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Go to the British Museum and Chinese how angry you are.
This is a historical shame that all should remember.
The British Museum, which Westerners are proud of, houses a large collection of Chinese cultural relics obtained from the burning and looting of the National Pass. The British Museum has a collection of more than 23,000 cultural relics from China, all of which are in the famous British Museum No. 33 - China Pavilion.
The first sentence of the British Museum's introduction to Chinese cultural relics reads: "Chinese created the world's largest and longest civilization."
However, in the face of the voice demanding the return of cultural relics, the British actually said: your country can not preserve the cultural relics, but give them to the British Museum. It sounds outrageous.
Not only China, but also Greece, Egypt and other countries have also looted treasures by the British.
Today we take a look at six precious artifacts that were plundered by the British.
06 Liao Dynasty Sancai Arhat
The Three Colored Statues of Song Luohan in Yi County, Hebei Province, which were identified as Tang Dynasty works in the early years, are recorded to have sixteen statues, and are considered to be extremely rare Chinese realist statues.
Buddhist porcelain sculpture characters have realistic appearances, vivid expressions, smooth clothing and pleats, and superb statue techniques, which can be called the pinnacle of Chinese Buddhist statues in terms of technical and artistic level.
Unfortunately, five of the sixteen three-colored statues of song and luohan were stolen and smuggled out, and only eleven exist today, and then none of them are in China.
Liang Sicheng had the privilege of seeing one during his study abroad, and he said that it was no less exquisite than the most exquisite works of the Italian Renaissance.
The British Museum's collection of this statue, the Buddhist porcelain sculpture characters have realistic faces, vivid expressions, smooth pleats, and superb statue techniques, and it is no exaggeration to say that the artistic achievements are comparable to Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
05 Blue and white dragon pattern elephant trunk bottle
This pair of blue and white dragon pattern elephant trunk bottles is one of the most important surviving samples of blue and white porcelain, and may also be the most famous porcelain vase in the world.
This pair of blue and white dragon pattern elephant ear bottle bottles is 63.5 cm high, 17,5 cm in diameter and 22 cm in diameter at the abdomen. There is an exact chronology, written directly on the bottleneck, the time and place are meticulous, and the words are clear. It can be said that it is unique in the world.
Jointly selected by the BBC and the British Museum as one of the 100 objects representing world history, it is also the treasure of the British Museum.
In the 1980s, Christie's Auction House in London auctioned a large pot of blue and white flowers descending the mountain, and the price was 230 million yuan, setting a record for the highest Chinese art in the world at that time. Since then, the name Yuan Qinghua has been loud.
Compared with the yuan qinghua ghost valley down the mountain there is only one can, the blue and white dragon pattern elephant trunk bottle is a pair, the value can not be estimated at all, I believe that many Chinese this life has not had the opportunity to watch this pair of treasures up close.
04 Literature and History
This is the earliest surviving Chinese silk painting. Gu Kaizhi painted an illustrated scroll based on Zhang Hua's "Women's History". The full volume is 348.2 cm long and 24 .8cm high. The original work of "Female Shi Zhentu" has been abandoned, and it is now a facsimile of the Tang Dynasty.
Whether it is artistic achievements or cultural connotations, it can be regarded as a treasure of world culture.
At the same time, it is also a cultural relic that has endured hardships, experienced the "shame of Jingkang", fell into the hands of the Jin people, and once again lost overseas because the Eight-Nation Alliance burned the Yuanmingyuan.
The British also did not attach importance to the value of this painting, in the way of Japanese mounting it hanging on the board, due to improper preservation, directly let the painting appear a large area of powder, cracking, they even in accordance with the Japanese screen painting restoration method to repair. As a result, the "Female Shi Zhentu" was cut at the waist, and the damage caused was irreparable.
As a result, the British Museum also stipulates that the literary and historical proverbs are limited to six weeks per year.
03 Dunhuang murals
This is the glorious art of the whole world.
The total area of Dunhuang murals reached more than 50,000 square meters, and the most surprising thing is that they can be maintained for thousands of years without fading, proving that the ancient Chinese craftsmanship and technology at that time can be said to be ahead of the world.
However, a shameless Englishman named Stein, posing as a follower of Master Xuanzang, deceived the guards into taking tens of thousands of precious artifacts from Dunhuang twice.
The second time the robbers were the French, they stole more than five thousand pieces, the Japanese stole more than six hundred pieces of scriptures, shamefully the American Warner came to Dunhuang and used chemicals, stripped off more than a dozen frescoes, and caused serious damage to the frescoes.
But all we can see in the British Museum is that on the central wall of the Chinese Hall, there is a Dunhuang mural of tens of square meters, and the rest has not been displayed. We can see the obvious cropped marks on the murals, which is really sad and regrettable.
02 Rosetta Stone
The British were also rude to Egypt, directly using Egypt as their own backyard garden.
Except for the pyramids, it is estimated that all that can be moved have been moved, including gold masks, princess mummies and so on.
Of course, the most anti-heavenly treasure is this Rosetta Stone. The stele is 1.14 meters high and 0.73 meters wide, made in 196 BC and inscribed with the edicts of Ptolemy V, king of Egypt, written in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, Egyptian cursive and ancient Greek.
Therefore, this stone stele can be regarded as the key to unlocking the door of ancient Egyptian culture, because after comparing the contents of various language versions, modern archaeologists have relied on it to interpret the Egyptian hieroglyphic civilization that has been lost for thousands of years.
Think about it, the Egyptians want to explore their own ancient culture, but there is no historical material to study in their own country, and they have to run to Britain, which is really sad and regrettable.
01 Parthenon relief
Greece is one of the worst countries.
When the British first removed cultural relics from here, it was arguably easier than buying vegetables, and they even split the famous Parthenon into more than 200 boxes and shipped them back to China.
Destroying it on the spot that can't be taken away can't help but remind people of the Yuanmingyuan.
Greece has also insisted that britain return it, but the British prime minister shamelessly said: This is all our legitimate income, and said that Greece can not protect these artifacts.
The Greeks, who had no choice but to make copies of plaster casts and show them to their own people.
In law, thieves are not allowed to keep ill-gotten gains, no matter how long they have been stolen.
It is hoped that one day, these stolen cultural relics can be returned to their original owners.