Which national treasures have been lost overseas? Where abroad?

Updated on culture 2024-07-31
19 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-15

    The loss of China's national cultural relics overseas is staggering, reaching 10 million pieces, most of which are collected by national museums in Europe and Asia, and the main countries are represented by the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Russia.

    1. Double Sheep Zun.

    Shuangyangzun production and Shang and Zhou dynasties, is a representative work of the Bronze Age, the Shang Dynasty's Shuangyangzun is a wine vessel, according to archaeologists identification, Shang Shuangyangzun currently exists in the world only two. In 1860, the British and French forces "burned the Old Summer Palace" and looted them, resulting in the loss of these two rare treasures overseas, one in the Nezu Museum of Art in Japan and the other in the British Museum in the United Kingdom. The shape of Shangshuang Yangzun is unique, and two tame sheep share four legs of mutton, which leaves a deep impression on future generations.

    Second, the "dog head" in the zodiac animal head is in the United States.

    In 1860, the head of the zodiac animal was lost in the Old Summer Palace, through the efforts of the state and caring people, the head of the ox, the head of the monkey, the head of the tiger, the head of the pig, the head of the horse, the head of the rat, the head of the rabbit have returned to China, the head of the dragon is in Taiwan, the head of the dog is in the United States, the head of the snake, the head of the chicken, the head of the sheep is missing. The Zodiac Beast is a work of the combination of culture and art in the center, which originally stood in Changchun Yuanyuan of the Old Summer Palace, recording time.

    3. Yao Chang Tianmu Bowl in Japan.

    The number of Yaobian Tianmu bowls is very small, it is mainly yellow, green, blue, purple and other colored light, the surface crystallizes into brown dots, and the outer ring is surrounded by silver and blue halos, as if people are in the vast blue universe, leaning over to see the vast ocean, looking up at the starry sky. This extremely dazzling color was not loved by the Song Dynasty, and the manufacturing process was relatively complicated, and it was gradually lost. At the beginning of the 21st century, China's treasure appreciation programs were favored by people, and Japan also began to appreciate treasures.

    The Yaobian Tianmu Bowl is a one-of-a-kind tea bowl that is priceless and is an artistic treasure of the Southern Song Dynasty.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-14

    China lost Shang Dynasty bronze birds and beasts at the Freer Museum in the United States.

    It is currently the most complete bronze ornament in the Shang Dynasty.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-13

    The Yongle Dictionary compiled during the Ming Dynasty and Gu Kaizhi's Female History Atlas are now lost in the British Museum, and Li Tang's Jin Wen Gong's restoration of the Kingdom is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the United States.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-12

    For example, the bracelets, necklaces, and pearls of the Empress Dowager Cixi. There are also Wang Xizhi's calligraphy and paintings. Currently in Yunnan, Laos, Japan.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-11

    For example, China's jade seals and bronzes, as well as some jade pendants, these cultural relics have been lost overseas, in France, Britain and the United States.

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-10

    For example, there are a lot of porcelain, as well as bronze, and then there are also animal heads in the Old Summer Palace, as well as pictures of emperors and female historians, etc.

  7. Anonymous users2024-02-09

    China's precious cultural relics lost overseas include Kang Hou Gui, Changchun Garden Western Mansion Prints, Qianlong Da Yushan, Nu Shi Zhentu, and Cloisonné Qilin.

  8. Anonymous users2024-02-08

    In the long history of our country, there have been very civilized moments, and there are also a lot of precious historical relics, and these historical relics have a very important value for the history of our country, and also show the wisdom of the ancient working people of our country, so we are also very cherished for these cultural relics, but in the years when our country suffered a lot, it also led to the loss of many historical relics overseas, so that many people feel very distressed.

    In the history of our country, we can find that there are many precious cultural relics that have been lost overseas, such as 12 animal heads are 12 precious cultural relics that many people pay special attention to, and these 12 cultural relics not only show the memory of the ancient working people in our country, and also have a very strong historical value, with the continuous efforts of many people now, but also let some cultural relics return to the return of the motherland.

    With the efforts of many overseas Chinese, as well as the growing strength of our country as a whole and the convention, as well as the agreement, China has recovered a large number of cultural relics in recent years, such as in 2001, the United States returned the stolen tomb of Wang Chuzhi in China free of charge, and the samurai costume statue is a very precious cultural relic, and it also has a very strong value.

    The six terracotta figurines unearthed in the tomb of Empress Dou of the Western Han Dynasty also have a very strong value for the cultural understanding of the Western Han Dynasty and the customs of the time, and these cultural relics have finally returned to the embrace of the motherland, allowing us to have a better understanding of the culture of the Western Han Dynasty.

    As more and more people attach importance to these precious cultural relics, and have made enough efforts, now there are more and more precious cultural relics back to the embrace of the motherland, which also makes everyone feel very proud, but so far, there are still many precious cultural relics overseas, if you want to let these cultural relics return to the embrace of the motherland, then we still need to make more efforts.

