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    After Zhang Wenbin and others returned to China, Chen Yi did not immediately go hunting for treasures in some antique markets. Instead, he and several experts came to visit the National Museum of Great Britain, also known as the British Museum.

    In fact, some time ago, the British Museum launched some exchange and cooperation projects with its Chinese Museum. With the continuous development of time, the collection of the Chinese Museum is becoming more and more abundant, and the number is also increasing. Many of them are  Precious cultural relics that are not found in museums around the world.

    Michelangelo’s sketches of Creation alone have caused museums in many countries to cooperate with Chinese museums in order to lend these sketches for display in their museums.

    But at this stage, only the National Palace Museum in China has successfully borrowed the Genesis sketches. As for major foreign museums, none of them have had this opportunity.

    The British Museum has a history of more than 260 years. It can be said to be the oldest and most magnificent comprehensive museum in the world. It is also one of the largest and most famous four major museums in the world. The other three are respectively  They are the Louvre in France, the Hermitage Museum in Russia and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Russia.

    Among the four major museums in the world, behind the rich collections of each museum is a history of imperial plunder. In each museum, there are precious cultural relics from other countries.

    The slogan that the British Museum is most proud of is "Travel the world, visit the British Museum!" This slogan naturally illustrates the vivid portrayal of Little Britain's global expansion.

    In this museum, there are more than 100 exhibition rooms covering an area of ??60,000 to 70,000 square meters.  There are various collections.  About eight million pieces.  However, due to space limitations, a large number of collections have not been publicly displayed.

    Among the various cultural relics exhibition halls, the Egyptian and Oriental Art Museum is very famous. The former is one of the largest exhibition halls in the British Museum, with more than 70,000 collections, many of which were taken from the French King Napoleon by the then commander of the Little British Navy.  of ancient egyptian art.

    The Oriental Art Museum has cultural relics from China, small island countries and other Southeast Asian countries. The Chinese cultural relics are one of the most important collections of the British Museum.

    In Chinese cultural relics.  The most famous one is undoubtedly the Tang Dynasty copy of Gu Kaizhi's "Pictures of Admonitions to Women" from the Eastern Jin Dynasty. This can be said to be the earliest surviving Chinese silk painting. However, there are only two copies of this painting left in the world, one of which was copied by a painter from the Song Dynasty.  , collected by the Palace Museum, and the other is a Tang Dynasty copy collected by the British Museum. The former Song Dynasty copy is not of the highest quality in terms of brushwork and color, and is far from the Tang Dynasty copy.

    Before coming to the British Museum.  Chen Yi also contacted the relevant personnel of the museum and informed them in advance.  After all, they came to the museum not just to view some cultural relics on display outside.

    When he came to the British Museum with several experts, a deputy director led several cultural relic experts to greet him at the door, "Hello, Mr. Chen, welcome to the British Museum. I am Hal, the deputy director of the museum."  After seeing Chen Yi and others, the deputy director stepped forward and extended his hand, saying enthusiastically.

    "Hello, Director Hal." Chen Yi smiled, shook hands with him, and introduced several Chinese cultural relic experts around him.

    "Hello, experts from China." Hal also shook hands with the people beside Chen Yi one by one, and then introduced to Chen Yi the cultural relic experts from the museum who came with him.

    These experts from Little Britain also shook hands with Chen Yi warmly. After all, Chen Yi's reputation is there, and there are many precious and magical things in the Chinese Museum. Although the British Museum in their country has collected the entire  The world's cultural relics, but some of the magical objects discovered by Chen Yi are not collected at all.

    “For example, the legendary Bingxian from China that just appeared a few days ago is not available in their museum. Likewise, there is the million-pound note that has a history of more than 100 years.

    After shaking hands and communicating in front of the door for a while, Hal took Chen Yi and others to a small conference room and poured tea.

    "Director Hal, you don't have to be too polite. We are here this time to visit some of the museum's collections." Chen Yi said with a smile. Time is precious, and he doesn't want to waste it on meaningless politeness.  above.

    Hal nodded and smiled, "Mr. Chen, I wonder what I can do for you." When Chen Yi contacted the museum yesterday, they, the managers, knew that Chen Yi would not just view some of the cultural relics on display.  If so, given Chen Yi's character, he would not contact them.

    "We want to visit Stein's Chamber of Secrets, and I hope Director Hal can fulfill our wish." Chen Yi said with a smile.??

    Hearing Chen Yi's words, Hal's expression changed slightly. He didn't expect that Chen Yi would directly ask to visit the most famous secret collection room in their museum. Some of their management predicted that Chen Yi would probably visit the unopened room.  Some Chinese exhibition halls, not this secret room.

