Everyone knows that wealth needs to be accumulated, and the same is true for national treasures and cultural relics, and there is a family that has accumulated countless national treasures over five generations, but these cultural relics that once belonged to China, which have been accumulated by generations of people's hearts, have two different fates.
The former owner of this batch of cultural relics has also become a controversial person, some people praise him, some people scold him and blame him, this person is Weng Wange, as for the reason for this, it is thought-provoking, the author told this story, let the reader evaluate it himself.
Onwango was a lucky man who inherited the family wealth at the age of 2, and in today's parlance, he won on the "starting line", but the family property he inherited was not gold and silver money, but hundreds of cultural relics and national treasures accumulated by five generations.
This also has to start from his ancestors, Weng Wange is the fifth generation grandson of the late Qing Emperor Weng Tonggong, this Weng Tonggong is not an ordinary person, this person was once a champion, to the Qing Dynasty Tongzhi, Guangxu two generations of emperors as a teacher, in the late Qing Dynasty has a pivotal position.
Weng Tonggong has a hobby, that is, collecting art, people like Weng Tonggong have money and learning, collecting things are naturally not ordinary things, and their descendants not only inherit Weng Tonggong's collection, but also inherit the hobby of collecting art.
In this way, five generations have accumulated hundreds of cultural relics, many of which are national treasures, which were passed to The hands of Weng Wange during the Republic of China, and in such an era when there were warlords in the interior and Japanese invasions outside, protecting these "heirlooms" became a big problem.
Fortunately, Onwango once studied in the United States and knew more about the United States, so he successively transferred these "heirlooms" to the United States, and he himself arrived in the United States in early 1949.
In 2000, Weng Wange sold 80 kinds of books, totaling 542 rare ancient books and books from the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, to the Shanghai Library for a high price of $4.5 million in the form of auction.
At the exchange rate at the time, $4.5 million was about 36 million yuan, and although he sold the ancient books back to China, he still received good praise, but in 2018, he did something that completely changed people's evaluation of him.
Onwango donated another part of the "heirloom" to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, USA, a total of 183 cultural relics, plus 21 cultural relics donated in the past 10 years, a total of 204 cultural relics, please note that these are free donations.
The value of this batch of cultural relics donated free of charge is far more than 36 million yuan, of which a single "Map of the Yangtze River" is worth a lot, so the practice of "favoring one over the other" has caused most Chinese to be puzzled, and the donation time is in 2018, which is the 100th birthday of Weng Wange.
Weng Wange seems to be celebrating his birthday with this, although the cultural relics were donated to the museum, but after all, they are abroad, and these cultural relics belonging to China are "wandering outside" and do not know when they will be able to return to their homeland, so it is inevitable that people blame Weng Wange.