With peace ame Communism and, later, the Cultural Revolution, which banned bodily adornments and made the surrender of such pieces a matter of patriotic duty. The government collected countless specimens from the people and warehoused them in and near Beijing. The owners must have hated parting with their treasures (some people evidently buried them), but an individual faced imprisonment for possessing such objects. The confiscated items remained in storage for many years, although I was told that a large quantity was melted down for coinage.
新中国成立了，后来，文化大革命，禁止佩戴随身饰物，这些银制品被人们以爱国主义的名义上交。政府征集了无数的银饰品，存储在北京附近的仓库中。人们都舍不得交出自己的宝藏（有些人偷偷地把它们埋入地下），但拥有这些东西的人将面临监禁。被政府没收的物品库存保持很多年了，据说后来大量被熔化铸造货币。
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