The return of prosperity -more than 1,800 (sets) overseas cultural relics return in 10 years

Chai Yaxin Guan Xiaoyu, the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, reported that on September 26, the "Back to the Flow of Flowing -Overseas Cultural Relics Special Exhibition" was launched at the Museum of Minhang District, Shanghai. This difficult exhibition brings together 47 overseas return cultural relics from the Poly Art Museum and the Yuanmingyuan Management Office of Haidian District, Beijing, including the head of the twelve zodiac signs of the Haiyan Hall of the Yuanmingyuan in the Qing Dynasty, the head of the tiger, the monkey head, the pig, and the pig The first original bronze beast, the first copy of the horse, and the national treasure -level bronze heavy wares of the Shang Dynasty, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the Han Dynasty.

The bronze beast of the Yuanmingyuan and 42 bronze wares appeared at the special exhibition, and returned to the country "Youzi" to tell the past and present

Entering the exhibition hall, the embossed silhouette of the Haiyantang of the Yuanmingyuan Western Tower first came into view, like dreams, as if traveling through time and space to return to Haiyantang.

Visit the return to cultural relics to start from an immersive interactive show. This is an immersive experience space created by the 180 ° ring and interactive screen. It uses 3D digital modeling, phantom imaging and other technologies to allow the twelve beasts to "re -operate" Hai Yantang "reborn" in the image.

The Yuanmingyuan Haiyantang was completed in 1759, taking the meaning of "Heqing Haiyan, Guotai Min'an". The bronze statue of the beast is "Eight" in the shape of the "eight" shapes on both sides of the spraying pool. Each animal is a fountain agency. Every day, the first bronze statue of the zodiac beast sprays water in turn, representing twelve hours. At noon, the twelve beasts will spray water at the same time. Therefore, this fountain is also called "water clock".

The light and shadow corridor with a bronze statue of beasts was seen to the right. The shape of the beast is realistic and the expression is lifelike: the cow head is strong, the tiger head is "like a tiger and a lion", the monkey looks like "peach", the pig's head looks like a wild pig, revealing the traditional Chinese aesthetic taste ...

"This time, the first original bronze beast of Niu head, tiger head, monkey head, and pig head, and the copy of the horse head. The physical exhibition and interaction experience are combined, so that everyone can see the cultural relics while understanding the cultural relics. The story, the environment and historical context. "Said Xu Di, director of the Museum of Minhang District Museum.

The picture shows the bronze beast displayed on the "Back to the Flow of the World -Special Exhibition of Overseas Cultural Relics". Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Xiang

China is one of the best and developed countries in the world in the world. In ancient society, bronze is not only a symbol of etiquette system and hierarchical system, but also closely connected to people's lives because of practical function.

Special exhibitions exhibited 42 overseas return bronze wares including God's Face, Suigong, the Feng Ji Feng Bird Zun, Li Rabbit Dianzun, Changyi Food Officer Ding. Rich in shape, diverse shape, exquisite.

Both the cover and the body of the device are gods on both sides, and there are animal shapes such as crickets, crickets, elephants, and snakes. There is an owl on the top of the device cover ... Many audiences look carefully and take pictures around it. This rare national treasure is now hidden in the Poly Art Museum. When he first entered the public vision more than 30 years ago, he attracted widespread attention in the world due to its peculiar shape and mysterious life.

God's face is not only highly artistic, but also has a special experience of returning home. According to Xu Di, due to strange shapes and other reasons, European collectors have suspected the authenticity of this cultural relic. "Overseas, their appraisal methods are relatively rude, and 6 holes are extracted on their bodies, because Shang and Zhou Bronze have a relatively fixed metal ratio. The best experts who study bronze wares in China, domestic experts use archeological research by domestic experts. The method is to identify this bronze ware, without drilling the cultural relics without drilling. "Xu Di said that going home is the best destination of" Youzi ". After returning to China, God was properly protected.

"If the nation is weak, the cultural relics are lost, and the national movement is strong, and the culture is prosperous." From the loss of the horse to the return, I witnessed the Chinese nation from humiliation to the prosperity of the prosperity

Nowadays, people can feel the beauty of bronze beasts at close range when people enter the museum. Before that, they walked through a twists and turns.

"The legendary experience of the horse's head is also a microcosm of the modern history of China." Liu Yang, a member of the Academic Professional Committee of the China Yuanmingyuan Society, said that among all the known beasts, the inheritance of the horse head is the most complicated and the most transformed, and the historical context is compared Clear.

In 1860, the British and French coalition forces burned Yuanmingyuan, and the bronze statue of the Zodiac Zodiac of Yuanming Garden has since lost overseas, becoming a microcosm of Chinese cultural relics. In 1882, the Frenchman Xie Manlu bought the horse head and brought to Europe along with several other beast heads. In 1985, an American antique company accidentally saw a photo in the magazine and found a very strange animal image. He realized that it might be a very important cultural relic. This is the head of the horse.

So, he went to Palm Springs, Southern California, and found the people in the photo. He lied that his father was the Vietnamese soldier and was interested in Eastern things. He hoped that he could buy some Oriental items to soothe the father. Because he did not know the value of the beast head, at that time, the horse head and the tiger head were placed as an outdoor as an ordinary artwork, and the cow head was put into the bathroom as a towel bracket. In this way, antique dealers bought these three beast heads for $ 4,500.

Two years later, these beast heads were purchased by the Cai family in Taiwan for nearly 150,000 US dollars. This is also the earliest known beast head auction. The Cai family later bought the monkey head and sold some of the collection to partners.

