Yuanmingyuan is a large-scale imperial garden during the Qing Dynasty in China, with the title of "Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens", in the Yuanmingyuan, there are many Chinese and Western combination of architecture, and its luxury is the most luxurious in the world. The imperial family of the Qing Dynasty would come to the Yuanmingyuan to escape the summer whenever the summer came, so the Yuanmingyuan was also known as the "summer palace". Those who can live in the Yuanmingyuan are all royal children, so the Yuanmingyuan has also become a garden that gathers the treasures of the world. In 1860, the British and French troops invaded the Yuanmingyuan, they were hungry wolves, in the Yuanmingyuan wanton plunder, destruction, the Yuanmingyuan can be taken away treasures, were put into their bags, can not take away the treasures, were burned by them. There is an "ancient wardrobe" in the Yuanmingyuan that has flowed into the folk, which is obviously a treasure, but it has been spurned.
This "ancient wardrobe" is 3.25 meters high, very large, and is made of rosewood. The Anglo-French coalition took this large wardrobe with it, along with many treasures, and lost it overseas. This large wardrobe is the Qianlong rosewood high relief nine dragon pattern large four-piece cabinet, which is the wardrobe that Qianlong once used. Overseas, foreigners do not know Chinese cultural relics, the person who brought this wardrobe back is very worried, foreigners do not buy this large wardrobe, he had to take it to give away. Surprisingly, even if it is a gift, no one wants such a large wardrobe. Later, a pair of Collectors in Denmark, Mr. and Mrs. Ma'er, saw it and said that they liked the cabinet very much, and in this way, this huge cabinet belonged to the Mayil family.
The Mayil family likes Chinese culture very much, and they like this wardrobe even more, they know that this wardrobe is worth a lot, so they brought this wardrobe back. Since then, this wardrobe has not appeared again, until 2013, at the Baoli auction in Beijing, this Qianlong rosewood high relief nine dragon pattern large four-piece cabinet appeared. Collectors are descendants of the Mayer family, and at the 2013 auction, the Qianlong rosewood high-relief Nine Dragon Pattern Large Four-piece Cabinet sold for 93.15 million yuan, setting a record for the highest price of Chinese art. This wardrobe, which was "picked up" by foreign couples, was sold for 93.15 million yuan many years later.
Qianlong rosewood high relief nine dragon pattern large four-piece cabinet after many years, in the form of auction returned to China, do not know whether to be happy or worried? At present, many cultural relics in China have been lost overseas, and almost all of these cultural relics were plundered by the great powers during the invasion of China by the great powers, or brought back to the country by these "robbers" during the invasion of China by the Eight-Power Alliance. Relying on Chinese cultural relics, they "made a fortune" overseas and accumulated a lot of primitive capital, and China also fell from a powerful and rich country to a prisoner of the colonists during that period.
The eight-power alliance's war of aggression against China brought a painful disaster to the Chinese people. The Yuanmingyuan lost more than just a wardrobe. There are many yuanmingyuan cultural relics that have been lost overseas, but many collectors are reluctant to return these cultural relics to China, and even now that China is stronger, they still ignore China's needs. In their eyes, this is the wealth brought by their family's ability, why should it be returned to China? The Zodiac beast heads in the Yuanmingyuan also suffered such a thing, and at first, these great powers brought the zodiac head back to sell for $1500.
Knowing that Chinese wanted to retrieve the artifacts, the foreigners raised $1,500 to 14 million euros, and the price span was very large. They maliciously inflate the price of cultural relics, making it difficult for Chinese to recover the lost authenticity. Today, China is stronger, and more and more promising entrepreneurs have begun to spontaneously act patriotically, that is, to recover lost cultural relics for the motherland. One of them was the gambling king Ho Hung Sun, who spent HK$69.1 million to buy a bronze elephant with a horse's head in the Yuanmingyuan and give it to the motherland. However, the road back to The return of Chinese cultural relics is still very long, and there are many precious cultural relics that are still missing.