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Originally built on a hill in Athens, Greece, the Parthenon was built around 450 BC before collapsing due to poor maintenance.

Around 1802, the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Earl Elgin, found out and bought the marble architectural decorations and carvings on the Parthenon from the Ottoman Empire, cut them and shipped them back to England.

At one end of the hall is the display of the main body of the temple, and the walls of the hall are surrounded by exquisite wall decorations of the temple.

These ancient carvings do seem to have a magical power, even Jin Muchen, who does not know much about the history and cultural relics of ancient Greece, after entering this hall, can also pass these carvings and feel the creative power and greatness of those ancient Greeks, which is indeed a great treasure.

It is no wonder that the Greek government has insisted on the return of these precious cultural relics by the British Museum over the years, but the British side has repeatedly refused, claiming that these relics would have been lost, and that Britain has preserved this cultural wealth for the world.

After listening to these words, can you feel the shamelessness of the British?

After coming out of here, the rest of the basic floor, the Oriental Pavilion is still worth seeing, and some other antiques and cultural relics in Asia, Africa and Latin America are really nothing to see.

However, before going to the China Pavilion, Jin Muchen still went up to the second floor first, because there is a "He Dong Pavilion" on the north side of the second floor, which was donated by Mr. He Dong, a Hong Kong gentleman, and displays a collection of antiques from China, India and Southeast Asia.

There are a lot of exhibits from China and India. Among them, Chinese exhibits range from the Neolithic period to the Qing Dynasty. Including all kinds of jade, bronze, lacquer, gold and silver, porcelain, Tang Sancai and cloisonné, as well as precious calligraphy and painting. It's so dazzling and beautiful.

On the wall at the east end of this museum is a large Buddhist mural from the Ming Dynasty, flanked by carved Buddha statues of different eras and materials, although not comparable to those Buddha statues in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, but they are also some exquisite and wonderful things.

Looking at these treasures, Jin Muchen's heart really turned a thousand times, on the one hand, he wanted to thank the Hedong gentleman. has collected so many good things, on the other hand, I can't understand why he donated so many good things to the British?

If you don't like the mainland, you can also set up a private museum in Xiangjiang, wouldn't it be better to put these things in your own private museum, why do you have to donate them to the British?

Forget it, after all, it's someone else's thing, how do people like to deal with it. I can't take care of it myself.

After turning around from this hall, Jin Muchen did not go downstairs directly. Instead, I took a look around the other pavilions, because there are still a few pavilions here, and there are also a few very strange things and places that are worth seeing.

For example, the reading room here, there is a signature book at the entrance, and the British Museum has a history of 250 years, which is not only a collection of antiques, but also a large collection of books.

At that time, the founder of the horse religion, Ma Dabeard was Tong Guò who borrowed materials here, and then created the book "Capital", and Sun Dacang, who was later beautified by the Chinese as the father of the nation, also completed his theory of "Three People's Principles" after researching materials here.

And the signature book at the entrance is now an antique, and the signatures of these people who are closely related to Chinese history can still be found on it.

Even somewhere here, you can find even rarer things, such as the party constitution at the beginning of the founding of this dynasty......

After browsing these more historical things, Jin Muchen came downstairs directly, but just after turning around like this, it was already noon, he didn't leave the museum, but directly bought food in the museum, simply ordered lunch, and dealt with it.

In other words, the name of this dark cuisine empire was really not given in vain, the tuna sandwich, Jin Muchen only ate one bite and threw it directly into the trash, and finally came to a British national meal, and the fish and chips filled his stomach.

After eating and resting for a while, Jin Muchen got up and went straight to the main target of his trip to the United Kingdom, the Oriental Pavilion of the British Museum.

However, as soon as he entered the Oriental Pavilion, Jin Muchen collapsed, although he had not been to a few domestic museums, but he had also heard that the national museums added a piece, and even the Forbidden City Museum on Treasure Island was counted, all of which were counted in China, and there were only 6 pieces of Ru kiln porcelain, and the others were fragments.

To this look, the feelings are good, it turns out that those Ru kiln porcelain have come here, the king of the five famous kilns of the Song Dynasty, Ru kiln porcelain, this British Museum has as many as 11 pieces!!

You must know that there are only 67 pieces of Ru kiln porcelain in the world!!

Looking at the porcelain description of this museum, it can be described as messy, obviously people don't pay attention to our treasure as an ancestor on the top of their heads.

