In the ancient porcelain that is hot in the market, the folk masters can almost copy it out of both form and spirit, this matter is actually Tang Batian is the most clear, he himself is engaged in black market trade, although he has more genuine goods in his hands, but there are not a few people who specialize in selling high imitations in the same industry, he has been to Jing~ Dezhen many times, and has long uncovered the mystery of these already valuable "high imitation" ancient porcelain.

It's just that everyone is a businessman, even a friend, and Tang Batian doesn't want to say it.

He still remembered that it was a winter morning, the sky was gloomy, even in a place like Xijiang, it was still cold, and he went to Jing~Dezhen with his friends, which seemed to be a place called Jingdianli Village.

On a cold winter day, children are playing in the narrow alleys, and small advertisements are posted on the walls of old cement houses from the last century. What is different from other small towns is that on the top of the small advertisement, there is also a small piece of paper with "high-priced recruitment, antique color painting". Antique ceramic artist, a luggage man told Tang Batian and his group: "I asked a worker who can paint 'high imitation', with a monthly salary of more than 10,000 yuan, but it is still difficult to find and keep good workers." ”

It was the month they went to Jing~Dezhen that Xu Beihong's highest auction record for personal Chinese paintings was refreshed again in the imperial capital. "Kyushu Nothing to Do" was hammered for 232 million yuan, plus commissions, and the final transaction price was as high as 266.8 million yuan. The reaction of the collecting community was not good, because half a year ago, Qi Baishi's work "Pine and Cypress Gaolitu Seal Book Four Words Couplet", which was also auctioned in the imperial capital, sold for a sky-high price of 425.5 million yuan, which is also a "half-price goods" in comparison.

"The Prosperous Collection. Troubled Gold", China has entered the era of collecting.

In just thirty years. Chinese mainland has gathered an army of more than 80 million collectors. However, Tang Batian, who often does black market business, knows it very well. There are three "95 percent" of Chinese collections -- 95 percent of collectors have collected 95 percent of fakes, and 95 percent of them have lost money.

In fact, Tang Batian knew about this matter, and Zhang Tianyuan also knew it, because the plum bottle incident was the most obvious example, many fans in casinos, Hong Kong and even abroad sent a lot of emails to Zhang Tianyuan, and also accompanied by photos, saying that he had recently bought a very good "Yuan Qinghua plum bottle", but he almost didn't have to look at it to know that it was fake, because it started several years ago. The counterfeiting of plum bottles has become a "crazy tide", and "it is pulled to Jiangsu and Zhejiang for sale by board trucks".

Jing ~ Dezhen Huangyao Ceramic Art Museum, Huang Yunpeng, known as "the first person in China's antique ceramics", asked Zhang Tianyuan a question: "Do you know the plum bottle?"

Of course Zhang Tianyuan knew, so he replied: "I know, it was very fierce a few years ago." Recently, someone was kind and wanted to invite me to drink the old wine in the plum bottle, but I found a reason to refuse, the fake wine in this fake thing, who knows if it will kill people?"

Plum bottle. This term, which is completely unfamiliar to ordinary people, used to be famous in the collecting world, although now it has been mythologically shattered, from the past "fragrant and sweet". It became a farce for Chinese antique collections.

The so-called plum bottle is a kind of wine container in ancient China, with a small mouth, short neck, plump shoulders, thin bottom, and circle feet. It is named after the small mouth that can only be inserted into plum branches. The plum vase first appeared in the Tang Dynasty, and the blue and white plum vase of the Yuan Dynasty ~ Dezhen was the most exquisite. The full name is "Yuan blue and white wine plum bottle".

Zhang Tianyuan still remembers very well, June 24, 2007. In the Guangcheng Spring Auction, a pair of Yuan blue and white cloud dragon pattern plum vases were sold for 3.41 million yuan, setting the highest price in the Guangcheng porcelain auction at that time.

The world is crowded, all for profit.

During those crazy days, collectors found that the world seemed to be full of "plum bottles".

"Now, the fake plum bottle has been worn out, and the real plum bottle has also suffered, and some real things in the antique city cannot be sold at a high price. A few months ago, I saw a Song Dynasty Cizhou kiln plum bottle in a shop in the imperial capital antique city, which had recently disappeared, and he asked the boss if he had sold it, and the boss said, 'How can you sell it?' The streets are full of fakes, and this one really can't be sold at a high price, so it is convenient to take it back. ’”

"Fake things hurt people. Of course, Tang Batian is qualified to say this kind of thing, because although he is a black marketeer, he still basically sells genuine goods when doing business, unless there are some things that even he can't distinguish between real and fake, then there is no way.

"Yes, who made some people in our country too powerful, such as the king who concealed the sky, and then many masters of Jing ~ Dezhen. Zhang Tianyuan shook his head, although these things were helpless, there was no way, and he couldn't solve them alone.

