In July 2007, Sun Yue, a young man from Henan, successfully built a five-layer hanging ball pottery, so he filed a lawsuit with Xing Liangkun, the "world pottery king", demanding that he fulfill his promise and repay his assets worth 100 million yuan.
Xing Liangkun
After learning this news, Xing Liangkun did not fight a bit, he shouted: that stuff dogs can do, teach dogs for two hours, dogs can do, more than 5 hours to learn are stupid, more than 10 hours to learn are stupid, more than a day to learn, then he is dementia.
It should be known that Sun Yue spent more than 8 months to make this pottery, and Xing Liangkun's words were obviously to vent his emotions and maliciously slander the other party.
Then, why is Xing Liangkun, who is known as the "World Tao King", so outspoken? What about the hundreds of millions of assets in Sun Yue's mouth? It all starts with a lawsuit.
1. A paper complaint
On June 8, 2007, Sun Yue sued Xing Liangkun in court with a complaint stating that his five-layer hanging ball pottery had met the production conditions that Xing Liangkun said, so he asked Xing Liangkun to fulfill his promise and give him hundreds of millions of family properties.
The case caused a heated discussion across the country, and many reporters interviewed both sides.
Sun Yue
In order to prove the authenticity and authenticity of his works, Sun Yue sent the freshly burned hanging ball back to the furnace in front of the reporter to re-burn, meaning that there was no modern product such as glue in it.
Then he smashed the hanging ball with a hammer, proving that the inside was separated layer by layer, and there was no external object such as wire.
For the verdict, Sun Yue was full of expectations, he confidently told reporters that Xing Liangkun is the top figure in the porcelain industry, he is very confident in his own works, and when he said that sentence on the program, he was not at all a hot head, he must have made full ideological preparations in advance, and since he said that, he was responsible!
In addition, it took him nearly 9 months to make this five-layer hanging ball, and during the production process, he felt a great difficulty in production, so Xing Liangkun's words were definitely not children's plays.
Hearing Sun Yue's "provocation", Xing Liangkun was very angry, and he did not want to believe how his "mystery of the world" could be easily solved by Sun Yue, a layman.
He believes that Sun Yue's things must be fake, and cannot be compared with real five-layer hanging ball ceramics.
Some reporters said it fairly: "We have seen his videos and photos, and the hanging ball is indeed made according to your requirements."
Xing Liangkun and products
However, Xing Liangkun said angrily that my technology has a national patent, and his works must follow the patents, and now they are clearly two structural things.
As soon as this statement came out, I thought it was not, it was not, and it meant to play tricks.
When the news reached Sun Yue, he was disappointed in Xing Liangkun's attitude, and he felt that his work met the requirements in any aspect, but now Xing Liangkun deliberately made him difficult, making him very angry.
At the court trial in July, Sun Yue revealed the "killer skill" - Xing Liangkun's words constituted a bounty advertising contract.
What is a Bounty Advertising Contract? That is, the bounty person publicly promises in the form of advertising, and if the actor achieves the purpose he wants, he will give a certain remuneration.
Overall, the nodes of the case are clear, Sun Yue has made five layers of hanging balls, and the focus is on whether Xing Liangkun's words constitute a public commitment in the form of advertising.
In fact, a case four years ago can be used as a precedent for this trial.
In May 2003, four children were lost in the homes of several farmers in Hunan, and they could not find them, so they had to turn to the media for help.
They claimed that anyone who could provide valuable clues would personally pay a reward of 10,000 yuan.
After the news was released, a retired teacher surnamed Zhang provided a valuable clue, and along this tip, several families quickly found the four lost children.
But after the child was found, the parents repented, they were not willing to pay 10,000 yuan of honorarium, but also bit a mouthful, saying how do you know so clearly? Did you kidnap your child?
Zhang angrily sued the parents of the children to the court, asking the other party to pay an honorarium of 10,000 yuan as promised, and finally the court ruled that Zhang won the case.
The Hunan case is very similar to the Sun Yue and Xing Liangkun cases and can be used as one of the reference materials for trial.
In July 2007, the Jian Xi District People's Court of Luoyang City ruled that the bounty advertising contract between the two parties was established, which meant that Xing Liangkun needed to pay the hundreds of millions of family properties promised in the program.
This result made Xing Liangkun regret it, he regretted that he had spoken a lot, and it was really a disaster coming out of his mouth! However, this is also his "true color".
Second, the "cannon" madman
Xing Liangkun was born in Shandong in 1955 and later grew up in Dalian, Liaoning.
