My identity as a collector was exposed by the village flower

Chapter 242 The National Treasure in France

This time, the destination is France.

It's not surprising, after all, the Old Summer Palace was first robbed by Britain and France, and they don't know how many Chinese national treasures were robbed.

The Yuanmingyuan was built from Kangxi to Qianlong, costing tens of millions of taels of silver, and the treasures inside are immeasurable. There are countless antique calligraphy and paintings in the past dynasties. Therefore, this is not only a heavy loss for China, but also an event that people will never forget. Forgotten national humiliation.

Well now, the robbers of those days have transformed into gentlemen, decent people and civilized people, and they put up the so-called "ancestral treasures" for auction.

What's really chilling is that some of the second devils and traitors in China are still frantically whitewashing these shames.

Kiyobuki even said that at that time the whole of China was in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the cultural relics in the Old Summer Palace were also the private property of the Qing Dynasty royal family. If they were robbed or stolen, they were all family affairs, and it was nothing.

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What kind of three views is this!

At first glance, it seems to make sense, everything really belongs to the emperor.

However, those national treasures and cultural relics are the savings of the Chinese nation for thousands of years!

To be honest, the country treated the Manchu royal family well.It is said that the last emperor Puyi not only did not kill him, but also let him take away a lot of treasure.When he first abdicated, the Beiyang government even promised to give him several million silver dollars for living expenses every year.

Even when New China was founded, the country never made things difficult for him.

Along the way, Mr. Zhao's expression was quite heavy.He has been engaged in the recovery of overseas cultural relics for so many years, and he knows the Chinese treasures preserved in various countries the most.

According to incomplete statistics, more than 1000 million pieces of Chinese cultural relics have been lost to countries and regions such as Europe, America, Japan, and Southeast Asia, including more than 100 million pieces of national first- and second-level cultural relics.

And the most, the most exquisite ones are Britain and France.

Especially France.

The reason!Everyone understands.

In addition to the Old Summer Palace, the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded the capital, and the Qing government was weak and incompetent. It caused the imperial palace, royal palace, ministers' homes, and even the people to be scraped by the foreign powers.

You may not know that the so-called Eight-Power Allied Forces were almost wiped out by the Boxers in Tianjin at first, but the Qing army refused to assist and gave the Allied Forces time to rescue.

Relying on the number of troops and their understanding of the system of three provinces and six ministries, the Japanese army entered the capital, first broke into the bank of the household department, moved 300 million taels of silver to the Japanese embassy, ​​and then began to rob the people.

The French army was small at the time, but it was extremely greedy.

Because France had entered the capital once before, and the commander of the French army had a better understanding of the world, when the number of troops was not large, they took the lead in attacking the residence of Prince Li and the house of Shangshu Tateyama, and robbed 200 million yuan each. And 300 million taels of silver.

And because of their respective positions and functions, the amount of treasures and silver hidden in the mansion of these two high-ranking officials actually exceeded the treasury of the household department.

In addition, the French army also arrived in time for the looting activities of the imperial palace and the Summer Palace, and their techniques were very sophisticated. All the palaces were looted, and the carved panels on the windows were even removed.

Finally, we don’t forget to carry out carpet looting among the people. Some farmers were robbed several times in one day.

After getting off the plane, everyone went to the hotel they reserved first.

There is still more than a day before the auction, so there is no rush.

Liu Shijun proposed to go to the Louvre to see the national treasure.

"It's not far from the Louvre, are you going?"

Ironically, the Louvre itself was built in the early 13th century to store treasures looted by the French army.

In the following hundreds of years, several emperors who were keen on collecting art appeared in France. By the time of Napoleon, almost all the best works of art in Europe were put in the Louvre.

There is also a special oriental art gallery at the back, where a large number of treasures of Asian countries that were once colonized by France or invaded are hidden here, including the famous Babylonian "Code of Hammurabi".

But now everyone wants to go in and visit the national treasure of their own country, and they have to pay more than ten euros for tickets.

Knowing this information, everyone can find that the Louvre is an out-and-out concentration point of stolen goods.And the Frenchman has been a robber for hundreds of years.

From the artworks of ancient Egypt, Greece, Etruria, and Rome, to the artworks of oriental countries, there are sculptures from the Middle Ages to modern times, as well as a surprising number of royal curios, as well as fine paintings and so on.Most of these are obtained through plunder.

But such a museum is known as a world-famous art palace.

"If you really want to see the national treasure, you have to go to the Jimei Museum." Mr. Zhao said.

Because a few decades ago, the collections of the French national museums were reorganized on a large scale.The Musée Guimet transferred its Egyptian section to the Louvre, which in turn gave away its Asian art section, making the Musée Guimet the premier museum of Asian art.

For example, Shang Xiang Zun, Dunhuang Embroidery "Buddha Said Zhaifa Qingjing Sutra", "Amitabha Western Pure Land Transformation Map", Liao Sancai Arhat Statue, Yaozhou Kiln in the Northern Song Dynasty with peony pattern and double phoenix mouth injection pot, Yuanji blue glazed white dragon pattern Plum vases, etc. are all national treasures, and are now in the Jigme Museum.

The Shangxiang Zun belongs to the late Shang Dynasty bronze vessel, with animal face patterns engraved on the outside of the abdomen and the head, and scale patterns on the ears, nose, and feet. It should be a national treasure unearthed in the two lakes.

This statue is huge in size and vivid in shape. It is a rare bionic bronze ware. It is the largest animal-shaped statue known in the world, and it is also the treasure of the Guimet Museum.

"Or the French library, there are also many national treasures of our country, such as the Dunhuang posthumous book "Pagoda Heart Sutra". "Old Zhao added like a few treasures.

It's a bit sad, Mr. Zhao remembers clearly which national treasure is in which museum.

Among the cultural relics lost from the Buddhist scripture caves in Dunhuang, the most are in the UK, and the most exquisite are in France.

"Pagoda Heart Sutra" is the "Heart Sutra" in Buddhist scriptures written in the shape of a pagoda.This kind of pagoda-shaped Heart Sutra is divided into three parts: tower base, tower body and tower top, and the tower body is divided into five layers. Beginning with the word "Guan" at the lower corner of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva's left foot, read it sequentially along the dotted line, and finally "Poha" at the end of the Heart Sutra is collected at the lower corner of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva's right foot.

In the entire Dunhuang literature, there are four manuscripts related to the Pagoda Heart Sutra, two of which were collected by the Frenchman Pelliot and the British Stein, which are respectively stored in the National Library of France and the British Library.

The one treasured in the French library is full of pictures and texts, novel and unique in form, very interesting and ornamental. It is especially precious because of the portrait of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva painted on the gate of the pagoda, and because there are only four pieces of the "Pagoda Heart Sutra" in the world, it is truly a treasure. The "treasure of treasures" in the Dunhuang posthumous book.

"I want to see the iron tower." Xu Qing expressed her opinion.

To be more precise, he should want to go with Big Brother Fang.

(End of this chapter)