"Please put on the Treasure Hammer"
When the famous performance artist and host Teacher Wang Gang said this sentence, it meant that there was a certain collection to be identified as a fake and smashed on the spot.
This is the bridge section that happened in the "World Collection" program, and the purpose of the "World Collection" column is to identify treasures on the spot and "go to the fake and save the truth" on the spot.
Smashing the fake on the spot as a gimmick attracted countless viewers, and also made the show often occupy the high rating throne, but an "accidental" accident, Teacher Wang Gang attracted criticism.
Ming Dynasty porcelain worth 200 million yuan was regarded as a fake, and was smashed by Teacher Wang Gang as usual, but he did not expect that the fake was transformed into a genuine product.
Teacher Wang Gang and the program team were sued by the treasure holder in court, and the program was also suspended, what is the truth of the matter?
Are the ming dynasty relics worth 200 million yuan smashed?
Collect the world' collections
This matter has to start from this column, Beijing Television since January 2007 opened the program "The World Collection", the column group invited treasure holders to the stage to show their collections.
Then invite 3 treasure experts and 3 guests from the stage to conduct joint appraisal, and if the appraisal is false, it will be destroyed on the spot, which has always been the fun of the show.
After all, who wouldn't want to see fakes disappear into the world?
The invitation to Teacher Wang Gang is the icing on the cake, Teacher Wang Gang has always been known for his witty language and humor.
The image of "and adults" can be described as a divine acting, in fact, Wang Gang himself is more serious, especially in the treatment of cultural relics and antiques.
It is said that 98% of his family is a collection, and he has always been a well-known collector in the literary and art circles, so he also has a certain understanding of the collection.
Of course, for the sake of entertainment, the program team asked Teacher Wang Gang to be responsible for the destruction process of the fakes after the treasure was found, although the experts judged that the process of tasting and reading antiques was obscure and boring.
But after Teacher Wang Gang smashed it like this, the whole process suddenly seemed more tense and exciting, and also left a suspense for everyone, is the next one genuine or fake?
Relying on this way of dissemination, "The World Collection" has always had a high rating, especially in the host Wang Gang's teacher lian asked the treasure holder:
"Are you sure?" Are you sure? Think about it, think again..."
Such a link is in sharp contrast with the next hammer of Teacher Wang Gang.
Hammer it out
Among them, many people are not convinced, insisting that the collection they brought is genuine and demanding compensation, and the program team has long thought of this pass.
Each treasure holder will sign an agreement with the program team before taking the stage, according to which the expert will give the treasure holder room for remorse before announcing the appraisal results.
If you insist on treasure hunting, once it is judged to be fake, it will be smashed on the spot, and the result is that the treasure holder does not quit, and Teacher Wang Gang destroys the fake.
But this cautious approach, or aroused several degrees of suspicion, someone asked, "Is it possible to smash it wrong?" ”
It is believed that what is smashed is not a fake but a genuine one.
In 2012, the "World Collection" column group and the Capital Museum jointly held a public welfare exhibition, entitled ""Fake" as such, the comparison of true and false collections.
Of the 300 fakes that were smashed in the show, 30 were randomly selected for restoration, and then compared with the real ones in the Capital Museum.
The purpose is to let people distinguish the difference between genuine and fake, but it was publicly questioned by Yao Zheng, director of the Jade Collection Committee of the China Collectors Association, at the exhibition.
He united more than 30 experts and collectors to believe that the "fakes" that had been smashed on display were not fakes, but genuine cultural relics, and a considerable part of them were fine products and treasures.
As soon as this statement came out, all four were shocked, and at that time, people were dissatisfied with the way the program team "hammered the tone", but thought that several experts could conclude whether it was too hasty to observe for a while on the stage.
Ning Yuxin, director of the Cultural Relics Appraisal Committee of the Academic Committee for Management Science Research in China, also expressed his opinion, saying that he was willing to bear legal responsibility and believed that the "fakes" exhibited in the program were actually genuine.
The two also agreed that a case should be filed and investigated by the "Tianxia Collection" column group and requested the state to convict them of destroying national cultural relics.
