The museum helps you "treasure hunting"! The more the official "palm eyes", the cultural relics collectors can walk less eyes

2021 Beijing China Cultural Relics International Exposition Panjiayuan Folk Collection Art Exhibition Fair Site. Figure according to the Beijing Daily client

Establish a normal mechanism for public interest consultation on cultural relics appraisal, encourage qualified state-owned museums, state-owned cultural relics stores, and appraisal and appraisal institutions for cultural relics involved in the case to provide public welfare consulting services to the society, popularize the knowledge of cultural relics collection appreciation; explore the establishment of a national cultural relics appraisal and appraisal management system, pilot the qualification management of cultural relics appraisal institutions, standardize the operational activities of cultural relics appraisal, and provide convenient services for the orderly circulation of cultural relics in private collections. The State Administration of Cultural Heritage, together with the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and other departments, jointly issued the "Opinions on Strengthening the Management of Cultural Relics Collected by The People and Promoting the Orderly Development of the Cultural Relics Market" to explore effective ways for the protection and utilization of cultural relics in folk collections and the orderly development of the cultural relics market.

In recent years, with the rapid development of China's social economy, the collection of cultural relics has become a hot spot for cultural consumption, and the scale of China's cultural relics market has steadily ranked in the forefront of the world. But at the same time, the counterfeiting technology in the cultural relics market is frequently updated, from jewelry and jade to counterfeits of literary and artistic paintings, and experts who do not know where to come from are pointing fingers. On the one hand, consumers' high enthusiasm and ability to collect, on the other hand, there is a serious lack of market-oriented appraisal capabilities and irregular services. The serious mismatch between appraisal and collection will inevitably lead to chaos in the cultural relics market and cause consumers to suffer. Collectibles are often staggeringly expensive, and many collectors suffer huge losses.

How deep and muddy the waters of the collected cultural relics market are, I am afraid that even some experienced professional appraisers will find it difficult to say clearly, let alone those who have just entered the industry. It is precisely because of the difficulty of identifying cultural relics that some ignorant people are fearless, and some people are happy to touch fish in muddy waters, wear expert hats, and dare to point fingers no matter what cultural relics. Some people pay them to "palm their eyes", and after the head is explained in a dignified manner and swears to guarantee, they often "walk the eyes", let people "take medicine", consumers "pick up leaks" can not succeed, reduced to holding a batch of fakes crying and laughing "national treasure gang". In the previous popular screen treasure hunting programs, many treasures that have been recognized by many people and hidden for decades have been identified by authoritative experts as imitations. There are also some scammers, with the fake auction company, leave the identification expert to appear, and jointly stage the "middle bureau" of the collection, and many elderly people are deceived because they have no ability to identify.

In the field of cultural relics appraisal, the appraisers of state-owned cultural institutions have strong professional ability and rich appraisal experience, which is far from being comparable to those "soil experts" who wander in the folk cultural relics market. The identification of cultural relics is by no means an easy task, it requires rich knowledge, professional analysis, and "fire eyes and golden eyes" to distinguish between true and false. The provision of public welfare consulting services by cultural and cultural institutions is conducive to popularizing and publicizing the knowledge of cultural relics appraisal to the society and avoiding the credulity and blind obedience of cultural relics collection enthusiasts; it is also conducive to the healthy development of the folk cultural relics collection market, and gradually forming a social atmosphere of loving cultural relics and respecting history.

The opinions require qualified cultural and cultural institutions, and they also provide public welfare consulting services. Therefore, collectors can not consult no matter what the collection, or unlimited consultation, or even the appraisers of cultural institutions as private market appraisers. Cultural relics are the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancestors, carrying rich historical information with strong artistic value, and are valuable assets that cannot be copied. One of the purposes of the official provision of public welfare services may be that they do not want the real to be destroyed as fake, and the fake to be treated as real and consumables.

Source Beijing Evening News | Reporter Jia Liang

Edited by Jia Liang

Process Editor Wu Yue