Luck is a kind of "mysterious and mysterious" thing, although we can not scientifically give it a definite or convincing definition, but in real life there are indeed good luck and bad luck, lucky people can pick up money when walking on the road, and unlucky people can "stuff their teeth" when drinking cold water.
Mr. Zhang of Fujian is a person who "bumped into great luck", and an old house he bought with his hand actually hid a treasure, which made him make a fortune, but this treasure also brought him a little "small trouble", what is going on?
Let me take you to find out
The ancient mansion is a treasure
The story takes place in Fuqing County, Fujian Province in the 1990s, where there is a dilapidated mansion, which is said to have been built in the Ming and Qing dynasties, because it has fallen into disrepair and has become a "dangerous house", the original owner does not want the house to be "smashed" in his hands, and is willing to sell it at a very low price.
When Mr. Zhang needed to buy a house in Fuqing County due to a job transfer, and he did not have much money in his hands, he bought the dilapidated mansion and planned to renovate it as a place to live.
The house was quickly bought, Mr. Zhang found a construction team, the construction team after inspection suggested that Mr. Zhang replace the beam again, the original has been rotten, may break at any time, Mr. Zhang agreed after the construction team will remove the original beam.
When Mr. Zhang went to look at it, he found that there was a groove on the side of the beam, as if there was something hidden, he went forward to open the groove, found that there was a package inside, after opening it was a book, it looked like some years old, "It turned out to be a broken book", Mr. Zhang muttered a sentence and casually threw it aside.
A few days later, Mr. Zhang's friend came to visit, accidentally found the old book, carefully looked at it and was amazed, and called Out to Mr. Zhang that he had picked up the treasure!
"One page of Song paper, one or two gold"
Here we need to popularize a knowledge point for everyone, I am afraid that many friends and Mr. Zhang think that old books are not valuable, then you are very wrong.
Compared with antique calligraphy and paintings and other works of art with relatively large price fluctuations, the price of ancient books in the market has always been very "firm", and often there is no market, once it appears, it will inevitably cause people to compete, of course, not all old books are valuable, only old books that can be called "ancient books" are valuable.
From the perspective of dynasties, the ancient books of the Song Dynasty are the most valuable, and the collection industry has always had the saying of "one page of Song paper, one or two gold", followed by the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, and the value of the ancient books themselves is considered from several aspects, such as the value of documents, the value of versions, the value of art, the value of academic values, and the value of cultural relics.
Let's look at Mr. Zhang's book again
According to Mr. Zhang's friend, the book is called "Nanyue Old Manuscript", is a Collection of Poems of the Song Dynasty "Butterfly Suit", the author of the book is Liu Kezhuang, as mentioned above, the ancient books of the Song Dynasty are the most valuable, and this book is very precious from the chronological point of view alone!
Let's look at the author of this book, Liu Kezhuang, Liu Kezhuang is a poet of the Southern Song Dynasty, the poetry and prose are all incomprehensible, all of them are exquisite, according to the "Qing History Draft": Ji Yun commented on his articles as "elegant in style, better than his poems, and the inscriptions are particularly good"!
In this way, this is still an ancient book of celebrities, and it is valuable in literature, editions, art, scholarship, etc. On the whole, this book is absolutely valuable!
After listening to his friend's explanation, Mr. Zhang also knew that he had picked up the treasure, and quickly hid the book carefully, and then Mr. Zhang took it to auction and sold it for a sky-high price of 4.6 million!
A little trouble
Finding treasures is a good thing, but this also brings a little trouble to Mr. Zhang, just after he found the ancient books, experts from the local cultural relics bureau have come to the door to check, saying that the book is worth a lot, hoping that Mr. Zhang donated to the museum, Mr. Zhang expressed his willingness to sell to the museum at a price of one and a half million, experts believe that the asking price is too high, and the two sides are not happy.
Just after Mr. Zhang auctioned the ancient books, the experts came to the door again, saying that according to the law, this ancient book should belong to the state, Mr. Zhang has no right to deal with it privately, his behavior has violated the law, Mr. Zhang said that this is his own private property, for which the two sides have argued endlessly, and there has been no result so far.
brief summary:
Since experts say that Mr. Zhang's act of handling ancient books without permission violates the law, let's take a look at how the law stipulates, according to Article 5 of the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Cultural Relics: "All cultural relics left in the underground, inland waters and territorial waters of the People's Republic of China belong to the state."
From this point of view, the ancient books found by Mr. Zhang are not within the scope of the law, but experts also said that Mr. Zhang is not the original owner of the old house, which also involves the ownership of ancient books.
Ordinary people only know the basic legal knowledge, the specific provisions are not well understood, do you think Mr. Zhang has the right to deal with this ancient book?
References: Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Cultural Relics, Draft History of the Qing Dynasty
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