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Where are the cultural relics of Yuanmingyuan?

However, since modern times, the cultural relics bearing the heavy history and culture of China have been lost overseas at an alarming rate. According to Professor National Cultural Heritage Administration and senior engineer Luo, according to incomplete statistics, there are 6.5438+0.63 million pieces of China cultural relics in 2.65438+08 museums in 47 countries around the world, which is equivalent to 654.38+0/654.38+00 pieces of China cultural relics in all private collections in the world at best. After more than ten years of on-the-spot investigation and literature review, Professor Lin of Nanjing University of the Arts thinks that there are more than 30,000 famous paintings lost overseas in China. & ltbr & gt& ltbr & gt These China cultural relics are scattered all over the world, either in museums, art galleries, school libraries or in the hands of private collectors. & ltbr & gt & ltbr & gt & ltbr & gt & ltbr & gt British Museum

When it comes to Japanese cultural relics in China, we must mention Oracle Bone Inscriptions. According to incomplete statistics, nearly 200,000 pieces of Oracle bones were unearthed in Xiaotun, Anyang, and about 26,700 pieces were lost overseas, covering Japan, the United States, Britain and other countries 12. Among them, Japan has the largest number, reaching 12443 tablets. Most of these Oracle bones are hidden in the Oriental Library, the Institute of Humanities of Kyoto University and the Institute of Oriental Culture of Tokyo University. That some people lament that Oracle Bone Inscriptions is in China and Oracle bones are in Japan. & ltbr & gt& ltbr & gt Russian, German, Canadian, Australian, Swedish and Swiss countries also have quite rich collections of China cultural relics. & ltbr & gt& ltbr & gt When will the treasure be left overseas?

/kloc-from the end of 0/9 to the beginning of the 20th century, northwest China was a paradise for explorers all over the world. Without the permission of China government, some expeditions wantonly stole cultural relics here, and illegally stole items from China cultural sites, resulting in a large loss of cultural relics in China. There are countless treasures in Dunhuang Tibetan scriptures cave, and exquisite murals and clay sculptures show high artistic attainments and profound cultural connotations. However, since 1900 was discovered, the disaster of Dunhuang treasures came. 1907, the Englishman Stein took Jiang Xiaowan, an interpreter from China, to the Tibetan Sutra Cave. He tried his best to deceive Wang Daoren, the host of the Thousand Buddha Cave, and selected 24 boxes of ancient manuscripts, 5 boxes of ancient paintings and silk embroidery, totaling more than 1 10,000 pieces, all of which were delivered to the British Museum in London. And he only paid Wang Daoshi 500 taels of silver and 130 Jin tax for these rare treasures. 19 14 years, Stan cheated five boxes of manuscripts from here, including more than 600 volumes of Buddhist scriptures. Among them, the woodcut "Diamond Sutra" in 868 AD is an extremely rare treasure in the history of printing. & ltbr & gt& ltbr & gt followed by Frenchman Pelliott. He plundered many precious cultural relics from Mutuzhen and Kuqa, including Buddhist classics written in Kuqa's early characters. In the Dunhuang Chamber of Secrets, pelliot turned over for three weeks, and tied up all the fine products that Stein missed, and the price he paid was still only 500 taels of silver. At the same time, he also took photos one by one and published six volumes of murals of the Thousand Buddha Cave in Dunhuang. A few years later, the Thousand-Buddha Cave was seriously damaged by Belarusian soldiers, making these photos a rare material to reflect the original appearance of the murals in the Dry Buddha Cave! & ltbr & gt& ltbr & gt Hiroichiro Yoshikawa and Lihua Zuchuan of Japan cheated about 600 books from here, and Odenburg of Russia stole not only many colorful statues, but also more than 200 manuscripts. & ltbr & gt& ltbr & gt When Americans came to Dunhuang, there were not many portable cultural relics here, so they turned their attention to large murals and sculptures. 1924, Langdon Werner took away 36 murals of the Tang Dynasty with tree tape, stole a beautiful colorful Buddha statue in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, stole seven heads of bodhisattvas and a section of the remains of a bodhisattva in the Xiawangmu Temple Grottoes in Jingzhou, and stole a colorful Buddha statue and several murals in Heichengzi, Juyanhai. Thanks to the addition of these cultural relics,