China Guardian's 2024 Spring Auction In an auction on the morning of the 12th, a bunch of "old stones" were auctioned. Among them, there is a Ming "Hanling Piece Stone" Qingzhou Shi Lifeng, which was auctioned at a high price of 5.29 million.
If you are interested, you can check out more information from the official portal of China Guardian, and we will try to understand this auction and this stone from the perspective of modern stone play.
At the end of April, there was also an auction called Zhongmao Shengjia, and they also auctioned a stone of 3.68 million, and the picture was posted below for everyone to enjoy.
The current form is that there is a "historical" stone, which is basically eligible for auction, because there is a close connection between "history" and culture and art, so that it can tell a moving story to the old man who holds the "number plate".
In a way, they are paying for the "story", not the stone itself. From the perspective of modern stone appreciation, it is difficult to appreciate the beauty of this stone without all the inheritance and traceability information of the stone.
Traditional stone appreciation, playing with stones, that is cultural people playing. The greatest merit of modern stone appreciation is to let more people participate in the team of playing stones, because with stones, some people are in the production area, life has become better, because of stones, others can rely on their own vision to make a living in the stone industry, and the upper class of cultured, art, financial collectors, can be more easily with their less concerned "wealth" in exchange for their very favorite "stone".
Don't laugh at the "like" of modern stone appreciation, and don't overly pursue the elegant culture of ancient stone play. It's like there is no right or wrong between a noodle eater and a rice eater. Just choose what you like.
Playing with stones to please themselves, modern stone appreciation to the development of industrialization can drive economic development, to provide people's living standards, in this regard, although the modern stone people do not have the culture of the ancient stone people, but also created a can not be ignored indelible contributions.