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As the saying goes: "Gold in a troubled world, antiques in a prosperous world." "In today's China, social stability, economic prosperity, antiques began to be sought after, and wave after wave of collection booms was set off in society. Especially after the broadcast of the treasure collection program, the collection of many guests was identified by experts as a "national treasure", worth tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, and the result was "sudden wealth" overnight.
This makes many people start to stir up, who does not have a few broken bottles, old furniture, in the fantasy of overnight wealth, these people have taken the "antiques" in the home, find expert identification, to see whether the ancestral broken bottles and old furniture in the family are national treasures, worth not.
As the country's premier collector, Mr. Ma Weidu has set up a public open day at the Guanfu Museum, and during the specific two days of each month, people can bring their own antiques to ask Ma Weidu to help identify. For the reasons for this, Ma Weidu said: First, he can spread more knowledge of cultural relics to the society and improve the overall level of China's collection market; second, he can also grasp the trend of the collection market through treasure hunting, so as not to be eliminated.
For the results of the treasure hunting, Ma Weidu laughed and said that he was not optimistic, the authenticity was only about ten percent, and the real valuable cultural relics were less than five percent, which is also a microcosm of the current collection market.
Antique line, the most like to tell stories, through wonderful stories, let others believe that a cultural relics do have a great future, and one of the most used stories is the ancestral "heirloom".
One year, a man from the museum came to Ma Weidu to identify the "heirloom". But Ma Weidu took a look at it and knew that it was a modern imitation, at most twenty or thirty years old, but the people insisted that it was passed down to him by his grandfather, at least hundreds of years of history. They rarely defend this kind of people, because they all know in their hearts the specific origin of things, and the reason why they insist on saying that they are ancestral is to deceive themselves, but they only hope to raise the value of things in this way.
In addition to being called "heirlooms", there are many people who want to convince experts that the antiques in his hands are indeed the authentic products handed down from their ancestors by confusing the ancestors. For example, people surnamed Li are accustomed to saying that they are the descendants of an emperor and prince of the Tang Dynasty, and people with the surname Zhu often regard Zhu Yuanzhang as their ancestors, but the things in their hands are often not related to these emperors.
Mr. Ma Weidu said that the funniest thing is that once, an old man took a chicken heart jar to him to find a treasure, and opened his mouth to say that his ancestors were eunuchs, and this thing was secretly brought out of the palace by him, which was passed down in his family for several generations and has been regarded as an "heirloom".
Listening to the old man's words, Ma Weidu said, you said that the ancestors were eunuchs, which I believe, because the historical records all record that although the eunuchs themselves could not have children, they liked to adopt children to pass on their own lineage, which is not uncommon in history, such as Cao Cao in the Three Kingdoms period, whose grandfather was a eunuch.
However, the chicken heart jar is not related to the eunuch, it is popular in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, mainly distributed in the northern region, because the appearance is small and large, like a chicken heart, so it is named chicken heart tank. Readers in the Song and Yuan dynasties especially liked the chicken heart jar, because "chicken" and "ji" were harmonious, with the meaning of auspicious ruyi, and "can" and "official" were harmonious, with the meaning of official luck and prosperity.
In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the chicken heart jar gradually declined, handed down to the present is relatively rare, the price gradually climbed after the collection fever began, some counterfeiters for the sake of profit, made a large number of fakes, and the old man took this is a typical imitation of the present, the opening of the can is too sharp, the proportion of up and down is very uncoordinated, can not be used at all, a look is the descendants of the fabrication.
The old man was somewhat dissatisfied with Ma Weidu's appraisal and had always insisted that his chicken heart jar was ancestral. There was no way, Ma Weidu could only take him to visit the chicken heart jar collected in the Guanfu Museum, and after seeing a few genuine pieces, the old man finally stopped insisting, admitting that this collection was purchased in the antique market a few years ago, not ancestral.
Ma Weidu said that in today's collection circle, almost everyone can tell a few stories of getting rich overnight by "picking up leaks", but when it comes to themselves, nine times out of ten "eye-punching" have been deceived, in the end, they are still eager to achieve success, bent on "picking up leaks" to get rich, and ignoring the accumulation of knowledge.