China has a history of 5,000 years. With the development of human civilization, while creating many miracles, it has also left countless exquisite cultural relics. Many people have a hobby of collecting cultural relics, and their homes are filled with antiques from all over the place, true or false, and they know nothing. Some people think that the cultural relics they collect are worth tens of millions, and some people even think that their collections are priceless.
Many people want to laugh when they see this, it is simply whimsical, how can there be so many priceless treasures? But recently there is such a lucky collector.
First, the motivation for the treasure hunt
The collector himself did not dare to take the treasure to the expert for identification, so he let her daughter go, and the daughter went on the show and brought out a strangely shaped jar.
The jar was bought by the girl's father for three thousand dollars.
It turned out that the girl's father went to Xi'an on a business trip many years ago, and saw an antique city on the road, so he went in and strolled around. As a result, I caught the jar in a shop and took it home for three thousand dollars. After taking it home, he also said that from now on, there were two treasures in the family, one was the daughter, and the other was this jar. At first, the girl thought the same thing as everyone else, thinking that her father was holding a fake as a baby.
It is better to buy than to sell fine, and with this kind of good thing, the seller has long kept it for himself.
So what is the truth? Is this jar a fake or a priceless treasure? Is the seller really blind to gold and jade?
Second, solve the mystery of the life of the jar
Let's take a closer look at the shape of the jar. It's a green jar with a very peculiar shape. There is a ladder on the back of the jar, and a man in a pointed hat climbs down the ladder to the top, and the man with a sack on his shoulder is about to pour something into the jar. Such a strange shape caused a discussion at the scene, the girl said that it was a jar containing gold and silver treasures, and the little man was about to pour gold and silver treasures into the jar. Others think it's a granary with grain in a sack of grain.
The little man above wears a pointed hat and a belt around his waist, which is obviously a Hu figure. Many of the cultural relics with the image of the Hu people belong to the period when trade was developed. Coupled with some of the unique decorations above, they were commonly used in the Han Dynasty.
Hearing this, the girl could not hide the smile on her face, but the expert's next identification results were even more surprising.
Such a simple and unpretentious appearance of the jar was actually announced by experts on the spot to be a green glazed barn of the Han Dynasty, which is a well-deserved national treasure!
As soon as these words came out, the whole audience was in an uproar.
Third, happy to hold the treasure jar return
Hearing the result, the girl's tightly dangling heart can be said to be able to let go. Unexpectedly, as she had just said at the beginning, it seemed that this green glaze jar really had the effect of containing gold and silver treasures. Its own value, even if it is overflowing, I am afraid that these gold and silver treasures will not be able to hold it. The father in front of the TV set was even more overjoyed, and he did not expect that a jar he bought in the antique city many years ago was really a priceless treasure.
I don't know if this is lucky or the father's discernment? If the boss who sold this jar watched this episode, he would have been so distressed that he would have pounded his chest.
There are many lucky collectors like this father, and some even have been kept as heirlooms in their homes for decades, and they have not dared to go to experts for identification. This is probably the same as the gambling stone is a mentality, put at home, do not identify, and it is good to have such a thought in your heart. I don't know how many people will run to the antique market to try it after seeing this news, maybe someone is really as lucky as this old father, and accidentally hugged a national treasure home.
But having said that, this kind of thing is still a small probability after all, of course, there are also running to identify, but it is a big disappointment. Then, for everyone who wants to move, instead of blindly running to the antique market to pick and choose, it is better to continue to follow the small editor to understand more about the knowledge of the collection. Even if you are not as lucky as this father, you can find one or two satisfactory objects to keep at home.
Many people have a hobby of collecting cultural relics, so why is this hobby popular? The answer is fourfold.
1. The historical value of cultural relics.
Many of the artifacts themselves are not well-made, and the production process is not complicated. For example, bone cones from the Stone Age and bronzes from the Shang Dynasty.
But at the time, these were the most advanced technologies. It represents the level of craftsmanship in a period, as well as the stage of the development of human civilization, so it is given a deep meaning.
These objects themselves are not valuable, but because of the vicissitudes of the times, witnessing the development of mankind is therefore very precious. They are like a pair of eyes, a camera that records the times, and the value it contains is the most important.
2. The cultural relics themselves are exquisitely made.
Many people collect cultural relics simply because of their love for the cultural relics themselves, such as Tang Sancai in the Tang Dynasty and blue and white porcelain in the Qing Dynasty.
Because these cultural relics are very complex in their own production process and the finished product is also very ornamental, they have become a hot collection among collectors.
