As the Dean said, the treasures in the Forbidden City exceeded 1.8 million sets. In that year, Chiang Kai-shek brought 3,879 boxes of paintings, bronzes, porcelain and jade articles to Taiwan Province Province, with nearly 250,000 cultural relics. The national treasure of the Forbidden City once wandered around the country during the Republic of China, which made people sad.
But the saddest thing is that the last emperor Puyi stole more than 70 boxes! There are more than 1300 paintings and calligraphy alone, and only four or five hundred returned to the Forbidden City.
A national treasure packed outside the palace
19/kloc-Puyi, who abdicated in 0/2, has been trying to recover. If he wants to make a comeback, he must have financial support, so he started the idea of cultural relics in the Forbidden City. From June of 1922 to June of 1 1, he smuggled the paintings and calligraphy collected by the Qing Dynasty out of the palace through his younger brother Pu Jie every day. Among them are rare paintings and calligraphy collected by emperors in the Qing Dynasty, including The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival by Zhang Zeduan in the Northern Song Dynasty.
In just a few years, more than 70 boxes of cultural relics were escorted to the British Concession in Tianjin by Puyi's Tang Di Pu family, and later moved to the new residence Jingyuan in the Japanese Concession. 1924165438+10 In October, when Puyi was driven out of the Palace by Feng Yuxiang, he also took many cultural relics from the Forbidden City.
1February, 925, he sneaked into Tianjin and lived in Jingyuan Palace. In order to cultivate the restoration forces, Puyi made friends with political dignitaries everywhere, and the cultural relics in his hand became a "meeting ceremony".
193 1 year, accompanied by Japanese spies, Puyi went to Changchun and left more than 70 boxes of treasures in Tianjin, but there were not many national treasures. Later, it was transported by Yoshioka, the staff officer of the Japanese Kanto Command, and placed on the first floor of the library building in the East Campus of the Puppet Manchuria Palace in Changchun.
Changchun Puppet Manchu Palace
After Japan's defeat, panic-stricken Puyi fled to Tonghua, and only chose Jin, Tang, Song, Yuan and other paintings and calligraphy to take away. There are more than forty cases altogether. Due to the collapse of Manchukuo and the devaluation of the currency, Puyi had to exchange her jewels and precious calligraphy and paintings for daily necessities at low prices, while some national treasures left in Changchun were greatly strengthened, so a large number of national treasures were scattered among the people.
Hanyantu
Zhao Boju's "Lotus Boat and Crescent Moon" and "Shen Jun Tu" were lost during this period (later copied in Tonghua landlord's house). In 1960s, Dalizigou people took Zhao Meng's Water Town Map to Baoguzhai, Liulichang, Beijing for sale.
Over the past few decades, the country and the Palace Museum have tried their best to find national treasures, but they are fine at home, and it is difficult to find what is lost abroad.