In the early morning of April 3, 2010, a major cultural relic theft occurred in Zhaoling Township, Liquan County, Shaanxi Province. Many criminals ganged up to steal a pair of stone lions from the east gate site of Emperor Suzong's Jianling at night using tools such as supports, hanging chains, and diesel tricycles. This pair of stone lions was the gate lion of the Tang Dynasty's imperial mausoleum. It was carved from limestone. It was in a squatting shape with its four feet connected to the base. Each lion weighed two tons and was a national key cultural relic protection object. After the incident, the police had been investigating the case, and the case was supervised by the Ministry of Public Security. In order to collect clues, the local government issued many reward notices. The reward amount increased from the initial 100,000 yuan many times. By July 15,2024, when the public security law jointly issued the reward notice again, the reward amount had reached 1 million yuan. Although it had been many years, as of October 27, 2024, the whereabouts of the stone lions were still unknown. Read more exciting novels for free
In December 2002, Bai Jingfu, the then vice minister of the Ministry of Public Security, wrote a letter requesting that the Song brothers 'cultural relics case in Luoyang be wiped out (the 1210 cultural relics case). The informant said that he was famous in the cultural relics circle and often identified cultural relics for others. He was a friend of Guangzhou exhibition. Zhan had been engaged in illegal cultural relics business for a long time. He was the "eye" of the exhibition who handled cultural relics. In the spring of 2001, Zhan bought a batch of cultural relics from Luoyang for him to appraise, including many cultural relics of the Tang Dynasty. Zhan sold them to Macau for 12 million yuan. In November 2002, Zhan took him to a private residence near the old city of Luoyang. There were more than 200 cultural relics of the Han and Tang Dynasties. There was a 1.2-meter-tall three-colored horse that could be called a national treasure. He discovered that the number and quality of the cultural relics collected by the Song brothers far exceeded that of the museum. When he returned, he felt uneasy and reported it. The report letter mentioned that the cultural relics were stored by the Song brothers in Luoyang and attached the phone numbers of Zhan and the Song brothers. The "1210" special task force was established in Luoyang, Henan Province. The reported "Boss Song" Song Yanbin and "Third Song" Song Yanqing were listed as the top suspects. Song Yanhai ("Second Song"), who had been working in the public security system for many years at that time, was related to his brother. The day after Song Yanhai fell, the Luoyang City Public Security Bureau issued a notice to collect clues about the crimes of Song Yanbin, Song Yanhai, Song Yanqing, Song Yanhong, and others. The criminal gang was led by Song Yanbin, Song Yanhai, Song Yanqing, and Song Yanhong. Wang Wenhai and Qu Jinhua were the protective umbrellas. Led by the Henan Province Public Security Bureau, they mobilized the elite forces of many cities to form a "9.16" special task force to investigate it. Previously, when Song Yanhai was suspected, he had claimed that he did not know about his brother's crimes. <a href="/?from=ask_words" style="color:red" target="_blank">Read more exciting novels for free</a>
The "12/10" cultural relic case was an extremely complicated and wide-ranging case. This was a case of a mafia group that controlled the underground tomb raiding market and the cultural relics reselling market in Luoyang. The four Song brothers were "two red and two black". Boss Song and Third Song were responsible for the theft and reselling of cultural relics. Second Song and Fourth Song were working in the Luoyang City force and were suspected of being responsible for mediating relationships and providing protection. At the end of 2002, the Ministry of Public Security began to pay attention to the case after receiving a report letter from overseas. The informant said that he saw a large number of precious cultural relics in the Song brothers 'possession, far exceeding the collection of Luoyang Museum. At that time, the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Public Security instructed the Henan Province Public Security Bureau to directly organize a special force to investigate the case. The case was specifically handled by the Luoyang City Security Bureau. The "12·10" special task force was established and became the case supervised by the Ministry of Public Security. However, the case went through many twists and turns in the investigation process. Later, it was put on hold for more than ten years until December 2,2021. The Public Security Bureau of Luoyang City, Henan Province, issued a notice to publicly collect clues about the crimes committed by the four brothers, Song Yanbin, Song Yanhai, Song Yanqing and Song Yanhong. This meant that the case was reopened for investigation. <a href="/?from=ask_words" style="color:red" target="_blank">Read more exciting novels for free</a>
