My thoughts on reading "A Sigh of a Thousand Years".

Reflections after reading "A Millennium Sigh" - I will definitely be resurrected

"I hope that the Parthenon cultural relics can return to Greece before I die. If they come back after my death, I will definitely be resurrected. "This is what Teacher Qiu Yu quoted from a late Greek Minister of Culture, which contains the last dignity of an ancient civilization. Unfortunately, her wish cannot be realized. Even many years after her death, this is still an unreachable dream. .

Of course, the loss of cultural relics overseas does not only happen in Greece. In fact, all the ancient and splendid civilizations in the world have been destroyed by the West in later generations, including China, Egypt, Greece..., The group of so-called explorers and archaeologists in the West are actually cultural bandits. They are even more hateful than bandits because they use the guise of culture to completely tarnish the sacred term culture. They were like a group of bad boys who saw a few old men who were still energetic despite their age. In them, they saw a kind of indifference, a kind of vicissitudes, a kind of detached appearance that has seen through the world. That kind of posture is so attractive, a gentle look or a movement can make the world eclipse the beauty. And that kind of posture is what they covet, but it is something that they at such a young age cannot have, because it has been cultivated over thousands of years. But they were unruly and thought that these were just caused by their external appearance, so they took off the clothes of the old men, put their shoes on themselves, picked off their beards, and stuck them on themselves. They thought that this would make them It looks a little more mature and a little more vicissitudes of life. They threw the old men who had stripped their clothes on the ground, trampled on their dignity arbitrarily, then put on the clothes of those old men and walked through the market.

As we all know, the British Museum is one of the three major museums in the world, along with the Louvre in Paris and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It is also an unspeakable pain in the hearts of people in Greece, China, Egypt and other countries. At the entrance to the Egyptian Pavilion of the British Museum stands a striking Rosetta Stone, which was Egypt's top national treasure. Anyone who has traveled to Egypt knows that you can only see replicas in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. In the Greek Pavilion, there are precious statues from the Parthenon. But if you go to Greece in the future, you will find that the Parthenon is empty. Similarly, in China, if you are a scholar who studies Dunhuang cultural relics, if you want to see the scriptures that are essential for studying Dunhuang, sorry, you have to spend tens of millions to go there to film, and then come back and watch it on a projector yourself. , its authenticity has been collected and not visited. What an irony this is. To see the national treasures and cultural relics of your own country, you have to go to museums in other countries. This is why many tourists from Egypt, Greece and China, when they saw their national treasures in the British Museum, stood there with tears on their faces for a long time and refused to leave.

Thinking of this, I can’t help but think of what a Chinese young man wrote to Lord Elgin who burned down the Old Summer Palace:

I hate it so much,

I hate that I was not born earlier. A century,

allows me to stand face to face with you,

the gloomy old castle,

the wilderness with the morning light,?

Either I pick up the white glove you threw down,

Or you catch the sword I threw away,?

Or you and I each ride on a war horse, ?

Far away from today's handsome flag, ?

Leaving the cloud-like battle formation, ?

The decisive battle is under the city. ?

This poem expresses the sorrow and anger of the Chinese people, but it can also express the resentment of the Egyptians and Greeks when they stand in the British Museum and see their country's national treasures. This feeling is unique to our ancient civilization where cultural relics have been looted. It is a kind of helplessness and a kind of humiliation in addition to grief and indignation. And in our own lifetime, we should contribute all our efforts to wash away this humiliation.