For example, the "Map of a Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" and "Map of the Upper River of the Qingming Dynasty" collected at the Palace Museum in Beijing today have become national treasures because of their exquisite and exquisite.
3. Cultural relics are scarce.
As we all know, during the Eight-Power Alliance's war of aggression against China, the great powers ruthlessly plundered many treasures on the mainland. Many museums were looted, and some were even burned to the ground. The Yuanmingyuan was burned, and a fire burned all the calligraphy, paintings, pottery, etc. clean.
This has directly led to the loss of many cultural relics, and some have even become orphans and lost abroad. Scarce things are precious, and these remnants of cultural relics have become priceless treasures because of their scarcity.
4. Personal preferences of collectors.
Because they are particularly fond of a certain dynasty or a certain emperor or prince, they will be extremely interested in the cultural relics used by these historical figures, and they will do everything they can to have one at all costs.
In their eyes, these cultural relics already have a special significance, and they cannot be bought with money. I remember that the Shanghai Museum has an exclusive numismatic exhibition, which is full of the currencies of various countries and periods collected by a collector. These currencies were not necessarily very precious at the time, but now, it is not known how much the value has increased.
At that time, collectors collected these currencies because of personal preferences or a hint of appreciation, which is unknown.
Knowing the reasons why cultural relics are valuable, how can we improve our appreciation?
We ordinary people do not have a rich body of knowledge like experts, but there are still some tips to teach you. Here, Xiaobian has compiled a recipe for everyone, which is convenient for memory, and you can try to use it when choosing antiques.
"One look at the color, two look at the shape, three look at the feeling."
This is not my blind making-up, and then I will explain this recipe one by one.
"A good look"
The so-called color, that is, the material of the antique, fineness. Many antiques before the Han Dynasty, because of the limited production technology, coupled with the level of manual operation of each worker is also good or bad, the finished products produced have great uncertainty. "Rough" is not necessarily bad, after all, the level is limited, "rough" is more authentic.
Most of the modern imitation products are very advanced due to industrial production operations, temperature control and technical standards, so the "antiques" produced are too fine and have no sense of the times, and this part is easy to identify.
Of course, there are many fakes that are deliberately old, and some are even deliberately put under the sun to weather, so that they have a more texture that has gone through vicissitudes. Even put it in the pit to make it rot and speed up the completion process, which needs to be identified by us.
Old porcelain pots
"Two looks at the shape"
This part is easier to distinguish. Many fakes are mixed with modern aesthetics, more exquisite, and have high ornamental value. But in fact, many of the real antiques are not in line with the mainstream aesthetics of modern people.
Moreover, many fakes are made at random, and without studying the data, it is easy to appear in time and space chaos. For example, it is obviously wrong to put the ornaments only available in the Shang Dynasty on top of the ritual vessels popular in the Xia Dynasty, but it is not easy to distinguish if we do not have some basic discriminating ability.
Some people may also think that such a beautiful pattern, the shape is also very chic, I must have picked up the treasure. As a result, I bought it home and let the old man look at it and know that it was a fake. Therefore, we usually need to go to the museum to take a look, understand the ornaments that are common in real antiques, and the mainstream style of that era, and avoid spending money.
"Three looks and feels"
At first glance, this one is very metaphysical, but at the critical moment, metaphysics is not necessarily unreliable. We grew up, whether it was a TV show or a newspaper news, passively received a lot of information, and this information is still very useful. They enhance our intuition and invisibly improve our ability to discern.
For example, an antique, the merchant made up a twisted and bizarre story, telling you how difficult it was for this antique to come. Then, we may be easily moved by this story, through the merchant flickering, seeing that we have to pay money. wait!
Think about it a little more, if this antique is really so difficult to come by, why does the merchant sell it to us? Is it bad for them to keep it for themselves? Some people may feel that the merchant does not know the goods, and cannot see that things are good. But now the market, the flow of information between merchants is much more than ours, so it is good for us to keep one more eye, you may wish to use your mobile phone to search, take a look, get more information from the outside world, you can avoid being deceived.
The above three points are the experience of going to the antique city to find antiques summarized by the editor, in fact, everyone really has ideas and wants to spend three thousand yuan to buy an antique like the old father in the show. Or communicate more with knowledgeable people and increase some knowledge.
What Xiaobian teaches is only some fur, but here, Xiaobian still reminds everyone to be down-to-earth and not to have a fluke mentality. It's okay to spend money on something small that you like, but if it's beyond your reach, think calmly about whether it's worth it or not.