A Chinese bronze vessel some 3,000 years old that was looted and taken to the United Kingdom in the 19th century, has returned to its country of origin, officials said.

根据官方报道称：20世纪被英国掠夺走有3000年历史的中国古青铜容器已被归还中国

It was transferred to the National Museum of China on Tuesday.

该青铜器于周二被转交给中国国家博物馆

The vessel, called the Tiger Ying because the top and spout show images of tigers, is from the late period of the Western Zhou Dynasty (c. 11th century-771 BC). Before it was lost, it was housed in the Old Summer Palace, or Yuanmingyuan, a huge imperial garden complex of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) in northwest Beijing, along with many other royal collections of cultural relics.

因为壶口有老虎的图像，这一青铜容器叫做虎鎣，产于西周时期（公元前11世纪771年）.这件青铜器在遗失之前，被置放在老圆明园内，圆明园是（1644-1911年间）坐落于北京西北部的一座综合性清朝花园，园区内还有很多其它皇室藏品文物

"The loss and return of Chinese cultural relics is closely connected with the fall and rise of a nation," Liu Yuzhu, director of the National Cultural Heritage Administration, said on Tuesday.

国家文物局局长刘玉柱于周二发言称：“国家文物的遗失和召回于国家的兴衰密切相关”

The Old Summer Palace was burned and looted by allied Anglo-French forces in 1860.

旧圆明园是在1860被英法联军洗劫并烧毁的

The Tiger Ying was grabbed by a British military officer, as shown by an letter he wrote. It had been kept by his family ever since.

根据一封书信显示虎鎣被艺名英国军官抢走.自此之后虎鎣就被收藏在他的家族中.

In April, the Tiger Ying appeared in an auction catalog at the Canterbury Auction Galleries in Kent in southern England, triggering expressions of anger among Chinese netizens.

今年四月虎鎣出现在了英国南部肯特坎特伯雷拍卖行的拍卖列表中，在中国老虎代表着威严和愤怒

Though the Chinese government strongly protested the auction and the China Association of Auctioneers called for a boycott of the event, the Tiger Ying was sold for 410,000 pounds ($517,000) on April 11 to a buyer whose identity remains unknown.

尽管中国政府和中国拍卖行协会强烈抵制拍卖活动的进行，虎鎣在4月11日以41万英镑的价格被一名未知身份的买家拍得

The buyer, however, indicated a desire to return it to China in communications with the National Cultural Heritage Administration and the Chinese embassy in London, officials said.

官方人员称：买家在拍得之后与中国文物管理局和中国驻伦敦大使馆标明想要将文物返还中国的想法

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