Social development has stabilized, the economy has also achieved unprecedented development, and antique auctions have become extremely lively. Many people buy antiques to preserve the original things in order to get room for appreciation. So, what is the practical role of antiques?
To say that the role of antiques can only be said to be that the value of speculation is greater than the practical value, or that the value of waiting for appreciation after preservation is greater than the practical value. Most of the antiques are things that have survived in ancient times, can not be used for practice, many of them have been decayed, or even can not move at all, can only be placed in a fixed place for people to see, for people to taste. And it is these antiques that cannot be applied to the actual world, which have become the object of people's hype.
Of course, it cannot be said that there is no value at all, but there is not much practical value, can not be used, can be watched, can be learned, can be proved. Ancient calligraphy and paintings have a certain reference value, let people know how high the ancient artistic level is, but also know the mentality of ancient literati, painters and the characteristics of materials; many weapons left over from ancient times are the same, although weapons have a sense of ominous weapons, but weapons can explain the casting process and productivity level of some eras, as well as the role of politics, etc. Ancient stone carvings, rock paintings, bell ding utensils, clothing, play utensils and other things can prove the level of culture and economic development in a certain period. There is also the development of craftsmanship, people's mentality and secular habits. Therefore, antiques have the meaning of cultural relics, but they cannot be called cultural relics, because cultural relics are not allowed to be resold, and it is illegal to resell cultural relics.
People who resell antiques never say how antiques come from, and people who buy antiques don't ask about the provenance of antiques. The twins reached a tacit understanding, and they made a deal. As for whether antiques are real, the people who sell them don't say, the people who buy them all rely on their eyesight. People who sell fake antiques, of course, refuse to admit that things are fake, and people who buy fake antiques cannot return them, because the antiques are very deep, and if people find a replica after buying them, won't they make the seller lose a lot? Therefore, the antique shop has real and false, really less, more fake, it depends on the buyer's eyesight.
Buyers buy antiques are not to be used, especially after buying some antiques, they will play with them, and then sell them, and those they really like will be placed at home and play for a long time. But antiques do not produce any practical utility like tools of production, but are just a commodity of the antique shop, and it is also the default commodity of the people in the antique shop. But the commodity itself is true or false, the real may be picked up, the price of the sale is not high, and the fake may also be sold as the real, sold at a high price. As a result, antique trading has become a game similar to opening a blind box, of course, there are self-proclaimed knowledgeable, of course, there are times when horses lose their front hooves. So, antiques do not have any practical utility, but are only used for ornamentation and appreciation, is it equivalent to a currency?
Maybe. People speculate in stocks, can speculate on the value of stocks, speculate in antiques can also speculate in the value of antiques, of course, antiques have become stocks, but also become a special currency. Currency rises and falls with the market, such as an ancient painting of the Qing Dynasty, which can sell for millions or even tens of millions when the market is good, and if the market is not good, it can only be sold to hundreds of thousands. The rise and fall of the market is not based on the will of buyers and sellers as a transfer, there will be international antique auction pricing rules, there will also be domestic antique market auction pricing rules, what becomes a valuable antique, depends on the market demand. The market demand is large, and the number of antiques is small, more precious, it has become a strange thing, and even a priceless treasure; if the market demand is small, and the number of antique pieces is large, it is more common, and it has become a rotten street thing, and it cannot be sold at a price. This change of wind basically relies on the pricing rules of auctions, and will also be manipulated by some elders and capitalists of antique shops. In other words, the elders of the antique shop are capitalists, who know what antiques should sell at a high price, and also know what antiques are selling at a lower price. So, they'll take advantage of the opportunity. The average antique lover can only wait to pick up the leak, and can not influence the market and the situation. Just like the difference between the big players who speculate in stocks and the general retail investors, the big players can get some insider information, and even grasp some stock trading rules, will not put the eggs in a basket, but will carry out a variety of investments, of course, you can make a lot of money, and the general retail investors just buy a stock, of course, will be trapped.
Antiques are stocks, and they are also a universal currency that rises and falls with the market. That is to say, antiques are a kind of financial instrument that is monetized, and can even be made into promissory notes, and can be sold as real, of course, there will be no real price. In this way, antiques have no practical value and have become a tool for hype. And those who hype antiques are not all people who know the antiques well, many of them are blindly following the trend, following the trend, following the market price, and often becoming harvested people, rather than people who make a lot of money. Moreover, they do not understand history, nor do they understand the historical value and artistic value of antiques, but they just treat antiques as investment products or wealth management products, and rush to make money, of course, there will be no achievements in history and culture. Those who make a lot of money are basically big buyers and big sellers, who can participate in international antique auctions, and also know the trends and pricing strategies of the antique market, and of course, they can harvest a lot of small players.
So it seems that antiques really have no practical value, only ornamental, artistic, historical, economic and political attributes in it, of course, many attributes are speculated by people, not necessarily accurate, and most antique lovers do not understand art, culture, politics, economics and other aspects of things, just want to make money, antiques as investment and wealth management products, but also let the antiques completely change the nature, become a Mongolian thing, but also become a tool for harvesting...