Shakyamuni Sarizi
In fact, there were 48,000 Buddha relics in the past, which were distributed to various countries by the eight kings of ancient India and the disciples of Ashoka and Shakyamuni of the Peacock Dynasty to promote the Dharma.
The Buddha finger bone relics of Shaanxi Fufeng Famen Temple
The Buddha's top bone relics of Nanjing Dabao'en Temple
However, the reason why these relics are famous and have a very high status in the Buddhist circles is mainly because they have been enshrined by the royal family many times in Chinese history, and have been specially recorded many times in Chinese history books, and the Chinese emperor built a grand pagoda underground palace to bury, and also buried a large number of Chinese national treasure-level cultural relics. For example, the secret color glaze in the underground palace of Famen Temple, the skirt of Wu Zetian, the Nine Tin Zen Staff, and the Ashoka Pagoda in Dabao'en Temple, these cultural relics that give the Buddha bone relics to accompany the burial are all Chinese national treasures, and the relics themselves have a very important position in Chinese history, so to some extent, these Buddha bone relics are already Chinese cultural relics.
When it comes to foreign top cultural relics collected by China, I think of one, but it is no longer in China, that is, the "three artifacts" of the Japanese imperial family.
Japan Three Divine Instruments
The Three Sacred Artifacts (Japanese: 三種の神物) refers to the three relics granted to Qiong Qiong by the god Amaterasu during the arrival of The Tensun in Japanese mythology and legend: the Tenkeng Cloud Sword (草雉雉雉), the Eight-Foot Qiong-Go jade, and the Eight Mirrors. These three artifacts, like the ancient Chinese dynastic seals and jiuding, are used as relics of the Divine Right of the Japanese Emperor "Ten Thousand Generations" and are symbols of the Japanese Emperor's regime.
Since the origin of the Japanese imperial family itself is a man-made myth, the three artifacts themselves are certainly not really "artifacts", at most three cultural relics, and may even be copied and rebuilt many times in history. However, because these three things (including forgeries that may have been copied many times in history) have been used as the relics of the "divine right of the monarch" of the Japanese imperial family for thousands of years, these three things have been enshrined by the imperial family in Japan, and as a symbol of the regime, they have played an extremely important role in major ceremonies such as the succession of the emperor, and are also preserved in the Tokyo Imperial Palace and the Atsuta and Ise Jingu Shrines, and are national treasures among Japan's national treasures.
The picture shows that on March 25, 2014, Emperor Akihito and his wife took the Shinkansen to the Ise Shrine after the previous year's annual relocation of the palace, and the palace staff accompanied them with two boxes, which were said to contain the Tencong Cloud Sword and the Eight Feet of Qionggou Jade among the three artifacts, collectively known as the "Sword Seal", but these three artifacts were once preserved in China, that is, during the puppet Manchukuo period, Japan carried out cultural assimilation of the three eastern provinces in order to engage in "Japanese-Manchurian Concord", so that the puppet Manchukuo Emperor Puyi was welcomed from Japan to China.
Puyi visits Japan with Emperor Hirohito (Puyi in blue and Hirohito in black)
According to Puyi's memoirs, in 1940, the Kwantung Army asked him to welcome the three artifacts from Japan, and he refused in his heart, because Puyi wanted to restore the Manchu Qing, but the Japanese let him enshrine the relics representing the Japanese imperial family as ancestors. When he saw Hirohito take out the three artifacts, he felt that it was not as valuable as the things that the eunuchs stole from the Forbidden City to sell, but he still had to say: "Nichiman is one heart and one heart, inseparable, and I hope that I will welcome the Japanese god Amaterasu to Manchukuo to worship." After taking the things back, he knelt down at the Jongmyo Temple and wept bitterly to apologize.
A more reliable statement is that among the three major artifacts, the Heavenly Cong Cloud Sword and the Eight Mirrors have actually been lost, so the ones handed over to Puyi are also imitations.
The Tencong Cloud Sword was lost at the final Battle of Tannoura during the Genji and Heiji wars in 1185 AD. At that time, the Hei clan was defeated and the Entire Hei family was destroyed, and Hira Kiyomori's wife jumped into the sea with the eight-year-old Emperor Andeku and three artifacts in order to prevent the artifact from falling into the hands of Genji, leaving Genji's support for Emperor Go-Toba without legitimacy. However, after the box where the seal was stored fell into the sea, due to the action of buoyancy, it floated on the surface of the sea and was picked up by Genji's army. Later, the mirror was also salvaged out of the sea, and only the sword was missing.
However, according to the Japanese archaeologist Harada Dairoku, based on the Nara period's "Records of the Emperor Taiso Imperial Town of IseJiso", the record of the three fires in the Ise Jingu Emperor Daijingu, and the current Yachi mirror original box can not hold the eight mirrors (which is an ancient Chinese unit of length), the original of the Eight Mirrors may have been destroyed, and the current original is recast.
Of course, with Japan's defeat in 1945, in order to prevent the three artifacts from falling into the hands of the Soviet Red Army, before the defeat, the Kwantung Army hurriedly returned the three artifacts back to Japan.
But in any case, this may be the only time in Chinese history that cultural relics of towns and states in other countries have been preserved.