Chapter 792: Stepping on the Plate
Directly across from the main entrance is the main building, which opened in 1938 and is one of the most important exhibits at the Tokyo National Museum.
There are a total of 20 exhibition rooms, and the exhibits are all exhibited in chronological order, such as sculpture, dyeing and weaving, metalworking, weapons, swords, ceramics, calligraphy and paintings, and architectural components from various eras of Japan.
Here you can see the historical changes of Japan in various periods, if it were not for the fact that Japan once had such a disgraceful history of aggression against China.
Jin Muchen can also hold a relaxed attitude and look at the products of these historical eras that are almost all influenced by Chinese civilization.
Although many of these things have unique characteristics of Japan, more of them are the characteristics of Chinese historical and cultural influences.
I don't know why, when he saw these things, Jin Muchen would feel a burst of heartache, after all, Japan, a student of China back then, was a nation that brought the most harm to China later, and this nation alone is unforgivable.
Belinda and Jesse looked at these Japanese-style artifacts with relish, and from time to time they would exclaim and comment, and then take a group photo in front of each display case.
But Jin Muchen was not as relaxed as the two of them at all, and at this time, he had more mixed feelings in his heart that were difficult to describe.
At the same time, he also noticed several treasures in this pavilion, such as the statues of the ten disciples, the Fujiwara Buddha, the snow boat splashing ink landscape map, and the Kano Yongde pine and cypress screen, which are all evaluated by the Japanese themselves, and are Japan's first-class national treasures.
When looking at such a few Japanese national treasures. Jin Muchen looked at it with extra care. He even had a sinister smile on his face that he hadn't even noticed.
Let's make you Japanese happy for a few days. After a few days, there will be a time for you to cry.
Jin Muchen stared at these precious cultural relics and looked at them very carefully, but when admiring these treasures, in fact, his eyes were not all focused on these treasures, and he paid more attention to the monitoring equipment inside these exhibition rooms. And inside the display case where these treasures are displayed.
It seems that the recent thefts of museums in Boston, USA, and London, England, have served as a wake-up call to the Japanese, who take the safety of these pavilions very seriously.
Inside these exhibition halls, the monitoring can be said to be very tight, especially in those exhibition halls where national treasure-level exhibits are placed, and there are many cameras.
On the roof, in the corners, or even directly on the walls, it can be said that there are dense cameras everywhere, and even in the pavilion where a few famous paintings are placed, the most exaggerated. Jin Muchen probably counted it secretly, just in this exhibition hall that was only about fifty square meters. There are no less than twenty cameras.
And those glass showcases, almost all of them are connected to the alarm, as long as someone reaches out and touches this showcase, immediately the sensor under the showcase, take it will be like a monitoring room alarm.
The security guards in the monitoring room can quickly grasp the movement of the exhibition hall through those dense cameras, so as to determine whether it is a mistake by tourists or someone is deliberately stealing cultural relics.
And even if you can open the cabinet, the paintings are not easy to take with you, because they are also bound to the wall by titanium wires, and even if you can cut the metal wires, it will set off the alarm.
The museum's security guards will soon be pouring in from all directions, and even if you have the skills to get through the sky, it will be difficult to escape from the siege.
It seems that it is really not easy to start here, Jin Muchen touched his chin.
It just so happened that Jesse and Belinda on the other side had finished reading it, and then the three of them left the main building again and went straight to the Horyuji Treasure Hall next to the main building.
The Horyuji Treasure Museum, which opened to the public in 1964, is the smallest of the four museums, with only three exhibition halls.
The exhibits are all about the treasures that Horyuji Temple presented to the imperial court, the Japanese Imperial Family, after the Meiji Restoration.
These treasures are all extraordinary, and because they have something to do with the Imperial Family, even now, they are still the property of the Imperial Family, and they can be displayed because the Imperial Family imagines the Windsor family in England to learn, and they insist on pretending to be happy alone, rather than having fun with the people, so they reluctantly take it out and show it to the ordinary people.
Therefore, the treasures inside can be said to be precious, and it is precisely for this reason that this museum is only open to the public every Thursday, and it is basically closed at ordinary times.
But today Jin Muchen and the others came unfortunately, it happened not to be a Thursday, so this museum is not open to the public.
A few people can be said to have come on the spot, but they returned in disappointment.