  9. Anonymous users2024-02-07

    For example, there are animal heads, jade, stone tools, and then also ceramics, bronzes, etc., and the loss of cultural relics is particularly serious.

  10. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    The animal head of the zodiac, Kang Hou Gui, Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes Tibetan scripture cave cultural relics, Buddha figures, oracle bone inscriptions, these things have been lost overseas.

  11. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    The bronze statue of the head of the 12 zodiac animals in the Old Summer Palace, the female history of the proverbial figure, the picture of the emperors of the past dynasties, the stone carving of the six horses of the Tang Zhaoling, the picture of the emperor and the queen of the Buddha, the five-color parrot.

  12. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    What are the national treasures lost abroad, all in the best museums? How much do you know? The British Museum is one of the five major museums in the world, with a collection of more than 8 million pieces, including more than 23,000 precious treasures of the Chinese era, including bronze, ceramics, calligraphy, sculpture, sculpture, etc., and its exhibits account for only one-tenth, mainly displayed in Hall 33, China Hall B (33) and Daguan Porcelain Hall (95), the exhibits cover various categories of Chinese monuments:

    From ancient stone tools, Shang and Zhou bronzes to Wei and Jin Buddhist canons, Song and Yuan calligraphy and Minsk porcelain.

    Gu Kaiye, the female fable of the Palace Museum in eastern Beijing, has long since ceased to exist. There are only two books left in the world. The imitation of the Song Dynasty alone, collected from the Palace Museum in Beijing, and the handwriting is not of high quality.

    The other painting is a Tang Dynasty model, which is one of the first Chinese TV dramas to appear in our lives. In 1860, it was occupied by British and French troops and transported back to other countries, and in 1903 it became part of the collection of the British Museum, becoming the museum's most important oriental monument. Bump yes.

    <> the Chinese Pavilion at No. 33 of the British Museum, one of the most eye-catching eyeballs is no better than the one built in life-size proportions, Liao Sanse Arhat. Usually we are all familiar with Tan Sancai, what is that? Tan Cai is a kind of ceramic with yellow, white and green as the main glazed paper.

    Because it ruled in the Tang Xiaola Xiao Dynasty, the so-called Tang Sancai. Liao Sancai only appeared after inheriting not only the advantages of the Tang Triad, but also the more mature paper-burning technology. There are very few of them, so they are very valuable.

    The only set of 16 Chinese lottery tickets in the world, all from a small cave in the county town of Hebei.

    At the American Museum in Washington, D.C., at the American Museum, his collection could not be ** or exhibited to the public by order of the gallery's founder, Charles Freer. Therefore, I am afraid that this top national treasure will be isolated from the majority of the Chinese population. The British Museum has published a copy of the Tang Dynasty's Historical Aphorisms.

    It is a silk headscarf painted with the image of a woman, which was once part of Song Haiya's collection. In addition to games, Song Huijun also used fine gold to compose poems. Later, it was a collection of the best monuments in the circular garden.

    In 1860, British and French forces captured the capital, and after the defeat of the Old Summer Palace, it is a high-class monument with the exodus of British soldiers to Britain and their return to the British Museum.

  13. Anonymous users2024-02-03

    According to UNESCO statistics, about 1.64 million Chinese cultural relics have been lost abroad, scattered in 47 museums around the world, and the overseas private collection is expected to be 10 times the number of museums. According to the statistics of the Chinese Cultural Relics Society, since the Opium War in 1840, more than 10 million pieces of Chinese cultural relics have been lost to Europe, America, Japan and Southeast Asia and other countries and regions due to war, improper ** and other reasons. The British Museum is the museum with the largest collection of lost cultural relics in China, and its collection of Chinese cultural relics can be traced back to the founding of the museum in 1753, with a current collection of as many as 10,000 Chinese cultural relics, and about 2,000 pieces on permanent display.

    From ancient stoneware, Shang and Zhou bronzes, Wei and Jin stone Buddhist scriptures, Tang and Song Dynasty calligraphy and paintings, to Ming and Qing dynasty porcelain.

    The British Museum in London, England, is the oldest and most magnificent comprehensive museum in the world, and one of the world's four largest and most famous museums.

    Among them, the China Gallery (China Pavilion) occupies several halls, and Chinese cultural relics are regarded as one of the most important collections by the British Museum, with a total of more than 23,000 pieces.

    The British Museum's collection of Chinese artefacts encompasses the entire spectrum of Chinese art, spanning the entire history of China.

    There are stone tools from the Neolithic Age, painted pottery from the Yangshao culture period, bronzes from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, bronze mirrors from the Qin and Han dynasties, lacquerware from the Han Dynasty, statues from the Northern Dynasties, celadon from the Southern Dynasties, Tang Sancai, Jun kiln porcelain from the Song Dynasty, blue and white vases from the Yuan Dynasty, cloisonné enamel from the Ming Dynasty, etc.

