The old woman stroked Zhao Tailai's hand and said affectionately: "Ah Lai, you are my most trusted person, and your character reassures me." I see you as my own, and I hope you can take care of everything behind me. ”
Zhao Tailai held the old woman's hand tightly and promised gratefully: "Auntie, you must live well, and I will do my best to take care of all this." The old woman smiled and nodded, then closed her eyes quietly.
Zhao Tailai's heart was like a knife, and he made a deep promise to his aunt's last wish that he must protect the precious legacy left by his ancestors. Although he didn't know what his aunt had left him at this time, he had already made up his mind to protect this precious legacy, just like his aunt, and give everything for it.
China stood up, and now the Motherland needs us. Son, you should hurry back and use your medical skills to serve the villagers. Under the persuasion of his father, Dr. Zhao said goodbye to his elderly parents and traveled all the way from Singapore to Dongguan, Guangdong.
Born in 1954 in Dongguan, Guangdong, his father, Dr. Zhao, worked in the local Humen Town Hospital, and his family was well-off, so he grew up living in a wealthy environment.
However, the happy days did not last long, and Cho Tae-rae's parents died when he was very young, and he lost the support of his family. Because the Zhao family has a deep scholarly background in Singapore, Zhao Tailai's father moved back to Guangdong because the family moved back, so Zhao Tailai has no relatives and friends to take refuge in Guangdong.
In order to survive, he had to leave his familiar Canton and go to Hong Kong to join his aunt. Although his aunt lives in Hong Kong, Zhao Tailai, who is in a foreign land, still feels the pain of being far away from water and not quenching his thirst.
Although Cho Tae-lai's fate was very bumpy, he always persevered, and through continuous hard work and struggle, he finally achieved success. His story teaches us that no matter how difficult life may be, as long as we have determination and perseverance, we will be able to overcome it and achieve our goals.
Zhao Tailai came from a prominent family, and his aunt was well-educated and had a high level of art appreciation. From his aunt, Zhao Tailai learned that his great-grandfather loved to collect and treasured many ink treasures at home.
These calligraphy treasures attracted many well-known painters to come and exchange art. Influenced by this, Zhao Tailai also developed a strong interest in painting. Under the recommendation of his aunt, he was fortunate to study with Zhang Daqian, Zhao Shaoang, Huang Junbi and other masters of Chinese painting, and eventually became Zhao Shaoang's closing door**.
Life always likes to play with people, Zhao Tailai originally thought that his life would get better and better, but his aunt's health gradually deteriorated. Looking at his aging aunt, Zhao Tailai's heart was like a knife, and he was reluctant to let his aunt leave.
However, the aunt faced life and death with an indifferent attitude, and when she was dying, she left all her property to Zhao Tailai, and asked him not to reveal the slightest rumor. Two years later, Zhao Tailai received all the inheritance left by his aunt in Hong Kong, including a property worth tens of millions and a two-story collection.
Seeing these mountains of wealth, Zhao Tailai's performance was very calm, he continued to paint, and lived a simple life. Two years later, Mr. Cho received his aunt's second inheritance, a castle on the outskirts of London.
This inheritance brought him to London, England alone, where he followed the map to find the castle and start a new life. The new copy retains the core idea of the original copy, that is, Cho Tae-rae inherited his aunt's fortune after her death, and that the aunt left him some special instructions on her deathbed.
The new copy is more concise and clear, and the language is more fluent.
Zhao Tailai stood in front of the empty castle, his heart full of complicated emotions. The growth of wealth did not fade his longing for his aunt, but made him feel more beautiful and short of life.
According to the map left by his aunt, he found a forgotten cellar in the castle. Now, more than 80 years later, he finally opened the cellar door, and a musty smell came to his face.
He turned on the flashlight, and the light could only reach a corner of the cellar. However, the illuminated place was filled with wooden boxes of various sizes. Cho Tae-rae bravely walked into the cellar and opened a wooden box.
