Farmers fished in the river and fished out eight national treasures, one of which was praised as one of the "Top Ten National Treasures".

Thousands of years of history have left countless treasures on the vast land of China. Due to the change of dynasties and frequent wars, many priceless treasures have disappeared and even been buried in inconspicuous corners. Thanks to the efforts of archaeologists, some of these cultural relics finally reappeared in front of the world. But some cultural relics were discovered by accident, perhaps because of their own arrangements.

In 1950s, there was a farmer named Xu in Funan County, Anhui Province. After finishing his farm work, he was bored at home and went fishing with several villagers in the nearby Crescent River. Because there has been no heavy rain for several months, the river is already quite shallow, and the deepest part is only one meter. Xu didn't even take off his shoes. He went straight into the water and got some stewed fish to drink.

Maybe all the fish in the river were salvaged by other villagers. After nearly half an hour's work, Xu touched two small fish, which made him quite depressed and complained that he was so unlucky that he didn't even read the almanac when he went out today. Just as he was about to give up, he touched a hard metal object by the river. Because he had no strength at this time, he borrowed a shovel from a nearby family and dug it out.

This excavation was terrible, and eight bronzes were dug up successively. Although she may not know when these things were, she vaguely felt that they were definitely not ordinary cultural relics, and she probably found the treasure. Xu is very happy. She carried the eight treasures home with a fishing net and returned the shovel to others. Xu is kind, thinking that this shovel has also made a lot of efforts, he gave one of the bronzes to the owner of the shovel, and then went home humming a tune.

In the process of chatting with neighbors, Xu told several villagers about it. A few days later, the news spread that Xu had dug up the treasure, and farmers from eight neighboring villages went to his house to see the novelty like a fair. He suddenly became a "celebrity" in ten miles and eight villages, and his heart was full of joy. Half a month later, when the curator of Funan Cultural Center was informed of the incident, he rushed to Xu's home to "visit" the two bronzes.

Since Jiang Jiaqi couldn't see the specific age of the bronzes, he wrote to the Provincial Department of Culture to reflect the matter. Almost without delay, the cultural department invited several archaeological experts to come over and immediately began to study cultural relics. According to expert appraisal, these eight cultural relics belong to Shang bronzes more than 3,000 years ago. Among them, the gluttonous statue is a large bronze wine vessel of Shang Dynasty, which belongs to a rare fine product and is listed as a national first-class cultural relic.

In addition, there is another cultural relic that is more valuable than the gluttonous tattoo, and that is the legendary "dragon and tiger statue". This statue is relatively large, and it is named after the dragon and tiger on it. This unique casting technology, even with modern precision casting technology, is difficult to achieve satisfactory results. There is only one dragon and tiger statue in China, which is known as one of the "Top Ten National Treasures of China".

After consultation, the Provincial Museum gave Xu 200 yuan as a reward, and he happily gave these eight national treasures to the country. Objectively speaking, 200 yuan was a huge sum of money for ordinary people at that time.