Ma Weidu: After losing Chinese's face, he still feels that he is a national hero! Why?

When Marco Polo came to China, he was amazed by everything about China, especially those rare treasures that greatly opened his eyes, so he described China as a place covered with gold, and later, the late Qing Dynasty was unable to protect these treasures because of its own backwardness and finally plundered, the most tragic, is the Yuanmingyuan.

The Yuanmingyuan is known as the Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens, with countless treasures, the most well-known is the Zodiac, but all of this was destroyed by the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, and that day became a pain in the hearts of every Chinese, and this group of robbers set a fire after snatching away the treasures in the dazzling Yuanmingyuan.

Bronze rat head and rabbit head these two treasures are well known in the industry, because in 2009 into the auction has been considered three into the palace, the first time was in 1985, but at that time the information has not spread so fast, so the Chinese people do not know much about this matter, and the first auction price and transaction price are not high, so it did not cause a lot of fluctuations.

The second time was in 2007 Sotheby's Auction House, this auction caused a much bigger sensation than the first, because the mainland officials and people are firmly opposed to this auction, but because the auction site is abroad we can not do anything, the final national treasure rat head and rabbit head were still auctioned, to 2009 this auction, it is already the third time, but the results caused by this auction can be described as stone breaking.

The reason why the price of the first two auctions of the rat head and the rabbit head is relatively low is because in the eyes of foreigners, these are only two bronzes, which have a certain historical value, but the economic value is not so high. The essence of China's national treasures they can not understand, but one thing they know very well, Chinese care about these cultural relics, in 2007 gambling king He Hongshen once took 60 million Hong Kong dollars for the motherland to shoot a precious horse's head, with this lesson, the holder decided to use the rat head and rabbit head to earn Chinese.

At that time, the transaction price of the treasure was already ridiculously high, much higher than its own price, and foreigners knew that Chinese were willing to spend a lot of money on this thing, so they were looking forward to the result of the auction, but at that time, the Chinese in the mainland and abroad were very opposed to the auction.

Because any treasure in the Yuanmingyuan belongs to the Chinese, they have no reason to auction, the reason why they can get the treasure is because the Eight-Nation Alliance snatched away during the invasion of China, how can the treasure stolen by the robbers be legally auctioned, it should be returned to China, but the holders who expect to make money have no intention of returning it, no matter what, the auction must continue.

The auction was not stopped because of the resistance of the Chinese people, but still operated according to the original plan, on the day of the auction, the indignant Chinese organized the "Hundred Lawyers Group" to recover the incident, but the French court still ruled that the auction was valid.

Chinese Min was extremely resistant to France because of this matter, but all this could not prevent the auction from proceeding, and the auction site, the price was raised again and again, and finally, unsurprisingly, there was a Chinese, and he won the rat head and the rabbit head at the highest price.

The person who successfully quoted the quotation was called Cai Mingchao, who used a huge amount of money to shoot the bronze rat head and the rabbit head, which was rumored at the time, and the media also wanted to know about this rich figure, so they all went to interview him, and Cai Mingchao once became a household name with this matter and became a celebrity at home and abroad.

In front of the media, Cai Mingchao fiercely criticized the French court's support for the auction of rat heads and rabbit heads, he said the voice of the Chinese, the looted things for auction, such acts are no different from the plundering acts of the late Qing Dynasty, they are all robbery acts, and the high price of the auction is outrageous, it is simply naked blackmail!

Chinese can not tolerate this kind of behavior, resolutely resist this, he is Chinese, should contribute to the protection of the country's cultural relics, this is a cultural relics belonging to China, can not be decided by foreigners, before the auction money, resolutely do not pay!

Cai Mingchao's speech stirred up thousands of waves at home and abroad, causing media hype, France believes that Cai Mingchao is maliciously destroying the order of the auction market, must punish him, Cai Mingchao does not think that he has disrupted the market, he did this is to destroy this auction so that it can not be carried out smoothly, he can not bear to see his country's cultural relics being sold as commodities, so there was this incident.

The angry and corrupt French people constantly denounced Cai Mingchao, but so far, he has done nothing, but in this matter, in addition to the French are very angry, the Chinese writer Ma Weidu reacted differently from most of the Chinese, and he was very angry about this matter.

He believes that Cai Mingchao has no integrity, loses the face of Chinese, and regards himself as a national hero. At least in Cai Mingchao's view, his purpose was indeed achieved, because after he tossed it around, the auction was sold, but the matter did not end there.

After the two pieces of cultural logistics were filmed, public opinion from all over the world did put France under a lot of pressure, and it was not terminated until 2013, and the French Pino family came to Beijing for this matter in 13 years, they brought the rat head and the rabbit head, and returned the two cultural relics to the mainland in the form of "donation".

Although it is the final return after years, but the word "donation" I think is very inappropriate, this is a Chinese thing, with "return" is more appropriate, of course, the ending is still good, and all this is inseparable from Cai Mingchao's "auction".

Cai Mingchao's move, let him be completely removed from the auction house, but he himself did not regret it, in fact, this is a point of view, Cai Mingchao used this way to treat a robber is not wrong, Teacher Ma also has his own perspective, in the author's opinion, Cai Mingchao's approach although it seems absurd, but he is out of the heart of the family and the country will do such a thing, its behavior, respectable.