Chapter 257: No Chance?

The Errenying Museum specializes in the permanent exhibition hall of Chinese cultural relics. The two sisters, You Jia and You Qing, as well as Alan 7 Smith, who volunteered to act as a tour guide, were walking slowly together, their eyes looking around, looking at the Chinese cultural relics displayed here one after another.

The first thing that caught their eyes was a stone statue of Guanyin smuggled into Europe by the Hungarian Stein from Dunhuang in northwest China. This stone statue of Guanyin, which represents the peak of Buddhist culture and art in Dunhuang. The surface was already a little mottled, and it squinted slightly. The treasure is solemn. Surprisingly, however, it has no hands. In fact, it originally had two hands, but in the process of smuggling it in the first place, for convenience, Stein and his men cut off the hands of the Guanyin stone statue at the wrist. On the wall of the exhibition hall, there is a Dunhuang mural of dozens of square meters, and on this colorful Bodhisattva mural, the barbaric cuts are clearly visible. The stone statue of Guanyin, the Dunhuang mural, and all the exhibits now displayed in the Chinese Pavilion not only show the splendor of Chinese civilization to the world, but also tell the world about that humiliating and unbearable history.

Walk in this exhibition hall dedicated to Chinese cultural relics. You Jia's expression was flat, and he looked at the various cultural relics displayed in it without saying a word. You Qing couldn't do it like her, and at this time, her face was full of indignation, and she kept cursing in a whisper, "Robber Britain." Alan Smith, who was standing beside her, looked embarrassed. Scratched his head. In the end, he didn't dare to say anything, so he could only close his mouth and carefully accompany this aunt who was obviously in a state of anger, for fear that she would anger herself because of this.

After a long while, You Qing finally stopped cursing, and asked curiously at her sister who was carefully looking at a Kowloon blue and white porcelain bowl beside her: "Sister Jiajia, before I came, I had heard that there is a piece of our Chinese cultural relics hidden in the British Museum, which can be called their "treasure of the town hall" here, do you know which one it is, and where to put it?"

Although it was the first time to visit the British Museum, You Jia had read some books about the British Museum and its collections, and at the same time, the old man You, who had studied antiques and cultural relics, had also told her something about the collections in the British Museum. So compared to You Qing. She knew better. At this moment, I heard You Qing ask. She withdrew her gaze at the Nine Dragons Celadon Bowl, sighed faintly, and said, "The cultural relics you said are the Tang Dynasty Seben of Gu Kaizhi's "Female History Raft Map" of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The facsimile is not on display here, but is stored in the Stein Chamber in the museum, and is not accessible to anyone. In addition to spending money, you must also have a certain status. I remember reading a report that Xie Chengshui, director of the Art Research Office of the Dunhuang Studies Research Center of Nanjing Normal University, had happened to see this facsimile with high artistic value in the secret room when he was four years old. At that time, in the register, there were only two records of the last century blade era that were copied on the spot. ”

The Raft of the Female History is the earliest surviving Chinese silk painting, which is a milestone in both the history of Chinese art and the history of world art. Now there are only two facsimiles left in the world, one of which is a Song Dynasty Seben, which is now in the collection of the Běijīng Palace Museum. But its brushwork and sè color are not of the highest quality. The other is a copy of the Tang Dynasty in the collection of the British Museum, which was originally hidden in the Old Summer Palace, but was stolen from the Old Summer Palace by British Captain Ji Yong and brought back to Britain when the British and French troops invaded Běijīng. In the year nǎi, it was collected by the British Museum and became the most important oriental artifact here. You Qing called it the British Museum, the treasure of the town, "It can be said that it is not an exaggeration at all." The so-called Stein Secret Room is a special collection room in the British Museum for storing ancient Chinese paintings. The reason why it is called this name is because Ji ** was originally named after scientific investigation. It has been deeply involved in Northwest China dozens of times. Stein, a Hungarian who plundered a large number of documentary artifacts. Because he has made a huge "contribution" to the British Museum and to the United Kingdom. In the words of the British Museum, Stein's actions were helping them promote understanding and recognition of art, natural history, and science on a global scale.

What a robber is such logic?!

"The Brit is really not a good thing!" You Qing gritted her teeth, angry.

Alan Smith, who had never dared to speak, did not know where he got his courage, and suddenly said: "Although most of the artifacts stored in the British Museum are looted.

