"Virtue, thriftiness and moderation, a number of ascending and descending, cultural relics in order to discipline, declarations to be issued; to illuminate the hundred officials, the hundred officials are afraid and dare not change discipline." - "Zuo Chuan Huan Gong 2nd Year"
In the process of the development of the mainland, many cultural relics were left behind. Cultural relics can highlight the ideology and social activities of people in various eras and periods, which is our precious cultural wealth. Cultural relics can help us understand history and contribute to social development.
In different periods, various cultural relics have also appeared. Nowadays, many people are keen to collect cultural relics, such as a person, who was a minister of the Qing Dynasty in his ancestors, but even donated 183 cultural relics to the United States free of charge, and when the motherland wanted to buy them back, he refused.
In the history of the mainland, a large number of cultural relics have appeared, these cultural relics have their own unique connotations, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, many literary logistics fell to the people, and even reached the hands of foreigners. After the founding of New China, we tried everything we could to recover cultural relics. Weng Wange is a famous collector of cultural relics, he once collected a "Yangtze River Wanli Painting", which is extremely valuable, this painting is extremely valuable in both art and collection, but he is reluctant to sell it to the mainland. At that time, the mainland government wanted to buy the painting, but he refused, and finally at the auction, the mainland bought it back at a high price. Not only that, but In 2018, Onwango donated all of his collection to the American Museum, which shocked Chinese.
Most of The cultural relics in Onwango's collection belong to the mainland, and these cultural relics are of great value, but he is not willing to sell them to the mainland government, which is surprising. Many people believe that WengWange is willing to donate Chinese cultural relics to the United States in order to improve his social status in the United States, which is really resentful; many people condemn his practice, these cultural relics originally belong to the mainland and represent our history, but he gave them to the Americans, making many people dissatisfied with his practices. Not only that, in the previous decade, Ongwango had donated at least 21 cultural relics from the mainland.
Why do Ongwango have so many artifacts? It has to do with his ancestors. It is reported that his ancestor was the minister of the late Qing Dynasty, Weng Tonggong. Weng Tonggong was the emperor of the Guangxu Emperor, who opposed the indemnity of the land during the Sino-Japanese War and had a Chinese integrity. Not only that, but usually Weng Tonggong also likes to collect cultural relics.
Due to ancestral reasons, Weng Wange has many Chinese cultural relics. In the 1930s, Weng Wange was admitted to Shanghai Jiaotong University, and in order to continue his studies, he came to the United States to study and has lived there ever since. According to Ongwango, at the age of two, his family had many artifacts, so he did not understand the real value behind them.
When civil war broke out in 1948, Onwango feared that the artifacts would be destroyed in the war, so he shipped them to the United States. Onwango's approach is actually to protect cultural relics, and american museums will definitely protect them well. Onwango said that the American museum's handling ability and attitude towards cultural relics are very good.
Wengwango firmly believes that the Americans can protect these cultural relics in China, and he would rather bear the insult in order to avoid damage to the cultural relics. This may seem reasonable, but logically doesn't make sense. How can China's museums not cherish their own country's cultural relics? It can be seen from this that Weng Wange's remarks are obviously a disapproval of China and the United States
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。 Not only that, Onwango is already an American, divorced from the nationality of the mainland, and seeing this relationship, you can understand why he chose to donate these cultural relics to the United States.
Cultural relics can represent the past of history, which is beneficial for mainland archaeologists to study history. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, after the burning of the Yuanmingyuan, many cultural relics were destroyed, and a large number of cultural materials fell overseas and civilians, which made the mainland very sad. Today, we are vigorously recovering various artifacts and taking them seriously. Weng Wange believes that China cannot treat these cultural relics well, but in fact, these cultural relics belong to the mainland, just like the children of the country, how can we not love them?
Now Weng Wange has also changed, he has also donated a lot of precious cultural relics to domestic museums, presumably the country's ability is getting stronger and stronger, And Weng Wange has also begun to believe in China's ability.
"The cultural relics of the Six Dynasties are even in the air, and the sky is light and cloudy, and the present and the ancient are the same." ——Du Mu, "Title Xuanzhou Kaiyuan Temple Water Pavilion Excellency Wanxi Jiaxi Resident"
WengWango's lack of confidence in China has aroused everyone's doubts, perhaps the moment he joined the United States citizenship, he had already run counter to China. Perhaps in Onwango's view, the cultural relics entrusted to the United States for protection can be better arranged, but these are more of his personal choices, and we have no right to interfere. We still have a long way to go on the road to recovering various cultural relics. I believe that in the near future, we will definitely bring more cultural relics back to the motherland and let us know more about history.
Resources:
"The Left Handbook"
Du Mu "Title Xuanzhou Kaiyuan Temple Water Pavilion Excellency Wanxi Jiaxi Resident"