Collecting is a pleasure and enjoyment, but if it is drilled into the "money eye", it is torture. Not long ago, I received a message from an old friend, and I said something miserable: "Friends, I retired from the pit, spent 15 years on collection, cost more than a million yuan, but it is difficult to find a way to realize it, the body is three high, there is no meaning, the retreat circle contains a ride to make Sun go also." “
In fact, there is no need to be so pessimistic. The 15 years experienced by this Tibetan friend coincided with the era of barbaric growth of the collection industry, and the environment was chaotic everywhere, and in this case, it was natural to step on the pit continuously. Now it is different, whether it is the collection market in the big environment, or the mentality and experience of every small player, in the next few years, there will be earth-shaking changes.
Why was it so messy before? In one sentence: quick success, rat eyes, everyone "efforts" together to ruin the credibility of the market.
For example, if you take a piece of porcelain out, shouldn't you first discuss the background in which the collection was produced, which kiln mouth and which era, what are the process characteristics, tires, glazes, colors and what are the details of the corresponding genuine products, and then you can say the market.
Before that, auction houses, treasure hunting programs and expert groups, they may see the huge temptation of foreign capital speculation, can not manage so much, take the lead and start to create chaos. The so-called upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, and the entire collection circle has since become a pot of porridge!
Every spring and autumn, the top auction houses began to promote on a large scale, and a certain collection broke the record and broke the 100 million yuan mark. They will not tell Tibetan friends that the auction system is all about quoting foreign standards, what is the orderly inheritance, overseas repatriation, and the old collection of famous artists. Rich people play the game of money, but let tens of millions of Tibetan friends really have a chance for themselves.
In order to get the ratings, the treasure show also spelled, invited a bunch of "trust", all day is this Tibetan friend's home incense burner worth millions, the Tibetan friend's home calligraphy and paintings are worth tens of millions. In those years, people watched TV, of course, what to believe, and the story began to create a large number of "overnight rich" gangs.
As for the experts, coming out of the cultural and cultural units has only one purpose: to make money. As a cultural expert said: "The unit takes a dead wage, there is no way, go out to find a way to make money, can only pinch the nose to recognize." However, once the "eye treasure" maintained by morality loses morality, those terrible things must have been heard by everyone.
Well, the "high-end group" that should have guided the correct concept of collection used the lowest-level method to induce the majority of Tibetan friends to do one thing: the collection world is full of treasures, and you can make a fortune by playing casually, so why not rush in?
As a result, the collection, which originally belonged to the love of the genteel and small people, suddenly poured in tens of millions of people and became a "mass industry", and the chaos caused by it can be imagined.
Xiao Bai, who knows nothing, takes the "ancestral treasure" every day to find a buyer, and a few dollars of broken copper and rotten iron want to sell millions, and as a result, he is deceived by various fraud companies that charge upfront fees to doubt his life.
According to Tu Suoji's half-hanging, if there is no old driver to take the entrance, it can only be "besieged" by professional mine-laying fake dealers, and everywhere they go are traps, and the hard-earned money is spent but they have not even touched the threshold.
Tibetan friends who are fighting in the frontline have many opportunities, and as long as they are diligent and have eyesight, they can break a road. However, they can only watch as the collection industry slowly becomes a strange appearance of the flood of fake goods, the proliferation of pseudo-experts, and the rampant fraud companies.
In those years of sky-high speculation, rich experts, rich fake sellers, rich scammers, but the more the folk players played poorer and poorer, fell into a dead cycle: either deceived, or deceived others, or simply consciously retreated.
And the most frightening thing is that the level of appraisal has begun to regress in an all-round way, and the consequence of not having "industry standards" is that they are arbitrarily manipulated by foreign capital, and China's cultural relics have to cry and shout for foreigners to set standards. The academic articles studied by foreign porcelain experts, numismatic experts, and bronze experts were used by Chinese experts, and the "sound bug" deserved to be called a seamless one.
Coupled with the restrictions of the law, many real fine products of the people have been defeated by "bad money" and have become priceless, old goods cannot sell new goods, rookies begin to peck at each other, and look at a miasma of black smoke.
Then the experts single-handedly created this market, and said particularly arrogantly: "Most of the people's tibet is fake, all are national treasure gangs." ”
The group that should be "authoritative" has written "shamelessness" on their faces from the very beginning, and the auction houses and experts who have the right to operate and speak, the monopoly of the high-end market, and the deception of the low-end market have also objectively aggravated the severe phenomenon of the smuggling and loss of Cultural Relics in China. You can check for yourself how many cultural relics have been lost overseas in recent years, and tens of millions of pieces are definitely there.
After experiencing this chaos for nearly 20 years, many non-governmental Tibetan friends who still persist can be said to have experienced hundreds of battles and gradually matured. They finally understand that collection: collecting is collecting, collecting history! Only by studying deeply, those "demons and ghosts" will appear on their own.
Without legal supervision, any aura on anyone's head is illusory, and no one can rely on themselves. In the past, the so-called "collection world" was empty and boring fallacy, but now, with the maturity of the player group, the market has gradually begun to mature, which is the real collection world!
With the development of the Internet, the auction house is no longer the situation of "one big family", the rise of multiple channels such as online auctions, group auctions, second-hand transactions, and live broadcasts, and varieties such as Ming and Qing porcelain, jewelry treasures, silver dollars and ancient coins, ancient jade miscellaneous items, and ancient books and furniture have begun to heat up again.
Rebuilding credibility is the first element in opening up the online market. With the increasing number of folk antique exchanges, the actual combat masters have finally ushered in their own spring.
The state has also seen the potential of minzang and begun to gradually relax restrictions, and the various favorable policies introduced in the past two years are important steps to guide "folk cultural relics to come alive". Some elite folk collectors have begun to march from the middle and low end to the high end, and there are many people who have one or two precious objects in their hands.
Many pseudo-experts are still fooling Xiao Bai, but when they encounter experts, they will be exposed. Scammers and fake sellers are still exploiting loopholes, but the sober folk Tibetan friends rarely give them a chance, and starving these people to death is the right way. Highly educated young people are also pouring into the collecting world because they see this huge economic vitality.
It can be said that now is the best era to play collecting, and those big collectors with the surnames Ma, Zhai, and Liu are just eating the dividends of the times and monopolies. Folk collectors, on the other hand, are really getting up from the trough and seeing the real chapter in the subtleties.
In this big era, when we have excluded the thinking of sudden wealth, no longer on the bar with the "national treasure", and use our own eyesight and experience to play with collection, we have found that minzang is not a dead end, but a broad road ahead, promising!
Harvest, are all after the vicissitudes of the existence, just like the pulp, no antique is born with a warm color. Antiques, in themselves, are good, then follow the direction of Ya, through a collection of reading history, appreciating calligraphy, characters, solving craftsmanship, and doing scholarship.
When you reach a certain level, the wealth you deserve will naturally come. Since then, there is no heart to love the good night, let him go down to the West Building under the bright moon, although the strength is small, my heart has not changed!