    In the Chinese Cultural Relics Hall of the British Museum, there are about 23,000 rare treasures of Chinese history, ranging from ancient stone tools, bronzes of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, stone Buddhist scriptures of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, calligraphy and paintings of the Tang and Song Dynasties, and porcelain of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

    Only one exhibition hall is permanently open, and only one-tenth of the Chinese cultural relics are displayed in it. The other 90% are stored in ten other collection rooms and cannot be seen by ordinary tourists unless special permission is obtained.  .

    "Mr. Chen, if you want to visit several other collection rooms of Chinese cultural relics, I can make the decision. However, according to the laws of our Little Britain, this Stein Chamber of Secrets requires advance application and the consent of the curator." Ha.  Er thought for a while, and then said, if Chen Yi was alone, he would agree, but now there are several other Chinese experts, which is a bit embarrassing.

    "Oh, that's it. Since Director Hal can't make the decision, I'll contact Mr. Rigg myself." Chen Yi glanced at him indifferently. Based on his psychological activities, this guy had already obtained the consent of the museum management.  It's not that I can't make the decision, it's just a trick to increase my sense of presence.

    " Stein's secret room also contains some Chinese cultural relics. The saddest thing in the world is undoubtedly that you have to obtain the consent of others to view cultural relics from your own country.

    The most famous Chinese cultural relics collected in the British Museum, a copy of Gu Kaizhi's Tang Dynasty painting, is also stored in this secret room. According to reports, there are only a few copies of this most important oriental cultural relic in the museum.  Several foreigners have seen it, and only one of them is Chinese.

    The reason why this secret room is called Stein is that in 1907, Stein, a little British man, only had four horseshoe silver in China, and exchanged it for 29 boxes of rare classical scriptures from a Taoist priest named Wang.  The silk paintings and silk fabrics were later stored in the British Museum. Therefore, the room where these cultural relics were stored was called the Stein Secret Room. This secret collection room was not open to the public at all.

    Buddhism was popular in the Tang Dynasty, and painters in Dunhuang not only painted on the caves, but also painted their beliefs on plain silk. When the monks closed the scripture cave, these art treasures and scriptures were sealed together.  in it.

    According to legend, when Taoist Wang opened the hole, took out the items, and sold them to Stein, he was probably dissatisfied with the price of the four horseshoes of silver. He was more thoughtful when taking the silk paintings and specifically picked out the shabby ones and gave them to Stein.  There were about five hundred pieces in total, but what the Taoist priest didn't expect was that the more worn they were, the older and more valuable they were.

    Most of the silk paintings that Stein obtained were from the Tang Dynasty and were the essence of Dunhuang silk paintings. As for the other silk paintings left in the Sutra Cave, they were not left in China and were swept away by a Frenchman.  As for Kong, to this day, no museum in China has a collection of Dunhuang silk paintings. In addition to the silk paintings, there are also other scriptures and texts. In total, there are nearly thirty boxes.

    So far, only the Chinese who viewed Gu Kaizhi's Tang Dynasty copy has entered Stein's chamber. Apart from that, it seems that no other Chinese has entered, not even that Chinese.  , and with the help of an authoritative expert from Little Britain, he applied a week in advance and was able to gain admission.

    "Ahem, Mr. Chen, please wait a moment. I will contact Director Rigg immediately and make a request to him. It won't take too long." Hearing Chen Yi's plain words, Hal quickly said, now with the Chinese Museum  Cooperation is a very important thing, not to mention that the person standing in front of him now is Chen Yi himself, but it is more important than a Chinese museum.

    “ If it was because of his negligence that the relationship between the two museums was damaged and Chen Yi became disgusted with them, then he simply cannot bear this responsibility.

    You know, Director Ruige has a good impression of Chen Yi. He went to Huaxia before and when he visited the Chinese Museum, he received warm hospitality and viewed some precious cultural relics in the museum. It was supposed to be the first time in front of Director Ruige today.  He came to greet Chen Yi, but he didn't come because of an unexpected situation.

    But he didn't expect that Chen Yi would be so rude after just hesitating for a moment.

    Hal entered a room next to the conference room, pretended for a while, and then walked out, "Mr. Chen, fellow Chinese experts, I have contacted Director Rieger, and he has agreed to let you enter Stein  The secret room, please come with me now."

    Chen Yi noddedHe nodded and said nothing more, while the faces of several Chinese experts next to him were full of expectations and even a little excited. The silk paintings preserved in Stein's secret room are not seen in China. Many of them are  It is a thing from the Tang Dynasty and extremely precious.

    Before coming, they thought that what they wanted to visit were only the cultural relics that were not on display in the Chinese Cultural Relics Museum. Unexpectedly, Chen Yi directly asked to visit Stein's secret room.  (To be continued.)
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