For a time, there were endless remarks about whether Teacher Wang Gang smashed the real thing, which caused a discussion in the society about the authenticity of cultural relics.
Not to be outdone, the column group of "World Collection" refuted the two people who questioned the column group, believing that the two did not understand the cultural relics at all, and could not see the authenticity of the real cultural relics.
Secondly, the imitations that appear on the program are all inferior products of extremely low level, and the identification of artworks is very complicated, but the identification of entertainment programs is not complicated.
The authenticity of the collection can be seen by ordinary people at a glance, and Gan Xuejun, chairman of Beijing Huachen Auction Co., Ltd., who once participated in the program, said: "Although "The Collection of the World" has been broadcast for so long, I do not participate in every issue."
"But the treasure holder has never disputed the final judgment of the experts, only that there may be a case that should be smashed without smashing the store, and there can be no case where the wrong one should not be smashed."
According to Gan Xuejun, in fact, before the collection was on stage, the program team had already invited a number of experts under the stage in advance to carry out a meticulous, rigorous and precise identification process.
Therefore, looking at the 3 experts in the program, as long as they look at it, they have come to a very hasty conclusion, in fact, they have already reached a conclusion, and it must be unanimously approved, even if there is a negative vote, it will not be smashed.
Unfortunately, such an explanation does not completely eliminate the doubts in the hearts of the public, you know, a collection, some experts say it is true, and some experts say it is false.
Is it true or false, just by a few experts in the program group and guests who look very unprofessional, can you determine the authenticity of a collection?
In the end, how to identify the authenticity of cultural relics and antique collections, and how to be the most authoritative, this matter actually has a certain statement.
Generally speaking, experts are divided into two factions, one is that most of the antique cultural relics on the market are basically genuine and have high value and research significance.
The purpose of this type of expert is also very obvious, hoping that the things in their hands can be worth more money, as to whether it is true or false, it all depends on their own mouth.
There is also a faction that believes that most of the products on the market are fakes, fakes, worthless, and should be smashed directly, so as to ensure that the rest is genuine, with inheritance value and artistic value.
In this way, the collections they have that do not know whether they are true or false can be regarded as rarer genuine objects, thus selling for billions or tens of billions of dollars.
There are countless such things, and there have been cases in history of burning authentic works, leaving the only imitation with a price of tens of millions.
This is also the reason why the program team has been caught in criticism, and the program producer Han Yong also made a public explanation, saying that "it is absolutely impossible, welcome to investigate"
This is not the first time that the treasure show has fallen into the wind of public opinion, since the beginning of the birth of the program, this "hammer" has been controversial.
In order to entertain the public, the program uses this gimmick to blame, but over time, on the one hand, this gimmick will lose its appeal, on the other hand, in the eyes of antique connoisseurs,
Even if it is identified as a imitation, it is also a craft with certain artistic value, and it is a better choice to leave it behind, so why smash it?
This "hammer" smashed down, but also led to the antique cultural relics market, the price of antique porcelain plummeted, everyone has believed that imitation products are worthless, is the existence that should be smashed.
Get into a lawsuit
Just when things were gradually fermenting and had not yet subsided, a wave of uneven waves arose again, and the "World Collection" program group and Teacher Wang Gang were all sued to the court.
The reason is that Teacher Wang Gang accidentally smashed the "real product" of Ming Dynasty porcelain worth 200 million yuan.
Fu Changyong, a treasure bearer from Hebei, came to the program group on this day with a pair of self-proclaimed "sweet white glaze hand cups of the Ming Dynasty" and requested on-site treasure hunting.
In accordance with the process, the program team explained the precautions to him, and signed the agreement, Fu Changyong, as a loyal audience of the program, naturally knew these things.
With the introduction of "Ming Dynasty Sweet White Glaze Pressing Hand Cup", Fu Changyong stepped on the booth, and after the on-site experts unanimously agreed that it was a modern imitation,
The host teacher Wang Gang immediately smashed one of them with a hammer, and Fu Changyong left, but unexpectedly, the program team subsequently received Fu Changyong's indictment.
The reason is that "the Ming Dynasty sweet white glazed hand cup he once showed on the show was identified as genuine and worth 200 million" was originally fake, but it became real.
