When it comes to the British Museum, the only things that come to mind are Egyptian mummies, the Rosetta Stone, the ruins of the Parthenon in Greece, the Moai statues of Easter Island and the bronze sculptures of Benin (well, the latter one might be fine) and other exotic countries Emotional collections, you may be curious about where these collections come from, or heard that these collections have something to do with the expansion of the British Empire. If there are art practitioners near you, you may mention a person who talks about bad discussions and panics. Word: looting of cultural relics. The most common discussion of "the looting of cultural relics" is to propose that the Nazi looted goods in Germany should be returned to the Jews,
and that the cultural relics illegally robbed and excavated should be returned to their original owners, or the "Yuanmingyuan" we are familiar with [Note 1] . The trauma caused by the British, French and Eight-Power Allied Forces in China is too deep. In addition to the well-known animal heads of the 12 zodiac signs, the management office of Yuanmingyuan has wedding photo retouching services traveled around the world, trying to tour the parts of the ruins. Scholars working in the management office Liu Yang even jokingly complained at the seminar, saying that when he went to every museum, everyone was treated with the highest standards—curators and lawyers accompanied them to see the exhibition. Under such historical factors, every time I approached the British cultural relic area in China,
I would always hear someone shouting loudly in Mandarin, saying that all the exhibits here were stolen from the British Empire, and sooner or later the Chinese government would ask for it back. I secretly laughed at their deviousness, no, let’s not talk about the debt collection techniques of the Chinese government and the evasion techniques of the British Museum (look at the many seniors who have returned cultural relics, tell me which collections that entered the museum before 1970, some are really wanted back ) [Note 2] In fact, many collections are sourced with well-documented sources. The British Museum or donors spent money to collect them bit by bit, and it has nothing to do with the looting of cultural relics. AP_591124829544