Wow. I had no idea seeds could survive so long in water or in soil. What a find!
That looked a little suspicious to me, as in, there's no way in hell seeds could survive 2000 years drenched in water. They would have rotted long ago. But that could easily have been made up by the state-trained idiot who wrote the story for the state-controlled media in China. "Found it in a well. Wells have water. Therefore the seeds spent 2000 years submerged!"