Cai Mingchao took a picture of the Yuanmingyuan animal head but did not pay. Many people will say that he violated the law from a legal perspective, but we must also look at the premise of this matter. The premise is that the animals being auctioned

The capital belongs to China. From this point of view, it is a bit untenable to talk about touching the law. Why?

Let’s find out together today.

All the cultural relics were plundered. There is an article in "Ode to Afang Palace": The people of Chu burned the fire and the earth was pitifully scorched.

Epang Palace is so majestic and spectacular, but in the end it turned into a pile of ashes. Speaking of Afang Palace Fu, you will think of the Old Summer Palace.

The Old Summer Palace is known as the "Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens" in my country. It is a treasure of our garden art. It’s just that the beauty of the Old Summer Palace was severely shattered after the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded China.

In 1860, the British and French allied forces invaded China. After a lot of plundering of China, they set their sights on the Old Summer Palace and began to seize the cultural relics and jewelry in the Old Summer Palace. The Old Summer Palace was looted, and the British and French allied forces did not want to let go of the things that they could not take away.

After that, a fire was put down, and the fire burned for three days and three nights, and the Old Summer Palace became a ruined place.

The Qing government at that time was incompetent. It had neither the ability nor the courage to compete with the invaders. Instead, it chose to provide benefits to the invaders to calm their anger against China. It chose to sign unequal treaties, pay indemnities and cede territory, and was invaded by outsiders in its own homeland.

If we have to surrender again, we can only blame China for being too weak at the time. There is no other way.

In this way, the invaders returned to their country with the looted things, the money and land obtained through coercion and inducement, and along with them went to Western countries the cultural relics and treasures of our country, among which the most famous ten

Second Life Portrait.

Before cultural relics were photographed back to China one after another, China was powerless. Even if those cultural relics were robbed, they could only watch helplessly without the ability to resist. However, after the founding of New China, China began to change little by little.

Strong and capable of finding what is ours.

China has been actively looking for cultural relics from all walks of life that were snatched away by the British and French forces in the Old Summer Palace. Some cultural relics have been collected by private collectors, some cultural relics have been placed in museums in other countries for the world to browse, and some cultural relics have been auctioned and eventually spent.

It is impossible to say who will get it.

Most of the cultural relics recovered in China were obtained through auctions. Many patriotic people actively participate in the auctions of cultural relics and then donate the cultural relics to the country.

So far, seven bronze statues of the twelve zodiac animal heads have been returned to our country, many of which were donated by patriots.

The cow head was bought by Poly Group at a Hong Kong auction in 2000 for HK$7 million, and then donated to the country. It is now placed in a Beijing Poly Art Museum owned by Poly for public viewing.

The tiger head and monkey head were also bought by the Poly Group for HK$14 million and HK$7.4 million respectively in the same year, and were placed together in the Poly Art Museum in Beijing.

In 2003, there was also news that the pig head was collected by a private collector in the United States. After some exchanges, the private collector agreed to transfer the pig head to the China Special Fund for the Rescue of Lost Overseas Cultural Relics. Later, entrepreneur Stanley Ho proposed to the fund

The foundation donated more than 6 million yuan, and the foundation sent the pig head back, and Stanley Ho donated the pig head to Poly Company and placed it in the Poly Art Museum.

The horse's head was originally planned to be auctioned in 2007, but patriotic entrepreneur Stanley Ho contacted the auction house before the auction, purchased the bronze statue of the horse's head for HKD 69.1 million, and donated it to the country.

Cai Mingchao is a well-known collector in mainland my country who also has such patriotic sentiments. Cai Mingchao is well-known to the world because of a sky-high price auction.

In 2006, Cai Mingchao successfully bought the unique bronze Buddha "Ming Yongle Gilt Bronze Sitting Statue of Sakyamuni" at a Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong for HK$116.6 million. This amount of money can be described as a sky-high price.

Cai Mingchao started his career by making handicrafts. In the 1990s, Cai Mingchao founded Xiamen Qiyueqing Ceramic Culture Co., Ltd. In 2004, he presided over the first auction in Xiamen. In the same year, he set up his own business and established Xinhe Art Auction Company.

His business is getting bigger and bigger, and he is widely praised in the collecting community, and his credibility is guaranteed.

In 2009, the heads of the rat and the rabbit among the twelve zodiac animals were auctioned by a Chinese person for 270 million. There was a lot of discussion for a while. Later, the owner of the high-priced auction was revealed to be the famous collector Cai Mingchao.

Cai Mingchao did not come forward to participate in the auction, because he had a good reputation and a certain status in the collection world. He made a phone call, and the auction house made an exception and agreed to let him bid for the two lots without showing up. However, this matter later changed.

There was an uproar.

Later, the auction house came forward and said that although Cai Mingchao had purchased these two lots, he did not give 270 million to the auction house. For a while, people were talking about it, and many people said that he was cheating.