Recently, I saw a video of a big collector and the director of an art museum in Shanghai who had been transferred by Tibetan friends, and talked about how he went to a major international auction house to buy an ancient Chinese painting and calligraphy, and then was besieged by an official Doctor of Science researchers and various people and horses to fight counterfeiting. The video is inconvenient to forward, and people who understand it are clear. The contemptible people do not want to speculate on this matter, but only talk about their personal views on this matter. The issue of cracking down on counterfeiting with or without evidence really requires the attention of all parties concerned.
Let's first look at the following set of data (reproduced on the Internet):
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According to the author's understanding, this collector, who was counterfeited by museum researchers and passers-by who do not know the truth, also took a Western Impressionist work worth more than 100 million yuan last year. At that time, the author clapped his hands and praised, this shot was done beautifully, and picked up a big leak! This painting is much stronger than Ice Floes, Benegau.
The author recently saw the video of this big collector at the same time, as well as the above data, and thought: If you buy ancient Chinese art, you often encounter the phenomenon of being beaten by the group, under the same cost, why buy Chinese things? Are Zhang Daqian and Qi Baishi more bullish than Monet and Van Gogh? Must Chinese porcelain be worth more than the ugly apes of the NFT? When we go to the international art stage to compete on the same stage, does anyone think about the dilemma of the buyer?
The big collector said that he felt that he was a businessman and should not come to collect, but there was always someone to do this, which was a voice for him to buy Chinese paintings and calligraphy. So, how long can this love of ancient Chinese culture and art last? To put it in good conscience, if I were him, since this incident, I would have bought only Western things in my future collection. What I spent my own money to protect the culture and art of my own people was subjected to various crackdowns by the academic community and the general public, and even personal insults and derogatory. Figure a disgrace?
The most sad thing is that a certain Bo researcher did not even know whether it was double-checked, and the seals of the two collectors in the early and middle Qing dynasties were also confused, so they made a conclusion about the late Qing check and published it in important academic journals. Let's take a look at a passage that Mr. Yu Hui, an expert at the Palace Museum, said in response to Professor Cao Xingyuan of Stanford University in the United States to attack the fake "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" about whether Cai Jingbaowen was checked: "Pu Bao has been tested, and there is no double hook phenomenon. Now the use of electronic images has been very widespread. Some computer experts in the Information Department of the Palace Museum have also warned us: What problems must you pay attention to when using electronic images? Don't over-zoom in. Experts at the Forbidden City also informed the society that the electronic picture of Wang Ximeng's "Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" circulating in the society did not exist. On the other hand, ordinary computers cannot open electronic files of nine hundred million pixels, let alone mobile phones. Unless it is a professional computer for publishing, it can have special configuration software to open nine hundred million pixels. I asked them to provide a high-pixel two words that are enough to "still have", and its pixel is 4.61MB. And didn't a certain Bo researcher who falsified the Chinese calligraphy collection taken by this collector enlarge and enlarge it again, and get the conclusion of double-ticking? Have the two museums never held any academic exchange activities? Why is it that the same problem, the same technology, comes to the exact opposite conclusion? What is the purpose for which our technology, our scholarship, exists? When you defend your own things, you can take care of them carefully, and when you beat up fake people's homes, you can mess around?
In the matter of Cao Xingyuan's counterfeiting of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", Mr. Yu Hui did his duty. He is an expert in the study of materials, and he gives a well-founded refutation from various aspects such as mounting. But what about our experts in calligraphy? Who saw that Cao Xingyuan was a man who knew nothing about Chinese calligraphy and the history of calligraphy? She didn't even know that calligraphy was an art of balancing in a dynamic way, that Cai Jing's words "Chen" and "Jing" were different in size and size, and that people who recognized this kind of dead reason could not understand traditional Chinese culture. Do you want to write calligraphy with a vernier caliper? According to your logic, in ancient Chinese cursive writing, everyone must not die collectively without a place to die? Stanford's lack of understanding of Chinese calligraphy has made her take advantage of loopholes, and it is understandable that the Chinese calligraphy and painting academia is muddy and unclear, which is unbelievable.
In the collection of the official museum, researchers fight with various unknown forces abroad. Sadly, why would anyone jump out and fake the collections of private collectors? Can you publish your conclusions in a public journal without the consent of the owner of the collection? And just based on pictures, are you getting started with the real thing? If you told the collector of your appraisal conclusions, would he still agree to publish such papers? Would you easily go and fake a Van Gogh painting from the British Museum? Stanford professors slandered Chinese paintings and calligraphy as two times on the monarchy, where are you? By the way, I would like to ask Cao Xingyuan, you are an American, does our painting "Bully or Not Bully" have anything to do with you? You should care if the coronavirus is made by Trump, right?
