I believe many people know that China's cultural relics market is mixed, and the market is full of forged fakes. The quality of these things is uneven, some of them look fake, some of them are exquisite, and they look basically indistinguishable from real treasures.
If you want to find the real thing from many fakes, you must have enough experience in identification. Ordinary people rarely have this ability, so they often need to find experts to help identify.
As everyone knows, in this field, not only is it difficult to distinguish between the true and false cultural relics, but even the experts themselves are difficult to distinguish between true and false.
Previously, there was a treasure master, in the name of experts, fooled the people, at a price of 170,000, bought qianlong famous paintings, and the result was auctioned for 87 million yuan.
The original owner of the famous painting was extremely angry after learning of this, and the expert was also accused of going to court. So, what is the end result of the matter?
This famous painting was born in the Qianlong period, according to historical data, in 1750, the 40-year-old Qianlong imitated Yao Shunyu and other ancient emperors and specially participated in a tour of Zhongyue.
During this tour, the Qianlong Emperor drove to Songyang Academy and left behind the legendary book "Songyang HanBotu".
Qianlong was one of the most famous emperors in mainland history, and he had considerable influence in the field of cultural relics. The treasures related to him are basically valuable things. Then, why did the original owner of "Songyang Hanbotu" sell it to experts at a low price of 170,000 yuan?
The person who collects "Songyang Han Baitu" is from Zhengzhou, Henan, named Zhu Yun. Because of his limited ability, he participated in a treasure hunting program, and he wanted to find experts to help identify the authenticity of "Songyang Hanbotu".
Liu Yan, an expert who helped with the identification, said that although it was an old object, it was not a genuine artifact, and it was worth 30,000 at most.
After reaching this conclusion, Liu Yan suggested to Zhu Yun that he could find someone to help him see, and if you could negotiate, he could let others spend more money to buy.
After learning that "Songyang HanBotu" was a "fake", Zhu Yun was very disappointed. In the field of cultural relics, the value of fakes is generally relatively low, there is no way to compare with the real thing, and few people are willing to collect it for a long time.
Zhu Yun looked at the "fake" in his hand, the more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable he felt, and he quickly agreed to the advice of expert Liu Yan and agreed to sell the "Songyang Han Baitu".
After half a month of preparation, Liu Yan did bring a person. This person, surnamed Cheng, claims to be an antique calligraphy and painting enthusiast, and usually buys some seemingly good fakes. After bargaining, the two sides finally successfully traded at a price of 170,000 yuan.
Compared with Liu Yan's initial statement of 30,000 yuan, 170,000 is significantly higher. Zhu Yun originally thought that he had made a bargain, but after a while, he unexpectedly found that the "Songyang Hanbotu" that he sold actually appeared on the auction floor, and it also sold for more than 87 million yuan.
After discovering this situation, Zhu Yun immediately realized that he had been deceived, and he quickly found Liu Yan, an expert who had helped him identify cultural relics and broker transactions, and wanted to get justice.
In the face of the angry Zhu Yun, Liu Yan did not care to explain that this kind of thing is very common in the cultural relics market, and the price of art auction items is mostly a foot in the sky and a foot on the ground, so there is no need to make a fuss.
Liu Yan's actions completely angered Zhu Yun. Subsequently, he sued Liu Yan on the grounds that the valuable collection had been deceived, demanding the recovery of the Songyang Han Baitu.
Because the amount of money involved was relatively large, the matter quickly attracted the attention of law enforcement departments. In order to investigate the truth of the matter, the public security department actively collected evidence, and as a result, they accidentally found that Liu Yan, an expert in treasure hunting, actually had two.
The resumes of the two are basically the same, the difference is that one of them is active in Guangdong and the other is active in Beijing.
So, who are the real experts? This matter has attracted a lot of attention, because the case is more complicated, and the matter is in trouble. Zhu Yun's cultural relics claim was also stranded, and he did not seek justice for a long time.
Later, Mr. Qiu Xiangjun, director of the Henan Provincial Cultural Relics Exchange Center, explained to the public that there are three main types of people engaged in cultural relics identification in China.
The first is the experts of the National Cultural Relics Collection Unit, whose main job is to identify the cultural relics collected by the museum.
The second type is the responsible appraiser recognized by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, whose main job is to review the cultural relics entering and leaving the country.
Category 3 cultural relics practitioners are generally people who issue qualification certificates by non-governmental organizations. Most of the treasure experts who participate in various programs are class 3 treasure hunter practitioners.
When these people obtain qualification certificates, some people have undergone strict classification examinations and qualification reviews, and some people have not been strictly examined for various reasons.
As a result, the abilities of Category 3 practitioners are uneven, and even some swindling pseudo-experts have been mixed in.
The "experts" identified by Zhu Yun are the third category. Judging from the process of selling cultural relics cheaply to changing hands at high prices, Zhu Yuyun was obviously deceived by "Liu Yan".
Selling a famous painting worth tens of millions of dollars at a low price of 170,000 yuan is an extremely bad thing no matter who puts it on.
Zhu Yun was furious about this and took "Liu Yan" to court, which was also reasonable. This incident had a great impact on Zhu Yun's family, and the expert "Liu Yan", who had once conducted identification for him, also became more and more low-key, no longer acting arbitrarily like before.
However, the entanglement of the two did not end like this. As a victim, Zhu Yun has been actively collecting evidence, hoping to successfully recover his own treasures and let the "experts" who deceived him be punished as they deserve.
Zhu Yun's matter made many people sigh. Some netizens commented that the risk of cultural relics identification is extremely high, and we must polish our eyes and find reliable people to help as much as possible.
If you want to avoid risks, the best way should be to shop around and find a few more institutions for identification.
If the conclusions reached by several appraisal institutions are consistent, it is a relatively correct result, and if the conclusions of several appraisal institutions are obviously different, then it should be carefully considered, so as not to make a wrong choice that makes you regret it on impulse.
If Zhu Yun had not easily believed the expert "Liu Yan", but thought more, or found a few more experts to identify, perhaps the result would be very different.
Unfortunately, there is no regret medicine in the world, since things have already happened, it can only accept the facts, collect evidence as much as possible, and seek justice for themselves through compliance channels, so that criminals who do wrong can pay the due price for their wrongdoing.