The "iron cow" in the Confucious'Temple of Ji'nan Fu school is an iron meteorite
reporter Qiao Xianjia
"the iron cow in the Confucious'Temple of Ji'nan is the iron meteorite!" In September 1st, pointing to the "iron cow" in the Confucious'Temple of Ji'nan, a provincial meteorite enthusiast who came to visit the group affirmed that according to his years of experience in meteorite collection and research, "iron cow" is an iron meteorite which is "very open" and "one eye".
does Ji'nan "big iron ox" really come from the sky?
in September 1st, Feng Shuxuan, Deputy Secretary General of the Organizing Committee of the China (Linyi) meteorite Cultural Exchange Committee, cooperated with some Ji'nan meteorite enthusiasts to see "iron cow" at the Confucious'Temple of Fu Xue. Feng Shuxuan, who has been engaged in meteorite collection research for many years, pointed out that this "iron cow", which has been handed down for hundreds of years and thousands of years in the mouth of Ji'nan, is the iron meteorite from outside the sky.
"iron ox" is now located in the courtyard of the Confucious'temple, where iron ox Pavilion is built to avoid the erosion of rain. At the same time, experts do not think that the way to protect air is more favorable to protect it. "Niu tou" in the north, "oxtail" in the south, from a certain perspective, can feel "iron ox" struggling forward, "bull" high momentum.
Feng Shuxuan visited the big iron cow for the first time in December 2010, when he was sent by Xu Shubin, director of the Organizing Committee of the China (Linyi) meteorite cultural exchange and Secretary General Xu Shutao. "I repress the excitement and look closely. I find that the surface features are obvious. The first impression is meteorite. And it's.Quot; open the door.Quot;! " Feng Shuxuan said.
he then took out a magnet, a microscope and a tape measure. He measured the "iron ox" and found that it was 172 centimeters long, 117 centimeters wide and 85 centimeters high. Although the exterior is rusty, it can be seen by hand wiping. In addition, the magnetic strength is strong. Under the microscope observation, the surface has a clear melting state, and the whole body is filled with gas printing. This is an undulating mechanism of the formation of the surface of the meteorite because of the air extrusion. There are also "melting shells", which are left by meteorites burning in the air, which are the main reference for meteorite lovers to determine whether meteorites are meteorites.
reporter learned that in these years, there are three kinds of ideas around the "iron cow": one is the meteorite; the two is the natural formation; and the three is the artificial smelting. In order to find out the answer, in 2001, the Institute of Geological Sciences of Shandong province carried out the analysis and detection of its components. The results were 99.988% of iron and 0.012% of nickel in the head and tail. Because of the low nickel content, the argument that "iron ox" is meteorite is negated.
Feng Shuxuan insisted that the iron cow was a meteorite. After communicating with the head of the Organizing Committee of the China (Linyi) meteorite Cultural Exchange Committee, he judged the "iron cow" as a meteorite from outer space. According to the custom of the meteorite collection, it was named "Ji'nan iron cow iron meteorite".
is not clear, cultural relics grading is difficult to make
according to Feng Shuxuan, meteorites are usually divided into meteorite meteorites, stone meteorites, iron meteorites, three types of meteorites, and other rare metal meteorites, and so on. At present, there is an iron meteorite weighing about 3 tons in the Chengyang District of Qingdao. It is identified as an iron meteorite by experts at the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing. If the iron ox of Ji'nan's Confucious'temple is really an iron meteorite, it has a weight of about 6 tons, which is the first in the province. At present, the largest iron meteorite in China weighs 30 tons in Xinjiang.
Lv Zhiyong, deputy director of the Management Office of the Ji'nan Fu Xue Confucious'temple, said, "how did the" big iron ox "come from? It is even impossible to determine whether the cultural relics left behind by the predecessors are not able to classify cultural relics. Because iron content of iron ox is very high, if it is left by artificial smelting, it will undoubtedly change the history of iron smelting. Whether it is foreign material or ancient iron smelting, "iron ox" accompanied by hundreds of thousands of Ji'nan, even thousands of years, has been passed on by the public is indeed a fact.
in October 2, 2001, the iron cow, named "the treasure of town town" in Ji'nan, was unearthed at No. 12 on the street, and was transported to the Ji'nan Museum for storage. At the end of 2009, the iron ox was transported back to the Confucious'temple and built "iron ox Pavilion" to be protected and stored for human observation.
, according to an insider who was unearthed at the time, the Shandong satellite TV made a live broadcast of the excavation, causing the city to pay attention to it. Seeing that the iron ox was really alive, some of the old neighbourhood that lived in the surrounding area shed tears at that time.
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about "iron cow"
in Ji'nan folk, "iron cow" is also called "iron cow mountain" by the Jinan people. In the legend, the people of the Confucious'temple outside Ji'nan can often hear the cry of cattle when they are quiet at night. Some people think that the cattle are called. According to the records of the chronicles of Licheng County, Ji'nan has "three mountains do not show high officials, four men do not go out of the king (emperor)", "the three mountains" is the old Ji'nan's calendar mountain (located on the hilltop Street), the iron cow mountain and the grey mountain (located in Erlang Temple Street). Now the other "two mountains" have not existed. The appearance of the "iron cow mountain" proves the legend. In addition, in the "post Han Book", written by Song Fanye in the Southern Dynasty more than 1000 years ago, the earliest records of the iron cattle were recorded. At that time, some people regarded it as a "divine thing", which was called "the treasure of town city" or "treasure of town water" in the folk.