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There is an old Chinese saying: "Gold in a troubled world, a prosperous collection"
True and false, false and true.
This is the best adjective for the antiques world, no matter what era, the price of antiques is strangely high, and there is never a shortage of market.
In this case, cultural relics dealers and counterfeiters stand out and become people who disrupt the entire market.
In the long river of history, there will never be a shortage of those who hide in the folk, they may not be famous, but the real strength is enough to shock everyone.
During the Warring States period, a ghost valley that no one had ever seen the real face of, but was able to use the disciples around him to influence the chaotic pattern of the Warring States.
With the advancement of science and technology, the energy of these folk masters is more reflected in certain items.
For example, Geng Shuai, who is known as the "useless inventor", Zhang Shengwu, who made his own submarine, and so on, are all representatives of folk masters.
Perhaps in the field of invention, folk masters show a posture of a hundred flowers, but in the craft industry or the collection industry, there is only one real folk master, he is Fang Xingqing.
He is the "father of bronze" in the "counterfeit village"
This "counterfeit first village" is an ordinary small village located in Yichuan County, Henan Province, called Yanyunjian Village.
Almost everyone in this village will do old technology, and there are reports that the annual sales of bronzes produced in the village reach 100 million yuan.
Yanyunjian Village was originally just an ordinary small village in the Central Plains, and like countless other small villages in China, everyone survived on hard work, and there was nothing special about it.
But Yanyunjian Village was special from the beginning, different from other villages, because there was a person named Fang Xingqing in this village.
Fang Xingqing is considered to be the "father of bronzes" in Yanyunjian Village, and he led the entire Yanyunjian to a different path from other villages.
In his early years, Fang Xingqing was just an ordinary farmer in the village.
In the past Chinese society, many children from poor rural families did not have the opportunity to receive systematic education, and Fang Xingqing also dropped out of school early and went home to help adults do farm work.
Although such phenomena were very common in the countryside at that time, Fang Xingqing was not willing to be trapped in the land for a lifetime.
After that, Fang Xingqing was given the opportunity to work in the factory.
Although Fang Xingqing had planned to continue working in the factory, he could rely on the guidance of fate, and when he went out to work, Fang Xingqing met a trader who sold cultural relics, but he changed his fate from then on.
After work, in order to make more money, Fang Xingqing walked the streets and alleys and started the work of reselling cultural relics.
Although Fang Xingqing's cultural level is not very high, under the guidance of some cultural relics dealers, he can also find many antiques of relatively high value.
However, not all antiques can bring income to Fang Xingqing, because some of the antiques are incomplete.
Therefore, their value is naturally not very high.
But this does not mean that such antiques are worthless, once, Fang Xingqing, under the guidance of a silversmith, successfully restored a fake bronze mirror.
At that time, Fang Xingqing brought his repaired bronze mirror to a friend in the antique industry to appreciate, and for a while, the friend did not find that the bronze mirror was a fake.
Seeing this scene, Fang Xingqing thought of a new means of accumulating wealth.
Therefore, Fang Xingqing found a carpenter who specialized in making molds for ancient bronzes, after which he got in touch with the silversmith and officially began to imitate ancient bronzes.
In Fang Xingqing's view, instead of selling imitation bronzes to traders, it is better to sell them directly, so that each imitation can earn five or six hundred yuan.
It was this repair of the ancient mirror that allowed Fang Xingqing to master the use of chemical reagents, and finally this ancient mirror also sold for a good price, which also doubled Fang Xingqing's confidence. So he planned to make money by imitating copper mirrors.
Fang Xingqing invited some villagers to help him refine copper, so he switched from the production of ancient mirrors to the production of bronzes, but the efficiency was too low, so Fang Xingqing also founded his first factory.
Later, Fang Xingqing went out to learn the knowledge of making bronzes, and after returning from school, he practiced diligently, and soon mastered the method of making bronzes, and in that year, he used his imitation bronzes to make a lot of money.
Later, he found that there was a way to go here, so he consulted books again, learned to make pottery, iron, etc., and he carefully studied many ancient crafts.
Fang Xingqing thought of expanding his factory after he became rich, and he began to lead other people in the village to make money with him.
People in the village came to study after seeing Fang Xingqing earn money, and soon learned the essence here in Fang Xingqing.
More and more people came to study here, and Fang Xingqing's factory was getting bigger and bigger.
At the end of the last century, a number of bronzes were seized by Chengdu Airport in Sichuan and Shanghai Customs, which were identified by experts as cultural relics from the "Shang Zhou" period.
According to the clues, the police followed the vine to find the melon and found the village of Yanyunjian in Henan.
When the police found Fang Xingqing, he said that he did not sell antiques, he only imitated bronzes and ancient cultural relics, and the goods were also sold in the name of "handicrafts".
The local police did not know whether Fang Xingqing had committed a crime, so they reported it to the state.
After the country understood, it believed that Fang Xingqing's original intention was good, and he led the eight hundred people in the village to get rid of poverty and embark on the road of moderate prosperity.
And the crafts they imitated were indeed exquisite, so they allowed Fang Xingqing to continue to imitate the crafts.
Fang Xingqing, who was recognized by the state, was even more excited, and he continued to lead the people in the village to make handicrafts.
Because Fang Xingqing's behavior was not illegal, the police and the local cultural relics department could not do anything about him.
Fang Xingqing passed on the counterfeiting craft to the villagers. Relying on the "secret" passed down by Fang Xingqing, Yanyunjian Village has become "China's first bronze village".
There are 3318 people in the village, and more than 2,000 people follow Fang Xingqing directly or indirectly engaged in antique bronze manufacturing.
Thanks to this craft, more than 800 villagers in the village have been lifted out of poverty, and their products have been exported overseas.
China has been the only ancient civilization that still exists today for five thousand years. With its vast territory and long history, precious cultural relics are naturally as rich as the stars scattered in the Milky Way.
Nowadays, the village where this old man in Henan once lived has been listed by the state and has become a red-headed document symbol of the official intangible cultural heritage, which is also a achievement that makes many Henan people proud and proud.
Last year, I went to the ancient imperial capital of Henan to hang out, and when I had the opportunity to go to Henan, I must go to Yanyunjian Village to see.
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