An expert refers to a person who has achieved a certain degree in a certain field, so he can be called an expert. For example, doctors include orthopedic specialists, pediatric specialists, auto repair specialists, and construction specialists. What the experts say is authoritative. When people are confused, the experts often speak like a shot in the arm to calm people down. In the eyes of the public, an individual who has made great achievements in a certain field or has studied a certain problem in depth can be called an expert. However, there are many pseudo-experts in society today.
They are confident and calm in the name of experts, but they are playing tricks and deceiving people. Some grandiose, specious truths are often used to explain problems to meet the needs of some low-end vulgar people. They never use facts to reason and mislead groups of simple ordinary people. We call them "brick houses."
First, the origin of the brick family
"Brick family", referring to those who are ignorant and boastful, contains strong derogatory and ironic connotations. As soon as this word appeared, it quickly swept the internet, and it is still a "hot word" in everyone's mouth today.
With the emergence of the number of "experts" in society, people can't help but ask: Has the threshold for academic qualifications been lowered? Is it a person who says something serious and is called an expert? Is it true that "the master is wandering, the clown is in the hall"?
Because of the development of the Internet, many people claim to be experts, and what these so-called experts say is like a joke. At first, no one paid much attention, and as time went on, the reputation of experts became worse and worse. However, the real reason for turning experts into "brick houses" should start from a treasure hunting project 11 years ago.
2. Treasure Hunting Insider
In 2009, columns with the theme of "treasure collection" appeared in an endless stream, earning enough gimmicks and creating fame for many cultural relics identification experts. This wave of "cultural relics fever" also infected a cultural relics owner XiaoJun.
With great joy, he brought his heirloom cultural relic "Songyang Hanbaitu" and wanted to go to Henan's treasure hunting program to distinguish between true and false. The Songyang Hanbaitu is a short scroll of the Qianlong Imperial Painting, using the JinsuShan Tibetan Scripture as a giant cypress, so this painting attracted the attention of Liu Yan, one of the cultural relics experts.
Liu Yan invited him to his hotel that night to talk in detail about the painting. The owner of the cultural relics, XiaoJun, had heard of the expert's reputation very early, so he was very happy to be at the appointment. After arriving at the residence, after some greetings, Liu Yan told Xiao Yun that the "Songyang HanBaitu" in his hand was not a genuine manuscript, and the value of the copied painting was only worth 30,000 yuan.
At this time, Zhu Yun seemed to be poured with cold water, and his heart was extremely lost. Seeing that XiaoJun was overwhelmed, Liu Yan slowly opened his mouth next to him and said, "I can help find sellers, but be mentally prepared, only sell 30,000-50,000 yuan, which is already quite cost-effective." Zhu Yun was very disappointed, and his heirloom for so many years was not the real thing.
During this period, Liu Yan repeatedly induced him to sell the painting. In the end, Zhu Yun gave up participating in the show, and in October of the same year, he sold "Songyang Hanbotu" to a gentleman surnamed Cheng for 170,000 yuan, Mr. Cheng was introduced by Liu Yan experts, and the price was several times worse from the initial expert appraisal of 30,000-50,000 to the final sale of 170,000.
To everyone's surprise, a year later, "Songyang Hanbotu" was auctioned into the bag by buyer 5008 at the 5th Anniversary Autumn Auction of Beijing Poly on December 4, 2010, with a transaction price of 87 million yuan.
In June of the following year, Zhu Yun happened to see this news while watching TV, which was really a thunderbolt on a sunny day. The "Songyang Hanbotu" in his hand is a genuine manuscript, worth up to 87 million yuan. Only to learn that he had been deceived by Liu Yan and Cheng, he filed a lawsuit with the court to investigate their crimes.
During the investigation, Liu Yan claimed that the painting was actually a fake. This is just a tool that Cheng uses to hype himself, and the painting is still in Cheng's own hands. The matter was also resolved in the slow investigation. But is this "Liu Yan" a well-known appraisal expert of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage? Authenticity remains controversial.
He made a lot of money by "this drama", but the reputation of the Chinese appraisal circle was "ruined" by him overnight, and countless excellent experts were blamed for this, and many experts began to imitate Liu Yan. After all, it is impossible to "make a fortune" by judging the true and false, and it is possible to solve the problem of money by "seeing the wrong things".
Today's pseudo-experts in collecting have mushroomed, with countless nameless appraisers disrupting the entire art market. There was once an incident where a collector spent 30 yuan to buy an ancient jade that imitated the Hongshan culture, and then found an expert to identify it himself. Experts not only identified this ancient jade as genuine, but also gave an estimate of 300,000 yuan.
The excited collector did not hesitate to give the expert an appraisal fee of 1500 yuan and regarded the certificate issued by the expert as a treasure. Later, the whole process of this pseudo-expert pitting Tibetans was widely reported by the media, and now he has been discredited. However, today's antique market is still full of a large number of pseudo-experts, and the huge market has also spawned countless experts who apply for certificates.
Some "experts" will be directly converted into "sellers", and only by going to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau to obtain a certificate can they become a business license. In addition to selling antiques themselves, these "experts" will also issue certificates to people, but they will identify any product, as long as there is additional money and benefits.
Third, real experts
There are also some real experts who are mistaken for "brick makers", although they have not cheated academically, professionally, let alone betrayed their conscience. They simply talk about their own ideas and express their opinions in the professional field, which has aroused strong dissatisfaction and resentment from the public. This is the conflict of views and opinions caused by the different positions of experts and people.
After all, experts only analyze events from a rational and objective point of view. They only give professional advice and guidance and don't speak from an ethical point of view. This is exactly the opposite of popular thinking, so experts who dare to tell the truth are often sprayed to the skin.
In China, there is no scientific selection body, and everyone can call themselves experts. Under their own boasting and misleading by others, coupled with media rendering, a generation of experts has just emerged, but there is no evidence to prove their authenticity.
Teachers need a teacher's certificate to prove themselves in the education industry, nurses need a nurse's certificate to be a nurse in the nursing industry, and a business license is required to open a store. However, it seems that we have not heard of an object called an "expert certificate". So, with experts popping up everywhere, it seems that the flourishing of cultural freedom is nothing.
IV. Conclusion
True experts never flaunt their achievements and achievements, but constantly improve their abilities and look at the gifts that fate has given them with humility. When Confucius traveled around the world, he took Xiang Qiao, who knew etiquette, as his teacher, and truly achieved "three-person line, there will be my teacher." ”
An old farmer pointed out to Xu Beihong the duck in the picture. Xu Beihong did not despise the old farmer's opinion because of his status, but thanked the old farmer for his correction. As the Taoists say: the big is hidden in the city, and the small is hidden in the wild.
True experts always lament that they are just a drop in the ocean, and always strive to improve themselves with a learning attitude. But we need to stick to the scientific method and learn in a world of experts, not like snowflakes in an avalanche.
In fact, whether they are "experts" or "experts", they are only a microcosm of human nature. No matter what the industry, there will be good people and bad people. We can't change them, we can only polish our eyes and defend our own interests.