Mangshan Mountain in Luoyang, Henan Province is rugged, and there is little place for lying cows, and the buried objects are extremely rich. After Zheng He's seven voyages to the West, China's ancient cultural relics and exquisite handicrafts were valued by western businessmen, and they were "bought on the black market at great expense". Due to the need of stealing the funerary wares in the ancient tombs, the concave shovel in Luoyang spread among the people in the middle of Ming Dynasty.
Luoyang shovel was gradually improved for later generations. The earliest and widely used place is naturally grave robbery, but now it has become an archaeological tool. Juxian Wei, a famous archaeologist, witnessed the use of Luoyang shovel by grave robbers in 1928, and then applied it to archaeological drilling, which played an important role in the excavation of the famous ancient city sites such as Yin Ruins and Yanshi Mall in China. Nowadays, it is the basic skill of every archaeologist to learn to use Luoyang shovel to distinguish soil quality.
in 195s, Luoyang became a key construction city. Factory site selection often encounters ancient tombs, and it is time-consuming and labor-consuming to drill and sample by machine, so the construction workers use this concave shovel to accurately detect more than a thousand ancient tombs. After that, this concave shovel was spread to the whole country, and soon spread to Eastern Europe and Asian and African countries, and Luoyang shovel became famous at home and abroad.
Luoyang shovel is a symbol of archaeological drilling tools in China. In the early 197s, when an archaeological delegation from China visited Albania, it presented an exquisite Luoyang shovel.
the inventor of Luoyang shovel is some local people in Luoyang. Over the past 1 years since the beginning of the last century, the magical "Luoyang shovel" has made ten tombs and nine empty in Mangshan area, Luoyang, where the ancient tombs in China are most concentrated, and a large number of antiquities have flowed out. "Luoyang shovel" is notorious for this.
"Luoyang shovel" is not only a tool for grave robbery, but also an archaeological tool. Luoyang shovel has been officially used as a special tool for field archaeologists, drawing figures in textbooks, introducing its use methods, and popularizing it throughout the country, thus forming a unique archaeological drilling technology in China and becoming a symbol of archaeological drilling tools in China. It can be said that Luoyang shovel is also one of the best archaeological tools in the world. Luoyang shovel is widely used in national capital construction, scientific research and industry.
Luoyang is the only producing area of Luoyang Shovel in China. However, for a long time, the production and operation of Luoyang shovel has been in the primitive state of folk manual workshops, facing the dilemma of lack of successors. Some archaeological experts have called for scientific arrangement and scale development of the "Luoyang shovel" production technology with important historical and social values, and even suggested that the "Luoyang shovel production technology" be declared as an intangible cultural heritage project of mankind.
In p>214, Luoyang Shovel Cultural Protection Association registered Luoyang Shovel and left Luoyang Shovel in Luoyang. Luoyang shovel museum and other related institutions are also being gradually built, and Luoyang shovel, as a world cultural symbol, has ushered in a high-speed period of development.