After Fu Changyong left the program, he took away the remaining sweet white glazed hand cup, and he found Liang Yali, chairman of Zhongjian Cultural Relics Appraisal Co., Ltd. and head of the forensic identification technical research group of cultural relics and physical evidence.
Wang Zhiguo, director of the China Liuwei Cultural Relics Judicial Appraisal Center, two experts to make a basis, the two agreed that Fu Changyong's sweet white glazed hand cup is not a modern imitation, but an ancient imitation.
The ancient imitations are put into modern times, which also have the same cultural relics value, and also pointed out that the three experts at the scene do not have the qualifications for appraisal, so Fu Changyong asked the program team to compensate him for his losses of 15W yuan.
The program team also stopped broadcasting later, and Teacher Wang Gang also handed over his "treasure protection hammer", and during the trial, the court held that Fu Changyong had been fully informed of the possible consequences before taking the stage.
He also signed and agreed to the practice that once it was judged to be a fake, he could smash it, and Teacher Wang Gang also gave Fu Changyong sufficient time to think, so the court held that Teacher Wang Gang and the program team did not have to bear compensation, and rejected all of Fu Changyong's requests.
However, such a farce has also caused discussions about the authenticity of the collection.
The true and false of the collecting world
Since ancient times, there has been a saying in the field of cultural relics and antiques collection that "three points are true and seven points are false".
Others claim that this is a conservative statement.
No matter what the real situation is, but the situation where there are more fakes than genuine ones, it should be true, after all, the total amount of the collection is so much, with the passage of time, there will only be more and more imitations flowing into the market.
However, the criticism of connoisseurs has always been endless, and in the current Chinese collection industry, there has not yet been a professional authoritative body to identify the qualifications of experts.
It can be seen that most appraisers themselves do not have certain qualifications and no standards for arbitrary judgment, so isn't it "out of the eyes of a lover"?
"The World Collection" may have a certain bias for the effect of the program, so how should the real collection community be defined, and where to go?
Nowadays, times have changed, the original "one hammer deal" has long ceased to exist, and the "Treasure of the World" program has been revised, and finally it cannot withstand the fate of suspension.
Teacher Wang Gang later publicly responded to the real situation at that time after nearly 10 years, and what he smashed at that time was a fake, and he also persuaded Fu Changyong at that time.
But Fu Changyong did not listen, he insisted that he was genuine, and later appealed, or was judged to lose the lawsuit, he bore all the costs of the lawsuit,
Teacher Wang Gang has been very sympathetic to Fu Changyong for so many years, believing that his things are broken and he still has to bear the legal costs, so he has not said this result to the outside world.
This incident also gave a warning to many people who love to collect, and Teacher Wang Gang used a hammer to smash the counterfeits to warn some people:
Counterfeits are endless, never finished, the antique market is also particularly deep, not mentally prepared, do not easily join.
Otherwise, there will be people like Fu Changyong, who are identified as fakes, have an unbalanced heart, listen to the evaluation of one or two experts, treat the fakes as genuine, and finally stage such a farce.
There is no standard in the collection industry, and the chaos of the unqualified qualifications of the treasure connoisseur has also given some enlightenment, do not trust the so-called opinions of some experts,
As an entertainment program, "The Collection of the World" is regarded as a "treasure company" and openly conducts the identification of traditional ancient cultural relics on television.
It is really a kind of blasphemy against traditional Chinese culture, and the appreciation of cultural relics is a very serious thing in itself, and it is a re-excavation of traditional culture.
The restoration of traditional culture and the improvement of the public aesthetics of culture and art have been added to some entertainment elements, and the essence has stayed in the aspects of true and false and price, forming a program that entertains the public.
This also shows the lack of official services, and official cultural relics appraisal institutions are often not open to the public, which also leads to the proliferation of non-governmental appraisal institutions.
On the other hand, laws and regulations need to be improved, recognizing folk cultural relics, recognizing the cultural relics value of imitations, improving the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Cultural Relics, and establishing a formal and effective management method.
The Chinese nation has a rich and long splendid culture, and art collection, which was originally a civilizational activity that lasted for thousands of years, has quietly deteriorated unconsciously.