In modern times, due to the corruption and incompetence of the government in the late Qing Dynasty, the national treasures left by our ancestors have been looted by the Western powers, and many national treasures and cultural relics have been forced into exile in all corners of the world. In order to let the national treasure return to the embrace of the motherland, under the initiative of the state, many patriots do not hesitate to go out of their homes to collect national treasures, the most typical of these patriotic collectors is Zhang Boju, who devoted his life to the collection of national treasures, but in his later years, in the world's controversy, all the national treasures were donated to the Palace Museum free of charge. This incident caused a sensation in the field of historiography at that time. In addition to Zhang Boju, the patriotic collector described next is also worthy of the respect of the world, he is the famous Zhu Jiaxuan. Zhu Jiayun handed over all the cultural relics he had collected all his life to the state, but in his later years he was poor and could not afford to buy even a pair of ordinary shoes.
The world is not familiar with Zhu Jiaxuan, who was born in the war-torn years. Because his ancestors had been officials for generations, he received a very high education from an early age. His father graduated from Oxford University and participated in the Xinhai Revolution after his return. At that time, at the beginning of the establishment of the Palace Museum, he was invited to serve as a special committee member because he was good at cultural relics appraisal. Under the influence of his father, Zhu Jiayun accumulated rich historical knowledge and outstanding literary skills from an early age.
Zhu Jiayu was fortunate to be transferred to the Forbidden City to work, during which the cultural relics of the Forbidden City were borrowed to the United Kingdom to participate in the exhibition, and Zhu Jiayun guarded the whole process. After the exhibition, Zhu Jiayu carefully preserved the national treasure in the museum. In terms of cultural relics identification, Zhu Jiazhuo also did a sensational event in the country, he found the dragon chair of the Taihe Hall of the Forbidden City.
According to the records at the time, Zhu Jiayun relied on an old photo of the dragon chair to find the national treasure dragon chair that Yuan Shikai dropped. Subsequently, Zhu Jiahuan spent another 934 days to restore the dragon chair, which is now exhibited in the Taihe Hall. Since then, Zhu Jiahuan has devoted himself to the search for lost cultural relics, during which he has cleaned out two national treasure paintings from the garbage heap of the Forbidden City, which are of great value. Later, Zhu Jiazhuan donated the family heirloom tablet to the country free of charge.
Subsequently, Zhu Jiahuan donated cultural relics again and again, including many national treasure-level cultural relics, and some reporters once exposed: These cultural relics donated by Zhu Jiahuan will not be less than 1 billion.
However, Zhu Jiayun always lived a poor life, and in the most difficult times, he could not even afford to buy a pair of leather shoes. Later, the family owed tens of millions of foreign debts. In this regard, the Zhu family expressed no complaints and no regrets.