On September 3, 2005 (June 18, 2015 in the lunar calendar), Zhao Tailai, the poorest billionaire in China, won the "World Outstanding Chinese Award." Zhao Tailai is a British Chinese, cultural relics collector and painter. On September 3, 2005, he won the "World Outstanding Chinese Award" together with Jin Yong and Chen Xiangmei; as a billionaire, he was reluctant to buy a decent car; He donated more than 50,000 pieces of cultural relics and collections to the motherland, worth more than 800 million yuan (in fact, it is far more than this price. The nearly 32-meter-long scroll of ancient canals donated by Mr. Zhao Tailai and nearly a thousand paintings from the Tang, Song, and Qing Dynasties may have exceeded this price), including more than 10,000 pieces donated to the collection of Guangzhou Art Museum and 20 containers of cultural relics and art donated to Panyu Baomo Garden. In order to allow cultural relics to travel across the ocean back to his "mother's family" in China, he sold four houses in London as freight. At the age of 23, he has a lot of wealth."In 1977, my aunt secretly told me that I had a batch of inheritance in Hong Kong and Europe for me to inherit, and repeatedly told me that I couldn't leak a word to the public!" This mysterious inheritance made Zhao Tailai a little nervous. In 1979, Zhao Tailai began to accept his aunt's property in Hong Kong. In addition to tens of millions of houses and industries, there were also a large number of collectibles piled up on two floors, which stunned Zhao Tailai. "Child, this is just a very small part of the world. In a cellar in Europe, it will open your eyes even more. "My aunt asked Zhao Tailai to be fully mentally prepared to avoid being" scared "by the time he became extremely happy and sad. In the spring of 1981, Zhao Tailai received notice to go to the UK to accept his inheritance. There is a huge manor on the outskirts of London that was purchased by the Zhao family more than 80 years ago. Zhao Tailai took a lot of trouble with the treasure map before finding the entrance to the cellar in a secret place in the manor. Countless wooden boxes, large and small, were piled all the way to the door. Zhao Tailai opened several wooden boxes near the door with worms and moldy and picked up straw and cotton. The inside were full of ancient calligraphy and paintings, ceramics, jade articles, and bronzes... Zhao Tailai did not know how big the cellar was and how many boxes of treasures were contained in it, but Zhao Tailai, who was good at appreciating cultural relics, knew that this dusty and closed cellar was a splendid historical picture. Most of these treasures were collected by his great-grandfather Wu Tingfang. Wu Tingfang was an ambassador to the United States, Peru and other countries in the late Qing Dynasty. After the founding of the Republic of China, he served as Attorney General, Chief of Foreign Affairs, and Acting Prime Minister. He was famous all over the world. The family collection has been continuously collected and supplemented by three generations, and more than 60,000 pieces have been passed to Zhao Tailai. Zhao Tailai, the "broken king" who lives in a mansion, did not expect that in order to uncover the dusty history in the cellar, he would have to work hard for 10 years and become a "super beggar" living in a high-end villa. In order to save the treasure left by his family, Zhao Tailai put aside his beloved painting career and moved to London in 1992, joined the British nationality, and became an "underground worker." Because he was afraid that the news would leak and lead to his death, he didn't even dare to tell his beloved wife, let alone ask for help. He could only carry the treasure out of the cellar one by one like ants moving their houses every day. He was so tired that he was sweating profusely every day. Once, when he was looking for a bronze ware from the Warring States Period, he accidentally fell and injured his left foot, causing comminuted fractures of five toes and his feet were swollen like bread. He was hospitalized for more than a month before recovering. During another cleaning, several teeth were knocked off, and he still has false teeth. For Zhao Tailai, the daily cleaning work is still very dangerous. In addition to worrying about being discovered every day, he also has to guard against animal attacks at all times and everywhere. Because the treasure cellar that has been dusty for more than 80 years contains mice, poisonous snakes and unknown animals. Once when he was carrying a wooden box, a silver ring snake suddenly jumped out of the bottom of the box. Fortunately, Zhao Tailai dodged in time, otherwise the silver ring snake would have killed him in one bite. The number of cultural relics moved to his house and villa is increasing day by day. Zhao Tailai dare not hire nannies and security personnel for fear of revealing secrets. In order to ensure the safety of cultural relics, Zhao