What are the antiques that China exiled to foreign countries?

According to the statistics of UNESCO, about 6.5438+0.64 million pieces of China cultural relics have been lost overseas, scattered in 47 museums around the world, and the overseas folk collections are estimated to be 654.38+00 times of the collections. According to the statistics of the Cultural Relics Society of China, since the Opium War of 1840, more than1000,000 pieces of China cultural relics have been lost to Europe, America, Japan, Southeast Asia and other countries and regions due to war and unfair trade. The British Museum has the largest collection of lost cultural relics in China. Its collection of China cultural relics can be traced back to the construction period of 1753. At present, there are as many as 23,000 China cultural relics in its collection, of which about 2,000 are on display for a long time. From ancient stone tools, Shang and Zhou bronzes, Wei and Jin stone Buddha scriptures, Tang and Song paintings and calligraphy, to Ming and Qing porcelain.

On the evening of May 30, 2009, the auction hall on the third floor of Beijing Asia Hotel was crowded and packed. Poly Group held a special auction of China painting art here. In this auction, treasures gathered, and 15 calligraphy works of eight emperors, including Shunzhi and Kangxi, returned from Japan and collectively appeared in Beijing. But the most interesting thing is Song Huizong's original painting of rare birds. Seven years ago, this rare treasure set a world record for painting auction in China at that time at a price of 25.3 million yuan. Mr. and Mrs. Ullens, the Belgian collectors who photographed this painting in those years, entrusted Poly Auction Company to auction in this spring auction. That night 1 1: 42, Song Huizong's "Sketching Rare Birds" started bidding with a starting price of 38 million yuan, and finally the buyer No.572 won the painting with 5565438+ 10,000 yuan. After many twists and turns, this national treasure finally returned to its hometown. According to the statistics of UNESCO, about 6.5438+0.64 million pieces of China cultural relics have been lost overseas and scattered in 47 museums around the world. Overseas folk collections are estimated to be 654.38+00 times as many as the collections, about 6.5438+07 million pieces. These precious cultural relics that once represented the glory of the Chinese nation have always been the focus of people's attention. Among them, the British Museum has the largest collection of cultural relics lost from China.