Many people are digging for treasures in the dry Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. What priceless treasures have they dug up?

? Many people are digging for treasures in the dry Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. What priceless treasures have they dug up?

China has a culture of more than 5,000 years, among which many antique cultural relics have been handed down. Some are handed down from generation to generation, some are buried underground, some are submerged underwater, and some are in some tombs. A real antique, even a small porcelain bowl, is priceless, just like the imperial edicts discovered a few years ago, the lowest one is worth hundreds of thousands, so there have been some grave robbers since ancient times. Many people come to make a fortune, but some lucky ones have become millionaires because they accidentally picked up some cultural relics and auctioned them off. Although this is unrealistic, it was undoubtedly a shortcut to get rich in the past.

With the progress of the times, the state has also enacted laws requiring people to find cultural relics and hand them over to the state, otherwise they may be jailed. So recently, many people dig for treasures and will take the initiative to hand them over to the country. However, many ordinary people openly dig for treasures and sell them. What happened?

Standing on the riverbank, you can see that there are hundreds of pits on the dry river, and people are busy digging for treasures. Some of them dug a big hole together, while others acted alone. Some of the pits dug are three or four meters deep, and water has already appeared. Some people even use metal detectors to detect, and the "beep" sound from the detectors is endless. Around the pit, there are some broken porcelain bowls and pots, all of which are treasures dug up by treasure hunters. In the river, fragments of porcelain and pottery can be seen everywhere.

According to the treasure hunters here, digging 2.5 meters deep is generally an object of the Song Dynasty, and digging 3 meters deep is an object of the Sui Dynasty. A bronze tripod was dug here a few days ago, so people have been looking for treasure these days, mostly from nearby villages.

The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is the longest and largest ancient canal in the world, which has played a great role in the economic and cultural development and exchanges between the north and the south of China. An elderly villager told reporters that in the Ming Dynasty, Zheng built a ferry on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which was later called Zhengkou Town. Ships often come and go to transport goods, and everything in the river was left by the shipwreck at that time.

According to the Property Law, Cultural Relics Protection Law and other relevant laws and regulations, cultural relics buried underground belong to the state. If there is a "treasure", you should take the initiative to turn it in, and you can't keep it for yourself. Moreover, this behavior itself has violated the People's Republic of China (PRC) Flood Control Law and other laws and regulations. People digging treasures in the river will have an impact on flood control and river course direction, while digging holes under the Beijing-Hangzhou Bridge will touch the piers and bring potential safety hazards to the bridge.

The canal is a "living" heritage, and some sections are still navigable. This kind of "living" site protection has no experience for reference in China. He believes that in addition to protecting existing cultural sites, there should also be spiritual protection. He believes that the original appearance of the Grand Canal should be preserved as much as possible. It is very important to protect its authenticity and integrity, which is the principle of canal protection. Not only the government protects it, but the whole people protect it.