1969
In 2006, the famous Hong Kong painter Zhao Shaoang took in an apprentice, this person from the mainland, only fifteen years old, no one thought that in the future he would become a famous collector, patriotic philanthropist, he is the British overseas Chinese Zhao Tailai.
1954
Year of birth
In the medical family in Dongguan, the grandfather and father have been practicing medicine in Hong Kong, and when the new China, the family migrated to Dongguan and came to live in Humen Town, but
1969
When his parents died together, he had to go to Hong Kong to join his aunt at the age of fifteen.
His great aunt had a luxury villa
，
Numerous expensive collections on display
，
But because of the strong personality
，
I don't look at the celebrities
，
Still single in his forties
。 At first, Zhao Tailai was very restrained, but the aunt took care of him and took it seriously
Pro son to take care of
。
1977
In 2006, Zhao Tailai was passed on to his aunt as a son, and his aunt told him that there were also some assets in Europe, all of which belonged to him.
1979
year
Zhao Tailai inherited his aunt's assets in Hong Kong, the house alone is worth tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars, and the collection is piled up on two floors.
1981
In 2006, her aunt died of illness, but before she died, she presented a treasure map of Zang, which was her aunt's assets in Europe.
A few days after my aunt died
，
He received a notification from England
，
Let him go and deal with the inheritance
。 After the funeral was completed, Zhao Tailai rushed to London and obtained the inheritance right of a manor, which was purchased by Wu Tingfang, a famous diplomat of the late Qing Dynasty, in the late Qing Dynasty. The area of the manor was too large, even if he had a treasure map, it took a lot of effort to find the entrance to the cellar of the manor, which contained a large number of wooden boxes, because of the long time, many of the boxes have been damaged.
Zhao Tailai found that it was all Chinese antiques, bronzes, calligraphy and paintings, etc., and collected treasures for generations of the Wu family.
1992
In 2008, Zhao Tailai became a British citizen and cleaned up these cultural relics, which was spent before and after
10
After years of counting the cultural relics, he decided to donate them all, but the clans objected after hearing about it, so he had to reach an agreement with his relatives and give 10,000 pieces to everyone, and the remaining 50,000 pieces were donated back to China.
In order to transport cultural relics, he sold four more villas, and after returning to China, experts identified cultural relics worth 800 million yuan. What do you think of Zhao Tailai's patriotic behavior?