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On December 26, 1620, the Mayflower landed in Massachusetts with 102 European immigrants, and the Caucasian culture of North America flourished here.

Boston, as the core of Massachusetts, was first famous for its publishing industry, and then enjoyed the reputation of "Athens of the United States" because of the overall prosperity of its cultural undertakings!

Among the cultural achievements that Boston citizens are most proud of are the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, also known as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is located at 465 Huntington Avenue in Boston, and is one of the most famous art museums in New England and even in the United States.

In the late 19th century, the Boston Library of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) proposed the establishment of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) in order to exhibit their art collections.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, was officially established in 1870, but it did not open until July 4, 1876, the National Day of the United States.

For more than a century, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has been recognized as one of the best art museums in the United States for its collection of ancient and modern human art, including paintings, sculptures, crafts, photography, print, and multimedia.

The collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is divided into nine sections: Asian art, Egyptian and Near Eastern art, Greco-Roman art, European decorative arts, painting and drawing, American decorative arts, printing and photography, dyeing and weaving, and 20th century art. Among them, the collection of Asian antiquities is second to none in the world, and it has become the best overseas collection place in addition to Chinese and Japanese collections.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is also one of the seven largest collections of Chinese antiquities in the United States. The collection of Chinese and Japanese paintings alone exceeds 15,000 pieces. Oriental artworks represented by China and Japan are first-class in terms of quantity and quality.

One of the most valuable is the Chinese collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. It is the Tang Dynasty painter Yan Liben's "Emperor of the Past Dynasties", Song Huizong copied Tang Zhangxuan's "Pounding Practice", Ming Zhanghong's "Juqu Songfeng Map", and nearly 200 other Song and Yuan Dynasty paintings.

These paintings, any one of them, if they can be brought back to China, they are all national treasures of the national treasures, but now they are displayed in the museums of these white-skinned ghost animals, which really makes people's hearts ache when they think about it.

Jin Muchen and Jesse have been in Boston for several days and are staying in a hotel not far from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In the past few days, they have been visiting the museum almost every day.

The museum is easily accessible from the hotel and can be reached directly by the Green Line subway, which is a stop.

As soon as you get off the subway, you can see the two-story building with the main body, and when you enter the main entrance of the museum, several tall stone pillars stand in the sky, faintly revealing a quaint artistic atmosphere.

When you enter the door, there is a large foyer, which is equipped with a ticket office and a ticket gate. However, the main attraction in the hall is the several sculptures that are placed around it.

The foyer has a high roof and is rounded. What's even more distinctive is that the roof is actually the portrait of some famous American writers and artists. These portraits can only be viewed with your head tilted, and if you look at them for a long time, your neck will hurt.

In the middle of the foyer, a stone staircase leads to the second floor, where the exhibits are distributed by geographical location and by category.

In terms of geographical location, there are Asian Pavilions, African Pavilions, American Pavilions, European Pavilions, etc.

According to the categories of exhibits, there are classical art, musical instruments, contemporary art, European paintings, etc.

Due to the large number of exhibition halls and rich exhibits, Jin Muchen and Jesse looked at the museum for three days, but they couldn't finish all the exhibits.

The reason why this museum is also called an art gallery is also because this museum mainly collects a lot of ancient art paintings, such as the most famous Tang Dynasty painter Zhang Xuan's "Pounding Practice", Song Huizong's "Five-colored Parrot" and other ancient Chinese paintings, in addition to many European painters, such as Greco, Tintoletto, Rousseau, Rembrandt, Monet, Paul. Cézanne, Van Van The work of the higher people.

In addition to the priceless ancient Chinese paintings, the collection of Western oil paintings here is also famous, such as Monet's oil paintings, they have more than 40, and the museum even has the largest Monet painting gallery in the world outside France.

After coming here for a few days, Jin Muchen's only feeling was that he was almost, that is, wandering in a treasure house of Jinshan, and every day when he arrived at the museum, he felt that his eyes were full of jewels, which made him dizzy.

The treasures in the museum, he was thrilled to see it, but he could only look at it dryly, and he didn't know where to start.

In the past few days, he has specialized in the museum's collection of ancient Chinese paintings, while Jesse has paid more attention to Western oil paintings and other art collections.

In the past short period of time, he has inquired a lot about the history of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, as well as the history of other museums in the United States.

Only then did I find out that the name of this museum is indeed not for nothing, and the paintings of ancient Chinese paintings they manage and collect are definitely the world's top collections.

