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History is like a lighthouse, and the culture it carries is the bright light on the lighthouse, illuminating the way forward for the future of the world. Mayakovsky once said: "Like a lighthouse, illuminate the roads with fire for all those who cannot sail at night."
At that time, a number of collectors of cultural relics and antiques also emerged, they purchased the collection through legal purchases, and later many collectors donated antiques to the state free of charge, so that these cultural relics were presented in front of the eyes of the world. Among them, Zhang Boju is such a collector, and the cultural relics he donated to the country have been estimated to be worth at least 113.6 billion yuan. Zhang Boju, who has made such a contribution to the country, wants to be admitted to a senior ward for better treatment in his old age, but is rejected by experts and said: "Voluntary behavior is not subsidized".
Seeing such astronomical figures, many people will wonder, what is the identity of this old man named Zhang Boju? How can there be so many antiquities and antiques?
Zhang Boju was a well-known patriot, a poet, calligrapher and painter, collector connoisseur and researcher of Peking Opera art. He was born on March 14, 1898 in Xiangcheng, Henan Province, his father was Zhang Jinfang, he was also a cousin of Yuan Shikai, at the age of five, he and one of his sisters passed on to his father's brother Zhang Zhenfang, at the age of 7 into private school, from an early age the clever Zhang Boju at the age of 9 can write poetry, he is also known as the "prodigy".
Because his biological father Zhang Jinfang was a poet, his family was also well-off, and Zhang Boju also received a good education from an early age. Because of the influence of his family, Zhang Boju had a considerable interest in poetry, calligraphy and painting from an early age. After becoming an adult, he also had a special affection for cultural relics, especially those paintings and posters. Because when he was young, Zhang Boju witnessed too many cultural flows falling abroad, and his heart was very painful. Later, the adult Zhang Boju began to collect cultural relics, and his original intention was not to let his country's treasures be left behind, so he spent a lot of money on the purchase of cultural relics.
After the founding of New China, Zhang Boju donated hundreds of fine cultural relics in his collection to the state free of charge, including Huang Tingjian's calligraphy authentic "Theravada Stickers" and Fan Zhongyan's "Taoist Clothing Praise" volume, worth up to 113.6 billion yuan.
For the cultural relics you like, or are you priceless, don't you feel pained to donate them like this? He regarded cultural relics as more important than his own life, and he collected many cultural relics with calligraphy and paintings, and framed them, for fear that these fragile cultural relics would be harmed again. Although he loves these cultural relics from the bottom of his heart, he hopes that these cultural relics can be passed on forever, and hopes that future generations of the motherland can see such cultural relics.
Many cultural relics collectors, under the spiritual leadership of Zhang Boju, also donate their precious cultural relics to the state. Nowadays, we know that those cultural relics that have been displaced overseas are not so easy to return to the embrace of the motherland, not only to engage in diplomatic relations with the country but also to use huge assets to buy them back, which is difficult to imagine. In the last century, Zhang Boju, who donated cultural relics free of charge, must have a great righteousness that has always existed in his chest.
Although Zhang Boju was born in a relatively wealthy family and did not attach so much importance to money since he was a child, how can he take the next step without money in this world? Therefore, Zhang Boju also spent a period of embarrassment due to money.
The cultural relics donated by Zhang Boju can be described as the property of his family, and after donating the cultural relics, his family lived more tightly. In his later years, Zhang Boju was admitted to the hospital because of an illness, and his family thought that he had also contributed to the country, so they applied to the hospital to live in a better ward and have a better environment for Zhang Boju to recuperate.
Everyone knows that it is necessary to add money to live in a good ward, but Zhang Boju's poor family can not come up with more money, and his family wants to apply for a special subsidy from the hospital, but they are unexpectedly rejected by some unscrupulous "experts": "He is voluntary, no subsidy", and this matter was finally resolved with the help of the Cultural Relics Bureau.
"The rules are dead, people are alive", the experts in these hospitals are a bit dead-headed, we should take into account the causal relationship in any thing we do, and when necessary, we need to take into account the "human feelings". We cannot lose our "human touch", so that the whole society becomes indifferent and loses its color.
In 1982, the old man Zhang Boju died in Beijing, at the age of 84, his patriotic spirit, his great righteousness for the country, we should all remember in our hearts, Zhang Boju old man's introduction said in the lighthouse, although the body is no longer there, but his spirit will continue to illuminate our way forward.