If nothing else, I just sent a batch of antiques to Paris for exhibition recently. I don't know what will happen. ......
When you see opium, you won't throw it into the toilet in public to see its complete revolution. You just send it to the drugstore for treatment, but you don't create the mystery of "while stocks last"
Quoting stories or platitudes that people like to hear in old novels, and later using store advertisements to "sell paste until it is sold out" all contain strong irony, euphemistically explaining that there is no return, and attacking the shameful behavior of flattery.
Hanging all the way in European countries is called "promoting the national light".
I heard that Dr. Mei Lanfang will be sent to the Soviet Union to promote "symbolism" in the near future, and then he will go to Europe to preach. (The sharp edge of the author's satirical criticism is not aimed at a few artists, but at the reactionary authorities who betray the country and flatter foreign countries and their royal literati, with hatred and contempt between the lines. )
In a word, living people have replaced antiques, and I dare say it is a little progress.
Only pipes and lamps, although different from India, Persia and Arabia in form, are considered as national quintessence.
(using irony, extremely ironic)