In 2012, a movie starring Jackie Chan was released in the public eye and swept the major cinemas, the name of the movie is called "Zodiac", this zodiac does not only refer to the zodiac we know, he hides a deeper meaning behind it.
The bronze statue of the twelve zodiac animal heads in the Yuanmingyuan was originally part of the fountain outside the Haiyan Hall in the Yuanmingyuan, and they are finely crafted, and the details such as folds and fluff on the bronze statue are clear and vivid, and have not decayed for hundreds of years.
However, in the burning of the Yuanmingyuan by the Eight-Power Alliance, it was taken away by Western bandits, and only eight of them have been well preserved so far, and the others are missing, which is the eternal pain of the Chinese nation and the eternal scar of Chinese culture.
In addition, in that turbulent era, there were many people who speculated and made money in the country, and sold a large number of Precious Cultural Relics of China abroad at the price of cabbage.
But this person is not ordinary, he does such a black heart, but he is called "the godfather of antiques", and his private feelings are more interesting, so why does Lu Qinzhai, who marries a 15-year-old wife and is ambiguous with his 36-year-old mother-in-law, make the collectors love and hate?
The road to rise
Once successful, people do not like to discuss their disgraceful past, and they will try their best to hide their unfortunate origins, hoping to match their identity and property.
Lu Qinzhai said in his interview that he was born into a large family that declined, and his ancestors were also big families, but the real is true, the fake is fake, and the paper must not be able to contain the fire.
After investigation, in fact, he was born in a poor fishing village in 1880, born in a poor family in that turbulent era, which doomed his life not to go smoothly, but the house leaked overnight, and more unfortunately, his father was lazy and lazy, infected with drugs, was an addict and gambler, and died at the age of 8, and then his mother died tragically.
Orphaned at a young age, and in the era when ordinary people did not have enough to eat, you can imagine how tragic his childhood was. Without any choice, Lu Qinzhai could only choose to beg all the way, and finally sold himself to the Zhang family as a servant, it is difficult to imagine that in 1880 there was such a sale as a servant, but this was also the status quo of old China at that time, and the people's minds were not yet liberated.
But fate was originally full of opportunities and uncertainties, that is, to change Lu Qinzhai's fate at this stage of being a servant to the Zhang family.
At that time, Western advanced ideas were successively introduced into China, Western studies had a big market in China, and the Zhang family prince from Shuxiang Mendi also went with the trend and prepared to study in France, but Lu Qinzhai, who needed a personal servant, flexible head and reliable work, became his choice.
After arriving in France, Lu Qinzhai was like Liu Grandma entering the Grand View Garden, but all this had nothing to do with him, but he found that Chinese antiques had a large market abroad, and by virtue of his identity as a Chinese, he became a black heart intermediary, which was also his first bucket of gold.
Ridiculous
At that time, the Qing government had just collapsed, and many of the nobles of the old Qing Dynasty had no livelihood and had to sell their precious antiques from their homes, knowing which of these things was worth a fortune now, but in war-torn China, these things were less than a bag of rice.
After Lu Qinzhai returned from France, with the funds accumulated in France, he deepened his profession and opened an antique export company, becoming the largest antique exporter at that time. Don't underestimate his company, according to the investigation, Lu Qinzhai sold antiques including two of the Six Juns of Zhaoling, as well as a large number of Han and Tang bronzes, Song Dynasty porcelain and so on.
It is estimated that more cultural relics have passed through his hands than the current cultural relics experts, and at that time he was also known as the "messenger of art", because he spent a lot of money to build a Chinese-style building villa in the center of Paris as a residence and storefront in the center of Paris, and named it the Red House of Paris.
Don't think that he is really a cultural ambassador, he built a house purely to be able to make himself better. In 1910, Lu Qinzhai married his French wife, Marigorose Journy, who was only 15 years old and a minor.
But Lu Qinzhai was thirty years old at the time, and this marriage was actually an excuse, because in the Red Chamber lived Lu Qinzhai's family, and his wife's mother, his mother-in-law, and his relationship was very delicate.
Because his wife is a child, his mother-in-law is just 36 years old, and strictly speaking, Lu Qinzhai and her are more compatible, and the reality is the same.
The whole marriage is a scam, it turns out that Lu Qinzhai was good with her mother-in-law, Mrs. Mary, but Mrs. Mary is the lover of a predator, although she can't give her love, but can give her enough money.
In order to facilitate the two of them to commit adultery, they came up with a brilliant plan, that is, to let Lu Qinzhai marry Mary's daughter, so that they could live together in name only.
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I have to say that the French really love freedom, this magical brain circuit is estimated to be able to shock many people, so Lu Qinzhai and Madame Mary began their road of rape, and when his business became bigger and bigger, Madame Mary could finally kick away her lover, and they no longer hid it, pity Mary's daughter, and became a victim of her mother's road to happiness.
After the founding of New China, the Chinese government also began to pay attention to the protection of cultural relics, Lu Qinzhai this way of making money without conscience is also more and more unsuitable, in 1948, through his hands of several batches of goods were forcibly intercepted, his business finally achieved the head, and then Lu Qinzhai in the country several stores were sealed, the situation forced, Lu Qinzhai had to issue a statement, quit the antiques industry.
In 1957, 78-year-old Lu Qinzhai died in Switzerland, posterity for his evaluation is very complicated, some people think that although he stole a large number of Cultural Relics from China, but this may also be a kind of protection of cultural relics, after all, these things are likely to be destroyed in the war during the war, and during the War of Resistance Against Japan, he also actively donated a large number of materials, patriotism is still there, but the merit is not worth it.
brief summary:
Regardless of his private life, in the eyes of future generations, Lu Qinzhai can be forever nailed to the column of shame of history.
Now a large number of Chinese cultural relics are floating overseas and these people who sell out the national interests for their own interests, and their original intention in doing this is not to protect cultural relics, but to obtain money. We should take him as a negative teaching material, recognize reality, and always keep in mind that national interests are above all else.