The unexpected discovery and encounter of Mangquan

There are several different versions of the new mans balancer: 1925, 1926 and 1927. One autumn day in recent years, Qin Gong, who was only eleven years old in Shankou Village, Shankou Town, found a black metal object on the cliff while grazing, so that he asked his younger brother Qin Rang to dig together the next day, and * * * dug up eight ancient bronzes.

In the spring of the 18th year of the Republic of China (1929), due to the drought and famine in Shaanxi and Gansu, Qin public trolleys pushed bronzes to Lanzhou for sale, which was bought by the antique dealer Ma Shizhai for 60 silver dollars and then sold to the antique dealer Zhang Shouting for 240 silver dollars. In the autumn of the same year, Beijing antique dealer Zhu Baihua bought a copper scale and 9 Jin of copper rights for 140 yuan. The other six pieces were bought by Yang Mushi, then director of the provincial construction department, with 800 silver dollars, and then stored in Lanzhou People's Education Museum. On a rainy night in July in the 21st year of the Republic of China (1932), all six cultural relics preserved in the Education Museum were stolen except the power supply. After Zhu Baihua bought Henghe Spring, he sold it to the "Zunguzhai" antique shop of Beijing Glass Factory for 5 100 silver. Five pieces stolen in Lanzhou were recovered by Ma Heng, director of Beijing Branch of Deng Baoshan Antiquities Preservation Committee, in the "Yuanfengyong" jewelry store in Tianjin British Concession in July of the 22nd year of the Republic of China (1933) and kept in Beijing Tuancheng.

Two pieces of "Zungu Zhai" were redeemed by the Palace Museum at the original price of 5 100 yuan. In the spring of the 23rd year of the Republic of China (1934), the China Federation of Students held the Northwest Cultural Relics Exhibition in Tuancheng, and the Xin Mang Scale unearthed in Dingxi was made public for the first time. During 1949, five of them (Sanquan, Yigou and Yizhang) were shipped to Taiwan Province Province and are now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei (Figures 1, 2 and 3). Shi You, the largest stone left in Lanzhou People's Education Museum, was sent to Beijing History Museum for exhibition during the National Day of 1959. At present, China National Museum has three pieces (one balance and two rights).