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.
