After cleaning the rust on the cannon body, IT companies formulated a weight loss plan for employees. A successful weight loss would be rewarded with 800 yuan per month. Researchers found that all three iron cannons were cast with the words "Do not move, Tongzhi Year Two, made in Cifu Fort." It was introduced that since the late Ming Dynasty, in order to avoid bandit troubles, various places in Jiankang began to build fortresses and organize civilian armed forces. When bandits came to harass, villagers would hide in the fortresses to avoid bandit troubles, and these three cannons were used to strike invading bandits. "This kind of iron cannon fires iron bullets with a range of two to three hundred meters," said Shi Changcheng, adding that the museum would first remove the rust from the cannons and take protective measures to preserve them properly.
Yesterday afternoon, at the Ankang History Museum, I saw the staff using tools to clean the rust off the cannons. The three cannons were about one meter long, one large and two small, with an estimated weight between 100 to 150 kilograms. According to Shi Changcheng, deputy director of the Ankang History Museum, in April this year, farmer Huang Xiaobin from Yongning Township in Hanyin County accidentally dug out these three Qing Dynasty iron cannons while collecting medicine on the mountain, and later Huang Xiaobin voluntarily called to donate the cannons to the museum.
According to reports from Ankang (by reporter Zha Bo), recently, a farmer from Hanyin County discovered three Qing Dynasty iron cannons while collecting medicine on the mountain and donated them to the Ankang History Museum. Experts stated that the discovery of the three iron cannons is of great significance for studying the defense systems of southern Shaanxi region during the mid-Qing Dynasty.