Yuanmingyuan is a treasure house, the largest royal museum and art gallery in the world at that time, with many treasures, books and artistic masterpieces. There are famous calligraphy and painting, secret house classics, Zhong Ding treasures, gold and silver jewelry and other precious cultural relics. , condensed the essence of ancient culture. Yuanmingyuan is also a garden of exotic flowers and plants, with millions of rare flowers and trees. Yuanmingyuan has a rich collection of books and cultural relics
Hugo wrote in 186 1: One day, two robbers broke into Yuanmingyuan, one robbed and the other set fire. It seems that after winning, you can start stealing ... two winners, one full of pockets, and the other full of boxes and baskets. They returned to Europe arm in arm with a smile. Two robbers who will be punished by history, one is France and the other is Britain.
Extended information: Yuanmingyuan treasures scattered overseas.
1860 After the British and French allied forces looted and burned the Yuanmingyuan, Montaubon, commander of the French army invading China, presented the plunder proceeds of Yuanmingyuan to Charles Louis Napolé on Bonaparte (son of Napoleon's younger brother). In order to store these cultural relics, Queen Eugénie presided over the construction of the China Pavilion, which contained more than 30,000 pieces of gold and silver jewelry, porcelain, incense burners, chimes, precious stones and gold and silver utensils from Yuanmingyuan.
Most of the essence of cultural relics is stored overseas. Since the Yuanmingyuan was looted and burned by the British and French allied forces, the cultural relics in the park have been continuously lost, most of which are existing overseas, with the largest number in European countries such as Britain and France.
According to the statistics of the Cultural Relics Society of China, since the Opium War 1840, a large number of precious cultural relics in China have been lost overseas due to war and unfair trade. During this period, more than 6,543,800,000 pieces of China cultural relics were lost to Europe, America, Japan, Southeast Asia and other countries and regions.
The statistics of UNESCO is another figure: among more than 200 museums in 47 countries, there are 6.5438+0.64 million pieces of China cultural relics, and the number of China cultural relics collected by the people is 654.38+00 times.
These two statistics reflect the fact that there are more than 10,000 pieces of China cultural relics overseas.
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