In the long history of the Chinese nation for five thousand years, the change of dynasties and the dispute between division and union have added a lot of mysterious colors to the Chinese nation. The magnificent treasures left by successive dynasties are all symbols of The Chinese national culture.
Whether it is artistic value or cultural symbol, it has a super high collection value, with bronze as the best representative, and in the most prosperous era of bronze, it did not belong to the Yin Shang Dynasty. Bronzes were once used as a representation of power and a symbol of status.
It is precisely because the value of bronzes is very high, so many ancient tombs have become the target of antiquities, and at one time there were many tomb robbers, just to be able to get the real bronzes.
In the antiquities market, there are true and false, so there are many people who forge bronzes. Fang Xingqing, known as the "godfather of counterfeiting", is such a craftsman, and he also has achieved poverty alleviation in his place because of his superior cost technology, and even if the police come to the door, there is no way to take him.
Antiquities are difficult to discern
A batch of smuggled bronzes was seized at Chengdu Airport in Sichuan and Shanghai Customs, and the local specially invited relevant experts to study this batch of bronzes, and the result was that this batch of bronzes may have been stolen from a large ancient tomb and belonged to bronzes excavated during the Shang and Zhou Dynasties.
At that time, many cultural relics experts who learned of this news could not hold back, after all, the ancient tomb that could unearth so many cultural relics must be a very valuable tomb, and perhaps it was also an ancient tomb belonging to a very honorable person.
The ancient chinese experts who received this news began to study the place where the cultural relics were unearthed. After cooperating with the police, some clues were finally found.
This batch of cultural relics was unearthed in Yanyunjian Village, Henan, which is not very special in itself, but in fact he is inextricably linked to this batch of cultural relics. Yanyunjian Village is also known as the "Counterfeit Village", because the ancient cultural relics imitated and manufactured from here are very realistic, and the villagers here also rely on the production of ancient cultural relics to make a living.
The reason why the village is very famous is because the cultural relics produced from here are very realistic, and even professional experts will be hidden after testing.
For the counterfeiting of cultural relics, it can be said that they are frantically tempted on the edge of the law, but the villagers of this village have not been punished by the law for manufacturing cultural relics, on the contrary, because of the continuous proficiency of this craft, the villagers of this village have achieved prosperity, and even for their unique craftsmanship, many people have learned and observed.
The bronze craftsmanship of Yanyunjian Village was once defined as a cultural intangible cultural heritage, which affirmed the rationality of their existence, and the bronze crafts they produced were very popular, because they were very realistic in both texture and chronological traces. And this skillful craftsmanship comes from a very good craftsman Fang Xingqing.
The restoration skills are superb
Fang Xingqing is known as the "Godfather of Bronze", which is also because the bronze relics he restored are really difficult to distinguish between true and false, and even experts who specialize in bronze cannot distinguish between them.
In fact, Fang Xingqing is just an ordinary farmer, who was once introduced by others to sell cultural relics when he went abroad to make a living. Want to resell cultural relics first of all is to collect antique cultural relics in the hands of others, many times the cultural relics in the pocket are broken, such cultural relics can not be sold at a good price, so every time the cultural relics poured into the hands, Fang Xingqing will repair themselves.
At the beginning, he held the idea of simple restoration, but did not expect that the cultural relics restored by his hands were very realistic, whether it was antiques or ancient coins, although they were broken, but as long as they were restored by Fang Xingqing, they would be restored to their original appearance.
Fang Xingqing once took a bronze mirror that he had restored and went to a professional cultural relics appraiser for identification. I did not expect that the result of expert identification was that this bronze mirror was a real antique and had collectible value.
At that time, Fang Xingqing conducted in-depth study of this technology, in his view, this is his means of making a living, so he began to learn professionally from bronze, and later in practice, the ancient cultural relics such as Ma Ta Fei Yan and other ancient relics made by his hands are no different from authentic works.
Fang Xingqing, who was recognized, also earned the first bucket of gold in his life, and in his opinion, he was recognized after special technical training.
Imparting skills is not stingy
After discovering his own professional technology, Fang Xingqing did not hide it, in his opinion, whether from the perspective of processing efficiency or professional cooperation, the efficiency of his own manufacturing process is definitely not as good as the efficiency of teamwork.
Thinking of the villagers in the village at that time, if they could drive the villagers in the village to study together and let everyone get rich together, this was also the contribution they could make to the villagers.
At that time, there were about 3,000 villagers in Yanyunjian Village, and more than two-thirds of the villagers were willing to learn this technique with Fang Xingqing, and there were so many villagers who were willing to support it, and Fang Xingqing opened his first factory in the village.
From the initial imitation bronze to various ancient cultural relics after that, Fang Xingqing gave what he learned to the villagers without reservation, and Yanyunjian Village also made the villagers rich because of this process.
Because the craftsmanship was so elaborate, they came to the door after the police obtained the batch of bronzes, but their answer was that this was just a handicraft they imitated, and after the experts monitored their skills, they found that indeed, as they said, the bronzes were just imitations.
Experts also did not expect that in modern society, there can be such a delicate process to imitate such a realistic bronze. Later, the deeds of manufacturing ancient cultural relics in Yanyunjian Village were reported to the relevant departments, and the deeds of Fang Xingqing leading the villagers to make a fortune were affirmed, and the craftsmanship of the villagers in Yanyunjian Village in making bronzes was also rated as intangible cultural heritage.
For Fang Xingqing, getting the affirmation and support of the state is an incentive for them, for imitation bronzes, in the eyes of the villagers in Yanyunjian Village, it is more like a kind of inheritance and development, through their manufacture of bronze handicrafts, more people will understand the cultural relics of our country.
brief summary:
In modern society, there are many people who want to make a fortune by making ancient artifacts, but good and evil are only in a single thought. Like the villagers of Yanyunjian Village, they carried forward the bronze culture, or did they want to achieve the concept of the supremacy of money by imitating ancient cultural relics.
Even if the villagers of Yanyunjian Village have reached such a skillful imitation of bronzes, they do not want to test the bottom line of the law, and all legal craftsmanship is allowed. It is precisely because of the existence of a "bellwether" with a bottom line like Fang Xingqing that more people have learned about the ancient cultural relics of the mainland.