The treasure of Hejia village was an epochal significant discovery When and where the treasures had been buried and by whom were important problems Traditionally it was considered that the discovery site was in Binwang’s residence in Xinghua Ward of Chang’an in Tang,and the time was in An-Shi Rebellion in 755 AD According to the distribution of Chang’an,the planning of Xinghua Ward,the age of the unearthed treasures and the documents,the site of the treasures of Hejia village is considered in Zuyong Shi,Liu Zhen’s house,and the time was when Jing Yuan Rebellion broke in Dezong Jianzhong 4,783
Questions like the appearance and uses of gold and silver, the mining of gold and silver,the evolution and development of the production of gold and silver objects, and the disappearance of large amount of gold during the Western Han dynasty, etc., cannot be satisfactorily answered by the historical records. This paper is an effort to answer the above questions with archaeological findings of the last one century.
The sunflower-shaped silver bowl unearthed in the western suburbs of Xi’an city in 1976, has been regarded as an object of the Tang dynasty. But on its outer surface there are eight little deep ditches stretching from the top to the bottom, therefore making obvious ridges appear on its interior surface and the bowl bear a shape of raised eight petals. The bowl feet assume polyhedrons and the bottom circle of them is decorated with chain pearls design. The interior surface of the bottom has a design of two layers of chain pearls; while the exterior surface, the design of entwining veins. This characteristic is neither the style of traditional Chinese objects, nor that of the Tang silver vessels, but resemble to Sogd silver of Central Asia. So the bowl got its name. Sogd is a strange nationality, of which the people ever did business in Asia and Europe, and had a close relationship with the Tang China.
