In recent years, the antique industry of "insiders looking at the doorway, laymen looking at the liveliness" is no longer as mysterious as before in the Internet era. An endless stream of incidents has been excavated and exposed, and various types of collections have also been exploded into fakes.
Qiu Jiduan, who was in a storm last year by donating 6,000 pieces of ancient ceramics that were questioned as fakes to Beijing Normal University, recently signed an agreement of intent to donate antique artworks from his personal collection to the above-mentioned units, saying that it aims to "promote cross-strait cultural exchanges and promote the recognition of traditional Chinese culture by teachers and students of Taiwan's colleges and universities." ”
The donated collection is still dominated by porcelain, and the name ranges from celadon before the "Han Dynasty" to the enamel color of the "Qing Yongzheng" period, and has been involved in various dynasties. After the picture flowed out, it caused many professional questions from industry experts.
The antiques industry is not that the water is too deep, but that the legs are not long enough
Treasure hunting the world
"Where antiques are valuable lies in art and craftsmanship, the craftsmanship and art of the times reached the peak of the world and was recognized by the world. We are pursuing the craftsmanship of that era rather than the old goods of that era. For example, a fake, no matter how fake it is, it cannot reach the level of craftsmanship of the real product.
Why do many people not know the truth of antiques? In fact, this is our previous contact with less, a few years ago, the Chinese government to take protective measures for cultural relics, everyone can not see at all, now! There are many markets and rich information, so there are more and more people who understand. In the past, many reasons for buying fakes were that people had mystified antiques and sneaked around as if they had been dug up somewhere. ”
In today's information-rich world, more and more people want to test the antique industry, "the master leads into the door, and the practice depends on the individual." If you have the mentality of buying lottery tickets and thinking, 'What if it's true?' Then your subjective consciousness is wrong, it is originally false, you believe too much in yourself to prove it is true, too persistent and easy to make mistakes.
Treasure Hunter believes that "collectors who donate are wise, because too many collections can sometimes become a burden." However, compared with the domestic, the foreign donation system will be much stricter, from management to daily maintenance need to devote a lot of public resources to maintain, donation is a waste of social resources. ”
Antique market experience: it is better to buy the real at a low price than to buy a fake.
In the antique circle, there has always been a conventional rule - antiques are not counterfeited, in the process of buying and selling, the items will be presented to the buyer for identification, and the buyer thinks that he is accurate before trading. People in the old profession want to have a face, even if they look away, they will admit it afterwards. They will only think that they are not good at learning, and the merchants have not forced them to buy and sell. Today, in the economic environment, what is the impact of the increasingly transparent antique industry and frequently exploded doubts on antique dealers who open their doors to do business?
A veteran antique dealer who did not want to mention his name admitted, "The current antique industry is too pompous, from a historical point of view, antiques are niche, in the 90s most of the people who like antiques are a type of person who loves traditional Chinese culture." Nowadays, the endless collection of collectors is more for the economic benefits brought by antiques, speculating in antiques as stocks. To do antiques, you must sincerely like the industry, be willing to invest money and invest energy, rather than holding the heart of making a windfall. The current economic situation is not easy for everyone to do, the antique industry is in a period of adjustment, but this is a good thing for us antique dealers, the industry's reshuffle, readjustment, fake merchants gradually surfaced, it is easier to let the real merchants get recognized, the industry will be more standardized. ”
As the saying goes, "It's the mule that's the horse, pulling out and slipping." "The same is true of the antique industry, judging whether things are good or bad is taken to the market, the market will help you identify." What are the criteria for the identification of antiques by antique dealers who have been in the market for a long time? The antique dealer said, "It is better to buy the real than to buy the fake." ”
The new generation of post-80s players look at today's antique market
After the 80s, because his father was in the antique circle, he followed his father to contact all kinds of antiques and jade. As a new generation of antique players, they have their own set of understanding and viewing of antiques. Unlike most post-80s, he will be equipped with several pieces of jade every day when he goes out, and when he is idle, he will take it out to play in the tea room, as if he has become a more personalized "alternative post-80s" in the circle of friends. For antiques, he thinks "we are not owners, but guardians of them." Our lives are limited, but antiques can be passed down through the ages. ”
Qiu Jiduan: The road to donation is long, but it will not stop donating
The donation of Beijing Normal University was spread in the collection circle overnight. Now donations to Taiwanese universities have made it a hit in the News of Tibetan Circles. Words such as "donation map" and "fake goods" have repeatedly dominated the screen. As a party, is Qiu Jiduan really as controversial as the rumors?