Tailai raised four fierce hounds to guard the home and protect the treasures. The cultural relics that have been cleared still need to be packaged, but prices in the UK are high, and a piece of packaging foam costs 4 pounds. In order to save money, he went out almost every day to find packaging materials. "As soon as I see the seller's private goods, I am happy and can pick up the packaging that others have lost. I was very famous at that time, and people around me thought I was a rag picker, but it was so strange to live in a mansion and pick up rag!" Thinking of the dilemma back then, Zhao Tailai couldn't help but smile. Cleanup work, which was thought to be completed in a few months, lasted for 10 years. During this period, he insisted on keeping a diary every day and registering the cultural relics he handled one by one. The packaging materials alone cost hundreds of thousands of pounds to organize those cultural relics. Thangka treasures from different dynasties, Zhao Qingyou Sier from the Southern Dynasties, and blue and white fish and algae fish tanks from the Ming Dynasty... one artistic treasure after another has been resurfaced. While Zhao Tailai was pleased, the pressure in his heart was growing: What should he do with these 60,000 treasures? At the age of 37, he donated ancestral cultural relics. In the 1980s, Zhao Tailai met Tang Likui, a photographer for the Hong Kong Branch of Xinhua Agency, and the two became good friends. "It's difficult for you to keep so many good things. Why don't you donate them to museums in China that are capable of collecting them? "Tang Likui advised him. These words reached Zhao Tailai's heart. He thought that rather than keeping it for himself, it would be better for more people to appreciate it. Donate! Zhao Tailai embarked on another 10-year journey of transportation and donation. In 1991, when he was 37 years old, Zhao Tailai donated a total of 853 cultural relics of various types to the Yancheng Museum in Jiangsu Province twice, and donated 32 calligraphy and paintings by famous Qing Dynasty masters to the Museum of China History. According to rough statistics, he has donated more than 50,000 cultural relics to major museums in China so far. He donated almost all the cultural relics that three generations in the family, starting with his great-grandfather Wu Tingfang, had been continuously enriched by him. The cultural relics donated by Zhao Tailai are estimated to be about 800 million yuan. In fact, how can the value of some cultural relics be measured with money? The Xizang Thangka he donated is second only to the collection of the Potala Palace in Lhasa in terms of quality and grade. "My grandfather and grandfather both liked to collect Thangka. The earliest one was from the late Tang Dynasty. In order to transport these cultural relics back to China, Zhao Tailai sold four villas in London as travel expenses. He also went to Japan at his own expense and spent millions of yuan to frame Thangka before donating it. Worried that bronzes would oxidize in the humid environment of the south, he personally carried out anti-oxidation treatment. "Good wife, thank you." In 1982, 28-year-old Zhao Tailai and the young and beautiful Ms. Afang walked the red carpet of marriage. After marriage, Zhao Tailai and his wife had a very good relationship and reached a tacit understanding: they were infertile for life and became a "Dink family." Zhao Tailai hid the secret inheritance of his aunt's property from his wife, because he was worried that his wife would endanger her personal safety if she knew too much. Once those cultural relics dealers and gangsters find out about the treasure, they are very likely to resort to various means such as kidnapping and murder to plunder it. In the spring of 1991, Zhao Tailai finally decided to tell his wife the truth. "Madam, there is something I have been hiding from you for nine years." Zhao Tailai said to Ah Fang,"You have to be mentally prepared that our broken copper and iron can buy a small town in the UK. "A Fang's answer surprised Zhao Tailai: " I knew this for a long time. Although I don't know much about cultural relics appreciation, I knew that you were the poorest billionaire in the world." Only then did Zhao Tailai realize that his wife had long known about his "underground work" and pretended to be deaf and foolish was actually silently supporting her husband's career. Zhao Tailai hugged Ah Fang, his eyes moist. "I only need your rose and a box of chocolates on Valentine's Day. I don't want anything else. "After the treasure surfaced, A Fang immediately said to her husband," No matter how precious wealth is, it is something beyond your body. I will not take it with me until I die. I just want to be a civilian couple with you all my life." His wife's true confession made Zhao Tailai suddenly understand, and the "heart disease" that had troubled him for many years suddenly discovered a