Chinanews, Zhoukou, February 13th (Wang Yuweican) On the afternoon of February 11th, Liang Qiusheng, a farmer from Lianji Town, Shangshui County, Zhoukou City, Henan Province, came to the Zhoukou City Museum and donated a bronze square pot to the museum.
According to the identification of cultural relics experts, the bronze square pot should belong to the wine vessel of the Warring States Period, which has important archaeological value for the study of the local history of the old Gudun Kingdom.
According to Liang Qiusheng's self-report, the bronze square pot was picked up on the side of the road in his own land in September last year.
According to Zhou Jianshan, curator of the Zhoukou City Museum, this bronze square pot is 28 centimeters high, 17.7 centimeters wide, and the largest belly diameter is 10.1 centimeters.
Its shape is a rectangular mouth, a flat belly, a rectangular ring foot, double-line decorations on the shoulders, and a piercing decoration on one side of the abdomen. The entire vessel is seriously corroded, and no inscriptions have been found on the body so far.
The picture shows Zhoukou City Museum issuing a collection certificate to Liang Qiusheng.
Photo courtesy of Zhoukou Museum
According to Zhou Jianshan, compared with handed down artifacts, this bronze square pot is obviously an unearthed artifact.
The area around Lianji Town, Shangshui County was historically part of the Gudun Kingdom, which was later destroyed by Chu. Bronze wares of the Gudun Kingdom in the Spring and Autumn Period have been unearthed here many times, and many of them bear inscriptions.
Therefore, it is not ruled out that the villagers dug up the bronzes in the process of building houses, collecting soil, and doing farm work.
On the same day, Zhoukou City Museum expressed its gratitude to Liang Qiusheng for his donation and issued a collection certificate to him.
Zhou Jianshan said that he hoped that everyone would pick up cultural relics in the wild in the future and hand them in in time so that the cultural relics can reflect their true value.
Social donations are an important supplement to museum collections. The museum will keep them properly and apply them to display so that the donated cultural relics can be used sustainably.
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