I don't know if it's because they have too many treasures, or if people really don't like these things, but Jin Muchen looked at the shabby profile and really wanted to greet the ancestors of the people who snatched this thing from China to foreign countries in the first place.

Hell, since you don't pay attention to it, why do you have to grab these treasures here? Is it bad to leave it to us Chinese?

This showcase is divided into two layers, respectively, there are eleven pieces, Song Dynasty Ru kiln porcelain, these porcelains are no exception, the head has azure glaze, there is no extra color painting on it, just look at the pattern looks a little rustic, but if you look closely, you can see from the faint blue light on this porcelain, you can see that the luxurious atmosphere that can not be concealed no matter what, the absolute greatness of nature.

And these porcelains come in a variety of shapes, with cups, dishes, and saucers, and even a vase with a thin neck, and a large three-legged washbasin.

This Ruyao porcelain is really important to us Chinese, especially for the development history of ancient Chinese porcelain, which is a milestone of ancient Chinese porcelain.

According to the researched records, there should be only 67 pieces of Ru kiln porcelain in the world.

And the reason why this Ru kiln is precious, it is precious in his quality, it can be said that there is a fight with the enamel color of the Qing Dynasty, both are fired in the capital, but the enamel color is fired in the Qing court office in the Forbidden City, and the Ru kiln is fired near Tokyo (Kaifeng).

One of the reasons why Ru kiln is special and can be regarded as a benchmark work of ancient Chinese porcelain is that he added agate powder to the glaze during the firing process, and agate is a hard material second only to diamond, so we can imagine the cost of firing Ru kiln at that time, and the addition of agate powder This feature is also one of the main reasons why Ru kiln can stand proudly above the other four famous kilns of the Song Dynasty and become the king of porcelain in the Song Dynasty.

This is similar to the Xuande furnace cast in the Ming Dynasty, the Xuande furnace not only refines the copper, but also adds gold to it, which distinguishes all the later bronze, which is also the reason why the Xuande furnace can still shine and sound after many years of wind and rain.

And Ru kiln is also because of this, it has its own unique characteristics, that is, the unique azure, bean green glaze, later many dynasties and celebrities, have imitated Ru kiln porcelain, but unfortunately the porcelain fired, even to do similar is difficult.

Standing in front of the display case, Jin Muchen was full of emotion, these eleven pieces of porcelain, any one of them, as long as it can be brought back to China, it can be said to be a peerless treasure!

It's a pity that now it can only fall into the hands of the British, for people to see, and it is very difficult for our domestic enthusiasts to see each other.

The more he thought about it, the more angry he became, Jin Muchen couldn't help but scold a damn British!

Looking down, Jin Muchen couldn't help but scold his mother in his heart, your grandma, Lao Tzu encountered a piece of Dingyao porcelain in the United States back then, and it was as if he had picked up a treasure, and in the end, he was invited back to China by domestic enthusiasts at a high price of 100 million.

But what the hell are you, just look at it here, it's a cabinet!

That's right, a whole cabinet of fixtures! Jin Muchen even had his eyes glazed, and his hands trembled.

All kinds of gold-filled kiln bowls, kiln plates, kiln pots, not to mention, the most exaggerated thing is that he also saw a gold-filled kiln holding pot, this moment, Jin Muchen felt as if he was Grandma Liu entered the Grand View Garden, and the old hat suddenly entered the city.

In the past, people said that Chinese antiques were broad and profound, and he didn't have too deep feelings, thinking that he was used to seeing treasures, but after seeing this whole cabinet of gold fixtures, he knew how shallow his eyelids were.

In the past, he thought that this gold container must not be a bowl, a plate or something like that, but when he came here, he found that people still had cups, basins, and pots.

The most exaggerated thing is that in the back, he also found a gold-edged black-glazed porcelain teacup, which should be the famous black porcelain!

This thing, for Jin Muchen, has only been famous, and he has never met!

After handling the piece of porcelain, Jin Muchen later had a certain understanding of the porcelain, it turned out that the reason why this porcelain was so highly sought after was not only because of his scarce number of hand-me-downs, but also because of the fact that the porcelain was the first kind of white porcelain that could be so white in the history of the development of ancient Chinese porcelain.

It turned out that in the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the ancient ancestors had begun to pursue white glazed porcelain, but they have not been able to do it to the point of whiteness, the porcelain produced at that time, especially the white porcelain, can only be called 'malt white' at best, and until the emergence of Ding porcelain, the ancient ancestors were the first time to have a pure white glaze of white porcelain...... (To be continued......)