But it cannot be denied that we British people have done a very good job in protecting these cultural relics. And it's quite open to the public

You Qing hasn't answered yet, You Jiake has already endured it. "Well done conservation. You don't fool me with this, but you can't fool me. I had the pleasure of reading a report from the British Museum in recent years. The report shows that none of Yao's Chinese collections, at least, have been properly kept. Even, a centuries-old Chinese incense burner. It was actually used as a donation box! This kind of protection can also be used as a "good." As for what you said about being open to the public, that's just a façade. There are as many as 23,000 Chinese cultural relics in the British Museum, but how many are actually on display? The rest of the Chinese cultural relics, all like the "Female Historian Map", were stored in the storeroom. If you want to see it, you can! Just take the money! I once read an article written by an old gentleman, which mentioned it. The experts and scholars who study Dunhuang art at the Dunhuang Academy in China can only rely on the microfilm of Dunhuang documents bought here to study the culture and history of Dunhuang. Such a thing, a real shame,"

You Qing snorted, squinted at Alan Smith, and said, "Did you hear that? If it weren't for the fact that you are still honest and have not been contaminated with the habits of robbers. I'm too lazy to bother with you!"

Alan 7 Smith was speechless by You Jia's words, and his face was red and red by You Qing's squeeze. In the end, he wisely chose to keep his mouth shut, not daring to say a word easily.

Glancing at Alan Smith, who was full of grievances, You Jia secretly sighed in her heart. Regardless of nationality, Alan Smith's character and ability are really worthy of You Qing. But unfortunately, he is an Englishman and not a Chinese, so his pursuit of You Qing is doomed to be neither flowering nor fruitful. You must know that in the icy and snowy Korean battlefield, Old Man You was not only a British soldier who had stabbed two rifle regiments, but also was shot in the chest by a sniper of a rifle regiment hiding in the shadows. If it weren't for fate, I'm afraid that North Korea would have been confessed to the ice and snow a long time ago. These juniors are born later, so naturally they will not be here. The world is alive and kicking.

It was precisely because of these antecedents that You Jia suddenly felt that Alan Smith, a man who pursued his sister hard but was destined not to have good results, was very pitiful.

You Jia is very clear about You Chai's xìng grid, although this little Nizi is crazy when she talks and acts. is even a bit of a non-mainstream style, but she has never disobeyed Old Man You's mind in major matters. I'm afraid few people will believe it, even coming to the UK to study is what Old Man You meant. At the beginning, You Qing wanted to be admitted to Peking University with all her heart, and she couldn't even look down on Tsinghua University. In her words, Tsinghua University does not have the cultural heritage of Peking University, there is no Cai Yuanpei, there is no Hu Shi, there is no Mao Dun, and it doesn't mean much for her to go. But when she was in her third year of high school, Old Man You suddenly said that he wanted her to study in the UK. Master Yi's long skills to control Yi" Old Man You used Wei Yuan's words at that time to explain why he wanted You Qing to study in the UK. And You Qing also broke out the ruthlessness of the old scholar at this time, her English score was very ordinary, she was stunned to hold English books and CDs, and finally got the highest score of nine points in the IELTS test, and went to study in the UK smoothly.

looked at You Qing, and then looked at Alan 7 Smith standing beside her, You Jia sighed secretly with emotion, and couldn't help but quietly ask herself in her heart: If he was You Qing and Zhang Wenzhong was Alan 7 Smith, how would he choose. Could she disobey her grandfather's wishes and resolutely elope with Zhang Wenzhong? Then, she shook her head, a little dumbfounded, and couldn't understand why her mood suddenly became a little sentimental.

Shaking his head slightly, You Jia said to You Qing and Alan Smith, "Let's go." ”

"Not shopping?" You Qing asked.

You Jia shook his head and said, "It hurts to look at these cultural relics, so I still don't go shopping." ”

You Qing nodded and said, "That's good." Let's go. The three of them walked out of the China Pavilion with the flow of people. Walk towards the gates of the British Museum. That is, when they walked out of the China Pavilion. Zhang Wenzhong, who looked like a leisurely stroll, slowly walked into the China Pavilion. The gaze is involuntary. It landed on the Nine Dragons blue and white porcelain bowl that You Jia had just looked at.

The two of them missed it again.

Someone once said: If you miss once, you will miss it by chance, and if you miss it twice, you will miss it.

Zhang Wenzhong and You Jia, are they really out of luck?