Even if foreigners are concerned, why can this phenomenon of not respecting the property rights, reputation rights and intellectual property rights of others be imposed on Chinese collectors by all kinds of Chinese "brick families"? And not once or twice, but for decades of TV shows, the Internet, academic journals, endlessly...
If you want Chinese culture and art to perish, it is really very simple, just type the following three words on the keyboard: "One look fake". If you are not addicted, you can also: Jingdezhen, last week's, national treasure gang, Ming Dynasty (dynasty that will only appear tomorrow), double hook painting, late Qing Republic of China low imitation, museum does not have this kind of ornamentation, Chenghua no large utensils, Ru kiln world only 57 pieces, how can hundreds of millions of things be in your hands...
I wrote appraisal articles in the past two days, and I deliberately set up a pit: for the two Song dynasty porcelain, one article did not mention any contemporary imitations throughout (in other words, I did not have any counterfeiting, nor did I explain how to distinguish fakes), and the other specifically wrote how to distinguish between imitations of past generations (in other words, adding anti-counterfeiting, and explaining how to distinguish fakes). As for the microscopic identification evidence and data provided, the first one is a little more solid, and the second part relies more on ophthalmology due to the late age of the artifact. The difference between the two articles is only this...
The amount of reading is almost the same, the first one is a group of keyboard heroes to fight the fake siege, the second article basically did not see anyone to fight fake, only one person said that a certain instrument is not in the Northern Song Dynasty, speaking politely. As long as there are well-founded reasonable doubts, I welcome them. I reply to all the comments that the headlines show me (their bugs, comments are often not displayed in their entirety).
Most of these undocumented people are new, and looking at their comments, I know that I have no knowledge of all my previous identification articles and the whole system. In my preface to the appraisal of calligraphy and painting, I made it clear that instead of discussing true and false conclusions, we should first talk about methodology. Before the methodology is clearly discussed, the results of the conversation must be various, and there is no value except for the term of each opinion, which is a waste of time. Many fans who have followed me for a long time agree with this, and only the newcomers do not know. Of course, newcomers are not clear how to define scientific and ophthalmic identification, what is the ironclad evidence on the excavated traces, etc. What is even more absurd is that just because I added the content of "cracking down on counterfeiting through the ages" in my article, no one jumped out to fight counterfeiting. Some people do not fight fake, they can not find the "sense of landing" and "sense of existence", this kind of poison, where is the starting point? Now even the data, scientific and judicial identification methods, and even the evidence of the excavated traces that cannot be imitated are not recognized, and all the products are only fake high. I couldn't find an opportunity to fight counterfeiting, so I was willing to give up.
Those who really engage in appraisal know that cracking down on counterfeiting is easy to crack down on and difficult to identify. When you don't understand or are not sure, just find a reason to deny things, you are an authority, this reason is too easy to find, just watch a TV show can make up dozens of articles. However, the real thing that is necessary to pick out the right few real things in a large number of imitations is the real skill. In other words, do we need experts who can crack down on counterfeiting? Buyers don't need it, buyers need people who can help him pick the right things, you have all the things I want to buy or have bought, what else can I buy? Sellers do not need it, I sell this thing, one thing at a price, recognize you to pay money, do not recognize it and then shop around. So, who exactly needs to fight counterfeiting? Some people, after the fight is over, they will definitely give you a piece of their own that someone else holds. There are also some people who have a sample, think that only by cracking down on counterfeiting can they appear to be capable, and the authenticity cannot be effective, and once you give something authenticity, you become a falling dog, even if you are an expert in the National Museum.
In essence, if the Chinese people want The Chinese culture to perish, no one can save it, not to mention a few collectors, hundreds of millions of useless. The central authorities have issued three orders and five affirmations to protect and rationally use cultural relics, and they cannot stop a group of blind streams that do not learn and do not have any skills to stir up muddy waters. Anyway, foreigners do not buy, Chinese are also reluctant to buy because they have been beaten into the water dog, and those who engage in academics are doing business, and after a few years they will exist in name only. Shanghai and Beijing have begun to pilot art trading cities, and on this international stage, the exquisite works of art in ancient China are all fakes, and only the worthless old pu is a cruel pair. The artworks of other countries will come to earn enough silver and silver to feed the hearts of the people on the mainland. Now some celebrities are popular to buy authorized prints of Japanese paintings, a replica sells for tens of thousands of dollars, and all kinds of strange pathological characters and ghosts are the essence of Japanese culture. Buy these is fashionable and can be hung in the villa hall. Buy Chinese your own artwork, you'd better hide it and don't show it to people.
