introduction
"Thirty meritorious deeds of dust and earth, eight thousand miles of clouds and moons." Treating their motherland like their own small family, the prosperity and honor and disgrace of the motherland are always tied to their own moods. In the spring of 2013, when the impression was very warm, the "rat heads" and "rabbit heads" displayed in the Yuanmingyuan on the mainland were about to go home.
The hearts of all Chinese are tied to this, because the two zodiac portraits carry something behind them is very difficult and not easy. And the Pino family in France actually announced that it would be returned free of charge, which is a happy thing for our Chinese sons and daughters. But behind the glossy things, there has also been a controversial story.
Such a story begins with Cai Mingchao of the mainland who photographed the head of the beast for 270 million yuan, when he announced that he would donate the head of the beast to his motherland free of charge. What is even more unexpected is that Cai Mingchao did not pay.
Cai Mingchao was born in the Quanzhou area of Fujian Province, where the business mind was developed, and in the city that was an important treaty port at that time, Cai Mingchao grew up all the way, and when he grew up, he also embarked on the road of business. Quanzhou has a unique geographical advantage, and Cai Mingchao has also earned the first money in his life in the import and export trade of the garment industry.
Since then, porcelain has become a common hot thing at home and abroad in the collection of cultural relics, and Cai Mingchao also seized this opportunity and began to set up his own handicraft company to make Chinese porcelain to earn money. With the continuous development of Cai Mingchao's career, the door of the auction house was also opened for him.
As the profits from auctioning cultural relics gradually increased, Cai Mingchao shifted the center of his career here. As the so-called heroes of the times, Cai Mingchao seized such an opportunity to set up his own heart and art auction company. With years of operation, the company's reputation has also come better, which means that more valuable items will appear on the auction conference held by itself.
And Cai Mingchao also gradually began to understand that the reason why a cultural relic is precious is not only how precious and rare its craftsmanship and cost are, but also the history behind each cultural relic, which carries the glorious and splendid national culture of the mainland. Therefore, Cai Mingchao also became a collector of half a cultural relics.
At an auction in Hong Kong in 2006, a "gilded statue of Shakyamuni" attracted many bidders, including Cai Mingchao, who also runs an auction company. As a fellow traveler, he is very familiar with the psychological game routines of buyers when auctioning items, and finally, in several competitions, Cai Mingchao brought it back with a price of up to 120 million Hong Kong dollars, and this time the auction refreshed the highest price for the collection in the Chinese.
Cai Mingchao's name has thus been spread in major newspapers and media. However, Cai Mingchao's participation in the auction this time is not to make profits from it, but to bring such a precious national treasure back to his motherland. The success of this auction not only represents his own achievements, but also shows the prosperity of China's development to the world. He was also invited to become the collection consultant of the China Special Foundation for the Rescue and Loss of Overseas Cultural Relics, and contributed a lot to the return of mainland cultural relics.
In 2009, the long-lost "rat head" and "rabbit head" in the mainland appeared in the lot of an auction, and such news broke Cai Mingchao's originally peaceful life. He was very happy and wanted to bring the two statues back to his homeland. With the return of mainland cultural relics more and more concerned, foreign businessmen have also seized this point, and all the prices related to mainland cultural relics will be speculated very high, and such malicious prices have actually made the items much higher than their own prices.
The bronze statue of the twelve beasts, overseas auction companies take advantage of the national feelings of mainland patriots, maliciously inflate the market price, and are speculated to a price far higher than the price of the item itself, as if they have become a tool for profit in the eyes of businessmen. Although Cai Mingchao's level of funds can certainly be able to photograph them, the cultural relics that were once stolen by other countries can now be brought back to his own country at a high price, which can't help but make Cai Mingchao angry. Therefore, Cai Mingchao made a very bold decision.
He took the bronze statue without paying, and after being exposed, he said that as a Chinese he had an obligation to stand up at that time, but he would not give the money. Cai Mingchao was greatly affected by this matter, and in the circle of auction, he even became a member of the "blacklist".
epilogue
Seeing that things were getting bigger and bigger, the Pino family had no choice but to stand up and donate the two statues to the mainland free of charge, which led to a farce. Behind this is the great progress that the sons and daughters of China have really stood up.
Today's topic: Cai Mingchao took 270 million animal heads and returned them to China free of charge! Later, I learned that he had not paid for it