History is the memory of things that have been said and done. —Carl Baker
In the 14-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese not only slaughtered tens of millions of unarmed Chinese people, but also plundered countless precious Chinese cultural relics. Due to the special circumstances at that time, there is no detailed and accurate statistics of the Chinese cultural relics plundered by the Japanese army.
However, some historians say that there are more than 1,300 large and small museums throughout Japan, which display basically Chinese cultural relics, according to the statistics of the National Palace Museum of China, these cultural relics have accumulated more than 2 million pieces, according to the data, these cultural relics were lost at the time of the war of aggression against China.
What is infuriating is that the Japanese museum has an unwritten rule: it does not accept Chinese archaeologists, and Japan's move can be said to be too much to cover the ears and steal the bell, in addition to the Chinese cultural relics placed in the Japanese museum, there are also rare treasures treasured by the Japanese nobility.
It is reported that the Japanese Chrysanthemum Imperial Family has a collection room, which is full of rare Chinese treasures, but which ones are there and how many are unknown to China and its Chinese.
But Chinese people's desire to recover cultural relics has never given up, Shanghai University professor Chen Wenping has repeatedly traveled to museums around Japan at his own expense, seen many Chinese cultural relics, and registered and made a record according to the cultural relics data, Professor Chen Wenping said: "I want to keep these materials for a long time, in order to recover the looted Chinese treasures from the Japanese government." ”
During the war of aggression against China, the Japanese army spent a lot of effort in order to plunder Chinese cultural relics, as we all know, most of the Chinese cultural relics are buried deep underground, so the Japanese army set up the so-called "academic travel unit".
It is reported that during the war of aggression against China, this unit reached more than 10,000 people at its peak, and the composition of personnel was very complicated, including geologists, biologists, historians, etc. These people were actually treasure thieves, and wherever the Japanese army occupied, there was this unit.
Some people once said that when the Japanese army occupied Peiping, why didn't they loot the Forbidden City? How come it wasn't looted? Even the gold on the pillars of the Taihe Temple was scraped off, and how to loot it, as for the Qing Dynasty Imperial Tomb, which was more than 100 miles away from Beiping, it was because of puyi's presence that it was spared.
What's more, during the Period when the Japanese were digging up Chinese treasures, there were countless Chinese aiding and abetting them, and these people were collectively called Traitors by later generations, and it can be said that the Japanese army was able to plunder millions of Chinese cultural relics in more than a decade.
Li Chengcai, born in Cangzhou, Hebei, during the Japanese army to capture Hebei, Li Chengcai is a mr. feng shui, the money made is not to say that the wealth is rich, there is absolutely no problem in filling the stomach, in 1937, the Japanese Kou launched a full-scale invasion of China war, Hebei soon fell.
After the fall of Hebei, it suddenly became a hell on earth, the Japanese Kou committed heinous crimes, Li Chengcai, in order to protect himself, had no choice but to wear a yellow tweed army coat and an armband printed with the Japanese flag on his hand, and in the blink of an eye, the respected Li Chengcai became a traitor.
At first, Li Chengcai was responsible for local security and grain collection, and later Li Chengcai heard that the Japanese were very interested in Chinese antiques, and volunteered to be a guide, in the days that followed, Li Chengcai used what he learned to help the Japanese army bomb several imperial tombs and steal countless treasures.
Since then, While maintaining local law and order, Li Chengcai has stolen Chinese national treasures with the Japanese army, and is specifically responsible for transporting Chinese cultural relics to Japan, such as the Statue of the Bodhisattva of the Tang Dynasty on Tianlong Mountain, which was stolen with the help of Li Chengcai, and is now a heavy weapon of the Tokyo National Museum, which is never easy to show people.
Since then, through Li Chengcai's knowledge, the Japanese army has blown up many tombs and stolen chinese antiques, all of which are puzzles, and when this person did not end up well, after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Li Chengcai, who wanted to abscond to Japan, was arrested by the Kuomintang Military Command Bureau and was shot shortly after.
His son was acquitted without direct evidence of his involvement in the excavation of Chinese cultural relics, but soon after his release, Li Chengcai's son Li Tianshan boarded a ship to Japan with Japanese prisoners of war, and his whereabouts are unknown.