Under the epidemic, people's activities have once again turned to online, art auction is no exception, shanghai Jiahe Auction Co., Ltd., which has rapidly risen to become the industry's dark horse with art online auction, was born in early 2020, and the Jiahe online auction, which was born in early 2020, has now been carried out to the 78th issue, of which "study room - old paper special" reveals to the world a collection category that is not much noticed - rice paper collection.
Rice paper is one of the four treasures of traditional Chinese literature, and the origin of rice paper is in Jing County, Anhui Province. Because rice paper is easy to preserve, not brittle for a long time, will not fade, etc., it has the reputation of "paper life for a thousand years". Rice paper is best made of green sandalwood phloem and Shatian straw from Jing County and its surrounding areas, and requires more than 100 traditional processes, with a production cycle of up to 2 years, so the longevity of rice paper is inseparable from its excellent raw materials.
Mr. Guo Moruo once wrote this evaluation for rice paper: Rice paper is an artistic creation invented by the working people of China, and Chinese calligraphy and painting cannot express the wonderful taste of art without it.
Red Star brand rice paper is a famous brand in the mainland rice paper, has won the national quality gold award three times, it is China Rice Paper Group Corporation according to gb18739-2002 national standard organization production, as a traditional craft products, its own artistry and rich in national characteristics of Chinese calligraphy and painting art smelt a furnace, flowing in the world.
Red Star brand rice paper is divided into cotton, net skin, special net skin three categories; according to the thickness, can be divided into single xuan, clip xuan, two layer xuan, three layer xuan, etc.; according to the specifications, can be divided into four feet, five feet, six feet, eight feet, zhang two, zhang six, zhang eight, two zhang (also known as "millennium xuan", in 2000 as the largest handmade paper to create Guinness World Record) and various special specifications, etc.; according to the paper pattern, it can be divided into single silk road, double silk road, ribbed, turtle pattern, etc.: according to the degree of ink, can be divided into three kinds of raw propaganda, cooked propaganda, semi-cooked propaganda, cooked propaganda is also called There are more than 60 kinds of "processing propaganda", such as jade plates, cicada clothes, mica, ice and snow, boiling hammers, and sprinkling gold.
Many people may not know that rice paper has a collection history of more than a thousand years in the mainland. Since the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the literati and scholars have formed an indissoluble relationship with xuan paper, whether it is Ouyang Qing, Yan Zhenqing, Zhang Xu, Li Boshi and other calligraphers and painters, or Li Yu, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, who loved xuan paper. In the Song Dynasty Wang Ling's "Resending The Right to Ziman", it is written: "If you have money, you can buy more Jiangdong paper, and Jiangdong paper is as white as a spring cloud." Describes the situation when people loved to collect rice paper.
Since the 1990s, the collection of folk rice paper has gradually heated up, and in the past decade, as the traditional Chinese cultural values have been further promoted, the price of rice paper has risen more obviously. Red Star card rice paper has risen from more than 300 yuan / knife (100 sheets for a knife) to more than 2,000 yuan / knife today, and the old paper that has been out of the factory for more than 10 years has attracted much attention in the auction market. At the first "China Aged Rice Paper Auction" held in Beijing in 2012, more than 150 knives of aged old rice paper represented by "Red Star Card" and "Red Flag Card" were auctioned for a total of 2.657 million yuan, of which the transaction price of a "Red Flag Brand" cotton material was 101,200 yuan, and the price of a four-foot yellow clip during the public-private partnership period of a knife "Red Star Brand" was 437,000 yuan.
In the Jiahe network auction "old paper" special session, the rice paper year on the auction from the 1980s to 2014 covers the "chicken ball card", "red flag card" and "red star card" rice paper produced by the three major manufacturers of rice paper in Jing County since the reform and opening up, while the first two brands have long been discontinued, and there are very few rice paper in existence.
The collecting community believes that there are several points in rice paper collection. First of all, it is best to collect the whole knife unopened, to have a certificate of conformity and seal, so that the source, variety, year and other information of rice paper are relatively clear; because the market price of old paper is high, try to choose rice paper with a not too long year (more than 5 years), and properly preserve it so that the time is added to the value of rice paper; collectors can also focus on the production of small batches of special rice paper with specific themes, such as various types of commemorative paper.