more than 300 cultural relics have settled in the great wall museum, all donated by a "post-80s"
2024-09-17
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according to the beijing yanqing wechat public account, more than 300 cultural relics, including chariot wheel hubs, han dynasty tomb-shaped bricks, earthenware jars, and city wall bricks, have been collected by the china great wall museum. the person who donated these cultural relics is wang yutao, a public welfare expert.
born in the 1980s, wang yutao holds many titles: president of beijing mingruntang painting and calligraphy academy, deputy secretary-general of beijing association of tibet aid workers, and vice president of jiusan society beijing entrepreneurs association. when asked what title he likes most, wang yutao answered without hesitation that it was something related to culture and public welfare.
wang yutao's ancestral home is in hebei. he was born and raised in inner mongolia. his connection with culture began in his youth. wang yutao, who is obsessed with oil painting, is so fascinated by those light and shadows and color blocks that he chose fine arts as his major in college without any surprise. after graduation, he resolutely engaged in cultural career. in 2018, he founded beijing mingruntang calligraphy and painting academy and began to concentrate on cultural and artistic work. from then on, wang yutao plunged into the vast ocean of chinese civilization and fell in love with collecting. from calligraphy and painting to inscriptions and plaques, wang yutao collected everywhere and collected them with great concentration. "cultural relics are silent history." wang yutao always likes to say this. and he has gradually changed from a "cultural relic custodian" to a "cultural inheritance relayer."
in july 2023, the china great wall museum solicited cultural relics from the whole society to prepare for the exhibition after the museum's renovation and upgrading. wang yutao responded immediately. "cultural relics are silent, but they are the most affectionate narrators of history. letting cultural relics 'walk' into the museum is their best destination." this has always been wang yutao's belief.
it is not easy to collect hundreds of cultural relics suitable for donation to the great wall museum of china. "after seeing the collection information, i called my collector friends as soon as possible." relying on the connections and cultural resources accumulated in the collecting community over the years, wang yutao quickly mobilized his collector friends to donate. most of these more than 300 cultural relics were collected by him from the public one by one, and it took more than three months to collect all the cultural relics. some of them were personally delivered by collectors from afar, and some were transported by express delivery. every time wang yutao received a message from the express delivery, his heart was in suspense, "i was most worried about bumps and damage." in the end, these cultural relics were collected in the museum, and wang yutao breathed a sigh of relief: "this is worth doing."
cultural relics are silent, but history speaks. the wheel hubs of chariots with dark brown markings are engraved with the smoke of past wars, the beautifully shaped earthenware jars tell the story of the years, and the bricks in the han dynasty tombs make people imagine... wang yutao said that when looking at cultural relics, we should not only look at their economic value, but also look at the history behind them. handing over precious cultural relics to museums can better play the value of research, popular science, and education, and let the voice of history spread farther and louder.
editor: zhang shujing
