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The video series Escape from the British Museum has drawn online attention.
The video series, which (1) (direct) by two Chinese vloggers in 2023, tells the story of a Chinese cultural relic escaping from the British Museum (2) looking for a way to return to its homeland. Viewers were (3)(extreme) moved by a scene where the little teapot exclaims "Such a big cabinet is shared only by two people" on (4)(arrive) at the place of the journalist and his friend.
The videos were encouraged by a netizen, who suggested making (5) film showing Chinese cultural relics returning home from overseas.
According to the two vloggers, they had consulted(查阅) a lot of information and went to the UK (6)(make) those videos. They said the plots (情节) were based on historic (7)(fact) and tried to focus attention (8) overseas Chinese cultural relics.
Data published by the UNESCO (9)(show) that about 1.6 million Chinese cultural relics were stolen from China and collected by 47 museums around the world, among which the British Museum has the (10)(large) collection, at about 23,000 pieces. Many were stolen from the court of the Qing Dynasty during the Siege of Beijing by the Eight-Nation Alliance in 1900.