China has a history of 5,000 years, a long time, leaving many colorful cultural resources, and there are still many rare treasures in the ancient tombs found by chance.
In the 1980s and 1990s, many cultural relics were circulated among the people, and more and more people began to linger in some antique markets, trying to find a valuable cultural relic from them and make a fortune. But in order to really find a collectionable cultural relic, you must not only have the skill of slightly identifying cultural relics but also have some luck of your own.
However, a man in Fujian really found a book in the antique market, and a few years later, he sold more than 20 million yuan through auction. What's going on here?
The man's surname is Wang, and he happened to go to Nanchang that day to do business, because he is usually keen on collecting antiques, so he conveniently spent some free time to visit the local antique market that day.
At first, Mr. Wang had planned to go there to pass the time, but he did not think that just when he was about to leave, a book in an old book stall caught his attention, making him stop in front of the old book stall and refuse to leave.
He pretended to casually pick up the book that caught his eye and looked at it, which made him giggle a little, and the book turned out to be "Rebbe Rhymes". Moreover, the last book that existed in the world had been collected by the Japanese during the War of Resistance Against Japan, and outsiders could not touch it at all. And because he has some study and research on this aspect, he recognized it at the first sight of this book, and he was secretly happy in his heart, knowing that he was lucky to have found the treasure.
But he did not show this joy on his face, in order not to attract the attention of the stall owner, he pretended to pick up the other books on the stall and look at it, but Yu Guang kept staring at the book, and from time to time he would open the book repeatedly. In the long run, the stall owner saw his intentions and casually said that this book is an engraved copy of the Song Dynasty and is very collectible. As soon as Mr. Wang heard this, he knew that it would cost some money to buy this book, and finally he bargained with the stall owner for a long time and then spent 10,000 yuan to buy the book.
Although Mr. Wang knows some cultural relics appreciation, he only understands the skin slightly, and he is still a little afraid after buying this book. In order to determine the true value of the book, he specially entrusted some very authoritative experts from the National Library and other libraries to help identify the book.
After the experts' appraisal, it was finally confirmed that the ancient book bought by Mr. Wang was indeed an engraved copy of the Song Dynasty period "Libu Rhyme Strategy", and it was still a single book, although there were some damages on the book, it still had high value.
This "Libu Rhyme Strategy" was compiled by the Northern Song Dynasty Ding Du and others in the fourth year of the Song Renzong Jingyou, that is, in 1037, it was promulgated and issued by the Libu Of the dynasty, compared to the previous "Guangyun" is a little brief, so it is called "Libu Rhyme".
This "Rebbe Rhyme Strategy" is equivalent to some modern dictionaries, which was a tool book prepared for the students of the imperial examination in ancient times, divided into five volumes, and some of the strange words and annotations in it can be clearly read by students when consulting. The book contains more than 20,000 words and more than 100,000 annotations, which has extremely high academic research value for modern times.
The experts were ecstatic after the appraisal, and at the same time, They were also happy with Mr. Wang himself, who was still relatively well-off at the time, rejected the experts' offer to bid more than 100,000 yuan to buy ancient books.
The weather was unpredictable, Mr. Wang failed in an investment, and he urgently needed funds to circulate, so he thought of selling the ancient book, and then went to the Jiangxi Library and showed his origin, hoping that the library would do the appraisal and then decide whether to buy the ancient book.
Jiangxi Library also invited Li Zhizhong and Chen Xianxian, two very authoritative experts, to identify, because of the longevity of ancient books and the degree of damage to the books, the two experts are not easy to estimate, so they called the top research expert Wei Li to identify the ancient books again.
The leaders of the Jiangxi Library decided to buy the ancient book for 5 million yuan after the appraisal of these experts, but because the library could not prepare so many funds for a while, it eventually passed by the book.
Because Mr. Wang was in urgent need of funds to circulate his own situation, after he rejected Li Zhizhong's proposal to put the book in the National Library, he repeatedly asked other experts to evaluate the ancient book, and each time it made him feel more confident.
In 2013, he gave the ancient book to the Beijing Kuangshi Auction Company for auction. Because of the publicity of the auction company, collectors around the world wanted to get this unique copy of the Song Dynasty.
The auction company started the book at a price of 8 million, and the price soared to 15 million at the beginning, the scene was quite fierce, and finally it was won by the Nanjing Library at a price of 26 million, combined with the commission, the "Etiquette Rhymes" was auctioned at a price of 29.9 million, and was successfully placed in the library in Nanjing.