Editor's note: Recently, many friends may have heard the news about "the first exhibition of the national exhibition of the return of the bronze statue of the horse head in the Yuanmingyuan for more than 100 years". Some media have also analyzed its craftsmanship and believe that its craftsmanship is exquisite. And all along, some people have questioned the value of those Zodiac beast heads in the Yuanmingyuan, how many faucets are national treasures? So, are there any Chinese cultural relics that have been lost overseas that are very exquisite in craftsmanship, but no one pays attention to them? The answer, of course, is yes! The most typical is some of the Chinese armament cultural relics in the Military Museum in Paris, France. The Musée Militaire de Paris is located in the heart of the Left Bank of Paris, in the French National Hospital for the Disabled. The Military Museum consists of a series of museums, including the Museum of Free France, the Tomb of Napoleon, the Museum of the First and Second World Wars, the Crown Gallery, the Medieval Museum, the Louis XIII Museum, the Arsenal Exhibition Hall, the Horse Hunting and Knights' Competition Hall, the Oriental Hall, the Large Gun Museum, and the European Pavilion.
For lovers of Chinese weapons collection in the French military museum, the most eye-catching thing is undoubtedly this knife, a large and wide body, and the body of the knife has a Manchu inscription: "Qianlong".
The royal style of iron and gold fine hammer phoenix pattern is equipped with sheath lifting beam hoops to highlight the large instrument. Dyed black sheepskin wrapped tightly wrapped in a wooden sheath.
The iron and gold sheath tail and the hook (handguard) handle hoop are beautifully regulated, and the bright yellow handle rope is well preserved, and there is no doubt that the royal object is used.
Its practical copper gilded clothing looks very good from a distance, and the iron fixture is carved with a phoenix to open the reticulated groove gold filling paint time-consuming and laborious cost is still high, but the royal wants this model, Qianlong is rich and thick, and no one can take him. There are more than one similar knife in the collection of the Forbidden City in Beijing.
Some sheaths are dyed with black cow and sheepskin:
Some sheaths are stained with green mackerel skin:
Compared with Qianlong's jade handle knives, I personally prefer these iron and gold hammer phoenix pattern wooden handle knives. So far in the Forbidden City Kunning Palace East Pavilion also hangs such a knife, the left picture is I in the Kunning Palace outside the glass real scene shooting, you can see the Kunning Palace "sunrise moon Heng" plaque, the right picture is the Forbidden City to provide this knife in the Kunning Palace photo.
In addition to this knife, there are Qing Dynasty honor guard axes as wonderful as halberds, the museum lighting is dim, shooting is not easy, forgive me.
The French military museum also marked the collection of the military museum on these honor guards. These shameless guys have appropriated the treasures of other countries for themselves through illegal means, and they have also marked them, which from the picture is a stamp on the image of the military trumpet, is this not the destruction of cultural relics?
Where else can such armed cultural relics be found in addition to the Qing Palace? There is only one source: war plunder. Or the British and French forces invaded the Forbidden City in Beijing in 1860 or the Eight-Power Coalition in 1900. Compared with the bronze statue of the horse head in the Yuanmingyuan, which is also a cultural relic lost in the war, how can the Qianlong royal sword be more precious? Don't you hear that "the great affairs of the country are in the midst of the worship and the gods"? The pictures of the French Military Museum were taken by The Emperor Fu of Guangdong Daoyou, and I would like to thank you together.
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