China has a very long history, and after five thousand years of civilization development, we have the current peaceful and stable life. People are constantly improving their quality of life in exploration and research. Successive dynasties have representative buildings, which became a unique landscape at that time, and also allowed future generations to have a clearer demarcation of the change of dynasties.
Many cultural relics have become a proof of everyone's historical research, and an object contains traces of time, and also has a profile of the technology and economic strength of the country at that time. Beijing has been the center of economy and culture since ancient times, the capital of many dynasties, and there are many ancient buildings here, including the Yuanmingyuan and the Forbidden City.
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China has experienced a state of isolation for a long time, and due to the gap in science and technology and ideology with Western countries, Chinese culture is gradually in a backward stage. In order to vigorously develop the economy, from a very early age, China began to trade with other neighboring countries, which allowed the culture to get a mutual integration.
The opening of the country's doors has led to new developments in many fields, but it has also brought opportunities to the Western powers. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the social background was turbulent, and the corruption of the imperial court made many loopholes in the social system of the whole country, and the invasion of China by the Eight-Power Alliance also began.
The foreign powers are like dividing up a delicacy, running rampant on the soil of our country. They have privileges in China, and they can even kill the people wantonly. In order to calm things down, the Qing Dynasty actually chose to tolerate, which led to the arrogance of the great powers getting stronger and stronger.
The Yuanmingyuan was once the first garden of the royal family, and it took a lot of manpower and material resources to build it at that time. The scenery inside is beautiful, and there are countless rare treasures, which were originally a treasure of our country, but they have become fat in the eyes of the great powers. They removed everything they could move away, destroyed what they couldn't, and now only some broken walls and ruins remained in the Yuanmingyuan.
Many highly valuable cultural relics have flowed abroad, and after the founding of New China, we can only rely on money to buy them if we want to get them back. Exchanging huge sums of wealth for the treasures of our country sounds ironic.
The state has no dignity, which leads to the masses having no status, oppression and resistance, and the people finally broke out into a revolutionary war after they could not bear it. Through the joint efforts of all strata, the foreign aggressors were eventually driven out of our territory, which gave the poor people human rights.
After the founding of New China, the state paid more and more attention to the protection of cultural relics, in order to be able to recover the cultural relics that had been lost, the state also spent huge sums of money to buy back many treasures at many foreign auctions. At this time, many patriots also emerged, and Zhao Tailai was one of them.
After inheriting his aunt's property in Britain, he found 100,000 relics of the Old Summer Palace, with a rough price of as much as 1 billion yuan. He did not choose a private collection or auction for his own benefit, but unconditionally donated it to the state, which attracted the praise and attention of people from all walks of life in society.
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Zhao Tailai was born in 1954, his family is also considered a famous family, his great-grandfather was Wu Tingfang, who was a diplomat in the imperial court in the late Qing Dynasty, when their family had special prestige in the local area. However, the rich and the rich were only three generations, and under the influence of the social situation, the imperial court was slowly replaced, not to mention the officials in the dynasty, and the once prominent Zhao family was gradually lonely.
Zhao Tailai's life was relatively rich when he was a child, his father was a doctor, although the social status was not high, but the family's life was also particularly happy. Zhao Tailai also attended private school when he was a child, and when he grew up, he became an ambitious young man, and he always fantasized about being able to work hard with his own ability after becoming an adult.
But when he was 15 years old, his parents died of illness one after another, and he did not have the ability to live before he was an adult, so he found his aunt. My aunt has been childless all her life, has been developing her career, and after her career is on the right track, she has not been married and lived alone.
The two lonely people have become the sustenance of each other's souls, and the aunt's life is relatively rich, which has improved Zhao Tailai's quality of life. He also helped his aunt run the business as an adult, and many years later, her aunt had many problems due to her old age. On his deathbed, he called Zhao Tailai to his side and began to explain what happened after his death.
At this time, Zhao Tailai learned that her aunt's assets were not as simple as they seemed on the surface, and she still kept a secret that had been hidden for many years. The aunt told Zhao Tailai that their family had bought a manor abroad in the most glorious period. Before his aunt died, he also gave him a map, which was the internal structure of the manor as a whole.
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After explaining everything, his aunt died, and Zhao Tailai also did his best to handle the funeral for him. After all the dust settled, Zhao Tailai went to London to check on the situation of the manor. After arriving at the manor, Zhao Tailai found that the manor was really big, with several high-rise buildings and a farm.
With the sign on the map, Zhao Tailai found the cellar below the farm. The cellar was very large, there were countless wooden boxes inside, and the surface of the boxes was also covered with thick dust, out of curiosity, Zhao Tailai casually opened two boxes, and he found that they contained all kinds of porcelain and treasures.
At that time, he did not know the value of these objects, so he brought one or two pieces back to China, and it happened that among his friends he liked to collect, so he brought back the porcelain bowl from London for the other party to see. Only then did he learn that this porcelain was extremely valuable, and it was likely to be a treasure in the Yuanmingyuan.
This surprised Zhao Tailai, and then he spent 10 years to move the treasures in the cellar to the manor, so that these treasures had a chance to see the light of day. He invited experts and scholars in the field of treasure hunting, and finally came to the conclusion that most of these cultural relics came from the Yuanmingyuan. Although Zhao Tailai had already joined the British nationality at that time, he still loved Chinese culture in his heart, so in 2005, he donated more than 50,000 treasures to the country free of charge.
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Patriotism is not verbal, and Zhao Tailai proved his patriotism to the crowd with his actions. He is very grateful to the country for cultivating him, although he has joined the British nationality for various reasons, but the Chinese feelings in his heart have not changed. These 50,000 pieces of treasure are worth about 800 million, which is an astronomical number, but Zhao Tailai donated without blinking an eye, and his patriotism was really touching.
Being grateful can make it easier for us to be satisfied in life, which will make life more fun. Blindly calculating will only allow yourself to drill into the tip of the bull's horn and cannot extricate yourself. The country has experienced too many tribulations and wars, and that history should not be forgotten. Only when the people of the country unite can the country be built stronger, and the things that were previously oppressed by the great powers will not happen again.