I think that the Yuanmingyuan was an imperial garden during the Qing Dynasty, and after the Qianlong and Jiaqing Emperors, the Yuanmingyuan became the Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens. At that time, the scenery in the Yuanmingyuan was beautiful, and the cultural relics inside can be said to be very numerous, it contains the buildings and cultural relics loved by many generations of emperors, but this place has not been completely preserved, which is also a great pity.
The Yuanmingyuan was a garden given to Yongzheng by the Kangxi Emperor, and later Yongzheng expanded it according to his own preferences, and then during the Qianlong Emperor and the Jiaqing Emperor, they also decorated according to their own preferences, so the Yuanmingyuan looked very gorgeous and beautiful. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, because China was invaded by Western countries, they robbed the Yuanmingyuan and set fire to the Yuanmingyuan, making the entire garden a large area into ruins.
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To this day, there are many treasures in the Yuanmingyuan that are still lying outside, which makes many Chinese express great regret. Of course, there are also many patriotic people who helped China recover the lost cultural relics of the Yuanmingyuan and sent them to the motherland thousands of miles away. There is a man in Dongguan who inherited his aunt's British property, but found nearly 100,000 cultural relics in the Yuanmingyuan, with a total value of 1 billion.
When the Eight-Power Alliance entered China, all the treasures in the Imperial Palace and the Yuanmingyuan of the Qing Dynasty were looted, and most of these immeasurable cultural relics were lost. This also reminds us that Chinese should remember this humiliating history, and also like a label, always reminding us to keep moving forward, only the country can no one dare to bully. Zhao Tailai is an artist and a collector.
Zhao Tailai's life was not too good, and he had even reached the point of relative poverty. Born in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, he suddenly received a will from his aunt who was far away in England one day, and at this time Zhao Tailai found that he had inherited a large inheritance, and his life was greatly improved. Zhao Tai received a good education from a young age, he began to learn to paint at a very young age, at that time he was very interested in art, so he embarked on a long road of art.
At the age of 15, Zhao Tailai settled in Hong Kong and studied painting with a very famous master at that time. He has his own views on Chinese painting since he was a child, and he also knows a lot about the appreciation of cultural relics, so he is famous in many antique markets.
Later, due to family reasons, coupled with his unusual love of cultural relics at that time, he became more and more impoverished. His aunt left an inheritance to Zhao Tailai that he could not imagine, his aunt had never married, so she did not have her own children, and Zhao Tailai was considered to be his closest junior at that time.
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Before she died, she had already made a will and distributed part of the inheritance to Zhao Tailai. Although Zhao Tailai knew that this aunt was very rich, after inheriting these inheritances, Zhao Tailai was also shocked.
Later, when he came to England, he found that his aunt's inheritance was really precious. She has a very luxurious manor house in England, and there are countless treasures in it, many boxes, pottery, ancient paintings, etc. in the garden, which take several years just to inventory.
In order to be able to figure out these cultural relics, Zhao Tailai was also very excited to stay in the United Kingdom and began to inspect these cultural relics. It is said that these treasures are all these cultural relics left by Zhao Tailai's grandfathers who began to collect and lasted three to four generations, and he did not expect that he would see so many treasures one day. And these treasures are also extremely valuable, which can ensure that he will have no worries about food and clothing in the next life.
However, Zhao Tailai was concerned about the country, and his heart was also very broad, and after counting all the treasures, he decided to transport a large number of cultural relics back to the motherland and let them stay in the national museum. Zhao Tailai donated more than 50,000 cultural relics to the Chinese Museum, probably worth more than 800 million or even 1 billion yuan. Zhao Tailai rejected many people who wanted to buy these cultural relics privately, although they gave a sky-high price, but Zhao Tailai resolutely refused these money.
He believes that this is the painstaking effort of their family for generations, and only by donating to the state can the greatest value of cultural relics be guaranteed, and also the best significance of cultural relics. Therefore, Zhao Tailai donated the cultural relics to the National Museum free of charge and returned them to China.
Zhao Tailai's awe-inspiring initiative also allowed the state to award him a world outstanding Chinese award in 2005. This award is also the best affirmation for him, and now Zhao Tailai has settled in the UK and is still engaged in his favorite painting industry.
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For our cultural undertakings, he has always been dedicated to helping the motherland find cultural relics, and will always return to his hometown to support local development, and is a very broad-minded patriot. And counting cultural relics Zhao Tailai has also spent nearly ten years, relying on this money he can buy a large number of assets, but he very atmospherically transported these cultural relics back to the country, in the process of transportation is also a huge amount of property.
But some people have also asked Zhao Tailai whether he will regret donating so many cultural relics and so much money, or is it too stupid? But Zhao Tailai said with great certainty: "These cultural relics are all treasures of our country, and they are only a short collection placed here, nor are they my private property." Many people were shocked by Zhao Tailai's words and were shocked by his selflessness.
Zhao Tailai is a very good patriot in China, with such a patriotic heart to donate all the treasures, so that the cultural relics in our motherland to play light and heat, so that many people can see the chinese classical culture and treasures. Although Zhao Tailai lost a lot of money, he exchanged the return of cultural relics for our motherland, which is also a great righteous act that can be passed down through the ages.
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It is precisely the outstanding Chinese representatives like Zhao Tailai who work hard to adhere to China's traditional culture and painstakingly protect our traditional cultural relics, so that the cultural relics of the past can return to our motherland and these treasures can return to the place where they originally belonged. Such a conscientious Chinese is really too scarce, but with such ancestors, then there will be more future generations to follow suit.
I believe that in the future, more and wider patriots will emerge to donate such cultural relics to our country, and the treasures we once lost will now be returned in the hands of heroes.