China has always been a big country of cultural relics, but although many cultural relics have been lost, more have been lost. Especially in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, when the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, many cultural relics in China disappeared, plundered, and destroyed, leaving us with a large number of precious historical relics.
Take the Yuanmingyuan, for example, the former Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens, which contained countless treasures, but was eventually looted. In that chaotic era, in addition to being snatched and destroyed by foreigners, many cultural relics were actually lost to the people and became private collections.
After the founding of New China, in order to make the cultural relics better preserved, some people donated their treasures to the country free of charge, and the person we want to talk about today, he donated hundreds of billions of cultural relics to the museum, to say that it is not an exaggeration, now the palace museum in the top calligraphy and painting collection, half of which are donated by his old man.
This person's name is Zhang Boju, and he is a relative of Yuan Shikai, and by virtue of Yuan Shikai's relationship, he once mixed with warlords for a while. However, he did not like to fight, kill, dance knives and guns, he preferred to write and paint, and live a more peaceful life.
Later, he quit the military and started a business, because of the connections he had laid before, he did a very good business and made a lot of money. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, many Chinese literary and cultural logistics fell to the people, and Zhang Boju naturally did not turn a blind eye to such a situation, and immediately sold his family property for the purchase of cultural relics.
There are more cultural relics acquired, and Zhang Boju is also targeted by those with ulterior motives, so many cultural relics, but it is not a small fortune. First of all, the Wang puppet government, they started the idea of Zhang Boju's collection of treasures, and at first there was some restraint, after all, Zhang Boju's identity was somewhat unusual.
However, when he took his family to escape the chaos of war, the Wang puppet government could not sit still, and if he did not do anything at this time, the cultural relics would definitely be taken away, so the Wang puppet government imprisoned Zhang Boju. However, they tried their best to force Zhang Boju to tell where the cultural relics in his collection were hidden. But Zhang Boju is also a tough guy, no matter how you fight, dead or alive is not open. There was no way, after eight months of imprisonment, after trying everything to get half a benefit, I had to let him out.
"Pifu is innocent, but bears his guilt", this is a law that has existed since ancient times. After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Chiang Kai-shek set his sights on Zhang Boju again, and naturally he did not follow suit. However, after the founding of New China, Zhang Boju unconditionally donated all the cultural relics he collected to the state, and it should be known that these cultural relics he donated, casually taking out one, is enough for their whole family to eat and drink for several lifetimes.
However, the old man said that for him, collecting these things is just a hobby of his own, if he gives them to the state, he can not only give full play to the greatest value of these cultural relics, but also let them get the best protection, Zhang Boju's move is really admirable.
However, what people did not expect was that when Zhang Boju was seriously ill in his later years, he wanted to go to a ward with better conditions, but he was rejected by the hospital for insufficient grade. Such a person who has made great contributions to the protection of cultural relics in the country cannot live in a ward because he does not have an official position and cannot be upgraded because of insufficient rank, so what kind of person rank is enough?
Although in the end, under the mediation of the relevant departments, Zhang Boju still had to go to a better ward, but the old man's heart was also completely broken. But in fact, in the end, this kind of thing can not blame anyone, after all, the hospital may not know his deeds, or perhaps the hospital does have relevant regulations. No matter how lost, it is gratifying to have been properly arranged in the end.