The box was filled with beautiful antique artifacts, which surprised him. He continued to open the other chests and found them filled with all sorts of antique artifacts. Although her aunt did not tell Zhao Tae-lai what her property was before her death, she hoped that Zhao Tae-lai would be mentally prepared.
These antique relics are like an aunt's love, deeply engraved in Zhao Tailai's heart.
Looking at the mountain of boxes, Zhao Tailai understood why his aunt would never marry. This cellar is a treasure place, and the aunt, as the guardian, is willing to sacrifice her personal happiness in order to protect these treasures from those who want to take them.
The thin air in the cellar almost suffocated Zhao Tailai, and by the time he came back to his senses, he was already in tears. After calming down, Cho Tae-rae realized that he had a heavy responsibility.
Great-grandfather, out of trust in his aunt, left her an inheritance. And the aunt did not live up to the expectations of the family and held on to these treasures. Now, Cho Tae-rae has also won the trust of his aunt because of his steady personality and has become the guardian of the third generation.
In order to do his job of protecting the treasure, he decides to keep this secret deep in his heart, including his new wife. The following year, Cho Tae-rae married a woman named Ah Fang.
Ah Fang is empathetic, the two have similar personalities, and after marriage, they decided not to have children, and just want to stay together until they are old.
Ah Fong runs a Chinese restaurant in a quiet alley in London, while Zhao Tailai spends his time in the castle and rarely goes out. It is generally believed that the painter Cho Tae-rae likes to stay at home and does not like to go out, so no one doubts this.
However, only Cho Tae-lai himself knows that he has not picked up a paintbrush for a long time. When he discovers the ancient artifacts in the basement, he understands that it is his responsibility to protect them.
In order to organize these precious cultural relics, he sacrificed his painting career and stayed alone in the dark and damp cellar every day, sorting out and registering the existing antique relics.
The work was extremely difficult, and Zhao Tailai not only had to face heavy and complex tasks, but also faced constant danger to his life. He had to endure both psychological and physical pressure, taking every step carefully and fearfully.
The cellar of the collection has not been opened for many years, and it has long been a nest of nocturnal animals, which is full of dangers. When sorting out a box, Zhao Tailai was almost bitten by a silver krait; On another occasion when carrying Warring States bronzes, he was smashed and injured his foot, and the pain was like a cone, and he was finally diagnosed with a comminuted fracture of five toes.
Although it was difficult, he never gave up, paid silently, and took care of these precious cultural relics. For ten years, he carried out the cleaning work day after day, just to protect these cultural relics from wind and rain and from the ravages of time.
He knew that people would grow old, but these artifacts, if not properly preserved, would quickly deteriorate. The rainy weather in the UK makes the cellars cold and damp all year round, which is undoubtedly a major challenge for the preservation of cultural relics.
However, Cho Tae-lai never stopped, and his persistence and efforts were only to protect these precious cultural heritages.
After many inquiries, Zhao Tailai finally found a suitable packaging material in many antique stores - styrofoam. This material is not only effective against moisture ingress, but also lightweight and easy to carry.
However, in those days, styrofoam was very expensive. In the UK, a piece of styrofoam for packaging costs £4. Faced with such a high ** and a large number of collections, Zhao Tailai felt a lot of headaches, and he was worried that the packaging cost would consume all his savings.
Not to mention, it will be necessary to find someone to repair the cultural relics in the future, which will be a considerable expense.
In order to protect cultural relics, Zhao Tailai deliberately picked up the styrofoam discarded by other people's moves. Although he lived a difficult life and was mistaken for a multi-millionaire by others, he had only one goal in mind - to protect these cultural relics.
He spent £960,000 packing all the artifacts and travelling around Europe, asking how to care for the bronzes to prevent them from oxidizing. Once, he even went to Japan to find craftsmen to repair thangkas and paid a lot of money.