Although he only has a fifth-grade primary school culture, Xing Liangkun is very talented in ceramic manufacturing.
After decades of hard work, this "semi-illiterate" has created many difficult pottery techniques, obtained more than 20 invention patents, and broken the Guinness World Record five times.
Later, Xing Liangkun was also collected by the Palace Museum of China, and this event became the first collection of modern artists in the Forbidden City.
Therefore, in terms of ceramic manufacturing, Xing Liangkun's technology can be described as the pinnacle of perfection, which can be regarded as the cutting-edge representative of the industry.
However, after being named the "World Tao King", Xing Liangkun was a little arrogant.
He often put the world's first hat on his head, and declared that he would win the Nobel Prize in the future, becoming the object of hot discussion in the industry.
Peers often commented on him as a genius because his works were often eye-catching, but they called him a madman because he spoke arrogantly and often "amplified the cannon".
Generally speaking, every word and deed of a celebrity will be displayed under the eyes of the public, but Xing Liangkun does not care, he often has a hot head when he speaks, and soon, he eats a lawsuit because of his own words.
In 2006, Xing Liangkun appeared on CCTV's "Township Covenant" program, in which Xing Liangkun reproduced the true color of "cannon" in front of the people of the whole country.
He said that he made ceramics by three points by artificial, seven points by divine power, and he was the only one in the world who could connect them, and he was the "only seedling" in the porcelain making industry.
Later, Xing Liangkun came up with a work known as the "mystery of the world" - five-layer hanging ball pottery.
He said that the pottery was developed over more than 10 years, and until now no second person in the world has been able to study it.
(Multi-layered hanging ball pottery)
Immediately afterward, he said rather conceitedly, today in front of the people of the whole country, I promised that if anyone can imitate it, my three-story 2,000-square-meter ceramic research institute building, including all the assets inside, will be given to the imitators.
According to the market value at that time, the three-story building that was donated was worth at least 10 million yuan, and there were more than 100 collections in it, each with a value of more than one million, and the combined value of these was over 100 million.
That is to say, in Xing Liangkun's view, as long as anyone can imitate his works, this billion yuan of assets will belong to whom.
(Xing Liangkun's request)
For the style of imitations, Xing Liangkun also particularly emphasized that imitations do not need to be exactly the same, as long as they can be made of five layers, layer by layer, can be hung up on the line, other I do not care, all approve.
These words made the audience and the host exclaim, and Xing Liangkun also felt that he was addicted.
He believes that no one will take his words to heart, but the reality is that a guy thousands of miles away has insomnia, and he is Sun Yue at the beginning of the article.
Third, the more real guy
After watching Xing Liangkun's program, Sun Yue did not sleep well all night, he tossed and turned, and kept reading Xing Liangkun's promises, and could not forget his assets of over 100 million.
After some deliberation, Sun Yue made up his mind to challenge the "mystery of the world".
Because in his view, he is a plumber, although he is a pottery enthusiast, he has never undergone professional pottery training, even if he loses, he is also an international master, and he is not ashamed.
When all is said and done, Sun Yue set up a studio on his balcony and began to study it with confidence.
After repeated failures and summaries, Sun Yue gradually had his own views on the five-layer hanging ball.
He believes that there should be sufficient gaps between each layer, and it needs to be interlocked by pottery rings, so that it can be hung up and flexibly rotated between each layer.
In order to make a hanging ball, Sun Yue went through countless materials on the Internet, made countless attempts, and according to him, failed at least a thousand times.
Although he experienced many failures, after 9 months of research, Sun Yue still created a five-layer hanging ball.
Since the work was completed, Sun Yue wanted to find Xing Liangkun to fulfill his promise, he contacted Xing Liangkun, but on the phone, Xing Liangkun denied Sun Yue's work, he said that my work can rotate like a bearing, and it will not hit a wall.
In the face of this "harsh" condition, Sun Yue was not discouraged, but concentrated on continuing to tackle key problems.
In early April 2007, he finally succeeded in overcoming all the problems of the "five-layer hanging ball", and even created the "six-layer hanging ball".
Later, Sun Yue watched the program again, and he was convinced that Xing Liangkun asked that as long as it could be made of five layers, it could be hung up, and it did not have to be exactly the same.
As a result, Sun Yue contacted Xing Liangkun many times, but each time Xing Liangkun was vetoed, saying that the level of his works was not good, and it was not comparable to his own works.
The number of rejections was more, Sun Yue had an idea, was Xing Liangkun deliberately paying the bills?
The last time, in the face of Sun Yue's doubts, Xing Liangkun was angry. He said contemptuously, your five-layered hanging ball must be hanging with wire, or with glue or something messy, your thing must be unqualified.
