Examples of looted cultural relics from the Opium War to War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.

Since 1840 Opium War, the number of national treasures in China is amazing. According to the latest statistics of UNESCO, more than 200 museums scattered around the world have collected more than 1.6 million rare treasures lost in China, and the folk collection is estimated to be 10 times of the collection.

Take ancient paintings as an example: According to preliminary statistics, China's famous paintings have been scattered overseas, with 23,000 pieces recorded, with the United States (mainly the United States and Canada), Japan and Europe each accounting for one third. Europe is mainly distributed in Germany, Britain, France, Belgium, Sweden and other countries. Most of them were taken from the Dunhuang Buddhist scriptures caves in those years, and a few were bought by foreigners in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in the1930s and before and after the Liberation War, and brought out by China people. There are more than 20 scroll paintings in the Tang Dynasty that have been lost overseas. Confucian classics, poems, paintings and calligraphy collected in Dunhuang Grottoes 16, from the prosperous Tang Dynasty to the late Tang Dynasty to the Northern Song Dynasty, are all famous Buddhist paintings hanging in Dunhuang Grottoes, with Britain and France as the largest collection, and the British-French Ji Mei Museum has 300 volumes. There were also two or three hundred scroll paintings lost in the Song Dynasty, nearly two hundred in the Yuan Dynasty, about eight thousand other famous paintings lost in the Ming Dynasty and about1.20 thousand in the Qing Dynasty.

Memorandum on the loss of national treasure:

During Japan's invasion of China, more than 3.6 million cultural relics and 74 historical sites 1 0/were lost.

1860, the British and French allied forces set fire to Yuanmingyuan, and the Yongle ceremony was taken overseas.

There are more than 30 thousand rare porcelains in the British Museum.

The China Pavilion in Fontainebleau Palace has more than 30,000 pieces of China cultural relics.

There are 200,000 stolen tombs in China.

The United States has the largest collection of paintings, but China's paintings in the British Museum are the best.

The Library of Congress has more than 4,000 kinds of local chronicles. There are more than 3,000 rare books and 2,000 genealogies in the United States.

Among the nearly 30,000 pieces of Oracle bones lost overseas, there are nearly13,000 pieces in Japan.

There are only over 20,000 suicide notes in Dunhuang, China, accounting for only 30%.