They are all playing antiques, and there are not a few people in the circle who know Zhao Tailai. And some friends mention Zhao Tailai, but they will say in an incomprehensible tone: Zhao Tailai, he is a "fool".
Why do people say this about Zhao Tailai? The reason is that when he found out that he had inherited a sky-high inheritance, he did not think about buying a luxury house, but instead thought about how to donate all of them to the country.
During this period, in order to clean up and decorate the cultural relics, he was even smashed. In the end, he donated more than 60,000 cultural relics to the state free of charge.
Among them, there are more than 150 cultural relics of the third level or above in the country; the total value of these cultural relics exceeds 800 million. It is admirable for a poor boy to get a huge amount of property and have such a pattern and behavior!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > poor boy Zhao Tailai, who defected to his aunt in order to make a living</h1>
In 1969, zhao Tailai's parents died at the age of 15. Previously, in order to show his parents the illness, all the valuable items in the family were sold out.
Just when Zhao Tailai was worried about his livelihood, he received a letter from Aunt Hk. In the letter, the aunt said that she was very sympathetic to the suffering of zhao Tailai's family, and if there was no place to stay, she could come to her.
After some thought, Zhao Tai, who was already too poor to eat, came to find his aunt.
After arriving at his aunt's house, Zhao Tailai was warmly welcomed by his aunt. It turned out that my aunt was a single woman, without her own children, and it was rare to have such a close junior, and she was really happy.
After a period of getting along, Zhao Tailai felt that her aunt was really good to herself, took good care of her life, and encouraged herself to study more and be an intellectual.
In this way, two people are not mother and son, but they are better than mother and son. What makes Zhao Tailai sigh is that although her aunt does not work much, she is really rich in flowing oil, and any ornament in the living room is an antique of some years.
Looking at Zhao Tailai to look at these objects, his aunt asked him generously, are you interested in antiques? If you like it, you can also find him a good teacher.
Later, under the arrangement and guidance of his aunt, Zhao Tailai became a disciple of the famous cultural relics scholar Zhao Shaoang.
Around 1977, my aunt's body was worse than a day. Childless and childless, she began to give zhao Tailai the family's belongings little by little.
And when she was about to die in the end, she told Zhao Tai that she still had several manors in Britain, one of which contained a lot of valuable treasures, but they were too troublesome to deal with, and if she really wanted to take over, she still had to think about it.
Just looking at the inheritance left by my aunt now is already jaw-dropping; but my aunt actually said that there is something outside! Rao is Zhao Tailai, who has always seen big scenes, and he is also a little surprised.
Of course, in the darkness, Zhao Tailai also seemed to feel that his aunt was going to give something to himself. After all, let yourself learn culture and know the cultural relics at home, which are somewhat deliberately arranged.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="20" > sneaked around for 17 years, and Zhao Tailai was even forced to immigrate</h1>
In 1981, 27-year-old Zhao Tailai embarked on a journey to Britain based on a treasure map given by his aunt. And this time, he was forced to live a "sneaky" life.
According to the instructions of the treasure map, Zhao Tailai found crazy artifacts in the cellar of a manor house.
Famous paintings, jades, ceramics and bronzes that have only been seen in books were thrown to the ground like they didn't want money. These priceless treasures even hang spider webs.
Looking at these countless cultural relics, Zhao Tailai was excited and a little broken. These things are really hot potatoes! If they take it themselves, the foreigners are afraid that they will not be able to keep it; if they donate it to the country, how should they transport it back?
After some thought, Zhao Tailai rested his mind on collecting, or decided to send them to the motherland. In order not to let outsiders discover this earth-shattering secret, Zhao Tailai transformed into a cleaner and prepared to clean up by himself.
The cellar is not airtight all year round, so the environment is very harsh. Rao is a young and strong Zhao Tailai in his thirties, and he also feels that his body bones are very damp. But to leave these things to outsiders to take care of, he could not rest assured.
So he nestled in the cellar day by day, sorting out these treasures day after day. In order to move the bronze, Zhao Tailai's toe was smashed; in order to sort out the porcelain, Zhao Tailai's teeth were broken.
What worries him even more is that these things are not easy to transport! At that sensitive time, if you are not careful, you will not only put yourself in it, but also easily let people encroach on these treasures.
In the case of no way, Zhao Tailai had to immigrate to The United Kingdom, just to find a reasonable reason to clean up these cultural relics. Finally, with the efforts of Zhao Tailai, they were sorted out.
During this period, Zhao Tailai hid a sky-high treasure in his hand but did not dare to share it with others; he was obviously a billionaire, but he dressed himself up like a beggar.
By 1998, Zhao Tailai had sold 4 estates to raise freight. Under his meticulous arrangement, the first batch of cultural relics was transported back; after several operations, more than 60,000 cultural relics returned to the embrace of the motherland.
These 17 years of dormancy have not been in vain. Zhao Tailai safely donated all the valuable things to the state. Large museums such as the China History Museum, the Xinhua Academy of Calligraphy and Painting, and the Yancheng Museum in Jiangsu Province all have cultural relics donated by Zhao Tailai.
Some relatives and friends have asked Zhao Tailai: Are you stupid, why don't you keep it for yourself, you have to donate it? In the face of this problem, Zhao Tailai said: This is a national cultural relic, and I am only temporarily collecting.
How admirable is it that Zhao Tailai can donate these hundreds of millions of assets? Not to mention, he also risked being discovered, and secretly sorted out in anonymity for 17 years!
The dangers and difficulties involved are far beyond what outsiders can imagine! In September 2005, Zhao Tailai, together with Jin Yong and others, won the "2005 World Outstanding Chinese Award".
The world laughed that he did not know how to collect treasures, but in his heart, these cultural relics left from his ancestors were not robbed by people in the past? Now returning to the place where they originally belonged is the best place for these cultural relics.
I have to say that Zhao Tailai's high wind and bright festival is really admirable!