At Xiamen Customs, smugglers suddenly seized a batch of rhinoceros horns worth about 1 100 million yuan and weighing 250 kilograms. You know, there are only five species of rhinoceros in the world, mainly distributed in Asia and Africa, while the rhinoceros horn in Asia is on the verge of extinction. It is precisely for this reason that some African countries will implant chips in rhinoceros horns to establish rhinoceros identity systems in order to protect rhinoceros. Among the rhinoceros horns seized by the anti-smuggling police of Xiamen Customs, 70 pieces were found to contain chip information. So we can be sure that the smuggled goods come from Africa. Among these rhinoceros horns, 1 10 is slightly damaged, so it can be judged that it is completely taken from rhinoceros. The other 35 pieces were cut from different rhinoceros horns according to their size and appearance. According to statistics, about 65,438+000 rhinos were slaughtered.

In fact, it has been recorded in ancient China that rhinoceros horns are very rare. For example, in the Khan Book, Zhao Tuo, king of South Vietnam, presented ten rhinoceros horns to Wendi. This is enough to show that people have been exposed to rhinoceros horn since a long time ago and regard it as a treasure. Rhinoceros horn is precious for a reason.

First of all, in the Neolithic Age, the bones, teeth and horns of animals were made into utensils for porcelain, wood and pottery. And the products made from the teeth and feet of these animals are more exquisite and beautiful. Among the cultural relics unearthed from Fu Hao's tomb in Yin Ruins of Shang Dynasty, the most representative one is the fragrant turquoise ivory cup, which can be called an ancient masterpiece. It is also because of their firmness that the decorations and utensils made are more beautiful and durable. Of course, there were many works of art made of rhinoceros horn in ancient times, from which we can see that people loved rhinoceros horn a long time ago.

Secondly, ancient artifacts and horns are inseparable. Because of the shape of the horn, it is useful to make wine with utensils made of rhinoceros horn. As early as Shang Dynasty, bronzes were made into wine vessels. In addition, there are many kinds of wine vessels in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and many bronze wine vessels have horns beside their names, indicating that the vessels that primitive ancestors may have used for drinking were taken from the horns of animals. Rhinoceros horn is more beautiful in color than horn, so primitive ancestors may also use rhinoceros horn more.

Finally, rhinoceros horn also has the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials and can be used as medicine. In addition, if the rhinoceros horn is boiled soft, it can be carved, and many rhinoceros horn works can be seen in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It was also in the Ming and Qing Dynasties that the rhinoceros horn craft was fully developed, so more and more people liked rhinoceros horn works and chose to collect them.

Used as medicine or made into handicrafts, some even give rhinoceros horn the color of myths and legends. Therefore, rhinoceros horn is more and more popular with everyone, and naturally it is less and less. A rhino loses its horn, just like a soldier loses his weapon. They can't resist natural enemies, so they will gradually disappear. No business, no killing. I hope everyone can pay attention to rhinoceros and stop buying rhinoceros horns.