Children smashed "1.3 million cultural relics"?

Recently, a parent in Wuhan, Hubei broke the news that his child accidentally broke a "cultural relic worth 1.

, duration 00:37 Video source: @People concerned (00:37)

After the incident was reported by the media, some netizens questioned whether this "collection of cultural relics" was a real cultural relic and whether it was worth 1.

On January 26, The Paper learned from the staff of the Wuchang District Cultural Relics and Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center that the damaged "collection of cultural relics" was a "tomb figurine", but not a cultural relic registered in the register.

A staff member of the Political Work Department of the Wuchang Branch of the Wuhan Public Security Bureau also told The Paper that the matter has been handed over to the local judicial office for coordination and is currently being coordinated

The original video posted by parents on Douyin

Peng Mei News noticed that on the afternoon of the 26th, the parents of the children involved posted a video on their personal Douyin account saying that they are now re-mediating, and I hope the majority of netizens will not have too many radical comments

The above-mentioned parents posted a video on January 22 saying that their son participated in a 5-day off-campus winter camp of 1,000 yuan, visited a local museum, and smashed cultural relics worth 1.

　　The video released by the parents showed that the half-person-height sculpture exhibit was placed in the corner of the wall.

　　According to the Beiqing Daily, the parents said that the child was 12 years old this year, and the teacher from the training institution took him to visit the museum.

　　On January 26, Peng Mei News sent a private message to the parent on the short video platform, but as of press time, there was no reply

　　Data map of the official account of Wuhan Zhenyuan Museum, the gate of the Red Lane Museum

　　Peng Mei News noticed that on the 26th, some netizens who claimed to be witnesses to the incident said that the sculpture was a "tomb figurine", not worth 1.

　　On the 26th, The Paper learned from the Wuchang District Cultural Relics and Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center under the Wuchang District Culture and Tourism Bureau of Wuhan City that the incident happened at the Zhenyuan Museum in Wuhan City

　　A staff member of the center said, "(The smashed exhibit) is not a cultural relic, but a private collection of the museum

　　Regarding the follow-up compensation and handling issues, the above-mentioned staff said that at noon today (26th), they learned that the parents and the museum had reached a settlement agreement

　　People visit the official account of Wuhan Zhenyuan Museum inside Zhenyuan Museum.

　　The staff member also introduced that the museum involved is a non-state-owned private museum.
It is up to the collectors to display the collections to the society, and the protection measures for the display of the collections are also determined by the private museums themselves
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　　The surging news reporter inquired on the national social organization credit information publicity platform that Wuhan Zhenyuan Museum was established on April 26, 2019.
It is a private non-enterprise unit.
Its business scope involves the collection and display, cultural exchange, and planning of ancient Chinese artworks.
Exhibition with a registered capital of 500,000 yuan
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The registration certificate shows the address as 4th Floor, Hongxiang Art City, No.
37 Hongxiang Road, Linjiang Avenue, Wuchang District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province
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　　In 2019, Changjiang Daily reported that there are many folk museums in Hongxiang, Wuchang District, Wuhan City, which is the community with the largest number of folk museum exhibition halls in the central and southern regions, with nearly 1,000 national first- and second-class cultural relics
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　　On the afternoon of the 26th, the relevant person in charge of the research institution involved told The Paper that the matter is currently under mediation.
"There are many places that are not true, and it is inconvenient to disclose them now
.
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　　Surging Comments

　　First of all, we need to ask: Are there any legal sources for the broken tomb figurines? Are they unearthed cultural relics? How is the price determined?

　　Chinese law divides cultural relics into handed down cultural relics and unearthed cultural relics
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The "Law on the Protection of Cultural Relics" clearly stipulates that all unearthed cultural relics are owned by the state, and cultural relics legally owned by individual citizens can be inherited, exchanged or transferred according to law, and their property rights are protected by law
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For example, the family's ancestral calligraphy, painting, and literary play are allowed to be bought, sold, transferred, and inherited (but not necessarily allowed to leave the country)
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However, the sale of unearthed cultural relics is absolutely not allowed, otherwise, the sale of stolen and unearthed cultural relics is a criminal offense, and of course there is no price
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　　The peculiarity of the broken tomb figurines is that, from the perspective of use, it must have been in the tomb originally and entered the circulation link because it was unearthed
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So is it considered an unearthed cultural relic? Because such buried artifacts are generally considered unlucky by the players of the past dynasties, they are not used as collectibles, so they are rarely circulated as handed down cultural relics
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This kind of utensil is dubbed by the industry as "with the imprint of the Luoyang shovel" and "bought from Hu Bayi"
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This is the most suspicious part of the heritage of this artifact
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　　Now the private museum says the relics were bought back from Japan many years ago, at a cost of more than 200,000 yuan
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This statement seems to evade the characterization of the "unearthed cultural relics" of the exhibits.
However, it is necessary to produce the corresponding proof of purchase, customs declaration, and entry to prevent the unearthed cultural relics from being washed through the so-called "return"
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　　Secondly, is this thing a real cultural relic, or is there even a "national treasure gang" problem? At present, there is a lot of confusion in the collection field, especially after the news came out, some netizens found almost identical "Tomb figurines" on the e-commerce platform "It's just a few hundred yuan of handicrafts
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There are indeed "national treasure gangs" in society who use to open museums to elevate the fakes they collect
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For example, the Jibaozhai Museum in Hengshui, Hebei, which has been exposed, has a collection of "subversive" collections: the "Jinling Twelve Hairpins" vases during the Yongzheng period, and a set of Yuanqinghua zodiac signs in "Zhongshan suits"
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　　Whether the broken object is a real cultural relic cannot be determined unilaterally by the museum, but should be identified by an authoritative department
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　　Third, this tomb figurine was placed on a pedestal without a glass cover or a warning line, and it was close to the window where visitors would approach, giving the impression that it was placed there carelessly, and it was easy to will fall
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There is a better vase at home, and I dare not put it like this, let alone a public place? And from the monitoring, the children who visited are also civilized and did not run around on the scene
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Therefore, some people doubt whether this private museum is "touching porcelain"? At least, there is obviously a problem of not paying attention to the protection of cultural relics
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　　It can't be true, and it can't be true
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Instead of drooling all over the Internet, it is better to let the cultural relics department and the cultural management department take the initiative to intervene in the investigation and identification, especially to find out the source of the tomb figurines in the town
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Cultural relics protection should not exist in a gray area
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