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.