Chapter 32: Five hundred years of cultural relics? Not even on the news
A reason I never thought of!
The reason why Chang'an City didn't build a major subway is not because it couldn't afford it, but because of the cultural relics buried underground?
Martha touched her head and asked in confusion: "Yan, isn't this... an exaggeration? Cultural relics are very precious and rare, right? Why do you make it sound like they can be found everywhere?"

Lin Yan smiled: "It may be hard to say about other places, but in Chang'an City, cultural relics can be seen everywhere! The cultural relics unearthed here that are less than 500 years old are not enough to make the news!"

500-year-old artifact?
Only at this level can one be qualified to be on the news?

Martha was shocked!
In the museum of the Arab Emirates, there is a very important treasure, which is a wine glass once used by Queen Catherine II of Mao!
The Arab Emirates royal family spent an astronomical amount of money to buy this cultural relic from a businessman! Even a noble princess like Princess Shama cannot keep this wine glass for her own collection. She can only look at this "national treasure" cultural relic from afar in the museum!

The high value of this wine glass is partly due to the noble status of Catherine II. But more importantly, it is nearly 400 years ago! The fact that it has been preserved for 400 years is the most rare and precious thing about these cultural relics!
however!
There is a piece of land, and only this piece of land, that is qualified to comment on this 400-year-old cultural relic:

"This thing is too new. Is it from the Qing Dynasty? Oh? The wine glass of the Queen of Mao? That's pretty good."

Martha was numb.

The Arab Emirates is not a country without history. They are also the inheritors of the Arab Empire and Arab culture. They naturally understand the heavy meaning of the word "history"!

However, the Arab region has been through wars for a long time, and many cultural relics have been destroyed or looted. Those that have survived 500 years are the most precious of all treasures, and most of them are simply priceless. You can’t buy them even if you want to!
And now, China says that they have 500-year-old cultural relics everywhere, and cultural relics younger than 500 years old are not even worth reporting in the news?
The first reaction of netizens in the live broadcast room was "This Chinese boy has started bragging again!"
"No, you Chinese kid, do you know what a 500-year-old cultural relic means? This kind of extremely rare historical relic is a valuable and unique collection even if it is placed in our national museum! Chang'an City is a prefecture-level city, who gave you the courage to brag like this?"

"Historical relics are not technological products like high-speed rail. Even if we assume that all of you Chinese are now geniuses like Astan, who can climb the technological tree to the interstellar era in a very short time, the relics left by history will not be preserved!"

"We got slapped in the face by the high-speed rail incident just now, but don't think we'll believe whatever you say next time!"

Lin Yan cried out that he was wronged.

I swear to God, he has always spread the news truthfully, when did he ever "exaggerate"?
Chinese netizens also chimed in:
"I say, since you haven't seen the world, can you please stop questioning? What do you mean by the value of 5000 years of culture?"

"I am a local of Chang'an City. I will just talk about a place, Liujiabao Village. That place is in the suburbs of Chang'an City. There are 2823 ancient relics discovered in that place alone, 1088 tombs have been excavated, and countless cultural relics have been unearthed! Moreover, these are basically relics from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Qin and Han Dynasties, and they have a history of 2000 years!"

"What new stuff that's hundreds of years old? I don't like it! I'm really putting my words aside. If we don't talk about other things and only consider the age, cultural relics that are less than 500 years old are really just like what Brother Yan said, they are not worth showing on stage!"

Nearly 3000 cultural relics dating back 2000 years were discovered in a small village! ?
Martha nearly bit her tongue off!
She quickly took out her cell phone and searched the Internet for the "Liujiabao" village mentioned by the person just now, and indeed found the corresponding records!
This is actually true!
Even though the displayed cultural relics do not look good, they are tattered, full of rust, and not beautiful at all. But the "vicissitudes" given by these years are precisely the important evidence that these cultural relics have appeared here after two thousand years! Tens of thousands of items from 2000 years ago have reappeared in the underground of such a small village on the outskirts of the city!
"My Lord Almighty, China is not only so developed in modern times, but also its ancient glory has been preserved so well?"

As a nation that inherited ancient culture, Martha looked at the vicissitudes of the cultural relics. For some reason, a feeling of sadness seemed to surge in her heart instinctively! For thousands of years, Arab culture has always been a strong culture on par with China! However, due to various reasons, they have not been able to preserve their past glory!

To this day, they can’t even understand ancient Arabic characters, and only professionals can interpret them. This shows how badly their land has been damaged!
If Arab culture can be passed down to this day like Chinese culture, maybe we can be like Chinese...

Just as Martha was feeling sentimental, the taxi finally arrived.

Lin Yan touched Martha's head and said with a smile: "Are you surprised? It's too early to be surprised. The pictures of cultural relics you can see on the Internet are just ordinary cultural relics that can be 'photographed'. What's the point of just looking at a picture? If you want to really see the wonderful ancient culture, you have to go to the museum in Chang'an City to experience it offline!"

"Let's go to the hotel and put down our luggage first, then I'll take you to see the greatest treasures in Chang'an—the Emperor Qin and the Terracotta Warriors!"

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As the taxi sped along, looking at the appearance of Chang'an City recorded by the camera, Martha's slight doubts about "Chang'an City cannot afford to build a high-speed railway" also dissipated!
Chang'an City is certainly not as prosperous as Jinghai, but it is still far from being "backward". It is not the "three or five small shabby houses" and "a few bricks and muddy roads" as outsiders prejudice. In this city, there are dozens of high-rise buildings, endless intercity express roads, bustling and noisy commercial streets, and lively and bustling university towns.
For a city of this size, building a subway line is a no-brainer! Not having a subway is actually quite strange and needs to be explained!

There are even many unique buildings that Martha has never seen in Jinghai!

Lin Yan smiled and explained to Martha one by one that the building was the former residence of scholars from the Northern Song Dynasty 900 years ago, and that temple was a Buddhist temple from the Northern Dynasty a thousand years ago...

Sitting in the car, looking at the "modern skyscrapers" and "historical and cultural buildings" of Chang'an City standing side by side, together forming Chang'an City, a city that is both prosperous in the times and exudes unique historical and cultural charm, Martha was speechless for a long time.

Subways, high-rise buildings... these are regarded as symbols of the times, as if having these things can make a country called "developed", "strong", "advanced" and "glorious".

But Chang'an City is different. No, it should be said that China is the "different" one!
China has proved with its actual actions that these advanced symbols are not difficult for it! Whether it is a high-rise building or a subway, it can build anything it wants!
But it can achieve “not building” in many places.

Is this an old stubborn man rejecting the changes of the new era?

Or does a wise man who has experienced many hardships never think that this is a so-called "new era"?
(End of this chapter)