Cixi had two more typical cases of cultural relics. One was the case of the Yue Kiln site in Shanglin Lake. The defendant, Liang Mou, was 52 years old from Hunan Province and had worked in Cixi for many years. Because he had not worked for a period of time, he was influenced by the value of antiques in movies and Short videos. He remembered that he had heard that there were antiques underground near the lake when he was playing in Shanglin Lake, so he prepared headlights, crowbars, backpacks and other tools. On the morning of August 3,2020, he sneaked into a mountain beside Shanglin Lake, dug two caves, put the celadon fragments in the caves into his backpack and took them away. The next morning, he was caught by the staff when he went into the mountain to dig another cave. He stole 128 pieces of celadon fragments of Yue Kiln in Tang Dynasty, Five Dynasties and Northern Song Dynasty. These fragments were identified as general cultural relics. The excavation site was located within the protection range of Yue Kiln site in Shanglin Lake. The excavation disturbed the local soil layer on the surface of the site and damaged the accumulation of the site. Liang was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined 5,000 yuan. The second was the case of the destruction of the cultural protection monument at Chai Wan Hill's beacon tower. At the end of 2021, when Cixi Huasheng Mining was carrying out landslide safety hazard treatment, due to work mistakes, the cultural protection sign monument of Chaiwan Mountain Beacon Tower, which was located at the foot of the mountain and outside the "two boundaries" of its protection scope and construction control zone, was damaged. The Beacon Tower was one of the beacon towers of the coastal defense system in eastern Zhejiang during the Ming Dynasty. It was the most complete relic of the Beacon Tower existing in Cixi. In 2011, it was announced as the sixth batch of municipal cultural relics protection units in Cixi City. Because it was not reported to the relevant departments in time, the cultural relics law enforcement department filed a case and warned the unit, ordered it to immediately restore the cultural protection mark monument to its original state, and guaranteed that it would not carry out production activities that would endanger the cultural protection mark and the safety of cultural relics in the future. The unit involved in the case was making a new cultural relic mark monument according to the original specifications. <a href="/?from=ask_words" style="color:red" target="_blank">Read more exciting novels for free</a>
There were two more typical cases related to cultural relics in Qufu. Firstly, in 1966, under the special historical background, Tan Houlan was instructed by Kang Sheng to lead students to the ruins of the "Three Holes" in Qufu to attack the Confucius Temple. Her team destroyed more than 6000 cultural relics, burned more than 2000 precious ancient books, and smashed thousands of stone tablets. Secondly, in 2007, a grave robbery case occurred in Jiangjia Village, Qufu. Several prisoners who had served their sentences and villagers who guarded the ancient tomb stole the largest ancient tomb in Jiang Village. They dug up eight jade servants and sold them on the black market for only 4 million yuan, causing the ancient tomb with great research value to be looted. <a href="/?from=ask_words" style="color:red" target="_blank">Read more exciting novels for free</a>
The following are some cases of cultural relic blind boxes: - The Sanxing Dui Museum has launched a blind box for the restoration of cultural relics. - The Forbidden City's cat blind box contained cultural relics such as lotus crane square pot. There were cards in the blind box, and the back of the card was the actual appearance of the cultural relics. The cultural relics in these blind boxes were designed into cute shapes, such as creative designs with elements such as kittens. - In Yutang's activities, there was an archaeological blind box activity involving "little archaeologists". Children used hand shovels, brushes and other archaeological tools to excavate the "cultural relics" in the blind box, so as to understand archaeological work and history and culture. - There were also blind manicure boxes made with China cultural relics from the British Museum. For example, cultural relics such as Qing Dynasty forehead, dragon-shaped cultural relics, cloud shoulders, five green screens, Ming Dynasty welcome Bodhisattva, Qing Dynasty elephant music ball, Qing Dynasty auspicious vase, Cixi phoenix robe, etc. were integrated into the manicure design to make a relay manicure blind box. <a href="/?from=ask_words" style="color:red" target="_blank">Read more exciting novels for free</a>
"National Treasure Case" was a documentary about major cultural relics cases, with a total of four episodes. The content mainly involved the 9/18 case of Kaifeng Museum in Henan Province, the Baoding case of Marquis Zeng in Suizhou, Hubei Province, the gold seal case of Empress Dowager in Shaanxi Province, and the smuggling case of the Bronze Empire in Anhui Province. The documentary showed the story of the public security system fighting with criminals across provinces and regions, recovering national cultural relics, and recovering the heavy losses of national property. With the documentary video archive, it gathered the history of the public security system protecting national treasures, thereby raising the awareness of cultural relics protection and legal awareness of the whole society. <a href="/?from=ask_words" style="color:red" target="_blank">Read more exciting novels for free</a>
