History is a very interesting thing, in the long river of history, the ancients left many cultural treasures to future generations, cultural relics are one of them, because cultural relics are difficult to preserve, according to different dynasties, the value is not the same, all there are a lot of desperate tomb robbers.
The cultural relics in these ancient tombs belong to the state, and some of the cultural relics circulating in the folk are not in this category, these cultural relics belong to private items, these private items can be freely bought and sold, and have a certain economic value, the state has purchased many cultural relics in order to protect cultural relics.
And the state to acquire cultural relics is naturally not free, because it is a personal item, has a certain economic value, the state will also give a certain amount of economic compensation, in 1992, an ancient rare old man, just in time to catch up with the cultural relics acquisition period, the old man has an ancestral ancient painting in his hand.
This ancient painting, according to the old man, his ancestors were the royal guards of the Qing Dynasty, and the person responsible for protection was puyi, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and Puyi was a puppet of puppet Manchukuo, and most of the wealth in the court was embezzled by the Japanese, and Puyi in order to protect the palace property, let people secretly transport it out and hide it in the "small self-building".
During the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, turmoil in various places, the royal guards guarding Puyi's treasure were attacked by the Japanese, most of the antiquities in the "Small Self-Building" were robbed, and some were scattered among the people, and the ancient painting in the hands of the old man was called "Ten Yong Tu" And the old man's ancestors told him that this painting was worth a lot and should not be sold easily.
The old man's son fell ill and was in urgent need of money, he also had to take out the ancient painting to sell, the old man first found an expert, according to the expert's estimation, this painting is a copy of the Qing Dynasty period of a "Ten Yong Tu", not much value, up to 10,000, 10,000 is too little.
The old man did not shoot, after the introduction of the person, the old man came to a special auction company in Beijing to auction antiquities, asked the cultural relics experts inside to do a detailed appraisal, at that time responsible for receiving him was the famous ancient painting appraisal expert Qin Gong, Qin Gong has a deep study of ancient paintings.
When he first saw this painting, Qin Gong was really startled, because this painting was very delicate on the surface, not like a casual pair of Hua, after Qin Gong's meticulous appraisal, he finally came to the conclusion that this painting was indeed the original "Ten Yong Tu" by zhang Xian, a famous painter of the Song Dynasty.
Zhang Xian's heirloom works are very few, each painting will cause a very big sensation, in the auction company plans to conduct a public auction, and the old man also agreed, and finally the painting was auctioned by the Palace Museum at a high price of 18 million, and Zhang Xian's "Ten YongTu" was also preserved in the Palace Museum. What do you think about that?