Archaeological Finds in Shantung stent 70 TH "lit, sD"
Seventy Li north of Tenghsien is found the site of an old city called. Chi, which Is the centre of a former priteipality by that name whic fourished from 707 B. C. to 653 B. when it fades from the historical annals. History reports many feudal conflicts between' Chi and her neighbours.
For several weeks broken pots-nards have been offered for "sale by the relic sellers here and Analy the trained eye of a professor interested in such things, discovered there were old characters stamped upon these: broken bits, so he sent rubbings of these to a trained archacologist in Shanghai and he was fable to decipher them, Tils report exactly tallies with the date of this lly as recorded here—the middle of the Chow Dynasty 700 to 600 B, C.
'There is nothing pleasing to the eye about these broken pottery bits 'Dut as one reads history in' stone or shattered China there is some thing almost sacred about them.
Another Anclent Ruin To the southwest about 50 11 from Tenghsien there is the site of an+ other ansiont city Hsolacheng—some. of the earthen walls stil standing and) the Shanghai-Peiping trains pass through these walls, Here old talismans are tumed up when ploughing the fields, These are 90 similar to the Egyptian scarab that some consider them to thave the same origin, 'They are much in demand by mothers to place upon their children as_a charm against all misfortune. Recently a pot full of these was un earthed at this old site and was sold for' several hundred dollers. An expert after seeing the pains fon the copper pieces considers it a hoax. The love of gain too often tempts to produce the tala, The id cash with the central hole so common 20 years go are now varely found "in circulation tand. many of these dug from graves are jaded to the antique vendor's bag. The plain copper pieces so common for the ast gow years are now almost nan-existent there,
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