The British Museum is one of the four major museums in the world and the museum with the largest collection of Chinese cultural relics, with 23,000 rare treasures, such as the treasure of the "China Pavilion", the earliest Chinese silk painting of Gu Kaizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, "Female History Proverbs", and even a sacred will of Qianlong.
The holy will is the emperor himself issued a clerical order, as the emperor belongs, the holy will manufacturing is very exquisite, one product of the holy will for the jade axis, two products for the black rhino horn shaft, three products for the gold shaft, four and five products for the black bull horn axis, because the holy will is too rare, very few will remain, in 2002, the disappearance of the holy will can be described as a sensation.
Shaanxi peasant Zhang Zhenhua is a great family in Shaanxi, the ancestor Zhang Pengcheng in the Ming Chongzhen years, the official to the post of deputy general of the general army, qing Shunzhi two years, was entrusted with a heavy responsibility by the Prince of Yu Duoduo, the seven generations of the Zhang family thirteen people, except for one person as a soldier, all as the general military general, their family through the end of the Ming Dynasty, Shunzhi, Kangxi, Yongzheng, Jiaqing, Daoguang, the highest official to Yipin.
Several emperors issued a total of fifteen holy wills to them, but after more than three hundred years, six were lost, and only 9 holy wills were passed to Zhang Zhenhua's hands, and the holy will was made of jiangnan high-grade silk cotton, with a total of five colors, the holy will was written in manchu and Han chinese, and the Chinese language was also stamped with the vermilion seal of "Treasure of making the Truth".
Zhang Zhenhua has been buried these nine holy wills deep in the ground, originally intended to pass on to his son for safekeeping, but the son inadvertently revealed to friends, a pass of ten hundred, after the media got the news, but also to interview Zhang Zhenhua father and son, in 1998, the news of the nine holy wills was made public.
Since the disclosure of the Holy Will, Zhang Zhenhua father and son have been invited by museums, tourist attractions, antique dealers across the country, many collectors personally come to the door, intending to use 500,000 yuan to acquire one of the Holy Wills, 500,000 in the 90s, is a huge amount of money, but these Holy Wills are family collections, is an heirloom, Zhang Zhenhua made it clear that neither selling nor donating, otherwise there is no face to see the ancestors.
Therefore, the cultural relics museum and Zhang Zhenhua negotiated, they can guarantee these nine holy wills, the ownership or belong to Zhang Zhenhua, if it is exhibited, the income is squared with Zhang Zhenhua's father and son, Zhang Zhenhua feels reasonable, he agreed, every large-scale exhibition, Zhang Zhenhua will inevitably go to the scene, he is also worried about accidents.
However, on December 26, 2002, Qingyan Garden borrowed the Nine Sacred Wills, the exhibition time was two months, the two sides were jointly responsible for the safety of the Sacred Will, just at the end of the exhibition block, two Sacred Wills were stolen, one was Jiaqing Fourteenth Year, one was Daoguang Second Year, Zhang Zhenhua father and son immediately called the police.
However, due to the lack of various clues, the case fell into an impasse, until September 2007, to rule out the possibility of self-theft, Zhang Zhenhua filed a complaint against Qing Yanyuan in court, proposing an economic loss of 400,000 yuan, during the trial process, the appraisal experts assessed and determined that the value of a holy will would not exceed 100,000 yuan.
After the trial, the responsibility of the two sides was equally shared, and Zhang Zhenhua received 90,000 yuan in compensation, after which Zhang Zhenhua brought home the remaining 7 sacred wills, and he claimed that he would rather sell them at a high price than exhibit them again.