Experts bought bronzes for 1.5 million, on which 12 characters are engraved related to Xi Shi, which is now worth 500 million. The Shanghai Museum once had a curator named Ma Chengyuan, who knew very well about bronze and could be said to have studied it very thoroughly. Ma Chengyuan has a habit that when he is idle, he especially likes to go to Hong Kong, and every time he goes to Hong Kong, he can bring back some things. In order to buy these things, Ma Chengyuan spent a lot of money. Many people feel that it is not worth it, and have advised him not to spend this unjust money to buy these worthless things, but the facts have proved that Ma Chengyuan's choice is correct, and the things he bought at the beginning are a huge wealth for China.
In fact, we all know that in the 1980s and 1990s, many precious cultural relics were lost to various places. In fact, a large number of cultural relics are in the hands of some cultural relics dealers, tomb robbers stole cultural relics from the ancient tombs, and then dropped these cultural goods to the underground market. Many cultural relics dealers sold these precious cultural relics abroad, and the censorship in the mainland at that time was very strict, so these cultural relics dealers would take the cultural relics to Hong Kong, use Hong Kong as a transit station, and then sell them abroad.
After all, at that time, Hong Kong had not yet returned to the motherland, so the whole environment was still relatively chaotic. There are many precious and rare cultural relics hidden in Hong Kong's heritage market, and Ma Chengyuan's purpose every time he goes to Hong Kong is to find cultural relics. In 1995, Ma Chengyuan went to the Hong Kong Cultural Play Market again, and he still hoped to bring back some precious cultural relics, because he did not like to return empty-handed, hoping to gain something.
In the end, Ma Chengyuan is a professional cultural relics expert, and this time Ma Chengyuan also saw a valuable cultural relics in the market. At that time, Ma Chengyuan just casually entered an antique shop, but in this shop, he saw a bronze ware at a glance. At that time, Ma Chengyuan saw the inscription engraved under this bronze vessel, which was only 12 words in total. But it was these 12 words that made Ma Chengyuan determined to buy it.
At that time, the owner probably knew the preciousness of this cultural relic, so he offered Ma Chengyuan a price of HK$1.5 million. But Ma Chengyuan didn't have that much money at all, and he couldn't make up 1.5 million anyway. However, Ma Chengyuan has a friend who is a businessman, this person is called He Hongzhang, after Ma Chengyuan and He Hongzhang explained the reason for the matter, He Hongzhang said that he was willing to spend 1.5 million yuan to buy cultural relics to the Shanghai Museum.
Because of He Hongzhang's funding, Ma Chengyuan was able to buy this bronze. After obtaining the bronze, Ma Chengyuan conducted a very meticulous research and identification, and finally he found that this cultural relic is from the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, which is a bronze book, and the 12 characters engraved on the bronze book are: Wu Wangfu sent Wu Jin to cast women's utensils and. That is to say, this is a bronze vessel made by Wu Wangfuchai for a woman.
Speaking of this woman, Ma Chengyuan thought of Xi Shi, one of the four beauties, that is to say, this is a relic of Xi Shi. Later, this bronze book was called Wu Wangfu Chajian, when it was displayed in front of the world, everyone was shocked by the production process of Wu Wangfu Chajian, experts said that fortunately, Ma Chengyuan tried his best to buy it for 1.5 million, and now Wu Wangfu Chajian is afraid that there is no 500 million that cannot be bought. In this way, Ma Chengyuan also picked up a big leak at the beginning. What do you think about this? Welcome to leave a message to share.