See a news report today, the Honeyman Museum in London, England signed an agreement with the Nigerian National Museum and Monument Committee to return the 72 bronze artifacts collected by the British army to the Nigerian side.
British Museum
British cultural relics can be returned to Nigerian cultural relics. When will the UK return China's looted cultural relics?
According to incomplete statistics from UNESCO, there are 1.64 million Chinese cultural relics in the collections of more than 200 museums in 47 countries around the world. Among them, more than 1 million are first- and second-level cultural relics. Among these lost cultural relics, a considerable number originated from the "Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens" , Old Summer Palace .
Sutra Palace is not only famous for its gardens, but also a royal museum. It was an extremely rare cultural and artistic treasure house in the world at that time, showing the essence of ancient feudal culture in my country, and also collecting various extremely rich books, cultural relics and artistic treasures.
In October 1860, the British and French forces captured Beijing and broke into the Old Summer Palace to plunder. Later, in order to cover up the crime of plunder, they ignited evil fires everywhere in the park, and all temples, palaces, and collections from all generations were burned.
was looted by the British army and collected in the British Museum
Eight-Nation Alliance The second time burned the Old Summer Palace , the Old Summer Palace burned by the British and French forces had been partially rebuilt by the Qing government. In order to repair the Old Summer Palace, the Qing government also spent a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources.
However, in 1900, when the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing, the Old Summer Palace suffered another disaster and everything inside was looted. The Eight-Nation Alliance also deliberately destroyed the Old Summer Palace, and many pillars and buildings were sawed off by the Eight-Nation Alliance with ropes and saws. After a fire, only ashes remained in the garden.
burn the Old Summer Palace
British lawyer Robertson once said: "The attacks and destruction of the Old Summer Palace are the most serious crimes against humanity in the 19th century, and the British Museum, which collects lost cultural relics in China, should return these cultural relics to China as soon as possible."
The British Museum is the museum with the largest collection of lost cultural relics in China, with as many as 23,000 pieces. All of these cultural relics stored in the British Museum are evidence of the British invasion of China!
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The stolen property should be returned to the original country! Cultural relics lost overseas should return to the embrace of the motherland!
We look forward to one day when all cultural relics belonging to our China will return and return as soon as possible!
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