The late Qing Dynasty was the most difficult and embarrassing period in China, and it is an exaggeration to say that China at that time was like a fish on the board, ready to be slaughtered by various Western countries. Because of corruption and incompetence, they were forced to sign various clauses that lost power and humiliated the country, and the "Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens" Yuanmingyuan was also looted in the aggression of Western countries, and countless precious literary materials belonging to the Chinese nation were left overseas. Now that China has begun to become stronger, many overseas countries want to establish harmonious relations with China, so they automatically send cultural relics back to China, some time ago, Italy took the initiative to return 796 precious cultural relics, so that a large number of cultural relics in our country can be returned. Foreigners know the importance of cultural relics to our country, but wondering that some people are unwilling to sell cultural relics to the state, and have turned around and donated 183 precious cultural relics to the United States free of charge.
This man's name was Weng Wange, a Manchu Qing widow, and the fifth grandson of Weng Tonggong, a famous minister in the late Qing Dynasty. It may be that among the many ministers of the late Qing Dynasty, Weng Tonggong was not as famous as Wu Sangui, Aobai and others, but according to historical records, Weng Tonggong was not a simple figure. He is a very famous politician and calligraphy artist in modern Chinese history. During his tenure, he successively served as the Minister of Households, the Ministry of Works, the Minister of Military Aircraft, and the Minister of State Affairs of the Prime Minister, and was a high-powered minister. For more than 40 years as an official, in addition to being busy with various official affairs, his favorite thing to do is to collect various antique cultural relics and accumulate wealth for future generations.
Under his efforts, posterity lived a very rich life, and at the same time, these cultural relics were passed down as heirlooms. As a descendant of Weng Tonggong, Weng Wange can be said to be a powerful man born in books, and when he was studying, he just caught up with the Sino-Japanese war, in order not to affect his studies, with the consent of his family, he chose to study in the United States. Although far abroad, Weng Wange has not forgotten his motherland, and under the influence of his ancestors, he also likes to collect cultural relics and promote China's excellent traditional culture in the United States. Because he often wrote books and made documentaries, Chinese and American cultures were well exchanged under his impetus, and he became a very famous Chinese.
After the end of the war, with the establishment of New China and the continuous improvement of the economic level and the improvement of China's international status, many Overseas Chinese began to return to China for development after completing their studies and contributed their own strength to the construction of the motherland. As a Chinese Weng Wange also began to return to China to develop, along with him to return to China with various precious cultural relics that were taken out of the country, which were targeted by experts just after returning to China. As an excellent heritage of the Chinese nation, cultural relics represent the cultural inheritance of China for more than 5,000 years, and its historical value is incomparable, which was an important period for China's recycling of cultural relics, and the return of these cultural relics attracted the attention of experts.
In order to return the cultural relics to the museum, experts have visited WengWange many times, hoping to study these cultural relics, and WengWange is very happy about the arrival of experts, which represents the preciousness and value of these cultural relics, so it is open to let experts study cultural relics. Looking at these precious cultural relics, experts know what these cultural relics mean to our country, and they want to bring it back to the museum for research, so they proposed to buy cultural relics and negotiate with Weng Wange but were rejected by Weng Wange, he said that these cultural relics are all handed down from the ancestors, and the family also hopes that the cultural relics can continue to be passed down, no matter who wants to buy it will not agree.
Onwango's strong attitude was disappointing, and these relics did not return to the embrace of the motherland in the end. Weng Wange, who had just rejected the request of Chinese cultural relics experts to buy cultural relics, donated all 183 precious cultural relics to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in the United States at the age of 100, which is the largest and most meaningful batch of Chinese calligraphy and painting donations in the history of the museum since its construction. At that time, the matter was also widely reported, expressing gratitude to Ongwango. But our people are so angry that they still cannot understand Ongwango's approach.