The reason was simple. Wang Yu wanted to see a few Chinese cultural relics from the museum in Great Britain. After asking someone to help open them, Wang Yu began to look at them carefully through his clairvoyance eyes.
Then the cultural relics in one hundred boxes from Great Britain appeared in front of Wang Yu. According to Wang Yu’s own information inquiry.
China has lost as many as 1.64 million cultural relics abroad, which are collected by 47 museums around the world. In museums in Great Britain, Chinese cultural relics are regarded as the most important collections, with a total of more than 23,000 pieces.
Exhibition Hall 33 of the Museum of Great Britain is a permanent exhibition hall dedicated to displaying Chinese cultural relics. Along with the ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, ancient Rome and India exhibition halls, it is one of the only national-level exhibition halls in the museum.
The exhibits range from bronzes from the Shang and Zhou dynasties to porcelain from the Tang and Song dynasties and gold and jade products from the Ming and Qing dynasties, most of which are unique collections. For example, the Kanghou Gui from the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty copy of Gu Kaizhi's "Proverbs of Women's History" from the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the murals of Qingliang Temple in Xingtang County, Hebei Province, and the Tang Dynasty sacrificial tricolor paintings are all displayed in the museum.
According to the timeline, it is mainly divided into the following parts:
Early China (5000 BC to 221 BC)
Imperial Age (221 BC to AD 960)
Empire, literati, merchants (960 AD to 1279 AD)
During the Yuan and Ming Dynasties (1271 AD to 1644 AD)
Qing: The Last Dynasty (1644-1911 AD)
Modern China (1911 AD to present)
As Wang Yu inspected, it became clear that some of the hundred boxes were unique.
"For example, the murals in the Dunhuang Grottoes, the scriptures in the Dunhuang Sutra Cave, the bronze double sheep statue, the jade-faced god figure, the jade pig dragon, the double-eared oval clay pot, Su Shi's ink bamboo painting, Tang Bohu's Xishan Thatched Cottage, Pictures of female historians, bronze swords, armor, etc. are all inside."
What surprised Wang Yu was the painting of female history admonitions, which was said to be Qianlong's favorite. According to his understanding, Emperor Qianlong loved calligraphy and painting. During his reign, he collected all famous calligraphy and painting works, cultural relics and antiques from all over the world in the palace.
Among them is the famous painting "Proverbs of a Female History" by the Eastern Jin Dynasty painter Gu Kaizhi. "Programs of a Female History" is the earliest silk painting in China that can be seen in the world, and it is also the first of the top ten famous paintings handed down from generation to generation in our country.
Gu Kaizhi's own works have not been seen for many years. There are only two copies left in the world. One of them was copied by someone in the Song Dynasty and is now collected in the Palace Museum. However, its strokes and colors are not of the highest quality.
The painting collected by the museum in Great Britain at this time was a copy made by people in the Tang Dynasty. It has been kept in the palace since the Tang Dynasty.
In the Qing Dynasty, the three emperors Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong cherished this painting very much. Qianlong especially took it out to appreciate it from time to time. He stamped 37 seals on it and kept it in the Old Summer Palace.
In 1860, the Eight-Power Allied Forces of Great Britain and other countries invaded Beijing and burned the Old Summer Palace. Many cultural relics in the Old Summer Palace were destroyed. This "Picture of Proverbs for Female History" was secretly stolen by a British captain and brought back to England.
In 1903, this painting was bought by the British Museum for a bargain price of 25 pounds and became a treasure of the museum.
This was also Wang Yu's surprised expression when he saw the "Picture of Admonitions of Women's History".
Then he hurriedly came to the box of the "Pictures of Women's History" and carefully took it out, fearing that it would be damaged.
Faced with Wang Yu's abnormality, Xiao Lao and He Feng also knew that Wang Yu had discovered something good, so they also led everyone forward to check.
"Pictures of Proverbs from Women's History"
When he came to Wang Yu's side again, He Feng exclaimed that he didn't expect to get the "Picture of Admonitions of Women's History" back this time.
Although there are still tens of thousands of cultural relics in the museums of Great Britain, every piece that can be retrieved is one at a time. At least these one hundred pieces belong to China.
Yes, this is the "Picture of Admonitions of Women's History". At this time, Wang Yu also said with a smile when looking at this kind of person.
After receiving Wang Yu's confirmation, others were no longer calm. You must know that this "Picture of Admonitions for Women's History" is an unique copy, the only one in the world.
So everyone began to look at the "Pictures of Admonitions of Women's History".
Wang Yu walked towards the box with the bronze double sheep statue and started looking at it. Because it was too heavy, Wang Yu obviously couldn't take it out.
So I could only squat on the ground and look at the bronze double sheep statue. It is said that there are only two bronze double sheep statues seen in the world, one in the country of Tabria and one in the country of Japan.
I don’t know if the old man from the Japanese country has got it back. This can basically be said to be a unique copy, and it can completely bear witness to the historical development direction of the Chinese country for thousands of years.
Then Wang Yu settled down and sat down, and began to use his clairvoyant eyes to examine the murals in the Dunhuang Grottoes, the scriptures in the Dunhuang Sutra Cave, the bronze double sheep statue, the jade-faced god statue, the jade pig dragon, and the oval pottery with two ears and narrow neck. Jars, Su Shi's ink bamboo paintings, Tang Bohu's Xishan Thatched Cottage, female history admonitions, bronze swords, armor, etc. are all in it. "These cultural relics were scanned one by one.
No surprise, these are basically unique copies, which means that the return of cultural relics can make a big leap forward in the study of Chinese history.
Xiao Yu, look what this is. At this moment, He Feng shouted Wang Yudao.
Wang Yu also walked over immediately after hearing the sound, and saw in He Feng's hands were spherical things with colorful tops.
Pottery and glass dragonfly eyes. Eastern Zhou Dynasty, about 500 BC to 200 BC
Zhou dynasty craftsmen created these colorful glass beads with different swirls or layers of color. Although these beads were made in the Central Plains, they most likely imitated imported beading styles.
When Wang Yu checked, a line of numbers was also fed back through the clairvoyant eyes, which made Wang Yu also secretly explore the magic of the pottery and glass dragonfly eyes.
So Wang Yu told everyone the information he had found. When everyone knew that it was Tao Ji's glass dragonfly eyes, they didn't have much reaction.
The reason is that the "Picture of Proverbs for Women's History" just now has brought enough shock to everyone. But it also aroused everyone's interest,
This is a little larger than a glass bead, with colorful colors spitting out on it, and there are eye-like shapes in the two arcs.
The surface is either flat or concave and convex, and the workmanship is completely different, which makes everyone admire the wisdom of the ancients.
Wang Yu also spent half an hour after pulling it out for a while, and found a list of 60 cultural relics among a hundred cultural relics in Great Britain and told He Feng and Mr. Xiao.
Mr. Xiao immediately ordered people to transport the sixty cultural relics away, keep them in a unified manner, and put them on display at a later stage.
Wang Yu, on the other hand, walked over to one hundred cultural relics of the Japanese Kingdom and began to look at them.
