(On March fourth day of Chinese New Year), April 24, 1947, the Republic of China has suffered serious losses of cultural relics.

1947 4, 24, chairman of the Kuomintang government, Ministry of Education, clean-up the wartime relics loss Committee Hang Liwu reporting that: after Beijing, Shanghai, Ping, Tianjin, Wuhan, Guangdong, Hong Kong, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, relics throughout the country office in Henan and other public and private heritage registration and survey statistics, a total loss of 3,677,074 of ancient books, calligraphy and painting stickers monument, antiquities, monuments, instruments, specimens, and 1870 boxes and 741 (monument). Now receives around puppet relics, namely, the Beijing-Shanghai area by Chen et collections 9 case, 374,871, and 9 package 2804 bundle, box and 955 letters; Beiping-Tianjin area Puyi, possession of Antiquities 4 case, a total of 220 boxes and 871 and safe 2; case of pseudo Palace relics in the northeast region, a total of 81,903, and 385 packets of 29 310 consistent 10; recovered Guangzhou academic institutions lost book case in Hong Kong, a total of 597 boxes. Estimated that the heritage value of the pre-war standard, taking into account the total loss of 9,885,546 yuan.