Zhao Tailai's Cultural Relics Collection

When he was nearly 40 years old, Zhao Tailai immigrated to London, England, and became a British citizen. 1979, Zhao Tailai inherited the legacy of menstruation, and had a mansion, money and countless antiques overnight. Two years later, the British sent him a notice asking him to accept another property. Zhao Tailai learned that there are more rare cultural relics in an old house in the suburb of England. After many twists and turns, he finally found the treasure entrance in a corner of the manor. At the moment he entered the room, Zhao Tailai was stunned by what he saw: in a room full of straw and cotton, several big boxes were lying at sixes and sevens; There are countless bugs crawling on some boxes. In the dim light, he opened several boxes by the door and found that they were full of dazzling jade articles, priceless ancient calligraphy and painting, and bronzes.

Zhao Tailai felt a little pity. These antiques, which should have been praised by people in the exhibition hall, are now treated unfairly like abandoned children. After that, he made an amazing decision: starting from scratch, while learning, he cleaned up these antiques and made them reproduce their former glory. Because he knows that these dazzling antiques were bought by my aunt with her loneliness all her life.

Since the day this decision was made, Zhao Tailai's lifestyle has become very simple: he works in the dark and damp old house all day except for three meals. Seeing those antiques shining one by one, his mood became particularly pleasant. In order to find packaging materials suitable for these antiques, he looks for them almost every day. Furniture city and freight yard are his frequent places. Every time he found a suitable packaging material, he got a treasure. The ants moved and took them home, and then they went back to their old house to continue their work. His friends joked with him that he left the mansion to pick up garbage. In this regard, he always smiles without saying a word.

It is boring for a person to repeatedly wipe antiques, pack and register in a dark and damp old house, but he has to bear more than that. He knocked out several teeth while carrying porcelain; He accidentally broke his left foot while moving a bronze ware from the Warring States period, and his left foot lost consciousness at that time. The result of the hospital examination is that all five toes are comminuted fractures. From that day on, the voice of family members' opposition became louder and louder. Zhao Tailai didn't say anything, but the next day he got up and went straight to the old house ... and what he did was 10 year. During the period of 10, he cleared more than 60,000 cultural relics. With these antiques, he can buy a small town in England.

Just when all his relatives and friends expected to become a billionaire through him, he ignored his family's opposition: he shipped all the antiques back to China and donated them to the country. As a result, those antiques that were far away from their homeland returned to their homeland. Donated more than 50,000 pieces of cultural relics to the motherland (the main units are China History Museum, Xinhua News Agency Painting and Calligraphy Institute, Jiangsu Yancheng Museum, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou Art Museum, etc.). ), with a total value of more than 800 million yuan (the first batch is estimated to be more than 7,000 pieces. This is what Mr. Zhao Tailai said personally in CCTV's 4 sets of Chinese World, among which there are as many as 150 pieces of cultural relics above the national level. In order to collect expensive freight, he even sold his four villas, which surprised Chinese people all over the world.

Many people say that Zhao Tailai is stupid and he will not enjoy happiness. He was speechless. Someone even asked him why he worked so hard in the face of such great wealth. He said, "that's a national treasure. I just collect it temporarily."

On September 3rd, 2005, Zhao Tailai, Jin Yong, Chen Xiangmei and others won the "2005 World Outstanding Chinese Award".