It is not difficult to see from people's preferences that the life of the Chinese people is indeed getting better. You see a few years ago, collecting antiques has become a hobby of countless people, which has also led to a hot antique market.
With the rise of antiques, counterfeiting technology is also constantly improving, many unscrupulous traders have developed enough fakes to fake and real, and the improvement of the quality of fakes has also made treasure experts become the dependence of treasure friends.
After all, most people are laymen, and they still need to ask experts to identify them. For a long time, in the crowd of people who like to collect antiques, treasure experts are like gods, but today, treasure experts have fallen into a situation where everyone shouts and fights, why is this? It is inseparable from these people.
The loan fraud case
Before talking about this matter, let's talk about the significance of the existence of treasure experts, that is, the identification certificate. There was once a saying in the antique circle, "It is difficult to find an appraisal certificate for thousands of dollars.". However, in the wake of this scandal, the appraisal certificate described waste paper.
It happened in the millennium, this person is named Xie Genrong, he began to wander around after graduating from junior high school, and made a fortune by selling clothes on the Russian border. Later, looking at the real estate industry, he borrowed 660 million yuan from the "empty glove white wolf" of the Construction Bank by forging personal mortgage loan contracts, which is not the end, and he looked at antiques again.
Xie Genrong built a "Genrong Exhibition Hall", which is displayed with a forged "golden jade dress", which is said to cost only 20,000 yuan, and this "golden jade robe" is fake, but Xie Genrong has a way to make it real.
He found several experts, the heaviest of which was Yang Boda, who was the vice president of the Forbidden City at the time, and the expert group headed by Yang Boda came to the "Genrong Exhibition Hall" and saw the forged "golden jade coat" that there were only two pieces in the world, and what he did not expect was that they did not even open the glass box, but just turned around and made up their minds, which was true, and also estimated the sky-high price of 2.4 billion.
Afterwards, they allegedly received millions of "hardship fees." Later, Xie Genrong took the appraisal certificate to the bank and borrowed a huge amount of money, until eight years later, the matter was exposed, and Xie Genrong was imprisoned for it.
And Yang Boda and other experts only said one sentence, "look away" perfunctory.
170,000 "scam paintings", 87 million bad experts sold
Around 2009 is a peak period of antiques, during which there have been many treasure hunting programs in China, which are also very popular, and I have to say that such programs have also promoted the development of the antique industry. In each program, some experts will be invited to appreciate the treasure, and Liu Yan is invited to the program as a guest because of his deep research in calligraphy and painting.
There is a citizen in Zhengzhou who likes to collect paintings called Zhu Yun, he brought a family heirloom, the Qianlong Emperor personally painted the "Songyang HanBaitu", when it was his turn, he came to the scene with his own paintings, and sent this "Songyang Hanbaitu" to Liu Yan's hands, Liu Yan simply looked at it and said, "This is indeed an old painting, but unfortunately it is not the original handiwork of the Qianlong Emperor." It's worth tens of thousands of dollars at most. ”
Zhu Yun was disappointed, and Liu Yan asked him to come to him at night. That night, Zhu Yun and one of his brothers came to Liu Yan's room and brought the painting with them, and Liu Yan looked at it for a while and said that although it was not the real thing, he liked it very much, but he could pay up to thirty thousand yuan.
Zhu Yun was very frustrated, at this time Liu Yan said that he knew many people and helped him ask his friends, and he really found a friend who was willing to pay 170,000. Upon hearing that this price was much higher than thirty thousand, Zhu Yun immediately sold it.
At the end of 2010, a pair of "Songyang Hanbotu" was auctioned for a sky-high price of 87 million, Zhu Yun looked at it, isn't this his own painting? Zhu Yun launched a lawsuit, and during the investigation, it was found that this Liu Yan was actually an imposter. Later, Zhu Yun still lost the case.
Cai Guosheng, who took the case
Cai Guosheng is a modern calligrapher and also an expert in cultural relics appraisal, and he also received an invitation to a program during the most popular period of the treasure hunting program.
When I came to this show, I found that most of the treasure experts did not have any fame, only one person named Huang Dongning was still a little famous, and I thought that I could record a good show.
Who would have thought that on the first day of recording the program, Cai Guosheng would shoot the case and directly leave the scene of recording the program, why is this? Because when recording the show, too many things happened that he couldn't accept.
For example, a person came to the program with a bluestone carved statue of Shakyamuni, and Cai Guosheng could see at a glance that this statue of Shakyamuni was fake. But unfortunately, this collection is not in his charge, the person in charge of this collection is Huang Dongning, Huang Dongning said, this is a Ming Dynasty object.
When he was resting at noon, Cai Guosheng found Huang Dongning and talked about this matter well, but Huang Dongning did not say a word.
In the afternoon, a person brought a vase that claimed to be a Song Dynasty official kiln, and Huang Dongning was responsible, he saw that the bottom of the bottle was really engraved with the year number of the Song Dynasty, and said that it was indeed a Song Dynasty thing, at this time the experts next to it could not look at it, and had been reminding next to it, "The number is in Ming Yongle and Xuande" "The model is golden, this is not real gold, it is machine carved."
Still insisting on his own point of view, Cai Guosheng finally couldn't stand it and left the table in anger. Afterwards, a lot of black material about the treasure hunting program was also exposed.
brief summary:
I have to say that the water is too deep in this industry.
It may be that people are now living a relatively rich life, like to buy some antique collection or wear, which can be deceived many, to give a simplest example! During the tour and the jade bought in the mall, the jade is real jade, but its value is 18,000 miles away from the price purchased. This situation has led to the rise in the status of treasure experts, because experts can identify the value of a jade or cultural relic.
Originally, the status of the treasure experts was very high, and it was also well received by people, but after several scandals broke out, the status of the treasure experts declined all the way, especially in the two major cases mentioned above, Ma Weidu once said that after the "golden jade clothing" case was exposed, it directly led to the decline in the status of the treasure experts.
In the case of Liu Yan's fraudulent painting, although Liu Yan escaped the punishment of the law, it led to the treasure experts losing people's trust, who dared to take their own heirlooms to find these experts for identification? What if I get scammed?
Of course, there are still many experts with outstanding ability and noble character, such as Cai Guosheng, who spoke out in anger, because he could not watch the "false appraisal" of treasure hunting expert Huang Dongning and the shady curtain of the program, he chose to quit the program and spoke out to expose the shady curtain.
Think about it, because this few rat makes his reputation also implicated, and everyone will be angry.