In a café in Xiamen with Mr. Qiu Jiduan, Mr. Qiu Jiduan was very punctual and arrived at the agreed place in advance, and from his spirit and appearance, it could be seen that he had lost a lot of weight than the last time he saw him, which showed the impact and pressure brought by this incident to himself.
Not so much a collector as a philanthropist, Qiu Jiduan is a native of Shishi, Fujian Province, who graduated from the department of Chinese at Beijing Normal University in 1967. Former member of the Standing Committee of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and former vice chairman of the Fujian Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese Now vice president of the Alumni Association of Beijing Normal University, permanent honorary chairman of the Hong Kong Fujian Community Union, chairman of the listed company Xi Mengbao, in recent years he donated 7 hope primary schools, in 1992 began to sponsor the Fujian women's volleyball team, cultivated 10 Chinese women's volleyball national players, last March Lang Ping took the Chinese women's volleyball team to Zhangzhou for training, Mr. Qiu Jiduan promised that if the women's volleyball team won the Olympic championship, he would give 5 million prizes, and fulfilled his promise in September last year. He has done a lot of public welfare charity, but because of the "donation" thing, he has become a Tibetan "Internet celebrity" and even bears a lot of infamy.
Mr. Qiu Jiduan chatted about "Over the years, I have received a total of about 300,000 pieces of collection, many of which will buy some high imitations for comparison and research. These are in my warehouse, in the early days I had an open warehouse for people to visit, and there is no restriction on taking photos, many photos have been circulated, not official outflow, not the collection to be donated this time. Judging the authenticity from the pictures alone is still insisting that it is a donation catalogue, which is really unjust! ”
Mr. Qiu Jiduan told JianBao Xiaobian: "I built a museum of more than 40,000 square meters in Zhangzhou, equipped with a management team, and allocated a fund for the operation of the museum in the next few decades. My collection includes about 300,000 calligraphy and paintings, jade, bronze, ceramics, etc. True, new, refined. Old, broken, crippled. Ancient ceramics, organic fate will be received, will have a comprehensive study of the history of ancient ceramics. I also buy some fakes, representative of each dynasty.
The donation from Beijing Normal University is the first step in the beginning, and I will donate most of it and leave some of it for my son. There are a large number of ancestral cultural relics in Chinese folk, and if they are well protected, they will not flow out of the country, even if they are controversial, they will be protected first and slowly studied. ”
He sighed and said, "In the past ten years or so, whenever someone has donated ancient cultural relics, basically none of them have been successfully donated, and all of them have been beaten down." An old Australian overseas Chinese of the same age as me, 20 years ago, he wanted to donate a pair of yuan qinghua left by his ancestors to our national museum, and 8 major experts collectively signed it, but the museum did not accept it.
This is a very strange phenomenon, every year to use so much money to foreign auction houses to auction things, private donations of things, by the well-known domestic experts to identify you but do not receive, and before I donated to Beijing Normal University, no donation was successful. A series of news stories have also had an impact on my own life, and seeing these comments all day long does annoy me, annoying me with good intentions and being unfairly attacked. But on the other hand, it also gave me greater confidence, and millions of people came out and stood on my side without reservation. ”
Hobbies are sensual, collecting is rational
In this antique industry, which is more and more easily accessible to the masses, many players are easily moved by the story it has packaged, and it is obviously not advisable to judge the authenticity through the story. Collecting, looking at the collection, buying is also the collection, not buying the packaged story. In the antique shop, things are often "opened widely", that is, the collection itself can speak, if there is no professional judgment knowledge, it is easy to be moved by the other party's story. At this time, what you buy is a story, not a collection.
Through the development of the antique industry in recent years, it reflects the objective facts as the benchmark, rational professional discrimination, to know that our love of antiques is emotional, but to collect must be rational. If there is no accurate judgment and understanding of the collection, it is better to squander the money in the antique market emotionally, it is better to still silently watch as a melon eater.