In 1970, UNESCO adopted a long-standing convention called the Methodology and Convention on the Prohibition and Prevention of the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, which stipulates that 'the Convention shall apply only to claims made by a State after the entry into force of the Convention for that State'. and only 'cultural relics stolen from the territory of the State party and illegally exported cultural objects after its entry into force', to which Huaxia acceded in 1989.

What does this convention mean? That is, after 1989, illegal cultural relics that flowed out of China can be returned by virtue of this convention, but what was taken before that will not be returned. Therefore, museums around the world are justifiably filled with Huaxia's treasures, but Huaxia has no way. And the treasures that were stolen before the birth of this convention in 1970 are not available to all countries of the world.

First of all, they will fabricate a false identity for this cultural relic, such as this batch of Colombian treasures, and they will make up a reason similar to what 'a local Chinese rich man brought back when he returned to China for refuge during the peasant uprising in ancient Colombia in 1948', which is in line with the whitewashing period.

Then I began to put this thing in a small auction, sell it and buy it back, this is to establish an auction record file, and after repeating it several times, I will go to a high-end auction house to auction it, so that the cultural relics will have an orderly archive. Or a 'legitimate' identity. It's easier to do this in Huaxia: before 1970, was there an auction in Huaxia?

But Director Wang directly rejected Xiao Peng's proposal. It's really because the things that Xiao Peng took out are really scary!

In the first box were several thin relief slabs carved with people dancing, with very simple lines, but very rounded.

"What are you doing with a few broken stone slabs?" asked Sun Lao puzzled.

Xiao Peng said with a smile: "It's nothing, I lay the floor at home." ”

Of course he was joking, but he knew what it was.

But Curator Wang obviously had no sense of humor, and shouted directly with wide eyes: "Boss Xiao, what are you going to do? With such a precious floor? Do you know what this is? This is a dancer relief of the Alwan Mountain Ruins! It is synonymous with the entire ruins! Now when we go to the Alwan Mountain, what we see is only a fake! And this must be genuine." ”

Xiao Peng hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Don't be excited, don't be excited, I'm just joking, I've seen a piece in New York and know its value." ”

"What is it worth?" asked Sun Lao curiously.

Curator Wang sighed: "It's about the same as the status of stepmother Wuding in Huaxia。。。。。。 ”

"A national treasure!" After hearing this, Sun Lao glanced at the rectangular stone slabs a few more times, the jewelry that Xiao Peng donated to the museum was definitely very valuable, but compared to this national treasure, it was not a concept.

What's more, this Xiao Peng kept saying that he donated things with higher value than economic value to the museum, but the result was good, and the highest value of cultural relics was still with him.

He was also curious now: "What are these other things? This thing is quite infiltrating!"

He saw a humanoid 'human' sculpture, although it was humanoid, with a head, arms and legs, but it looked a little terrible: it had the face of a cobra and was covered in snake scales, four fangs were sticking out, and under the fangs was a tongue like a 'snake hyacinth', four hands were open, and the abdomen was cut open to reveal a human head, and the gurgling blood that came out was in the shape of two snakes.

Curator Wang called a middle-aged man behind him: "Xiao Liu, come and see these things, let me introduce you to you, this is Liu Xin, an expert in Indian culture." ”

Liu Xin gasped when he saw the humanoid statue, put on his glasses and observed, and said: "This is the goddess of the earth in Mayan culture, the mother of all gods in their mythology. In the Mexican Museum, there is a stone statue of Mother Earth, known as their 'national treasure', and I have been to inspect it, and this silver sculpture is not comparable in terms of raw materials, workmanship and cultural value. ”

After hearing this, Sun Lao was silent for a while: "Another national treasure?"

Liu Xin didn't think about it, and nodded directly.

In the other box were several bronze objects.

Although the Indians said that they were from the Shang Dynasty in China, the interesting thing is that the Indians did not have a bronze culture, only a red copper culture that used natural copper. As a result, many people say that Chinese bronzes were passed from the West.

This statement is also debatable, after all, the Indians have not learned the technology of smelting and casting copper ore for thousands of years, and the copper tools they use are made directly from natural copper. Because there was no smelting technology, how could they have bronzes and other copper alloy items? Copper was not a necessity for the Indians, so it was not developed.

However, in any case, the natural copper culture of the Indians is still a wonderful flower in the world's culture today.

