejected by many experts and scholars, believing that its principle was not tenable at all, which raised questions about the existence and usefulness of the seismograph itself.
Now, the original seismograph from two thousand years ago has been unearthed. What exactly it works on and whether it is useful for earthquake prediction can finally reveal this unsolved mystery.
When she left the plane, Li Kangzai was still squatting in the prison of China.
As for Xie Nannan, Gu Mo never saw her again after that, but Gu Mo knew that she must be alive.
The curse on her will only make her suffer, but it will not kill her.
Gu Mo didn't care whether she was married or had been waiting for Li Kangzai to be released from prison.
