At the end of the Qing Dynasty, due to the weakness and incompetence of the Qing government, the mainland was invaded by western powers, especially in the war of aggression against China by the Eight-Power Alliance, and these Western bandits plundered in the Yuanmingyuan and stole many precious treasures from the mainland, which was an immeasurable loss.
After the founding of New China, many patriots have successively bought back lost cultural relics from overseas, including a Chinese boy who inherited a British farm and dug out tens of thousands of precious Chinese cultural relics.
Young and dependent on his aunt
This young man's name is Zhao Tailai, born in 1954 in a well-off family in Dongguan, Guangdong, because he is the only son in the family, so his parents are very fond of him, as far as possible to give him a good life, but also attach great importance to the education of Zhao Tailai, so when Zhao Tailai was very young, he knew how to be a patriotic person.
But misfortune happened in the year when Zhao Tailai was fifteen years old, and his parents died one after another due to illness, leaving Zhao Tailai alone, living a lonely and lonely life.
? Zhao Tailai
Fifteen years old is not yet an adult, so Zhao Tailai is unable to support himself, and living alone is too lonely, so he decides to go to his aunt.
Through a period of time together, the two people's words have gradually increased, with the company of Zhao Tailai,
Neither does my aunt's life
again
lonely
。
Zhao Tailai has great respect for his aunt and treats her as his mother, even if the life is hard, but at least this is also his home. In 1981, the aunt suddenly fell seriously ill, Zhao Tailai has been taking care of her in front of the sickbed, in the last days, the aunt explained some things to Zhao Tailai, telling her that her family has some assets in the UK, which will be inherited by Zhao Tailai in the future.
Zhao Tailai learned that his aunt had several villas in the UK and a farm. The aunt also took out a drawing about the farm, saying that there were some valuable things in the farm, and if Zhao Tailai could find these things, he hoped that he would be able to handle them properly.
After explaining everything, his aunt died without any regrets, and Zhao Tailai handled the funeral for his aunt and sent away his last relative in this world.
Inherited from Aunt English Farm
Zhao Tailai rested for a while, and then flew to England, where he found the farm based on the drawings and information left by his aunt. Since no one had taken care of the farm for a long time, the farm had been abandoned, and Zhao Tailai went to the relevant departments to confirm that the farm was indeed the property of his aunt's name, so he began to look for the farm to see if there were any treasures that his aunt said. When Zhao Tailai came to a stable and found an underground passage in the corner of the stable, he followed the passage into the basement.
The basement is a very large warehouse, which is stacked with many large and small boxes, Zhao Tailai opened the boxes one by one, and there are porcelain, calligraphy and paintings and other utensils, which look like things that are old.
Zhao Tailai felt that these things should be ancient cultural relics, but he did not know much about these cultural relics, so he did not know the value, so he decided to clean up these cultural relics first, and then make a decision.
Because there were too many things, it was Zhao Tailai who sorted it out alone, so it took about a few months before and after. After sorting out these cultural relics, Zhao Tailai decided to return to Hong Kong, because he wanted to ask his knowledgeable friends about the origin and value of these cultural relics. After returning to Hong Kong, Zhao Tailai found a friend, described the specific situation of these cultural relics, and through the help of friends, he knew that these cultural relics were treasures of the Qianlong period, and many of them were royal utensils, and their value was immeasurable.
Zhao Tailai also learned that these precious treasures were left by his great-great-grandfather Wu Tingfang, and Wu Tingfang and his family had lived in Britain, and they also knew that many of the treasures in our country had been lost overseas, so he used the manpower and financial resources he encountered to collect a large number of these lost overseas treasures.
Due to the chaotic situation in the country at that time, they could not bring these treasures back to China, so they placed them in the underground warehouse of the farm and let them be passed on from generation to generation, hoping to one day send these historical relics back to the motherland.
All national treasures were donated to the motherland
After Zhao Tailai learned about these things, he already had a patriotic heart and decided to bring these treasures back to the motherland. Because the number of treasures is as high as tens of thousands, it takes a certain amount of time to transport, Zhao Tailai did his best to transport back to China little by little, and this transportation is ten years. Because it is shipped from the United Kingdom to the country, the freight is very high, and Zhao Tailai also sold the Villa in the United Kingdom as a freight.
Finally, through Zhao Tailai's unremitting efforts, he finally transported these cultural relics safely to China, and donated all these cultural relics worth more than 800 million to museums everywhere, because he felt that this cultural relics were originally from our country, and now they are lost and recovered, and should be placed in museums for future generations to watch, and through these cultural relics to understand the history of that period, but also hope to take this as an example, so that young people can understand patriotism.
These cultural relics donated by Zhao Tailai are of great historical value and play a major role in our study of history and the humanistic customs of the Qing Dynasty. Nowadays, there are more and more patriots like Zhao Tailai, who are all using their own strength to find the cultural relics that have been lost, hoping to make their own contributions to the country and the people.