There are several other museums in the United States that have a large collection of ancient Chinese paintings, including the Freer Museum of Art in Washington, D.C., with more than 10,000 paintings, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which is known for its time-coherent systematization, and the Nelson-Jakens Museum of Art in Boston and the Nelson-Jakens Museum of Art in Kansa New Town are clearly unique in their superior quality!

After looking at it for a few days, Jin Muchen felt that the Chinese art collection in its collection was almost all-encompassing, including bronze, gold and silver, ceramic lacquerware, and bamboo art.

Even the Neolithic Majiayao culture has a double-series jar with a frog pattern and a double-series jar unearthed in Baoji Cockfighting Terrace.

As well as the Tiliang of the Western Zhou Dynasty in Daijiawan, the Ningmao Stone Room of the Northern Wei Dynasty from Luoyang, the double-eared double-handled conjoined thin-necked brown glazed bottle of the Sui Dynasty, the gilt and silver dragon pattern crown of the Liao Dynasty, and the blue and white plate of the lotus lotus pond duck in the Jingdezhen kiln of the Yuan Dynasty, all of which can be called national treasures.

But every time he saw these collections, Jin Muchen was proud of the wisdom and artistic talent of the sages of his motherland in time, but his heart was extremely pantothenic.

These treasures of Chinese history and culture should have appeared in domestic museums for future generations to admire and admire, but now they appear in the museum of white-skinned ghost animals on the other side of the ocean, for these white-skinned ghost animals to watch and play casually, and their own compatriots in China, if they want to see, but they have to work hard to get a visa, and then buy a ticket, fly to the other side of the ocean, and spend a lot of money on tickets and accommodation to see, how can this not make people sad and emotional?

What made Jin Muchen feel the most resentful was the experience of these treasures who came to the United States across the sea, on the one hand, they were used by Britain to mortgage American loans during World War II, and on the other hand, they were looted by American cultural relics dealers in China.

For example, one of the directors of this museum, Langdon. Warner, a special cultural relics thief, stole dozens of exquisite murals and hundreds of Bodhisattva statues from Dunhuang, China.

There are also the directors of the Oriental Department of this museum, many of whom are the Japanese who are most hated by the Chinese, and the reason why these white-skinned ghost animals let the Japanese be the directors of the Oriental Department is to pass through the familiarity of these Japanese devils with Chinese cultural relics and their methods, and go to China to loot.

Speaking of the development of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which has very close trade and cultural ties with the Japanese, the original Asian collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, was acquired by the 19th-century American orientalist Edward Edward. Moores and the Japanese doctor William. Sturgis. Bigelow's collection in Japan is one of the finest surviving collections of Japanese art in the world.

In 1890, the Department of Japanese Fine Arts was established at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the first director hired Fenolosa, a scholar who had lived in Japan for 12 years and taught economics and philosophy at Tokyo Imperial University for eight years.

During his stay in Japan, this guy studied ancient Japanese temples, shrines, art, literature, and theater, and published many books on Asian art during his lifetime, advocating oriental aesthetics, which he believed had irreplaceable value and far-reaching influence.

In 1903, the Department of Japanese Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, was renamed the Department of Japanese and Chinese Art, and later the Oriental Department.

Since then, they have been looting and collecting Chinese cultural relics, spanning 4,000 years from the Neolithic Age, with all kinds of pottery, bronze, jade, Buddha statues, Dunhuang scriptures, calligraphy and paintings, Ming ware, crafts, costumes, etc.

And many of these collections were acquired by them through the Japanese.

After that Fenolosa, out of the Japanese familiarity with Chinese art and culture, they hired several Japanese to serve as the directors of their Oriental Department, and through these Japanese, they went to China to use all kinds of shady means, looting, stealing, and Chinese cultural relics, and this situation continued until before World War II.

For example, a certain Oriental master Okakura Kakuzo, Ya Sun Tzu is also a special cultural relics dealer, he instructed Hayazaki Terrieryoshi, Tomita Junjiro and others to plunder the Central Plains of China many times, many Buddhist cultural relics about China, that is, the hands of the Japanese, Tong Guò, were resold to the United States, which has created the glory of the Chinese Buddhist collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Even after World War II, after the U.S. military completed the occupation of Japan, they also sent some Japanese traitors to Japan to collect a lot, and the Japanese looted Japanese treasures in China, which led to the number of museums in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

So after learning about that period of history in detail, Jin Muchen hated the Americans and the Japanese who were even more wolf-bèi and mixed together.

If you dare to be the first year of junior high school, don't blame Lao Tzu for being the fifteenth! (To be continued......)