Descendants of the Qing Emperor, 4.5 million cultural relics were sold to the motherland, but 183 pieces of the collection were donated to the United States free of charge
We all know that China has a history of humiliation, during the Qing Dynasty, our country was forcibly invaded by many powers, and lost a lot of treasures and land. Some of the treasures have also been exiled abroad, and many Hong Kong rich people or mainland tycoons have spent thousands of dollars in order to let these treasures return to the embrace of the country. However, there is a person whose approach is very different, this person is very fond of collecting cultural relics, he has collected 183 cultural relics on his 100th birthday, but these cultural relics were donated to the American Museum free of charge by him, but when he donated cultural relics to China, he charged 4.5 million US dollars from China, and this person was Weng Wange.
Will many people say he is Chinese? Of course, he is a fake Chinese, or an authentic Manchu Qing widow. He was once a famous politician and literary artist in the late Qing Dynasty, and because of his family background, his status in the whole society was also very high. He was also a descendant of Weng Tonggong, who had also served as an imperial master, a prime minister, and a military aircraft minister. Of course, in addition to being an outstanding politician, his literary attainment is also very high, he is very fond of collecting literary works, and he has a lot of art paintings in his family. After his death, these collections were inherited by his descendants. Although he was a descendant, he perished early in the morning when he was born, so he had already inherited all the collections by the age of only two.
When he first accepted the collections, he was a layman and didn't know anything. But for him, to inherit such a large amount of wealth is undoubtedly a pie that fell from the sky. In 1938, at the age of 20, he went to the United States and began his study abroad trip, and during his study in the United States, he also studied electrical engineering very hard, and finally obtained a master's degree. But later, for some serendipity, he began to re-study art, and in 1948, the smoke of war in the country did not stop, and he was very afraid that his collection would be affected by this war, so he sent them all to the United States.
There are also hundreds of pieces of this collection, many of those collectibles belong to orphans, even if you have money, you can't buy it, but for Weng Tonggong, he didn't expect that the collection he had worked so hard to get everywhere was sent to the United States by his descendants, of course, this is not over.
There are also many large museums in our country, they all know that he has a large collection of collections, and they all hope that he can donate these collections to the people of the country to visit, even if they do not donate the country, they are willing to buy the collections with money, but at least they cannot flow these collections into foreign land. So in 2000, he sold 80 of his collection to the Shanghai Library for $4.5 million. But no one expected that his old man was happy on his centenary birthday and actually donated all 183 pieces of his collection to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, so this time it was the largest donation in history, and it was donated to other countries.
Many people are talking about this matter, and everyone is saying that if his ancestors knew about their collections, but they were donated to other countries by their descendants, it is estimated that they can "live" again. Many people are very angry at his approach, and can foreigners really appreciate the things Chinese? This is really a tyrannical thing.