As the lyrics sing: "Doubt, a terrible weapon, murdered love." I'm here, it could have been sunny and nice weather! ”
Here responsibly shout a word from this collector, before this phenomenon of wanton counterfeiting without authorization, only by cracking down on counterfeiting can become an expert in seconds to earn enough capital, go buy Van Gogh and Monet! Why bother? There must always be a limit to love and protection, and there is no need to put property, reputation, serious cases, and even personal life on it. To sacrifice oneself to defend one's country is a warrior, but to shed blood and sacrifice as a martyr in order to protect this culture is unnecessary. I have a deep understanding of this kind of thing, and some people threatened me to splash my pepper water, just because I posted on the Internet that the old jadeite is natural.
Some people say that these cultural relics are all public cultural heritage, for the benefit of the public, for the public can not see the fakes, I just want to crack down on fakes. Yes, you have the freedom to speak, but not every sentence is beneficial, there are many words that are cancerous. In addition, please obtain the authorization of the collection holder or private museum and art gallery, seriously study it, and then say, do not take the net map and come. It is that you want to express your academic opinions through other people's things, no matter what the purpose, first, get started with physical objects, second, carefully study and careful reasoning, third, inform each other of the content and conclusions you want to write, ask people whether they can publish them, and fourth, if there is a mistake, correct and apologize in time, do not deny, because the right to reputation of others is damaged.
For other keyboard men who don't learn how to do it, you can comment because I've opened up comments, but any malicious comment comes at a cost. If I don't let go of comments, those who want to communicate seriously can't leave a message, but giving you the opportunity to leave a message doesn't mean you can talk nonsense. Aren't the who go to leave a message for a Ukrainian beauty punching Chinese face? It is true that they have the right to speak, but are they still speaking human? The combined effect of the counterfeiters is to kill Chinese culture and art, so that all collectors only dare to buy Western art.
The same is true for those who rely on counterfeiting others to sell their own things, no matter which group you belong to, you fight fake folk collectors, folk collectors fight fake you, you fight fake official museums, museum commissioners fight fake you, and the final result is Chinese the whole people fight fake fever, foreigners steal music. And buyers only dare to buy Western things. Everyone has killed their own culture together, and you want to make another dime. Why do some institutions now hold a private treasure appraisal meeting, and less than a hundred people go, or even a dozen? Once the trust is gone and the atmosphere is strange, what else can we do? A culture and art that the whole people cannot understand or recognize, compared with the loss of cultural relics, it is just one more cultural corpse placed in the museum or collector's room.
Chinese medicine has a conventional practice: the doctor does not deduct the diagnosis. What do you mean? Even if I am terminally ill, I will not invite you, and you will not be able to prescribe me. Why? This is my own body and life, I don't trust you, and it is not interesting for you to come to the door, even if your medical skills are superb. The more serious question is, if the doctor has to prescribe you, in case the patient dies by taking the medicine according to the prescription, who is responsible? There is also the question of whether to follow the doctor's instructions and contraindications. Doctor-patient disputes are endless, and what about blackmail by family members? The tradition of Chinese medicine is to ask doctors not to say, not to take the initiative to provoke right and wrong. Even if you walk on the road and see a person with a terminally ill face, you can't take the initiative to go up and pat yourself on the shoulder and tell someone that you are dying, and look for me to prescribe medicine for Three months to see the improvement. Cruel? cruel! I have seen people who can obviously rely on Traditional Chinese medicine to cure good problems, at most it takes a few months to a year, because the family does not believe in Chinese medicine, they have to pull to do surgery, so there are a few people around the dead. I have Chinese medicine friends, I also have Western medicine friends, I know what they are good at, when to go to whom, I am a person who has been sick, I am also a lucky person, as soon as possible to understand these truths.
So if you want to maintain good health, it is best to take the initiative to find a high-ranking person in traditional Chinese medicine when you are healthy, and from time to time there is a little problem, go to someone to adjust it, and don't get to be given a critical notice by Western medicine to go around the world to seek medical treatment.
Back to Chinese culture, counterfeiters, if you still love this culture and art, stop and go!