Sand casting was an ancient craft that was of great significance in the production and identification of cultural relics. For example, 11 gilded Buddhas from the early Tang Dynasty unearthed in Duchang County, Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province, were made using the sand-turning process at the end of the Sui Dynasty. There was also the Yuan Dynasty's "Seal of Ten Thousand Families of the Han Army" in the collection of the Zhaodong City Museum, which was also made by sand casting, but this seal was more crude. In the field of China antique art, the art of turning sand was also used to counterfeit. For example, when ancient coins were forged, profiteers might use the method of turning sand to cast money, which involved turning the mold, trimming the edge, repairing the hole, rusting, silencing the sound, making old coins, and other methods to make counterfeit coins. This required collectors to improve their eyesight to distinguish. <a href="/?from=ask_words" style="color:red" target="_blank">Read more exciting novels for free</a>
Cultural relics are the general term for all valuable material relics left over from the historical development of human society, created by humans or related to human activities. It has the characteristics of material (resource), epoch (or historical), irreplaceable, non-regenerative, individual differences, and permanence. Its meaning has been expanded from the cultural relics of ancient Greece and Rome in the past to all tangible and intangible cultural heritages (such as Japan and South Korea). Cultural relics had historical value, artistic value, cultural value, and scientific value. According to the grading standards of cultural relics, they could be divided into first-class cultural relics, second-class cultural relics, third-class cultural relics, and general cultural relics (ordinary cultural relics with certain historical, artistic, and scientific value). In terms of categories, there were many classification methods, mainly including age classification, existence classification, regional classification, texture classification, function classification, attribute (property) classification, source classification, value classification, shape classification, etc. In the world, according to the perspectives of history, art, science, aesthetics, ethnography, and archeology, they were divided into seven categories: cultural relics, historical sites, architectural groups, heritage canals, heritage routes, historical towns and centers, and cultural landscapes. Different countries have different names and scope of cultural relics. For example, China called them "cultural relics", Japan called them "cultural property", Italy classified many archaeological, historical, national art objects, historical sites, documents, etc. as cultural relics, and the United Nations Cultural and Scientific Organization called cultural relics "cultural property" or "cultural heritage"(the two referred to different contents. The former referred to movable cultural relics, while the latter referred to immovable cultural relics). Each country had many representative cultural relics. For example, China had the Tri-colored glazed pottery of the Tang Dynasty, brick carvings, galloping horses, the autumn exercise cup of the Qing Dynasty, the phoenix crown of Empress Xiaoduan of the Ming Dynasty, and the hairpin of "Golden Cicada Jade Leaf" of the Ming Dynasty. Other countries had the earliest human mirror made of obsidian excavated in Turkey about 8,000 years ago. <a href="/?from=ask_words" style="color:red" target="_blank">Read more exciting novels for free</a>
A sketch of a cultural relic was an artistic creation that displayed cultural relics in the form of a sketch. For example, in some museum activities, children would create clip art based on the observed cultural relics, including painting and sketching of cultural relics. This could be seen as a practice of sketching cultural relics. There were also some specialized sketches of ancient cultural relics. These works had different format, size, and other attributes. For example, some of them were in AI file format and had a file size of 6.427mb. There were also some exquisite sketches of cultural relics that might be shared on the Internet. <a href="/?from=ask_words" style="color:red" target="_blank">Read more exciting novels for free</a>
There was no specific definition or classification of Supreme among the cultural relics. There were many ways to classify cultural relics. According to their value, they could be divided into first-class cultural relics, second-class cultural relics, third-class cultural relics, and general cultural relics. Among them, first-class cultural relics often had extremely high historical, artistic, and scientific value. Among the many cultural relics, some cultural relics were regarded as extremely precious because of their unique historical significance, exquisite craftsmanship, or scarcity. For example, China's special national treasures, such as the phoenix crown of Empress Xiaoduan of the Ming Dynasty and the lotus-shaped glass cup of the Yuan Dynasty. There were also some world-class rare cultural relics, such as the golden thread jade clothes of the Han Dynasty. These cultural relics were valued because of their great historical and cultural value, unique artistic value, or special scientific significance. However, there was no such absolute concept of cultural relics classification as " supreme." <a href="/?from=ask_words" style="color:red" target="_blank">Read more exciting novels for free</a>