prescription. When he encountered a family crisis on the way to donate treasures, he heard that Zhao Tailai was going to donate these overseas treasures to the country. Zhao Tailai's uncles, sisters, cousins, etc. rushed to the door and interrogated Zhao Tailai, saying that he was "mentally abnormal" and stopped him from donating his ancestral collections for free. They also made harsh words: If Zhao Tailai insisted on his own way, all family members of the Zhao family would sever ties with him. Zhao Tailai immediately fell into an embattled situation. Just as Zhao Tailai fell into extreme depression and even shook his mind, his wife Afang always stood by him and encouraged her husband to be strong and overcome the difficulties. At this time, A Fang helped her husband do two things: on the one hand, she used Tang Likui to connect with domestic museums to accept donations, and on the other hand, she coordinated tensions between the Zhao family and sent her isolated and excluded husband back to her extended family. With the mediation of his wife, Zhao Tailai distributed a small part of his treasure to all the family members, finally resolving a family crisis. Later, Zhao Tailai donated more than 10,000 pieces to the Guangzhou Art Museum, of which nearly a thousand were national first-level and second-level cultural relics. This is just a small part of what he has donated over the past 10 years. At Baomo Garden in Panyu, Guangzhou, he donated 20 containers of cultural relics and art. During the Spring Festival of 2005, Zhao Tailai held his wife A Fang's hand and admired the treasures he donated in museums in Guangzhou, Panyu, and Dongguan. He felt that every treasure exuded the fragrance of roses-his aunt and his wife A Fang, two ordinary women, used their love to incense the cold history. Mr. Zhao Tailai, who is currently willing to be a mortal, distributed 60,000 pieces of cultural relics shipped back to the motherland to various institutions. It is unprecedented, and I am afraid that there will be no successor. The state's praise and honor level to Mr. Zhao are also extremely high. Two Premier Zhu Rongji, Wen Jiabao, Vice President Zeng Qinghong and the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council successively invited Mr. Zhao to Beijing to attend the National Day ceremony and reception in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 respectively. Attending various activities at all levels, awarding various honors, and interviewing and reporting by major media are countless and overwhelmed. On September 3, 2005, Zhao Tailai, Jin Yong, Chen Xiangmei and others won the "2005 World Outstanding Chinese Award". Zhao Tailai, currently deputy editor-in-chief of Hong Kong Motherland Publishing House, often goes to TV stations to give lectures on cultural relics appreciation. His wife, on the other hand, still runs her China restaurant in obscurity on a secluded road in London. Extended reading: Walking into Baomo Garden and Nanyue Garden to watch Extended reading: Walking into Baomo Garden and Nanyue Garden to watch and visit Baomo Garden in Panyu, Guangzhou-friends have recommended it several times, saying that there are many collections in it that the Forbidden City does not have! I was very surprised. After I went there, I opened my eyes. The rows of bronzes, Tang Sancai, blue and white porcelain, jade... Unexpectedly, only one vase from the Jiajing period is marked as a Qing Dynasty imitation, and the rest are written with the Western Zhou Dynasty, Spring and Autumn Period, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties... There are actually Hongshan Culture, Liangzhu Culture and ancient stone axes!!! This shocked me because it was mentioned above that I was interviewed on CCTV and was named the world's outstanding Chinese-although I am very sensitive to such outstanding Chinese, Chinese chambers of commerce, etc.(It seems that there was a Lu XX who also belonged to the Chinese chamber of commerce before). If these are all authentic products, there will definitely be hundreds of millions of yuan blue and white flowers on the appraisal treasure are all tens of millions, right? The twelve animal heads are all hundreds of millions. There are tiger heads in the Zhao Pavilion, but there is still no imitation or fake!!! When I came back and checked Baidu, it was simply a myth. However, Baidu said,"He donated more than 50,000 pieces of cultural relics and collections to the motherland. The first batch of donations of more than 7,000 pieces with a total value of more than 800 million yuan (this is what Mr. Zhao Tailai personally said in CCTV's 4" Chinese World "), among which there are as many as 150 pieces of cultural relics at or above the national level alone."--- MD, more than 50,000 pieces are only 800 million yuan, which is 16,000 yuan for each piece? Damn it, shouldn't it be 8 trillion yuan, haha. I don't know anything about antiques, but I know common sense.