He walked directly to another cauldron next to the group of people.
The police officers looked at each other, wondering if it was what they were thinking.
This weakling actually wants to lift a cauldron all by himself?
Luo Yunhang first rolled up his sleeves, then put his hands together to hug the body of the cauldron and lifted it up with all his might. The cauldron was lifted up by him with ease, as if it had no weight at all.
The five people were stunned into silence.
This, this, this…
The secretary's eyes practically sparkled with hearts as she excitedly exclaimed, "Comrade Luo, you're amazing! It took four of them to lift that cauldron, but you lifted it all by yourself!"
Luo Yunhang didn't say anything, silently moved the cauldron outside, and then took out a magnifying glass to start studying it.
He felt incredibly pleased with himself for putting on such a show; these four weaklings dared to look down on him.
The four people behind him, holding the cauldron, were in an extremely awkward situation, unsure whether to lift it or not.
Especially the young policeman who had spoken out against Luo Yunhang, his face was flushed red, and he buried his head like an ostrich.
In the end, the four of them had no choice but to awkwardly move the cauldron out little by little and place it next to Luo Yunhang.
Now the group became completely obedient, obediently moving the cauldron without daring to say a word.
Luo Yunhang then began to study the three cauldrons.
Bronze ware refers to vessels, utensils, ritual objects, etc., made from bronze as the basic raw material.
In ancient times, bronzes were symbols of status and class, and only nobles could use them. As ritual vessels used as funerary objects in ancient tombs, ding (a type of ancient Chinese cooking vessel) had strict hierarchical requirements for burial.
There are two types of tripods: round tripods with three legs and square tripods with four legs. They can also be divided into those with lids and those without lids.
These three ding vessels are lidless square ding vessels.
In ancient times, only the emperor of the Zhou Dynasty could use an even number of tripods as burial objects.
The emperor's rations consisted of twelve tripods, an even number.
The Nine Tripods were a bronze artifact reserved for feudal lords who were buried with nine tripods.
The bronze tripods buried with high-ranking officials should be five or seven;
The bronze tripods buried with the lower-ranking officials consisted of one or three tripods.
Of course, in addition to bronze tripods, ancient tombs also contained bronze chime bells, gold, silver and jade artifacts, and other burial goods.
The tomb containing these three bronze tripods likely belonged to a scholar-official class during the Shang and Zhou dynasties.
Sure enough, as the police carefully brought out a set of chime bells, a set of chime stones, and some pottery ritual objects, they proved Luo Yunhang's guess.
This should be the tomb of a scholar-official from the Shang or Zhou dynasty, not particularly grand in terms of scale and ritual.
However, due to the passage of time and the lack of artifacts to prove identity, the identity of the tomb's occupant is now unverifiable.
We can investigate the origin of these items and send them back to the local museum for processing.
After Luo Yunhang finished taking inventory of all the items, Director Duan and his team from Dunhuang arrived that evening and personally confirmed that the cultural relics belonged to the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang.
Dean Duan will personally lead a team to escort these cultural relics back to Dunhuang.
After saying goodbye to Bai Yan, Luo Yunhang flew back to Dunhuang.
Bai Yan had many things to do, and the two agreed to meet again in Tianzhou.
Although this case of missing cultural relics had many bizarre aspects, overall it can be considered to have a perfect ending.
They recovered the stolen cultural relics and caught a big fish: the dock manager and that man named Old Li.
They simply refused to confess who had asked them to help transport these cultural relics.
Of course, Luo Yunhang no longer had any truth tokens left to use.
Bai Yan found out that the departing ship was headed for the Little Day Country. Some of the staff also confessed that they had cooperated with their superiors in doing this kind of thing more than once, and each time they did it, they could get a generous bonus.
Although Lao Li and the dock manager refused to confess, the police had already identified several Japanese people who were involved in antique collecting in the country, and this matter was likely related to them.
Meanwhile, within Dunhuang, Xiao Zuo also gleaned some information from the forger.
Who would have thought that this master forger was actually Japanese?
Although he could speak Chinese, his thick accent immediately gave people a sense of unease. Upon further investigation, it turned out he was a pure Japanese.
No one knows what benefits they gave him that made him willing to leave his own country and come to this strange land, to persist in making fakes day after day in this dark and sunless cellar.
To be honest, the Japanese are really good at forgery; they almost fooled even a seasoned expert like Dean Duan.
This matter is undeniably related to the Japanese.
The several batches of cultural relics that were transported away earlier must have ended up in Japan.
China will not let this matter rest.
Village Chief Qin and Bearded Wang Cheng are also implicated; they will face either execution or life imprisonment—this is no ordinary crime.
Old Li and that supervisor can't escape either.
This incident once again illustrates how unpredictable people's hearts are, and how many people have no bottom line when it comes to personal gain.
Luo Yunhang was genuinely worried about the many cultural relics within China's borders.
Several cases involving cultural relics left a deep impression on him. He felt that he had to do something to be worthy of his country and this land.
Back in Dunhuang, I recounted my experiences over the past two days to Master Li and Xiang Tianhong, and they were both deeply moved.
I never imagined that antique dealers and the "little people" in the country had become so rampant.
Luo Yunhang also realized for the first time that the importance of the inheritance and revitalization of cultural relics is not just empty talk.
Only when more and more people realize the importance of protecting cultural relics will China's cultural relics be prevented from being continuously stolen.
When the working class at the bottom of society can't even guarantee their basic needs, it's inappropriate to talk about culture and cultural relics.
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