The daydream of "inheriting hundreds of millions of family properties to the peak of life" is very beautiful, but it can only exist in fantasies and dreams, and the probability of occurrence in reality is almost zero like the pie that fell from heaven.
However, the pie fell on a 23-year-old Dongguan boy who handed over hundreds of millions of dollars worth of inheritance to his aunt before his lifelong unmarried aunt died.
Unexpectedly, the Dongguan guys chose to donate all 60,000 cultural relics in this "sky-high heritage" to the state!
Wu Tingfang guards cultural relics
Sixty thousand cultural relics cannot be collected overnight, and this matter has to start from the late Qing Dynasty a hundred years ago. Born in Xinhui, Guangdong in 1842, Wu Tingfang has a patriotic enthusiasm from an early age and has always been determined to learn to serve the motherland.
When he grew up, he traveled far and wide to london college in the United Kingdom to study, and eventually obtained a doctorate in law and a barrister qualification, which was a rare talent in China at that time.
After completing his studies, Wu Tingfang returned to the motherland, and he used his knowledge and experience to help china sign the first equality treaty in modern times, that is, the Sino-Mexican Treaty of Commerce.
In addition, he also worked to revise China's backward legal treaties and constantly improve the social welfare system, which had a positive impact on China at that time. For the future and destiny of the motherland, he has been working hard.
However, in the late Qing Dynasty, China had already collapsed and could not be saved by personal strength, so Wu Tingfang shifted the direction from "saving the motherland" to "protecting cultural relics".
In modern times, many important cultural relics in our country have been plundered by foreign countries.
Therefore, when Wu Tingfang traveled from country to country, he hid the cultural relics he collected and the cultural relics given to him by foreigners in a British mansion
。 He hailed himself as the "gatekeeper" and spent manpower and money to take care of the artifacts.
My aunt was never married for the sake of keeping cultural relics
For Wu Tingfang, these cultural relics are a symbol of Chinese civilization and the most important wealth, which is worth guarding for a lifetime.
This belief was also passed on to the descendants of the Wu family, who also guarded the cultural relics in the British mansion until the hands of the fourth generation of Zhao Wentai.
Zhao Wentai is the great-grandson of Wu Tingfang, and when he was fifteen years old, his parents died, and he went to his aunt's house in Hong Kong after becoming an orphan.
Her aunt regarded Zhao Wentai as if she were her own, and taught him all kinds of knowledge. However, what makes Zhao Wentai more strange is that his aunt has no psychological and physical diseases, and why she has not chosen to marry in her life, this question makes him puzzled.
When Zhao Wentai was 23 years old, he finally knew the answer to this question. That day, his aunt, who was sick in bed, called him over and told him: "I left you a property in England and the contents of it..."
After his aunt's death, Zhao Wentai learned that the cultural relics in the property were as high as 60,000 pieces, including bronzes, jade, porcelain and other valuable cultural relics.
At this time, he learned that his aunt had not married all her life in order to better protect the cultural relics and undertake the family's mission for a hundred years!
Now, this mission needs to be undertaken by him, and he has two paths to follow, one is to guard the cultural relics silently like the elders, and the other is to transport the cultural relics back to China after the inventory is completed.
Zhao Wentai donated cultural relics to the state
Zhao Wentai did not act as a good "gatekeeper" like his elders, but chose to transport cultural relics to the country. However shipped from a foreign country
So many cultural relics returned to China, it was not so easy to move up and down with his mouth, the process was very difficult and tortuous, and it took him twenty years.
In the 1990s, zhao Wentai began to count cultural relics after coming to Britain, he did not dare to entrust such an important thing to others to do, he has always done it himself, so his injuries are common.
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Transporting the artifacts back to his home country, he also chose to become a British citizen. But transporting items is a costly affair, and he has sold some of his properties and taken security measures to protect the artifacts.
Twenty years have passed since everything was done, and the situation in the country has become increasingly stable.
When he did not know how to arrange these cultural relics, the words of a friend gave him a flash of inspiration, and eventually he chose to donate these cultural relics to the country.
Zhao Wentai was originally a descendant of the family, and had many connections in China, and with their help, these cultural relics were donated to various parts of the country, such as the China History Museum, the Xinhua Academy of Calligraphy and Painting, the Guangdong Museum of Art, and so on.
After a hundred years of upheaval and displacement, these cultural relics finally returned to the embrace of the motherland, and in 2005, Zhao Wentai was also awarded the title of "Outstanding Chinese Award" by the state.
epilogue:
For a hundred years, it has been guarding cultural relics worth hundreds of millions of dollars, which shows the deep feelings of the descendants of the Wu family for the motherland. Donating cultural relics worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the state shows Zhao Wentai's broad-mindedness and patriotism.
Although everyone has no "heavenly heritage" to donate to the country, as long as they contribute their own strength to the country, they are also praiseworthy patriots in the new era!