How many China artifacts are there in the British Empire Museum?

According to conservative estimates, there are about 23,000 rare treasures in China in the British Museum, such as A Woman's History by Gu Kaizhi in the British Museum. The British Museum has the largest collection of lost cultural relics in China. The history of its collection of China cultural relics can be traced back to the period when it was built in 1753. At present, it has a collection of 23,000 China cultural relics, about 2,000 of which have been exhibited for a long time. Hall 33 of the British Museum is a permanent exhibition hall dedicated to China cultural relics. The collection of China cultural relics in this museum covers the whole artistic category of China and spans the whole history of China. Ancient stone tools, red pottery bowls and pointed pots in banpo village more than 6,000 years ago, jade cong he in Neolithic age, bronze statues and ding in Shang and Zhou dynasties, bronze mirrors, pottery, lacquerware and iron swords in Qin and Han dynasties, bronze buddhas in Six Dynasties, white marble buddhas in Sui Dynasty, tri-colored porcelains in Tang Dynasty, porcelains in Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties and various gold and jade products. In short, ancient stone tools, Shang and Zhou bronzes, Wei and Jin Buddhist scriptures, Tang and Song calligraphy and painting, Ming and Qing porcelain and other national treasures engraved with various cultural peaks in China history can be seen here.

However, this is only a part of the 23,000 rare treasures of China in the British Museum, and the other nine tenths are kept in Room 10. Ordinary tourists are not allowed to meet unless they get special permission. Some collections, such as the Tang Dynasty manuscripts of Gu Kaizhi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, can only be feasted by specialized experts. Answer supplement

As far as painting is concerned, China has the largest collection of cultural relics abroad, with more than 65,438+0,200 paintings in the Flier Museum in Washington alone. There are nearly 500 Chinese paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of America. Chinese paintings in the British Museum are the best. In terms of porcelain, Jimei Museum in France, which is famous for collecting Asian art, has the best collection. The porcelain in the museum ranges from the earliest primitive porcelain in China to blue-and-white and colorful porcelain in Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are all kinds of famous kiln products in various dynasties, most of which are fine products. As far as local chronicles and ancient books are concerned, the United States has the most, and 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.

As far as Oracle bone fragments are concerned, Japan has the largest collection. Among the nearly 30,000 pieces of Oracle bone fragments lost overseas, there are nearly 1.3 million pieces in Japan. As far as Dunhuang treasures are concerned, there are only more than 20 thousand Dunhuang suicide notes in China, accounting for only 30%; Oriental Writing Headquarters of British Library 13700 pieces; There are 6,000 pieces in the National Library of Paris, France; Institute of Asian Nationalities in St. Petersburg, Russia 12000 pieces; The British Indian Affairs Library has nearly 2000 pieces. In addition, there are Dunhuang cultural relics collections in Japan, the United States, Sweden, Austria and South Korea.

Japan.

National Museum of Tokyo, Japan

The largest museum in Japan. Among the more than 90,000 pieces in the museum, there are tens of thousands of China cultural relics, ranging from Liangzhu cultural jade in the Neolithic age to porcelain in the Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties, and then to porcelain calligraphy and painting in the Qing Dynasty. Ma Yuan's Crossing the Water in the Cave and Fishing Alone in the Cold River, Kai Liang's Snow Scene, Li Baixing's Singing, Liu Zu's Cutting Bamboo and Li Di's Red and White Lotus are all masterpieces. In addition, thousands of museums around Japan collect China cultural relics, with countless treasures, and the number is estimated to be hundreds of thousands.

According to Meng Guoxiang, the author of the book "Destruction of Cultural Relics by Japanese Aggression against China", after the war, Japan returned some cultural relics looted in wartime, including158,000 vehicles, of which more than 2,000 were precious, but this was only a small part. Since then, due to various factors, China has not continued to recover.

British Museum

The British Museum has always been regarded as the museum with the most and best China cultural relics outside China. 1860, part of the cultural relics plundered by the British army from Yuanmingyuan was presented to Queen Victoria at that time, and the other part was auctioned. The Yuanmingyuan cultural relics dedicated to the Queen are kept in the British Museum. Its collection is now close to 7 million pieces. China's cultural relics collected by the British Museum include bronzes, pottery, calligraphy and painting, jade and sculpture. There are more than 23,000 pieces, many of which are treasures and orphans. For example, the Tang Dynasty copy of Gu Kaizhi's Female History in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the favorite collection of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, is the most striking, and the exquisite Shang and Zhou bronzes and a large number of Dunhuang cultural relics brought to Britain by Stein in the last century are also extremely important treasures.

Calligraphy and Painting: Gu Kaizhi's Copy of Women's Histories and Treasures in the Tang Dynasty, Green Landscape, The Intention of Mulberry Forest Overlapping, Li's Going Over the Wall, Fan Kuan's Visiting Friends with the Qin, Yan Wengui's Snow Peak, Su Shi's Zhu Mo and Landscape Revisiting.

Bronzes: Shang Shuangyang Zun, Western Zhou Kang Hougui, Xing Hougui, etc.

British Library

There are more than 60,000 kinds of precious documents and ancient books in China, including the earliest edition of Paramita Classic, 45 volumes of Yongle Grand Ceremony, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bamboo slips, woodcut ancient books, Dunhuang Tibetan Scriptures (including woodcut Diamond Sutra) and maps.