Only by returning cultural relics to their hometown can they fully present their value of recording history and inheriting civilization. Looking back on the 70 years, the road of return of lost cultural relics has witnessed the great course of the Chinese nation from standing up and getting rich to becoming strong.
Once upon a time, old China was troubled by internal and external troubles, its national strength was weakened, and a large number of cultural relics were displaced by war, cultural plunder, and illegal trade. One treasure after another, such as wanderers drifting away and scattered away from home, recording the past that makes people sigh in the upheaval and displacement, and looking forward to the homeland of the soul in a thousand turns. Each cultural relic is cast with historical memory and is an indispensable component of the national cultural heritage. Every return is tracing history, rallying the hearts of the people, and inspiring strength.
Cultural relics are wordless encyclopedias and precious non-renewable resources. Including China, ancient civilizations such as Greece, Italy, and Egypt have had the tragic experience of large-scale looting and loss of cultural relics, and have never stopped recovering cultural relics. In the past 70 years, China has explored a variety of cultural relics recovery paths, and successfully promoted the return of more than 150,000 Pieces of Chinese cultural relics lost overseas through law enforcement cooperation, judicial proceedings, negotiation and donation, rescue collection, etc. Although the road back to cultural relics is full of thorns, this long way home is only carried out when it is carried out, not when it is completed.
Culture exists in, the country exists; Culture is prosperous, the country is prosperous. Return is not the end, and the journey is not endless. It is our unshirkable mission to illuminate the long way home for lost cultural relics, to protect and make good use of the precious heritage left by our ancestors, and not to let regrets happen again.