Foreign media: Norway to China to return seven China Yuanmingyuan marble columns

The seven China Yuanmingyuan marble columns, which flow into a Norwegian museum, are expected to return to China in September. Today, Mr. Huang Nubo, chairman of Zhongkun Group, who was known for his purchase in Iceland, confirmed to the Beijing News reporter that it donated 10 million Norwegian kroner (about US $ 1.6 million) to the KODE Museum in Bergen, Norway last year, And asked the museum to collect the seven China Yuanmingyuan marble column returned to China.

"Huang Nubo said that as the alumni of Peking University, he knew that the current campus of Peking University is part of China's Yuanmingyuan, so he has consulted with Peking University, plans in September this year, these China Yuanmingyuan marble columns donated To Peking University, at the Peking University Museum, "as a base for adolescent patriotism education, will be open to the public.

Huang Nubo said that last year, Peking University has sent an archaeological security experts to Norway, the identification of the museum collection of seven stone columns for the China Yuanmingyuan marble column.

According to the Zhongkun Group, Beijing will regularly send experts to Norway to assist the KODE Museum in the collection of Chinese collections and hold a permanent exhibition of Chinese and porcelain.

"There are three or four thousand pieces of Chinese porcelain, calligraphy and painting collection." Huang Nubo said, as in addition to the China Yuanmingyuan marble column outside the rest of the museum in China, he had no intention to buy.

According to a Norwegian museum and a Chinese businessman reached an agreement, more than a century ago was settled in China before the former Norwegian cavalry officers bought the seven China Yuanmingyuan marble column is scheduled to return to the hometown of autumn this fall.

These columns are part of the 2500 pieces of Chinese artwork collected by the KODE Museum in Bergen. The museum's Chinese art collection was donated by John William-Norman-Monte in 1907 to 1935.

According to the terms of the agreement reached in December last year, China's real estate developer Huang Nubo will donate 10 million Norwegian kroner (about $ 1.6 million) to the Norwegian museum.

Huang Nubo in China outside the most famous deeds may have been trying to buy in Iceland to build golf courses.

In return, these columns will be returned to China in September this year, and placed on the alma mater of Huang Nubo Peking University. Peking University also established an academic cooperation project with the museum.

Former KODE Art Museum curator, is currently the Danish Aarhus ARoS Art Museum curator Ellen de Jaysten said that Huang Nubo donations for the KODE Museum to repair its China Art Collection booth plan to provide half of the budget funds The

According to Hayesen, the KODE Museum made a decision after a lengthy discussion of how the Chinese art collection was held. The KODE Museum is one of Europe's largest collections of Chinese cultural relics. The theft occurred in January 2013 resulted in serious damage, when thieves stole more than 20 pieces of artifacts from the Chinese cultural relics collection area. This is the second time that the Chinese collection in the museum has been stolen in recent years and has led to it. The exhibition closes.

Zhongnun Investment Group Chairman Huang Nubo said by e-mail that he was informed that the museum's Chinese cultural relics need to be repaired and that he was interested in the columns from China's Yuanmingyuan. After meeting last year's cultural event with Herthien, he agreed to fund the museum.

Although the name of Monte in Norway, and even in his hometown of Bergen are obscure, but the KODE Art Museum collection of Chinese artifacts are mostly from his donation. He was a cavalry officer of the Norwegian army, who traveled to China in 1886 and worked at the Chinese customs. In the Sino-Japanese War, he fought for the Chinese side, and later became the first president of the Republic of China Yuan Shikai appointed vice president.

Monte became a zodiac collector for Chinese statues, pottery, and other artifacts, including the seven columns. Do not know how he got these relics.

Where are the columns of the Yuanmingyuan in China?

History of the China Yuanmingyuan experienced three robberies, respectively, robbery, stone robbery and robbery. British and French troops set fire to China after the Yuanmingyuan, the people around and moved into a lot of building components, the next few years, many stone carvings have been lost, this is the stone robbery. In the period of the people's commune, the peasants planted crops on the mound of the ruins.

Now in the end how many China Yuanmingyuan cultural relics scattered, no one made it clear. As of August 2013, some units, individuals have been donated seven or eight pieces of China Yuanmingyuan cultural relics, all for the stone components, including stone fish, stone bench, stone tables and so on.

Liu Yuan, a member of the Academic Committee of the Yuanmingyuan Society of China, has found that the China Yuanmingyuan stone carving artifacts, which are scattered outside China, are concentrated in Beijing and are basically placed separately. Such cultural relics are easier to return.

And a lot of stone carvings have been combined into a new landscape, and even became a local landmark, but also get better protection, these artifacts must return to the China Yuanmingyuan is worth exploring. Which is more famous to the number of Zhongshan Park Lanting eight columns, Peking University is not the name of the lake turned fish and so on.

In addition, the most talked about is often appear in the auction market at home and abroad on the scattered treasures. Of which two pieces of billions of goods is last year by the French Pino family donated to the Chinese government free of charge and the first rabbit head.

And in recent years in China Yuanmingyuan marble columns excavations of some cultural relics, no one is complete. Even so, together with the return of stone artifacts, China Yuanmingyuan existing cultural relics, but also hundreds of pieces only.