There are really all kinds of wonders in this world, do you believe it? In 1996, a Taiwanese businessman dug up 8 tons of tree roots from the bottom of a river in Chengdu. Four years later, a Japanese speaker offered 12 million to buy the tree roots, but he refused outright.
Does this sound a bit bizarre, but it does happen in reality. What is going on? Let’s take a look!
Lu Hongjie and the tree roots he dug
Lu Hongjie, a Chinese Taiwanese, was born in 1963 in the Hengchun Peninsula, a famous scenic spot in Taiwan Province, and now lives in Chengdu. Lu Hongjie has loved nature since he was a child, especially natural shells, flowers, plants, trees and stones. interested.
After graduating from college, Lu Hongjie decided to go into business. He started a real estate business in Taiwan. Moreover, due to the rapid development of Taiwan's economy as Four Little Dragons , Lu Hongjie's real estate business in Taiwan went smoothly and he quickly accumulated a fortune. The first pot of gold.
Lu Hongjie
In 1988, the two sides of the Taiwan Strait opened up family visits. At that time, Lu Hongjie, who made a lot of money in real estate in Taiwan, believed that the market potential of the mainland was huge. If he took root in the mainland, his future development prospects would be broader. After some psychological struggle, he He resolutely decided to leave Taiwan and choose to go to the motherland.
However, after Lu Hongjie arrived in the mainland, he found that things were not as good as he originally imagined. He originally planned to develop his familiar real estate business in the mainland. However, in 1988, Taiwanese businessmen operating real estate in the mainland would be subject to policy restrictions. of.
Lu Hongjie had no choice in his museum
. Lu Hongjie had no choice but to change his career to something else. In the 1990s, an orchid craze quietly emerged in the mainland. At that time, almost every household, men, women, and children would invest in raising orchids, and people rushed to "go to sea" to raise them. Lan, almost a nationwide craze arose.
Lu Hongjie also joined the orchid cultivation team at that time. In 1995, Lu Hongjie took his employees to the Baopingkou Scenic Area in Dujiangyan for an outing. As a result, when he was taking photos of the employees, he accidentally saw two boys in the camera. Accidentally fell into the water.
Lu Hongjie's Museum
The incident happened suddenly. Seeing the two boys' splashing movements getting weaker and weaker, while the passers-by were watching from the shore, Lu Honghong couldn't care about anything at the moment and threw the camera to the employee. A violent force hit the water, and after some fighting, the two boys were finally rescued ashore. This incident was reported by the media at the time.
However, the good deeds he did did not only bring no benefits to Lu Hongjie, but also brought him a lot of trouble. Since cross-strait relations still tended to be confrontational in 1995, Lu Hongjie was sneaky every time he returned to Taiwan. Afraid of causing unnecessary trouble if others find out.
Rare plants in Chengdu Ebony Museum
I don’t know whether it was because he was doing good deeds to save people, or for some other reason. Lu Hongjie had good luck the next year. In 1996, Lu Hongjie and a worker were watering orchids by the river. , as a result, while Lu Hongjie was chatting with the workers, he suddenly discovered a dark thing in the shallow water on the shore, which shone in the sunlight.
Out of curiosity, Lu Hongjie picked it up and took it home to study. As a result, when the water on the piece dried, the color suddenly became no longer black. It looked like a piece of wood, but it had It was as heavy as a stone. Lu Hongjie had never seen anything like this before.
Chengdu Ebony Museum
So he took the small piece of wood to an old man in Chengdu to ask. After asking, he found out that what he picked up was actually ebony. He took the small piece of ebony to Chengdu University of Technology did the identification, and the results were tested with carbon 14 isotope and found that this piece of wood is actually 3,800 years old.
Lu Hongjie was very happy. He thought that if he could see a small piece of ebony on the shore, then there must be a larger piece of wood under the river bed, so he hired an excavator and a crane, and found another Several expert divers.
The tree roots dug by Lu Hongjie
As a result, after two days of diving exploration, the workers found ebony under the river bed. However, because the ebony at the bottom of the river was so big, Lu Hongjie had a hard time digging up the ebony. After many twists and turns.
In the first year, there was no road around the river bank and the excavator could not enter. Lu Hongjie had to spend money to build the road first. However, when the excavation was officially started, the river flooded and the road was washed away. The excavation continued in the second year, and the result was After finally pulling Wu Mu up halfway, the water rose again. After all the trouble, it was not until the third year that special mechanical tools were used to finally dig the giant piece of ebony ashore.
When they saw the true appearance of this piece of ebony, everyone present was shocked. It was a giant piece of old ebony root with a hollow center in the shape of a ring. It looked like the sun, so Lu Hongjie So he named it "万元同centricSun神".
The roots of the "Ten Thousand Roots of the Sun God" are 7 meters in diameter and weigh an astonishing 8 tons. According to isotope carbon 14 testing, the roots of this tree are 7,369 years old.
After that, Lu Hongjie became obsessed with ebony. Whenever he found ebony, he would buy it at a high price. In 2000, he even opened the "Chengdu Ebony Art Museum" directly in Chengdu and stored all the precious ebony that he had collected for many years in this museum. inside.
At the end of December of the same year, a visiting delegation composed of the Speaker and many members of the House of Representatives came to visit the Chengdu Ebony Art Museum. After seeing the "Ten Thousand Roots Concentric Sun God", the Japanese speaker named Oshima Risen actually had a tough tone. He said to Lu Hongjie:
We are going to order this thing. Just make a price and we will never bargain.
Japanese Speaker Oshima Risen
But he was immediately rejected by Lu Hongjie. The next day, Oshima Risen was determined to win. , during the conversation, Lu Hongjie learned that Oshima Risen planned to transport this "Ten Thousand Roots Concentric Sun God" back to Japan and install a red luminous sphere in the round hole-shaped hollow part of the "Sun God".
Lu Hongjie became furious after hearing this and cursed:
It is surrounded by natural reflections. If there is a red light ball in the middle, wouldn't it become Japan's sun flag?
Lu Hongjie asked the translator to tell Oshima Risen that the wood was more than 7,000 years old. More than 7,000 years ago, there was no country like Japan. Xu Fu traveled to Japan and brought with him three thousand boys and girls, and that was how Japan became today. Lu Hongjie said: Don't be a traitor, let him stay where he can to cool down.
On September 1, 2018, the mainland officially opened the voluntary application for residence permits for Hong Kong and Macao residents. Lu Hongjie was the first to apply after hearing about it. Now Lu Hongjie’s son and daughter are studying in the mainland, and he plans to focus all his efforts in the future. Invest in the construction of the Ebony Museum.
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