This sentence completely angered Sun Yue, who spent nearly a year researching the hanging ball, but Xing Liangkun repeatedly denigrated his works, so he thought that Xing Liangkun must want to settle the account and he must ask for an explanation, so there was a lawsuit at the beginning of the article that Sun Yue sued and won the case.
Fourth, what are the results
However, for the court's judgment, Xing Liangkun was obviously not convinced.
He said that at that time, that sentence was just a joke, in order to set off the TV effect, and the five-layer hanging ball was by no means a mystery of the world, it was a prop he took at random at that time, which was very simple to make, and many of his apprentices would do it.
But when the reporter took Sun Yue's work as an example and questioned him, Xing Liangkun angrily said the opening sentence, obviously pointing the spearhead at Sun Yue and insulting him as demented, not even a "dog".
He also blushed and cheekily defended: "I like to say how to say, lively on the line"!
As an industry leader, Xing Liangkun's remarks are not only rude, but also irresponsible, and really cheap.
But later, Xing Liangkun also softened, and he changed his mouth to say that this was a house he rented, and if it was not his own assets, it would not be a gift.
Later, he changed his mouth to say that this was a house built with a bank loan, and the loan had not been repaid, nor was it his own, and he could not give it away.
The purpose of his move was to delay his appeal.
At the same time, the case has been in the spotlight of the legal profession.
In September 2007, five heavyweights in China's legal circles jointly issued a Legal Opinion on the case with the purpose of "respecting facts and safeguarding the dignity of the law".
They think that Xing Liangkun's conversation is just a "bragging" behavior, not a bounty advertisement, in addition, the only thing that can really be counted as a work of art is Xing Liangkun's work, although Sun Yue can also make a five-layer hanging ball, but the level of the two can not be the same...
On April 16, 2008, the Luoyang Intermediate People's Court heard the case in public.
Before the trial, Sun Yue wore sunglasses to attend, and it is said that he told reporters with great interest that although the result is important, what is more important is that there is already a lot of media attention on me, and I have become a "celebrity".
Xing Liangkun did not attend this time, but he repeatedly stressed to the lawyer that he must state to the judge that what he said in the program was just to brag, and it did not have any legal effect at all.
In August 2008, the Luoyang Intermediate People's Court rendered a judgment in accordance with the law on Xing Liangkun's appeal request, and finally found that Xing Liangkun was talking big and had no legal benefits.
Therefore, there is no bounty advertising relationship between Xing Liangkun and Sun Yue, so the first-instance judgment result is revoked and Sun Yue's litigation claims are directly rejected.
However, the verdict also surprised everyone, the costs of the two lawsuits were borne by Xing Liangkun, and according to Chinese law, the losing party should bear the costs of the lawsuit.
After receiving the verdict, Sun Yue and his lawyers expressed disappointment with the result of the change of judgment, saying that this time it was not Sun Yue's failure, but the failure of social integrity.
They will sue in the future and invite Xing Liangkun to the defendant's seat, but as of now, there has been no news that the case will be heard again.
After the case ended, Xing Liangkun broke out again with a surprising statement, saying that his previous words did not count.
But he is still willing to go to CCTV again, will be very serious to issue a reward announcement, who can create their own handicrafts, he will definitely reward 1 million yuan, but also will find a notary to testify.
It can be seen that after winning the case, Xing Liangkun's mood is very good, and he also wants to save his face, showing that he "must do what he says" and "reliable", but in the end, whether he went on CCTV and whether he issued rewards, there has been no news so far.
Although he lost the case, Sun Yue became interested in pottery products, and he began to study the pottery process, making a more challenging nine-layer hanging ball in May 2019.
Since then, he has repeatedly challenged the limits of pottery making and become a well-known potter in the circle.
epilogue:
This lawsuit finally ended in the form of a farce, no one is a winner, no one is a loser, everything is back to square one, and the only thing that is wasted is precious legal resources.
Although Xing Liangkun retained a property of 100 million yuan, in this matter, Xing Liangkun showed no honesty and rude words, and was completely unworthy of the title of "World Pottery King".
Although Sun Yue lost the lawsuit, he became smoother and smoother on the road of ceramic manufacturing, perhaps this is also his original intention of launching a farce, that is, to change his way of life and change his fate.
At the same time, this matter also makes people understand a truth, although not every sentence and every thing in life can rise to the height of the law, but crazy talk, big talk or try not to say it indiscriminately, because it is definitely responsible for saying big words, and maybe it will pay an unimaginable price.