Ma Weidou, why are the most precious cultural relics in China lost to the west?

According to the statistics of UNESCO, about 6.5438+0.64 million pieces of China cultural relics have been lost overseas, scattered in 47 museums around the world, and the overseas folk collections are estimated to be 654.38+00 times of the collections.

According to the statistics of the Cultural Relics Society of China, since the Opium War of 1840, more than1000,000 pieces of China cultural relics have been lost to Europe, America, Japan, Southeast Asia and other countries and regions due to war and unfair trade. The British Museum has the largest collection of cultural relics lost in China, and its collection of cultural relics lost in China can be traced back to the establishment of 1753.

At present, there are as many as 23,000 cultural relics in China, of which about 2,000 have been exhibited for a long time. From ancient stone tools, Shang and Zhou bronzes, Wei and Jin stone Buddha scriptures, Tang and Song paintings and calligraphy, to Ming and Qing porcelain. On the evening of May 30th, 2009, the auction hall on the third floor of Beijing Asia Hotel was crowded and packed, and Poly Group was holding a special auction of China painting art here.

In this auction, treasures gathered, and 15 calligraphy works of eight emperors, including Shunzhi and Kangxi, returned from Japan and collectively appeared in Beijing, but the most interesting lot was Song Huizong's original painting-sketching rare birds. According to experts, Song Huizong's works are few, only 10 is known, and this one is the most complete one discovered so far.

Seven years ago, this rare treasure set a world record for painting auction in China at that time at a price of 25.3 million yuan. Mr. and Mrs. Ullens, the Belgian collectors who photographed this painting in those years, entrusted Poly Auction Company to auction in this spring auction. That night 1 1: 42, Song Huizong's "Sketching Rare Birds" started bidding with a starting price of 38 million yuan, and finally the buyer No.572 won the painting with 5565438+ 10,000 yuan.

After many twists and turns, this national treasure finally returned to its hometown. According to the statistics of UNESCO, about 6.5438+0.64 million pieces of China cultural relics have been lost overseas and scattered in 47 museums around the world. Overseas folk collections are estimated to be 654.38+00 times as many as the collections, about 6.5438+07 million pieces.

These precious cultural relics that once represented the glory of the Chinese nation have always been the focus of people's attention. Among them, the British Museum has the largest collection of cultural relics lost from China.