"Because of the sense of justice, man can become a man, not a wolf."
In Bacon's view, man is multifaceted, and only with a sense of justice in his heart can he not be reduced to a fierce beast, but as far as human nature is concerned, good and evil, these philosophers have never had a definite conclusion.
In children's memories, the world always has to be divided into good and evil, such as "gray wolf", "snake spirit", "one ear" is always the image of a bad person, and "Happy Sheep", "Gourd Baby", "Black Cat Sheriff" are opposed.
But as we get older, the adult world becomes more complex, and human nature can be divided into different perspectives.
Viewers who have seen "The Avengers" may know that Loki of Asgard, as the god of trickery and the embodiment of evil, has repeatedly hurt his brother Thor, but he can also save Thor and help his family repeatedly.
It can be seen that in the adult world, it is difficult for us to distinguish between a person's "good, bad" and "good and evil".
Just like this "godfather of cultural relics" - Lu Qinzhai, he himself is also a figure with a lot of historical controversy, once he made a fortune by selling cultural relics, but after making money, he also funded Dr. Sun Yat-sen.
Therefore, in terms of home country, it is difficult for people to judge what kind of person Lu Qinzhai is, and Lu Qinzhai's life is too legendary.
After he became rich, he married his wife, who was only 15 years old at the time, but after marriage, he was ambiguous with his 36-year-old mother-in-law, and eventually ended up in a foreign country.
So how did this man go astray step by step?
The "History of the Founding Father" of antiques
In the 1880s, when the Chinese people were under pressure from the Qing government and the great powers, and the people's lives were miserable, Lu Qinzhai was born in this era.
At that time, Lu Qinzhai was still an ordinary person, he was born in an ordinary family in Lujiadu, Huzhou, Zhejiang, the family was poor, and he lost the care of his relatives one after another at an early age, and he had no choice but to send people to the fence and live with the distant cousin's family.
Later, in order to make a living, the young Lu Qinzhai had to go out to find a job, became a servant of the Nanxun Zhang family, and served the great young master of the Zhang family, which was Zhang Jingjiang, who was the future famous Zhang Jingjiang.
In 1902, Zhang Jingjiang opened a commercial territory and opened a "Yuntong" company in Paris, selling Chinese porcelain, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and funding Sun Yat-sen and others.
In the process of being a servant, Lu Qinzhai won the trust of Zhang Jingjiang with his cleverness and reliability, and Zhang Jingjiang was also willing to teach him the way of running an antique shop.
So In his spare time, Lu Qinzhai studied the business of antique shops assiduously, not only mastered a set of eye skills for appreciating antiques, but also learned to Chinese words outside the door.
Later, the wave of the Xinhai Revolution in China was set off, Zhang Jingjiang returned to China for his faith, and the "Yuntong Company" officially came to an end.
However, Lu Qinzhai, who had achieved success, actually found a business opportunity in the antique industry at this time, and he decided to split with the owner and re-establish a company of his own.
The collapse of the original Qing government led to the restlessness of the antique market, countless royal palace treasures were taken out and pawned, and in an instant, a large number of Chinese antiques emerged in the domestic and foreign markets.
So the far-sighted Lu Qinzhai and his friend Wu Qizhou co-founded a private antiques export company in Shanghai, Lu Qinzhai Company, mainly engaged in the sale of Chinese antiques and cultural relics, which was also the first brick that Lu Qinzhai added to his commercial territory.
Subsequently, Lu Qinzhai successfully captured the hearts of European and American collectors with his professional knowledge of antique cultural relics appreciation, making them interested in Chinese antiques.
The great success of Lu Qinzhai also opened a second personal antique company in France - Laiyuan Company, at this time Lu Qinzhai also gained a lot of contacts and resources abroad, becoming a veritable "godfather of antiques".
However, it is worth mentioning that the "cultural relics empire" created by Lu Qinzhai was built on the basis of stolen antique cultural relics in China.
During the period of the Eight-Power Alliance's invasion of China, countless Chinese treasure-level cultural relics and antiques flowed overseas, most of which were sold by Lu Qinzhai, which shows that Lu Qinzhai has to bear certain responsibilities for the loss of Chinese cultural relics.
In 1957, Lu Qinzhai died in Switzerland at the age of 78 and was buried in his wife's family cemetery, Guhobeva.
This is the legendary life of Lu Qinzhai, but who would have thought that Lu Qinzhai, who single-handedly built the "Cultural Relics Empire", would have such a complicated past love history?
Complex love history
In 1910, at the age of 30, Lu Qinzhai married Mary Rose, a French girl who was only 15 years old at the time, and after the marriage, the two raised four children together.
However, the encounter between the two is full of drama and intrigue.
It turned out that before Lu Qinzhai met his wife, he was actually his wife's mother's lover.
Lu Qinzhai's mother-in-law, named Olga, was originally French, but because her family was poor, she left home from home to work as a nanny in a rich family in Paris.
Unfortunately, the young and ignorant Olga was seduced by the unscrupulous man, and the desperate Olga could only be forced to be the man's lover and gave birth to a daughter, Mary Rose.
Later, the man paid for a hat shop for Olga, and the two maintained a long-term relationship.
Coincidentally, Lu Qinzhai's antique shop was right next to Olga's hat shop, so the young man and woman quickly fell in love, but for special reasons, the two did not disclose.
But it was difficult to stop the loneliness, and in order to be long-lasting, the two let Lu Qinzhai marry Olga's daughter as a wife, so that they could live under one roof for a long time.
It was only poor Mary Rose, who became a stepping stone between mother and lover, and became a tool for procreating children.
epilogue
For us, Lu Qinzhai's life is too contradictory and complicated, and we still can't make a correct and fair evaluation of it.
Historical accounts of Lu Qinzhai are also uneven.
Some people say that Lu Qinzhai took the cultural relics that originally belonged to China out of the country for sale and obtained the corresponding wealth, but countless Chinese antique literature logistics were left overseas, and some of them are still unknown, and the fragments of civilization belonging to Chinese cultural treasures have been lost overseas, which is a terrible crime.
Some people also say that the promotion of Lu Qinzhai has made people around the world aware of the preciousness and charm of Chinese cultural relics and antiques, which has given people a new understanding of China and made a big step in promoting Chinese culture.
And Lu Qinzhai is not a simple cultural relics dealer, he uses his personal connections and knowledge of cultural relics and antiques, invites well-known scholars to study Chinese cultural relics and antiques together, and publishes and compiles books on Chinese cultural relics.
In addition, Lu Qinzhai also sponsored Dr. Sun Yat-sen and Mr. Lin Yutang, and on the occasion of Japan's war of aggression against China, he generously donated money and led by example into patriotic actions.
So we can't define Mr. Lu Qinzhai's good and evil, and everyone's thoughts and opinions may not be the same.
What do you think about Lu Qinzhai?