How many China cultural relics have been stolen since Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China?
1June, 900, Eight-Nation Alliance landed in Tianjin. In August, Beijing was occupied, and the chartered soldiers of Commander-in-Chief Eight-Nation Alliance and German Marshal Vadexi publicly robbed for three days, and the precious cultural relics in China suffered unprecedented havoc. 1 Three Seas, Huangshi City, Summer Palace, Tiantan Lost 1 148 pieces, Shejitan Lost 168 pieces. More than 3,000 gold-plated Buddha statues, more than 50 bronze buddhas, 3 magnetic buddhas 12 pairs, 40 gold-plated objects, 7 silverware, more than 4,300 bronzes, 58 tin wares, 70 building heads and 0/400 brocade embroideries were lost in Songzhu Temple. Supplement: Three departments and offices, including six ministries and nine ministers, were occupied as barracks by armies of various countries and plundered extensively. 265, 438+0, 65, 438+0, 65, 438+0373, 65, 438+02, 2 jade treasures, 282 ceremonial sticks for the imperial concubine, 84 colorful sticks for the imperial concubine, 65, 438+0 new and old cloud umbrellas, and the brocade was lost in the warehouse. 4 The Hanlin Academy lost tens of thousands of classics, and the Yongle Grand Ceremony lost another 307. Tens of thousands of newly minted copper coins in Qianfatang, gold and steel ritual vessels in Taichang Temple and gold and silver tableware in Guanglu Temple were all looted. The Japanese army snatched 3 million taels of silver, countless silks and satins, 322,000 taels of rice and all the silver from the treasury of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. More than 60 million taels of silver have disappeared from collections in various places. By the way, the value of other cultural relics and national treasures is hard to estimate. The Yongle Palace in the Royal Ancient Pagoda in Wang Hongbin Street was destroyed and abandoned by Eight-Nation Alliance in 1900, and even used to build fortifications. So far, there are only 200 copies left. Eight-Nation Alliance snatched about 60 million taels of silver from the Beijing Office, including 2,965,438 taels +04856 taels of silver deposited by the Japanese army in the Ministry of Public Security (now the compound of the Ministry of Public Security), and immediately set fire to the house to cover up the evidence. The drum of the Drum Tower was punctured by a Japanese bayonet. 8 Song Edition Books 1860 Yuanmingyuan was burned, and most of it was destroyed by the 1900 Gengzi Incident. Eight-Nation Alliance burned all the best books in Beijing, and the wind blew the pages of Yongle Grand Ceremony all over the sky, and hundreds of thousands of Si Ku Quan Shu were destroyed by Eight-Nation Alliance. Supplement: Queen Eugénie of Charles Louis Napolé on Bonaparte, the French emperor, expanded the Fengdan China Pavilion to store the precious ancient books and documents looted from Dunhuang by British Stein and Bosch of France and the Yuanmingyuan cultural relics looted by Eight-Nation Alliance. At present, China Fengdan owns more than 30,000 famous China paintings, gold and silver jewelry, porcelain, incense burners, chimes, precious stones and gold and silver vessels. Norwegian Muntz once donated thousands of China cultural relics to the Burgen Museum of Practical Art. Muntz went to China in 1887 to work in China Customs, and later served as the head of Yuan Shikai's cavalry and chief of staff. During this period, more than 2,500 pieces of China cultural relics were collected. Including the exquisitely carved stone carvings in Yuanmingyuan, exquisitely carved stone components, column foundations, railings, watchtowers, stone statues, etc. Supplement: 1 1. 1860, the British army plundered cultural relics from Yuanmingyuan, and the British Museum has more than 7 million cultural relics. Among them, there are more than 2,000 pieces of ceramics, more than 200 pieces of jade/KLOC-0 and about 800 pieces of bronzes. Note: 1860 Other looted cultural relics in Eight-Nation Alliance are not included. Collected by more than 200 museums around the world, China cultural relics collected by the people are 10 times of the collection. During its invasion of China, the Japanese plundered more than 3.6 million pieces of China cultural relics. Of the 30,000 precious Oracle Bone Inscriptions films lost overseas, there are about 1.3 million in Japan. The number of China's precious cultural relics scattered in private hands in every corner of the country is really impossible to count. It is estimated that it should be more than 6.5438+0.6 million pieces, and about 300,000 pieces of palace national treasures have been lost.