    Many cultural relics are peerless treasures, and the national treasures of various cultures in Chinese history can be seen here, and they can be described as complete and beautiful.

  14. Anonymous users2024-02-02

    The Tang Dynasty facsimile of Gu Kaizhi's Female History Atlas by Gu Kaizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty is the most eye-catching, while the exquisite bronzes of the Shang and Zhou dynasties and a large number of Dunhuang artifacts brought to Britain by Stein (known as the "first Dunhuang treasure thief") in the last century are also extremely important treasures.

    Gu Kaizhi, Detail of "The Female Historian".

    Calligraphy and painting: Gu Kaizhi's "Female History" Tang Dynasty copy, Li Sixun's "Green Landscape", Ju Ran's "Dense Forest and Mountains", Li Gonglin's "Huayan in Disguise", Fan Kuan's "Visiting Friends with the Qin", Yan Wengui's "Peaks and Snow Ji", Su Shi's "Ink and Bamboo Picture", Ma Yuan's "Landscape Revisit", etc.

    Bronze: Shang Shuangyangzun, Western Zhou Kanghou Gui, Xinghou Gui, etc.

    British Library.

    There are more than 60,000 kinds of precious Chinese documents and ancient books, including the earliest version of the Chinese Paramita Sutra, the 45 volumes of the Yongle Grand Canon, oracle bone tablets, bamboo slips, engraved ancient books, Dunhuang scriptures (including the engraved and printed Diamond Sutra) and maps.

  15. Anonymous users2024-02-01

    Many of China's most important cultural relics are located in the British Museum, also known as the British Museum, located in the heart of London. Among them, there are many precious cultural relics of various eras and types. Ceramics from the Liao dynasty (907-1125 AD) from Hebei, China, bronze Shang (13th-12th century BCE) probably from Hunan Province, China, landscape paintings by Tang Yin (1470-1523 AD), handscrolls, ink on paper, etc.

  16. Anonymous users2024-01-31

    The Guimet Museum in France has a collection of tens of thousands of Chinese cultural relics, and the Chinese cultural relics in the Guimet Museum in Paris are the most valuable in France, with more than 20,000 pieces of bronze, jade, ceramics, sculptures, paintings and other artistic treasures from the Neolithic Age to the Ming and Qing dynasties. Among them, there are 10,000 pieces of ceramics in the past dynasties, ranking first in the collection of Chinese ceramics in overseas museums, and there are also treasures of art in the Old Summer Palace in the museum: the "Portrait of Qianlong" painted by Lang Shining is a sitting portrait of Emperor Qianlong when he was 41 years old, and the characters are very charming, which is a masterpiece combining Chinese and European painting techniques.

  17. Anonymous users2024-01-30

    "The Female Historian" is the earliest surviving Chinese silk painting, one of the earliest professional painters in China, a milestone in the history of Chinese art, and has always been a treasure collected by the court of all dynasties. Now there are only two copies left in the world, one of which is copied by the Song people, which is collected by the Palace Museum in Beijing, and the brushwork and color are not of the highest quality. The other is this facsimile from the British Museum.

    It was originally collected by the Qing Palace, and it was the desk favorite of Emperor Qianlong, hidden in the Old Summer Palace. In 1860, when the British and French forces invaded Beijing, the British captain Ji Yong stole it from the Old Summer Palace and took it abroad.

  18. Anonymous users2024-01-29

    "Yongle Canon" was compiled in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, the cabinet chief assistant Xie Jin edited a Chinese classical collection of the great classics, the original name of "Literature Dacheng", is a Chinese encyclopedic literature collection, the whole book 22,937 volumes (table of contents accounted for 60 volumes), 11095 volumes, about 100 million words, bringing together seven or eight thousand kinds of ancient and modern books, showing the glorious achievements of ancient Chinese science and culture, but in addition to the original "Yongle Canon" has not yet determined whether there is a Changling, the Yongle copy was tragically catastrophic, most of them died in the war, Today, there are only more than 800 volumes left and scattered around the world. The Encyclopedia Britannica is referred to as a Chinese Ming Dynasty book in the "Encyclopedia" entry.

    The Yongle Encyclopedia is "the largest encyclopedia the world has ever seen". The Yongle Canon has become a symbol of Chinese culture.

  19. Anonymous users2024-01-28

    Yongle Grand Ceremony.

    Compiled in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, by the "black-clothed prime minister" Yao Guangxiao and the cabinet chief assistant Xie Jin edited a collection of Chinese classics, the whole book is 22,937 volumes, about 100 million words, bringing together more than 7,000 kinds of ancient and modern books, involving all aspects.

    It has not yet been determined whether the original is in Changling, but most of the remaining copies died in the war, and only more than 800 volumes remain and are scattered around the world. "Yongle Canon" has become a symbol of Chinese culture, but it has not been fully written in China.

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