In 2000, the Asian financial crisis affected Taiwan. In order to save the enterprise, their descendants sold the monkey's head and cow head with more than 10 million Hong Kong dollars. In 2007, the news of the auction house in Hong Kong's Sotheby's auction house was reported. Patriotic entrepreneur He Hongzhang negotiated with the auction house after learning that he bought the horse head with 69.1 million Hong Kong dollars and said he would donate to the country. On November 13, 2019, on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the return of Macau, the head of Malaysia returned to China. On December 1, 2020, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage officially approved Malaysia to collect the management office of the Yuanmingyuan Management Office of Haidian District, Beijing. The picture shows the bronze statue of the horse head in the exhibition of "Centennial Dream Circle -Bronze Statue Return to the Yuanming Garden" in Beijing Yuanmingyuan on September 23, 2021. (Picture source: Vision China)

"From the flow of turbulence to the loss, the collection history of more than 100 years of horse head not only connects the meaning of the" Chinese family 'in China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, but also how China can see how China goes to revival. "Liu Yang said said Essence

"The bronze statue of the horse is the first important overseas cultural relics to return to the Yuanmingyuan. The loss of cultural relics returns to the original land, which is of great significance." From the perspective of Li Xiangyang, deputy director of the Yuanmingyuan Management Office of Haidian District, Beijing, the return of the horse to the loss of cultural relics will return Guiyuan territory has played a certain demonstration role. It will drive more social forces to pay attention to the return of the return of losing cultural relics and stimulate the patriotic feelings of compatriots at home and abroad. Essence More importantly, the return of the horse's head, in a sense, also carries the great dream of Chinese people for national rejuvenation.

The change of fate of cultural relics is closely related to the interest and decline of national governance. In the past ten years, more than 1,800 (sets) overseas cultural relics "Youzi" returns

"My grandfather John Herbert Wright took medicine in China in the early 20th century, obtained two pottery figurines, brought back to the United States, and then gave me inheritance ..." In April 2021, the Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco received a Special express delivery, which contains two colorful standing figurines and a letter. In the letter, Ms. Susanna Fulatus told the origin of her family and the two pottery figurines, and expressed her hope that she would send the cultural relics to the Chinese people through the Chinese government and donate to the Shanghai Museum.

During the donation to the Tibetan ceremony, Ms. Susana said in his speech: "Two pottery figurines were lost outside, they witnessed two world wars, countless epidemics, floods, and famines. : Friendly, respect each other, and help each other. Two pottery figurines return to their hometown, not through money or politics, but because of the power of love and respect for the Chinese people. "

Loss of cultural relics is an important part of the Chinese cultural heritage. From the loss to the return, the fate of the cultural relics is closely related to the discouragement of the national governance of chaos, which affects the heartstrings of thousands of Chinese children.

The picture shows the masses of the "Back to the Back of the World -Special Exhibition of Overseas Cultural Relics". Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Xiang

At the beginning of the founding of the New China, the party and the government will put on the loss of cultural relics and the rescue of the national treasure to put on an important agenda. Under the concern of the party and state leaders, Zheng Zhenduo and other older generations of cultural relics workers thought deeply. By establishing the "Hong Kong secret acquisition of cultural relics groups" and other methods, when the national economy was difficult, they still recovered a large number of precious cultural relics for the country and opened it. The grand chapter of losing cultural relics back--

"The first important thing is: the first purchase of Dong Yuan's Xishan Xing Travel map. Everything from Japan should be collected. This is very necessary. Second, if there is a possibility of being coveted by the United States, it is necessary to Get it first. Like Uncle Li Tang Boyi, you should collect it first "" Hong Kong's market is not good, it is a great opportunity for acquisitions. However, it must be very confidential, very careful, so as not to have bad people drilling the empty "... words ... Treasure, the sentence of the sentence, a letter to the Beijing -Hong Kong and Hong Kong, records how the older generation of "chasing treasures" practiced the promise of "all national treasures, must strive", which shows that "to do it for the nation, then The feeling of reporting to the country without regrets. With their efforts, the National Treasures of Mid -Autumn Festival, Xiaoxiang Five Cows, Xizai Xianglong, Xun Zhai Shanben, Chen's Zhenquan and other national treasures set foot on their way to return.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, my country's loss of cultural relics and returning work has entered a new stage of development and multi -level improvement. Under the framework of the International Convention, the Chinese government and more than 20 countries will lose cultural relics to recover and return the signing of bilateral agreements to establish a cooperation mechanism; lead the "Declaration of Dunhuang" that reflect the demands of cultural relics, and insist on calling on historical loss of cultural relics to return to the original country of the original country. , Contribute to the Chinese order to improve the return of cultural relics; the return of cultural relics is rich in results, a large number of precious cultural relics such as Tiger Tiger, Qin Gongjin Jewelry, Fang Fang Fang, and Zeng Bo Bronze. Back to the motherland ...

Within the four seas, the heart is the same. The constant intentions of the Chinese Communist Party to inherit the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation, the firm determination of governments at all levels to protect the national cultural heritage, the heart of the Chinese children to protect the nation's root, the friendly heart of international friends respecting Chinese cultural rights, gathered to escort cultural relics The majestic power of home.

At the 23rd "China Ten Years" series of theme press conferences held on August 24 this year, Jin Ruiguo, director of the Policy and Regulations Department of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, revealed that the recovery of the recovery of the loss of cultural relics appeared frequently, more than 1,800 pieces (set) (set) Overseas cultural relics "Youzi" returned to the motherland, and cultural relics became the "golden business cards" to promote civilization exchanges and mutual learning.

In the comments on the news of the cultural relics exhibition, some netizens wrote: "The return of national treasure cultural relics is the most beautiful reunion I have ever seen!"The Chinesewen pulse was continued, and the Chinese nation's rejuvenation was clearly marked.The loss of cultural relics is gradually becoming the past. When the return of cultural relics is in progress, it is willing to go home as soon as possible.

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