China is no longer a "sleeping dragon"! ""stop Christie's! "After a court in Paris rejected the request to stop the auction of Yuanming bronze animal heads on 23rd, and Christie's will auction rabbits, rats and animals as scheduled, netizens in China issued such angry voices. On the 24th, some netizens published an open letter to the French Presidential Palace and the French Embassy in China in the World Wide Web Forum, calling on France to return the lost cultural relics of Yuanmingyuan to China, and calling on netizens to collectively send a letter to the French government to protest. The open letter said that the bronze animal heads were plundered from China by the British and French allied forces during the Second Opium War, and Christie's auction was not only a shameful history of the Chinese nation, but also a shameful history of the French ancestors. The open letter said that 2008 was a very difficult year for Sino-French relations and a year for France to learn from the power of French public opinion. The open letter hopes that France will abandon its arrogance: today's China is no longer a "sleeping dragon" as Napoleon said, but an "oriental power" as Charles de Gaulle said! In the reply, the reporter noticed that netizens expressed their support for the open letter, including some radical remarks, such as boycotting French goods and even considering levying a cultural relic theft tax on all French enterprises in China. On the same day, some netizens published an "Open Letter to Christie's Auction Company" in the World Wide Web Forum, demanding that Christie's Company stop auctioning the bronze animal heads of Yuanmingyuan. The open letter reminds that if Christie's continues to conduct "this dirty transaction" regardless of the national feelings of the people of China, China netizens will unite and call on the China government to completely ban all activities of Christie's auction company in China; Call on Chinese people around the world not to participate in any auction activities of Christie's company! Do you think Christie's auction house should be banned? "According to a survey conducted by the World Wide Web on the 24th, more than 90% of netizens think that Christie's should be banned. Some netizens said that "Somali pirates and Taliban won't do such shameless things as France", while others thought that Britain and France should return all the Yuanmingyuan cultural relics looted in China during the Second Opium War. In addition, the World Wide Web also launched a comprehensive boycott of Christie's auction of Yuanmingyuan animal heads on the 24th. By 22: 00 on the 24th, nearly 2,000 netizens had participated in it in just a few hours. In response to the spontaneous protests of netizens in China, Lin Limin, director of the Strategic Research Center of China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, said in an interview with the Global Times reporter that the patriotic feelings of netizens are understandable, but this way can't solve the problem of the return of cultural relics. Director Lin Limin appealed to netizens to remain calm. Ding Gang, a senior reporter of People's Daily, told Global Times that the bronze animal heads in this auction were probably made by the French. Ding Gang said that netizens in China should think about two issues. First, is this a set? Will the French want to anger the people of China, so as to charge exorbitant prices? Otherwise, why did the animal head rise from RMB 5 million to RMB 654.38+0 billion? Second, some French people, like political hooligans, will be uncomfortable when they see the development of China, and they will go to great lengths to make trouble? What they want most now is that you compete with him. The more you compete with him, the more energetic he is.