But fortunately, there are two other museums to see, so the three of them went straight to the Pyekei Hall on the right.
It was built at the end of the Meiji era to commemorate the wedding of the crown prince, and it is now designated as an important cultural and historical heritage in Japan.
Opened to the public in 1909, the museum has nine exhibition rooms that exhibit historical relics excavated in Japan from prehistoric times to historical eras.
They are all authentic historical relics such as stone tools, Jomon patterns, Yayoi pottery, filling wheels, and Han-style mirrors.
Although these things are not exquisitely made, they are witnesses to the history of Japan and have a very important historical position in the Japanese archaeological community.
At the very least, it was from the excavations of these things that they were able to prove when their ancestors began to live in the Japanese archipelago.
The historical status of these things, just like the oracle bone inscriptions discovered by the Chinese and the skull of the ape man in Beijing, are almost sacred objects to archaeologists.
Because there are no too beautiful crafts, Belinda and Jesse are not particularly interested in looking at them, but they just take a general look around.
And when Jin Muchen looked at these things, his eyes lit up, these are good things left by the real ancestors of the Japanese.
Hehe, how did you Japanese scourge our Chinese's national treasure back then?
If you can't take it, you will be ruined, and you will not leave us Chinese, hehe, you will wait for me.
Think about the oracle bone inscriptions of the year, these are obviously the earliest records of Chinese writing left by the sages of the Shang Dynasty in China, but they have been robbed of a lot by you Japanese devils.
If it weren't for our territory in China, if there are still discoveries, we Chinese may not be able to define ourselves what era our ancestors invented our earliest writing.
There is also the skull that can prove that the skull of the Zhoukou ape man in the capital of the earliest history of our Chinese, this thing is the pain in the hearts of Chinese archaeologists.
In 1929, young Chinese archaeologists discovered precious cultural relics such as the fossilized skull of Beijing ape man near Zhoukoudian in Beijing, and then kept it in the safe in the dissection room of Building B of Union Hospital in Beijing.
After all, China's national strength was too weak at that time, and those archaeologists had no choice but to put such a treasure in a hospital controlled by the Americans, and the image of the United States in the international community at that time was still relatively fair, not as domineering and unreasonable as it is now.
On the eve of Pearl Harbor in 1941, the Americans already felt that the situation with the Japanese was very tense, so they did not dare to put such an important historical site here for preservation, and planned to transport these things back to the United States for safekeeping.
In the early morning of December 5 of that year, the U.S. Marine Corps escorted these fossil treasures on a special train to Qinhuangdao, where the Americans originally planned to load these treasures on the "President Harrison" cruise ship and sail back to the United States.
Unexpectedly, the Pearl Harbor incident broke out on December 7, and the US Marine Corps special train was intercepted by the Japanese in Qinhuangdao, and a whole carload of American soldiers became prisoners of the Japanese, and the President Harrison did not arrive in Qinhuangdao as scheduled.
Some people say that these treasures were destroyed by the Americans before the Japanese got their hands on them, and some people say that these things have actually been snatched away by the Japanese, and since then they have been secretly treasured somewhere in Japan, and they have never dared to take them out to the public.
But in any case, one thing is certain, that is, if the Japanese had not invaded China back then, then these treasures would never have been lost, or their whereabouts are unknown as they are now.
So in the end, this account will still be calculated on the heads of the Japanese.
And now Jin Muchen is standing in front of these historical relics that the Japanese are proud of and left by their ancestors, hehe, little Japan, you wait for me.
Because most of the things on display in this exhibition hall have very high archaeological value, and the artistic value is not too high, so the Japanese are not worried about someone coming to steal, so in this room, they do not install so many cameras, and the monitoring seems to be relatively lax.
This made Jin Muchen feel very happy, the more relaxed the Japanese, the higher the chance of success, which is a good thing.
After reading the Biaoqing Pavilion, the three of them went straight to the East Asian Pavilion on the left, and this East Asian Pavilion was the key to Jin Muchen's trip, and it was also the pavilion he wanted to see the most.
Because this exhibition hall is the place where the most Chinese antiques and cultural relics are displayed, before walking into this exhibition hall, his heart has an inexplicable throbbing, both the excitement of seeing the national treasure, and the faint and indescribable sadness.
After all, our baby ended up living overseas, which is not a good taste. (To be continued.) )