As we all know, of the four ancient civilizations in the world, only our Chinese civilization is a civilization that has never been interrupted, and this is due to the efforts of the benevolent people of our nation in every era and the wisdom of the working people. In the five thousand years of civilization history of our country, a brilliant and brilliant culture has been formed, and the cultural relics left by the ancestors are an important carrier that carries the overall memory of our nation and the cultural characteristics of different periods. However, there is a person who has donated 183 cultural relics and antiques in his family's collection to the United States free of charge, and refused to buy them back from the motherland. What kind of existence does this character have?
The Chinese collector who donated the cultural relics in his family collection to the United States free of charge was named Weng Wange. Mention of Weng Wange, if it is not the cultural relics collection circle, people may not know much, but if you mention its ancestors, it is estimated that everyone will hear about it. Weng Wange's ancestors were the famous figures of modern times, the teachers of Tongzhi and Guangxu- Weng Tonggong.
The Weng family is a family in Changshu, Jiangsu Province, a local famous family, which reached its peak when Weng Tonggong arrived and became the teacher of the two emperors, and the Weng family has always attached great importance to literature, books and paintings, and also paid attention to the collection of ancient books, characters, paintings and so on. Weng Tonggong was originally a famous calligrapher at that time, so his collection of cultural relics is quite numerous, including many treasures in the imperial palace, and his collection includes Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming, Dong Qichang, the Qing Dynasty "Four Kings" and other famous calligraphy and paintings. After the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution, in order to escape the war, the Weng family settled in the United States with cultural relics collected by several generations, and have lived in the United States for generations ever since. The aforementioned Weng Wange is the fifth generation grandson of Weng Tonggong and the current head of the Weng family.
Originally, Weng Wange still enjoyed a high prestige in the Chinese circle at the beginning, was a famous Chinese social activist, and also paid attention to the dissemination of traditional Chinese culture and the cultural exchange between China and the West. In 2000, Weng Wange auctioned 542 rare ancient books of the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties through guardian companies, and finally transferred them to the Shanghai Library for 4.5 million US dollars, equivalent to 30 million yuan at that time. In any case, at that time, Onwango's auction behavior was unanimously praised by everyone, after all, these precious cultural relics still returned to the embrace of the motherland. But in 2018, Weng Wange did something that made all Chinese people angry.
On December 13, 2018, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, USA, announced that they had accepted a batch of 183 donations of ancient Chinese paintings and calligraphy with the largest number and the largest gold content in history, and the donor of the cultural relics was Weng Wange. The cultural relics donated by Weng Wange in this donation include calligraphy, weaving, painting and other collections of five dynasties, and the cultural value is immeasurable, including the huge masterpieces of Wang Yi in the Qing Dynasty and the 16-meter-long "Ten Thousand Miles Scroll of the Yangtze River".
Weng Wange's act of donating 183 precious cultural relics to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, USA, on his 100th birthday, still caused an uproar in the Chinese circles. Onwango's behavior is really incomprehensible, because as mentioned earlier in 2000, Onwango also gave the country 542 ancient books, but also received 30 million yuan from the state, and the cultural relics donated to the United States, although small in number, are worth more than the cultural relics previously given to the motherland. In particular, before Weng Wange donated to the United States, the National Museum proposed to him to buy back the cultural relics such as the "Yangtze River Wanli Scroll" in his hand, but the structure was categorically rejected by Weng Wange.
Although we do not want to use the feelings of the country and the moral feelings to kidnap the Chinese people like Weng Wange, after all, the ownership of cultural relics belongs to him, but the cultural relics belong to the Chinese nation, and his ancestors can accumulate and collect so many cultural relics, which also shows that the ancestors of the Weng family have a historical outlook and a national outlook. What are your thoughts on this approach of Onwango? Feel free to leave a message in the comments section.
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