China has a long history and culture of 5,000 years, our ancestors left a lot of precious historical relics, although many cultural relics have been collected in major museums for posterity to appreciate, but there are inevitably some cultural relics sold abroad by criminals. Selling precious cultural relics for our own selfish interests is extremely distressing and angry to all of us.
Historical relics should not only bring us economic value, but also help us open the door to history, facilitate our study of history and culture, and be a key to understanding the changes in ancient history! And the thieves who sell antiquities are unforgivable. Although there have been many cultural relics dealers in China since ancient times, the most famous is Lu Qinzhai today. Although Lu Qinzhai is notorious in China, he has become a great hero in the eyes of foreigners abroad.
It is reported that Lu Qinzhai sold many precious cultural relics to European and American countries, according to relevant information, before 1949, many cultural relics lost in China, at least half of them were lost through the hands of Lu Qinzhai. When Lu Qinzhai was most proud, he had been circling the upper class in the United States, and also had business dealings with many large families in the United States.
Basically, many important museums in Western countries have close contacts with Lu Qinzhai, either by receiving his donations or by having frequent trade with him. Western countries also learned the skill of appreciating Oriental artifacts through Lu Qinzhai, all in all. All of Lu Qinzhai's actions are in our eyes a manifestation of selling ancestors and seeking glory!
The reason why Lu Qinzhai made such a disgraceful act has a lot to do with his origin. Lu Qinzhai was born into a poor family in a very small village in Huzhou, Zhejiang. Because she lived in poverty since childhood and was not born well, Lu Qinzhai had a big heart and always wanted to go out of her village and go outside to explore the world. And he was lucky, and by chance, he entered the Zhang family of the rich side at that time, and had been doing chores under Zhang Jingjiang, the Shaodong family.
Subsequently, Lu Qinzhai followed Zhang Jingjiang to do business abroad because of his cleverness and brains. Abroad, Lu Qinzhai learned business knowledge while working, and in his free time, he would follow Zhang Jingjiang's uncle Zhang Shiming to learn antique knowledge, which laid the foundation for him to sell cultural relics later. Subsequently, through years of accumulated knowledge and experience, Lu Qinzhai began to do his own business, drawing the attention of European and American collectors from Chinese decorative porcelain to Chinese tomb art and Buddhist art.
In the following time, Lu Qinzhai met a woman named Orga in Paris, Olga was originally a nanny, but was later violated by the host and gave birth to a daughter, Mary Rose. Lu Qinzhai and Olga gradually developed feelings and established a relationship, in Olga's heart, on the one hand, he was unwilling to give up the hat shop given by his lover, on the other hand, he was not willing to give up Lu Qinzhai, so he thought of an extremely disgusting method.
Olga married her 15-year-old daughter to Lu Qinzhai and remained intimate with Lu Qinzhai after the relationship changed. After Lu Qinzhai got married, his wife Mary Rose bore him four daughters, but he always told the outside world that he had no children. Lu Qinzhai never told his daughters about China, not even Chinese.
In the end, Lu Qinzhai died in Switzerland in 1957, and he never thought of returning to China until his death. Throughout Lu Qinzhai's life, from a poor boy to an artist and collector in the eyes of Westerners, he has earned a lifetime of glory and wealth through a disgraceful way, and I believe this is also an important reason why he did not dare to return to China in his lifetime.