Zhao Tailai had a heart-to-heart conversation with Tang Likui, and finally decided to donate hundreds of millions of antiques to the museum. He recalled the scene of exchanging art with teachers when he was young, and deeply realized that culture nurtures people, and cultural relics are symbols of past culture.
He was born in troubled times, and his ancestors had to transport the treasures abroad to hide them. Now that his country is growing stronger and more capable of protecting his ancestral heritage, he decided to donate his relics back to his country.
In the spring of 1991, Zhao Tailai confessed to his wife Ah Fang about the cultural relics, and learned that they were worth enough to buy a small town in the United Kingdom.
Ah Fang already knew that Zhao Tailai was silently guarding the cultural relics and expressed support for his decision.
Zhao Tailai and Ah Fang understand that it is not easy to protect precious cultural relics, so they never bother their husbands. Although Ah Fang does not know how to appreciate cultural relics, she knows that her husband is the poor billionaire in the world, and wealth is outside the body, and only the relationship between husband and wife is the most precious.
Therefore, she supported Cho Tae-lai to donate cultural relics. However, not all of them have the lofty ideals of the Cho Tae-lais and their willingness to donate cultural relics. When Zhao Tailai's family members learned of this, they all wanted a piece of the pie and resolutely opposed his donation plan.
During the mediation process, Ah Fang decided to give 20% of Zhao Tailai's estate, which originally belonged to him, to family members. In addition to the opposition of his family members, Zhao Tailai was also besieged by antiquities dealers.
They tried their best to persuade Zhao Tailai to ** antiques. In the face of these challenges, Ah Fong has always stood by Zhao Tailai's side and supported him to stick to his beliefs, donate cultural relics, and pass on history.
In the face of all kinds of **, Zhao Tailai sticks to his original intention, and he has only one wish, that is, to send the national treasure back to the motherland. To achieve this, he decided to sell four mansions in London and use the money to raise freight costs.
In 1991, he donated 853 treasures to the Yancheng Museum in Jiangsu Province, which is only part of his collection. In the same year, he donated 32 paintings and calligraphy to the Chinese History Museum, including national treasures such as the Qianlong Emperor's handwritten imperial book "The Art of War", bamboo slips, and chrysanthemum stones from the Old Summer Palace.
In 1995, he donated more than 10,000 antiques to the Guangzhou Art Museum, including about 150 national cultural relics and thousands of national cultural relics.
First and second class cultural relics.
His donation also includes ** thangkas, whose quality and grade are second only to the collection of the Potala Palace in Lhasa. Zhao Tailai's selfless dedication is deeply moving. His behavior is not only the cherishing of national treasures, but also the love of the motherland and the responsibility of cultural inheritance.
Zhao Tailai and his wife, as overseas Chinese, donated more than 10,000 precious cultural relics to the Baomo Garden in Panyu, Guangzhou, including rare treasures from the Shang, Zhou, Spring and Autumn periods and the Warring States Period.
These treasures have gone through thousands of waves and returned to the embrace of the motherland from across the ocean. Standing on the bow of the boat, Zhao Tailai and his wife saw the hope of the cultural prosperity of the motherland. Although Zhao Tailai moved to London and became a British citizen, he has always been a descendant of Yan and Huang, and has a deep love for the cultural heritage of his motherland.
In order to inherit Chinese culture, Zhao Tailai opened his treasure hall to the world for free, donated 50,000 pieces of collections, with a market value of 800 million yuan.
Zhao Tailai, an outstanding person with the World Outstanding Chinese Award, participated in the grand event with celebrities such as Jin Yong and Chen Xiangmei. In the face of these honors, he still maintained a calm attitude, as calm as he was when he accepted his aunt's billions of inheritance.
He and his wife lived a modest life, and the only change was that he now had more time to paint. When he picked up his beloved paintbrush again, he sighed: "The most precious thing in life is ideals, and you must not do things that hurt nature and reason for money."
Although money is useful, the most precious thing is the influence of ideals and culture on life. ”