In the early days, copper was usually on the surface and coexisted with brightly colored copper mines such as malachite, so it was easy for ancient people to find. In their eyes, the copper is nothing more than a colored stone. Now in the languages of some Indian tribes in North America, copper is also called "red stone", "yellow stone", "soft stone" and the like, and these copper can be beaten into their desired shape, so the Indians like to use this natural copper to make jewelry and tools.

Liu Xin picked up a red copper square jar and looked at it for a long time: "This is a copper square jar carved into the statue of the Indian rain god, all hand-beaten, you see its facial features are evenly proportioned, a pair of big eyes are deep and spiritual, the whole statue is simple and generous, and it looks very solemn." This is supposed to be an item used by the chief of the Indian tribe at that time for sacrifice. ”

"The two bronze sculptures of the human figures, one of which is a warrior covered in the pattern of a jaguar, and this bronze sculpture wears the helmet of a giant serpent and the feathers of an eagle, which is the image of the bravest Indian warrior of the year. Again, bronze sculptures of this image have never been found before, and only exist in the murals of the Tok civilization. The three bronze sculptures are believed to have been made by the same master carver. This is probably the only work he has ever found, he has never found anything like it before!

Sun Lao blinked after hearing this: "It's a national treasure again?"

Liu Xin didn't even think about it: "Yes, there is no doubt about it!"

Sun Lao didn't know what to say, and pointed to the last one next to him

A box: "Where's the stuff here?"

Liu Xin sighed: "I don't dare to express my opinion on the things there." ”

Sun Lao was puzzled: "What do you mean?"

Liu Xin walked up to a gold disc and wanted to lift it. The gold disc was only the size of a pot lid, but it was at least more than 300 catties, and he gave up directly after trying it once: "The National Museum of Anthropology of Mexico has a treasure called the 'Solar Calendar Stone', and the most conspicuous position opposite the entrance of the museum is the large circular stone tablet with a diameter of 3.6 meters." At that time, the National Museum of Anthropology was established in Mexico because of that stone tablet. That stele is a unique creation of the Aztecs, a Mesoamerican Indian, and is carved into a monolith. It was a monument dedicated to the sun god Tonatiu by the Aztecs, which was originally decorated on the wall of the temple of Notitlan, which was destroyed by the Spaniards, but the solar calendar stone was miraculously preserved until it was rediscovered in 1790 and collected in the museum. ”

Lu Lao interjected: "Then what does this disc have to do with that disc?"

Liu Xin sighed and explained to everyone: "There has always been a saying that there were two solar calendar stones in the temple of Notitlan back then, one was a huge stone sculpture and the other was made of pure gold. You see a big sun in the middle of this disk, and four suns next to it, because the Aztecs believed that since the birth of heaven and earth, they had experienced four suns, destroyed by wind, earth, water, and fire, and the last sun was Tonatiu, their sun god. The big sun in the middle of the disc is Tonatiu, the four small suns on the side are the other four, and the twenty small squares around it are the twenty-day images corresponding to the solar calendar, and the most round is flowers, gems and other patterns, which is the meaning of praise to the sun god. If I'm not mistaken, this is the golden solar calendar in the temple of Notitlan. ”

And that's not the most precious, the most precious thing is this set of gold jewelry. Liu Xin pointed to the last thing.

Lu Lao was stunned after seeing it: "The people who can bring this thing are all Hercules, right?"

The set consisted of a gold mask, a pair of square gold earrings, a necklace that looked like a chest guard of armour, a pair of gold bracelets ten centimeters wide, ten rings, and two rings on the toes, a few other gadgets that I didn't know where to wear them, and finally two small gold balls, presumably toys that people admired in their hands. This set of jewelry is at least a dozen catties, and it is not that Hercules really can't wear it.

"This was not originally brought by a living person, but a burial object of a dead man, and it is similar to the jade face unearthed in the Mayan civilization. Liu Xin replied: "It has never been found, and this should be the burial object of a very high-ranking leader in the Mayan civilization after his death." ”

Yang Meng interjected on the side and asked, "How do you know that it is used by people after death?"

Liu Xin pointed to a long pointed gold cylinder that looked like a fake nail worn by the princess of the Qing Dynasty in China and said: "This thing is worn on Xiao Ding Ding, do you think a living person can bring it? ”

After Liu Xin finished speaking, Director Wang shrugged his shoulders at Xiao Peng: "Now I know why I said that these things can't be whitewashed, right? If these things are known to the Indian countries in Central America, they don't know how to make trouble!"

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