This treasure map is unprecedentedly large.

Han Zhou could discern the outline of the land edge of the map at a glance.

On the left is the English Isle, and on the right is the northern part of the European continent.

There are four golden points of light. Two are located on the English island, and two are located on the continent of Europe, on the territory of France.

Han Zhou applied for an emergency visa and bought a ticket.

A few days later, hop into the first class cabin of an Emirates flight and head to London, England.

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London is the capital of the United Kingdom, the world's financial center, the political, economic, cultural and financial center of the United Kingdom, and the city with the largest number of museums, libraries and gymnasiums in the world.

Before the rise of the United States, the British Empire was the world's most powerful country, and London was naturally the world's capital.

Today, despite its declining status, it is still one of the richest and most famous metropolises in the world.

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Han Zhou came to London and stayed in a hotel first.

The treasure map shows that both points of light are located in the wilderness outside of London. One of them, on a hill to the southwest. The other is in a small lake to the west.

Han Zhou was in no hurry to go treasure hunting.

He spent the day first and walked around London.

Visited the famous British Museum.

The British Museum, also known as the British Museum, is located in Russell Square, north of New Oxford Street in London, England, and is the oldest and largest comprehensive museum in the world. It is also listed as one of the four major museums in the world, along with the Louvre Museum in France, the Hermitage Museum in Russia, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the United States.

Founded in 1753, the museum was officially opened to the public on January 15, 1759. The museum has a collection of many cultural relics and treasures from all over the world and the manuscripts of many great scientists, and the richness and variety of the collection are rare in museums all over the world. The British Museum has a collection of more than 8 million pieces. Due to space constraints, 99% of the collection was not on public display.

The British Museum and other collections of so many treasures and artifacts are largely due to the plundering of the world during the British Empire.

From the 18th century to the middle of the 19th century, the British Empire expanded to the world, plundering the culture of various countries, and a large number of precious cultural relics arrived in London.

Early in the morning, Han Zhou took a taxi to London's Bloomsbury district, in front of the British Museum.

On both sides of the main entrance of the museum, there are eight Ionic columns.

Han Zhou bought a ticket online in advance, and after a simple temperature measurement, he walked in.

Go straight to Hall 33, the "China Pavilion".

The British Museum's collection of artefacts is so large that even if the number on display is only a tiny fraction of the total, it still needs a large area of the museum to display it. In order to improve the efficiency of the display of cultural relics, so that the public can spend the least time to see more cultural relics of interest, the British Museum has divided various cultural relics into different categories and placed them in different venues.

The most famous of these is the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, which is divided into two halls, Mummies and Egyptian Architecture, with large-scale stone sculptures of humans and animals, temple buildings, numerous mummies, inscriptions and murals, engraved stone vessels and gold jewelry. Dating back more than 5,000 years, the collection includes more than 100,000 items, including ancient Egyptian art captured by British Admiral Nelson from King Napoleon of France in the 19th century.

The China Pavilion is one of only a few national galleries in the museum, along with the Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Indian galleries. The collection of Chinese cultural relics encompasses the entire spectrum of Chinese art, including ancient stoneware, Shang and Zhou bronzes, Wei and Jin stone Buddhist scriptures, Tang and Song dynasty paintings and calligraphy, Ming and Qing dynasty porcelain, and other national treasures that mark the pinnacle of Chinese culture.

Han Zhou strolls through the China Pavilion and admires the cultural relics.

The first is the famous Dunhuang mural series. At the end of that humiliating and backward year a hundred years ago, they were cut out of the Dunhuang Grottoes and transported to the British collection.

A statue of Buddha, the composition is magnificent and changeable, the colors are rich and complex, the lines are fine and smooth, and the atmosphere is myriad.

After thousands of years, it is still alive.

In addition to the murals, there are tens of thousands of Dunhuang scriptures.

Most of these Dunhuang relics were looted by Stein and the Frenchman Birch in 1907 in the Dunhuang Scripture Cave.

In addition, the so-called "Western explorers" went deep into the northwest of China in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the name of various expeditions and wantonly stole and robbed them.

The cut marks on some of the murals are still clearly visible.

All kinds of porcelain, from Tang Sancai, to Yuan blue and white, Song five famous kilns, to the Ming and Qing dynasties of enamel, cloisonne, beautiful.

Finally, Han Zhou came to the painting area.

Su Shi's "Ink and Bamboo Picture" is staggered and elegant.

The ancestor of the "Northern Sect", the Tang Dynasty painter Li Sixun's "Green Landscape Map", the mountains are endless, the forests are uneven, the colors are rich, this cultural relic is also in 1860 after the "burning of the Old Summer Palace", was plundered and lost overseas.

The famous painter Li Gonglin of the Northern Song Dynasty painted Huayan in disguise is a painting with a Buddhist theme. Li Gonglin's most famous work is probably the Five Horses, which is currently in the RB collection.

Step by step.

Finally, Han Zhou saw the painting he had been thinking about.

"The Female Historian". A national treasure in the true sense of the word.

"The Female Historian" is a silk painting created by Gu Kaizhi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty of China. The original work has been lost, there is a copy of the Tang Dynasty, the original 12 paragraphs, due to the age, only 9 paragraphs remain.

This picture is the favorite of Emperor Qianlong, and it was originally hidden by the Qing Inner Mansion. In 1900, the Battle of Gengzi, the Eight-Nation Coalition entered Beijing, was plundered by the British army, and is now hidden in the British Museum.

The works depict the deeds of female fans, including the story of Feng Yuan in the Han Dynasty who defended the bear and protected Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty, and the story of Ban Jieyu refusing to share the same relationship with Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty in order to prevent Emperor Cheng from being greedy for women and misleading the government. The rest of the paragraphs are all about the moral sentiments that upper-class women should have, with a certain didactic nature.

In terms of artistic value, "The Female Historian" can be regarded as the pinnacle of Chinese painting, and compared with "Five Horses", "Fuchun Mountain Residence", "Qingming Riverside Picture", "Han Xizai's Night Banquet", etc., it is not inferior.

In the shaping of the theme characters, "The Female Historian" can give a variety of different actions according to different contents, and the dynamic expressions of the characters are about to come out. The expression of the inner world of the characters through the changes of movements and expressions has undoubtedly pushed the level of figure painting since the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty a big step forward.

He Liangjun of the Ming Dynasty commented: "Women are three inches long, all of them are angry, like people who want to do, this god does not lose its nature." ”

Qing Dynasty calligraphy and painting connoisseur An Qi commented: "The color is bright and the spirit is complete."

However, the more perfect "The Female Historian" is, the more sad Han Zhou's mood becomes.

A good and perfect "Female Historian".

was divided into several segments by the ignorant and arrogant British.

It is framed on a wooden board and displayed in the form of an oil painting.