China is one of the world's four major ancient civilizations, with a long history and culture, the Zhou Dynasty established a feudal etiquette system, and then Confucianism became the mainstream of Chinese culture in the Qin and Han Dynasties, Confucianism pays attention to "filial piety" and respects the dead, so the funeral rites of the emperor in the feudal era are very complicated, and the funerary products are even more luxurious!
Therefore, many tomb robbers emerged in ancient China, and they pried open the tombs of the emperors and took the treasures inside. These exquisite funerary cultural relics are caused by the ingenious work of Chinese craftsmen, and after being stolen, they are collected by people of insight and carefully protected, and only after generations can they shine in today's national cultural relics.
Nowadays, a lot of heirlooms have been taken out and sold into cash, a few years ago, there was an elderly man who put the ancestral treasure knife in the auction house and sold the treasure sword at a price of 5 million, and was accused of blasphemy against the experts of cultural relics collection, the old man did not care, and said expressionlessly: "You are not qualified to stand here and blame me!" "The expert who is afraid of a word does not speak, and what is going on with all this?
After China's reform and opening up, the people's life has gradually become richer, after eating and wearing warm, people have gradually had the pursuit of quality, life is no longer just the immediate and, can also meet their own spiritual needs within the scope of their own ability, China's cultural relics market also has a new atmosphere at this time.
When new China was founded, the state called on the people to send cultural relics to the National Museum for safekeeping, and there were many people who responded at that time, but there were also many treasure holders who believed that this was an ancestral treasure or chose private storage. The value of cultural relics lies not only in their own exquisiteness, but also in the value of time contained in them, which is a witness to history and the crystallization of China's long-standing culture.
The antique market began to flourish after the reform and opening up, and many antique appreciation programs appeared around the millennium, mainly to gather historical relics that remained in the folk. The ancestral value of cultural relics has been lost a lot under the general trend of the market economy, and many treasure retainers have taken out their own treasures for cash transactions. But there are also people in the family who are in urgent need of money and have to sell their treasures. The old man belongs to the latter.
The old man was a northeastern Manchurian, and his great-grandfather was once the imperial bodyguard of the Imperial Palace of the Qing Dynasty. The imperial guards of the Qing Dynasty could not be achieved by hard work, and generally had to be related to the royal family, and the descendants of the family that had been passed down from generation to generation were eligible to become the imperial guards of the Forbidden City.
Bodyguards are generally selected every three or four years, once selected, the lower title starts from the Blue Plume Bodyguard, and the higher title starts from the third-class bodyguard, these guards are watched by the emperor to grow, and the emperor will give them the opportunity to train every three or five minutes, which is one of the ways for the future high-ranking officials of the Qing Empire to reserve the main talent reserve. And as guards, their configuration is naturally very good.
The guards wear a uniform standard of stone blue regular clothes in normal times, and python robes on formal occasions. The guards of the third rank or above, the dress of the palace is: yellow coat and one-eyed flower, and will be equipped with an extremely exquisite sword.
The guards are on duty in the Forbidden City, and their basic job is to watch the gates, but if you become a guard at the Qianqing Gate, it means that the country will reuse you. However, the Qing Dynasty's life was exhausted, and in the torrent of revolution, Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, announced his abdication in the first year of the Republic of China, and in the subsequent political movement, Puyi dismissed many people in the palace in order to support the livelihood of the entire palace.
The old man's great-grandfather had a more vision of the times, took the initiative to ask out of the Forbidden City, and only took away a bodyguard suit and a royal sword, so the sword left by the old man's great-grandfather has a great history, and all the historical value and craft value of this knife cannot be measured in money.
The old man said, "This is the sword that my ancestors have enshrined, passed into my hands, and I cherish it very much, but my family is in a difficult situation, and the misfortune is not alone, if it is not a last resort, I am reluctant to auction it for how much money I have." ”
The old man's knife body is made of spotted rhinoceros, the sheath is made of ivory and dyed with light embroidery, and it is also painted with flowers, birds, clouds, and butterflies, and the handle is made of gold. Exquisite craftsmanship, very light to hold, this knife in the sun is very dazzling, shining.
"If you look at the side of the sword body, here are carved the four small characters of 'Xuan Tong Yu Zhi', the font is extremely difficult to write thin gold body, and it is really rare to write so small and vigorous." Connoisseurs were amazed.
The old man's ancestors have such a figure whose family situation should be good, but after political turmoil, the family foundation was all defeated in the ten years of catastrophe, "In that famine year, there were many children in the family, I had seven children, fortunately most of them grew up healthy and healthy, I thought that I was also good to live my life like this, I never expected the disaster from heaven, alas! The old man could not help but sigh.
The old man said: "In the first two years, when there was no trouble in the family, there were people everywhere who advised me to send the sword to the "National Treasure Hunting" program to identify the true and false, I was not fooled by them, and my sword was given by the emperor and there would be no fake. Two years ago, my children were getting married and buying a house, and they proposed to take the knife to the museum for valuation. ”
"I thought about it and agreed, but when I approached the local museum, he said that the state encouraged the people to send treasures to the museum collection and would also give rewards accordingly, but the amount of money for the reward was not much, so I refused, I felt that it was unnecessary." The old man recalled.
Later, the elderly family was seriously ill and in urgent need of money, and the old man was not an uneducated person, so he decided to go to a big city like Beijing and send it to a high-level auction house, and after the appraisal of the auction house's professional cultural relics appraiser, it was confirmed that the knife was indeed a superior knife for the royal guards.
Because of the urgent need for money, the auction house quickly sent the news of the knife to the Beijing collection circle, and collectors throughout Beijing were moved. The people of the Palace Museum's Cultural Relics Bureau also received information and sent people to find the elderly, they wanted to get the sword one step ahead, if it was collected by others, it would be a loss to the country.
The director of the Palace Museum said: "The auction is auction, and it is the most important thing to try to keep this knife in the Forbidden City." "On the day of the sword auction, there were many people in the auction house, and many people came to see this rare and good knife, and they all had the impulse to take this knife into their pockets.
After several rounds of bidding, the knife was finally auctioned by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage for five million, and when the auction ended, many industry experts were very dissatisfied with the old man's approach, believing that it was detrimental to the historical value of cultural relics. The old man's face was full of helplessness: "The family has a difficult scripture to read, and life is not easy!" ”
Today, the knife is presented in the Palace Museum for the public to visit. Cultural relics are the accumulation of history and culture and the crystallization of the spirit of craftsmen. The old man's approach naturally has its own unspeakable grievances, but if there is a cultural relic in the home, it is best to send it to the museum, because the private collection is likely to be unprofessional, so that it inadvertently damages the value of the cultural relics themselves.
Many cultural relics are very fragile, some cultural relics such as paintings, pay attention to humidity, temperature, dust, etc., any small change may stimulate fragile cultural relics. Therefore, sending cultural relics to the museum is not only not a loss, but also a great thing, and it is not a great thing to preserve history forever, and the historical evolution and cultural value of the Chinese nation will be passed down to the greatest extent because of such a small sacrifice?