A British shipwreck was found in the East my country Sea, containing artifacts from the Old Summer Palace. Why does the other side ask us to return it?
What you said downstairs is basically correct. I will help you supplement and explain it in depth. Those who demand the return of British sunken ships are not the British official, but some eye-catching media with "pirate thinking". They are still immersed in their dream of being an "empire on which the sun never sets", clamoring for us to hand over the cultural relics. . In the game between great powers, strength speaks for itself. Who is stronger? Who has the right to speak. 1. Sir, times have changed! If you fail to keep up with the times, you will be eliminated
Hundreds of years ago, the Manchu and Qing dynasties remained stagnant and let us understand the truth that "if you fall behind, you will be beaten." Those relics of the Old Summer Palace that have reappeared in the world are our The crystallization of thousands of years of culture is also a witness to that humiliating past, and it is also a mirror that stimulates us to become stronger.
Times are always changing. You think you can stand on top of the world and never end like the scorching sun in the sky. However, countless practical cases at home and abroad tell us:
No one is the real eternal king, and the situation changes in turn. Even if you are a dragon or a phoenix among people, even if you are a powerful country in the prosperous times, you can only lead each other for hundreds of years.
If you are immersed in the dream of being ahead for a while, then you will be ruthlessly eliminated by the times, and then you will be cruelly slapped in the face by reality.
Think about the Spanish Empire in the 16th century. It was the first "Empire on which the sun never sets". Now that we think of it, it was just a good football player. In the 19th century, it was the "Empire on which the sun never sets". This title was taken away by the British Empire. Now when we look at the UK, it is also going further and further down the road.
If in the late Qing Dynasty, a British merchant ship loaded with our country's treasures was salvaged, the British would only need to look at it, and we would humbly send everything over, and express our apology by the way. The wind and waves in our East China Sea were too big, and your treasure ship accidentally sank. It was because of our poor hospitality and poor escort.
But times have long since changed. Today, we don’t need to care about the trivial voices of the British people. We only need to salvage cultural relics and conduct archaeological research openly. No one dares to stand up and point fingers.
This is the change of the times, and this is the foundation of strength support. As long as you are strong enough, the noisy voice will not be able to do anything to you. 2. A brief analysis of the history of Britain's fortune, which is actually a history of "pirate" expansion
After Britain completed the industrial revolution in the 18th century, the use of steam engines suddenly increased its overall strength. When it was relatively After the barren map area cannot accommodate its ambitions, outward expansion is the only way to go.
One ship after another, ships and warships set off from the British mainland and headed towards the seven continents on the earth. They used pirate-style methods to carry out colonial expansion and plunder. Until the beginning of the 20th century, the area of Britain became More than 100 times the original size, and the name "The Empire on which the Sun Never Sets" spread.
Behind this seemingly domineering name, it is actually full of bloodshed and plunder, using civilized things to practice barbarism, with small courtesy but no great righteousness. Behind it is the bravery and exploration spirit that everyone praises. , then the other side is full of brutal "bandit culture".
Although Britain's colonies are decreasing and its strength is weakening, this kind of "bandit" culture flowing in the bones has not been cut off, and some people are still living in the past, living in that? The old days of just picking it up if you like it?
Therefore, when the robber's sunken ship is salvaged, those who live in the past will shamelessly hide in the dark and scream, without strong strength to support them. This kind of funny behavior can only make people angry. People laugh. 3. In fact, my country’s underwater archaeological work was also forced out by British explorers
Since our country is a country with an ancient farming civilization, the scope of its activities is basically on land. It was not vigorously developed until the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Shipping. Therefore, most of our country's archaeological work is done on land. Who would have thought that there could be huge wealth in the sea?
However, in 1970, a British explorer started to salvage the cultural relics of sunken ships. He initially salvaged sunken ships from World War II. Later, he accidentally discovered that our country’s porcelain was very popular and sold for a very high price. It was very high, so he focused on the porcelain.
Where can I find more porcelain? That is of course China, also known as China.
So he came to the South China Sea, salvaged a sunken ship from the Qing Dynasty, and earned US$30 million by auctioning the porcelain inside.
This incident gave us ideas. It turns out that underwater archeology is also necessary, otherwise our buried treasures will be stolen by others, so we have also begun to vigorously develop underwater archeology.
In 2003, our country salvaged the "Nanhai No. 1" sunken ship in the South China Sea. It was identified as a sunken ship from the Song Dynasty. This successful case of cultural relic excavation gave greater confidence to the underwater archeology industry. It is also gradually moving closer to formality.
Subsequently, our country salvaged four sunken ships from the late Qing Dynasty in the South China Sea. Although these ships are British, they are filled with Chinese cultural relics, precious cultural relics that they forcibly took away from the Old Summer Palace.
Maybe it was open-mindedness. Even if they arbitrarily snatched these cultural relics, they did not have the ability to take them away. In the end, they sank to the bottom of the East China Sea with them. More than 100 years later, they reappeared. Return to the human world and return to the embrace of the motherland. Finally:
The prosperity of the motherland is the strong foundation that supports our happy life. Behind the gains and losses of these cultural relics are powerful witnesses of the changes of the times and the changes in the situation.