"I hope that the Parthenon cultural relics can return to Greece before I die. If I come back after death, I will definitely be resurrected. " This is what Yu Qiu quoted a late Greek culture minister, which contains the last dignity of an ancient civilization. It's a pity that her wish can't come true, even years after her death, it's a distant dream.
Of course, the loss of cultural relics overseas did not only happen in Greece. In fact, all the ancient and splendid civilizations in the world were destroyed by the West in later generations, including China, Egypt and Greece ... The so-called explorers and archaeologists in the West are actually cultural robbers, which are even more hateful than robbers, because they completely defile the sacred term of culture under the guise of culture. They are like a group of delinquent teenagers. They have seen several old people who are still hale and hearty despite their age. In them, they saw a kind of indifference, a kind of vicissitudes, a kind of detachment that saw through the secular. That kind of gesture is so attractive, a gentle look, a movement will make the beauty of heaven and earth eclipsed. And that gesture is what they covet, but they can't have it at a young age, because this gesture has been practiced for thousands of years. But they think that those things are only caused by their external appearances, so they peel off the clothes and shoes of those old people and put them on themselves, remove their beards and stick them on themselves. They think it will make them look more mature and vicissitudes. They threw the old people stripped naked by them on the ground, trampled on their dignity at will, and then put on their clothes and marched in the city.
As we all know, the British Museum is one of the three largest museums in the world, which is as famous as the Louvre in Paris and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in new york. It is also an unspeakable pain in the hearts of Greeks, China and Egyptians. At the entrance of the Egyptian Pavilion of the British Museum stands a striking Rosetta stone, which was once Egypt's top national treasure. Anyone who has been to Egypt knows that only replicas can be seen in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. In the Greek Pavilion, there is a precious Parthenon statue. If you go to Greece in the future, you will find nothing in the Parthenon. Similarly, in China, if you are a scholar who studies Dunhuang cultural relics, if you want to see the classics that are indispensable for studying Dunhuang, I'm sorry, you have to spend tens of millions of dollars to go there and come back to see them with a projector. Its original works have been collected and will not be visited. How ironic it is! If you want to see your national treasures and cultural relics, you must go to museums in other countries. This is why many tourists from Egypt, Greece and China stood there in tears for a long time when they saw their national treasures in the British Museum.
Thought of here, I can't help but think of a letter from a young man in China to the second palace owner who burned Yuanmingyuan:
I hate it,
Hate that I wasn't born a century earlier,
So I can stand in front of your eyes,
A gloomy castle,
The wilderness under the morning light,
Either I pick up the white gloves you left behind,
Why didn't you catch the sword I threw?
Why don't you and I each ride a horse?
Away from the handsome flag of this day?
Leave the cloud of war?
The final outcome is at the door. ?
This poem describes the grief and indignation of the people of China, but it can also express the resentment of Egyptians and Greeks when they stood in the British Museum and saw their national treasures. This feeling is shared by our ancient civilization where cultural relics have been plundered, and it is a kind of helplessness and humiliation besides grief and indignation. And in our own lifetime, we should contribute all our strength to clean up this shame.