zhong hua hai wai liu shi wen wu da shang

my country is one of the four ancient civilizations with a history of at least 5,000 years. During its long social development, it has created a brilliant culture and left behind a large number of cultural relics. However, during such a long period of time, some cultural relics have been buried underground for thousands of years, and some precious cultural relics have been destroyed or lost abroad in the flames of war.

Especially since the 19th century, due to the plunder and wars of the great powers, as well as the smuggling of cultural relics, a large number of ancient Chinese cultural relics have been lost overseas. According to statistics from the Chinese Cultural Relics Society, after the Opium War in 1840, more than 10 million Chinese cultural relics were lost to countries and regions such as Europe, the United States, Japan and Southeast Asia, including more than 1 million national first- and second-level cultural relics.