British Museum, London, England. It is one of the museums with the largest collection of China cultural relics in the world. It is said that the collection of Song Yuanming porcelain here is second only to the Forbidden City in Beijing. In its Oriental Pavilion, there is a woman's history. This is the earliest scroll painting in China. Although it was copied in Sui and Tang Dynasties, it is a rare work handed down from generation to generation by Gu Kaizhi, a great painter in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. 1903 British captain John sold it to the British Museum. This painting is from another robbery in China. That is,18601016 October, after the British and French allied forces captured Beijing, they entered the Yuanmingyuan for robbery.

The British Museum has the largest collection of China cultural relics in Britain, and a large number of exquisite China cultural relics are collected. Representative cultural relics include jade carvings and dragons in the Han Dynasty, the Women's Historical Treasures in Jin and Gu Kaizhi, the pottery falcon sitting figurines in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, topaz sitting dogs in the Tang Dynasty, silk paintings and documents in Dunhuang, etc.

A group of foreign devils profited from it under the banner of "cultural inspection". /kloc-At the end of 0/9 and the beginning of the 20th century, Central Asia and northwest China were hot spots visited by explorers from all over the world, and expeditions of various names followed. During 1876- 1928, as many as 42 expeditions arrived in the northwest of China. These expeditions include Russia, Britain and France, as well as Germany, Japan, Sweden and the United States. Without the permission of China government, they wantonly stole cultural relics and illegally excavated ancient cultural sites in northwest China, resulting in heavy losses of cultural relics in China.

According to statistics, in previous surveys, pelliot, an Englishman and a Frenchman, plundered the Dunhuang Buddhist scriptures most seriously. It is said that Stein bought Dunhuang scriptures according to the size of paper; Pelliot is proficient in Chinese, and the 5,000 Yu Ben scriptures, silk books and paper paintings he plundered are the top grades in the Tibetan Sutra Cave. The worst behavior during the inspection was Warner in the United States. He covered the murals of the Thousand Buddha Cave in Dunhuang with a special tarpaulin and printed the paintings on the cloth and brought them back to the United States. After their crazy plunder, there are only 20,000 Dunhuang suicide notes in China and13,700 in the British Library.