"I heard of an incident before, when a master of imitation pulled out an auction catalogue of an auction house: 'This is my thing, and I sold it for 60,000 yuan.'" But the starting price of that thing at the auction house has reached 1.2 million yuan. Some people don't know where the high imitations go, in fact, many of them are in the hands of collectors, in the end the unlucky or ordinary collectors, they are really too bad because of the gap in eyesight. Tang Batian also sighed and said.

"No way, Jing ~ Dezhen people are too powerful. Japan's nano porcelain, Baodao's flange porcelain, buy it home to see and touch, and after a while, the product will be made, not to mention the antique porcelain that has been traditional for thousands of years, and it is fascinating. Even that Li Guangqi, because of the 'high imitation' of the Ming and Qing dynasties of export porcelain in the imperial capital, but in Jing~Dezhen, he deliberately kept a low profile: "There are more folk masters." The longer Zhang Tianyuan has been in contact with the antique industry, the more he has seen through this industry, in fact, many so-called collectors buy high-quality imitations, sell high-quality imitations, and have fun communicating with each other.

He didn't try to poke this kind of thing, people are happy, why are you going to spoil the atmosphere.

Besides, if you really puncture other people's dreams, people may not thank you, but they may beat you up, thinking that you are really nosy.

"As far as I know, now there are thousands of antique porcelain in Jing~Dezhen, and there are dozens of high-grade ones, that is, the so-called 'high imitation', these people have specialized in the art industry, imitation Chenghua, imitation Xuande, imitation Yuan blue and white, imitation Hongwu, all of them are very high level of professional households. Many people look down on those who imitate everything, and think that it is better to be proficient in doing things, the more you imitate, the easier it is to make mistakes, I wonder if Boss Zhang knows a person named Huang Yunpeng?"

"Well, I know, this Huang Yunpeng is known for his 'high imitation' of blue and white porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty, and his copy of the Yuan blue and white porcelain, Ming Yongle and Xuande blue and white porcelain, has won the National Quality Product Award. Zhang Tianyuan nodded and said.

"This is this person, in Jing~Dezhen, he is also very modest -- 'there are many people who imitate me better'. That's what he always says to others. Because he imitates too completely, but is not single-minded enough. Tang Batian said.

"Even I, a layman, have heard of this, saying that it is in the streets and alleys of Jing~Dezhen, maybe a common people's home is an antique porcelain workshop. Dad pulls blanks, sons and daughters draw tires and carve tires, grandfathers burn kilns, and the family is a production line. In the porcelain hotel, there are many long-term guests living in the hotel, with accents all over the world, but they all do the same thing: take the goods. The front desk staff of the hotel there said that especially in winter and summer, there are more such people, and they often go out empty-handed and come back with a cardboard box. "It's all porcelain, but each time the number of pieces is not much, save enough a few, they will check out, and some will send couriers, and the courier told us that the insurance fee for this kind of box will cost hundreds of yuan!" Zhanfei, who was driving, couldn't help but interject.

"Hehe, of course it's true, this kind of long-term customer identity is called 'broker' or 'salesman' in the industry, to put it bluntly, it is the person who is sent to Jing~Dezhen by various auction companies. Some of them are purchasing the works of famous ceramic masters in Jing~Dezhen, but more of them are buying 'high imitations'. As for where the high-quality imitations go, as I said before, most of them go to the auction house and are circulated as genuine. ”

Zhang Tianyuan sighed and continued: "Almost all auction companies in the country come to Jing~ Dezhen to buy goods, it turned out that others sent them to the auction house, and they collected commissions, but now they come directly to Jing~ Dezhen to buy. ”

"A 'high imitation' once told my teacher Li Mingguang that at the end of last year and the beginning of this year, more than 60 'high imitation' products were given away, and all of them were auctioned off in the first half of this year. Mr. Li expressed his belief in this: "In addition to the auction company purchasing the goods themselves, the auction company is willing to auction the antiques that the auctioneer brings because it can collect the catalogue fee." A single order of tens of thousands of yuan is trivial, and if you don't make money, you won't make it in vain. Mr. Li has seen a lot of this kind of thing, and since he said that it is true, then it is estimated that this matter cannot be faked. Zhang Tianyuan still believes in Li Mingguang's statement.

"Hey, Boss Zhang, don't say it, I've seen such a 'salesman': in the showroom of a high-imitation master in Jing~Dezhen, he is very different from other tourists, holding a leather bag in his hand, and he will be very vigilant when he sees someone staring, and whisper to the master: 'You have so many guests, it's not convenient, right, or I'll come back tomorrow?' Of course, I didn't hear this at the time, it was the master who told me later, and the master replied at that time: ' These are friends, you go upstairs for tea first, and I'll take things up later. Later, someone told me that this person was a 'salesman', this kind of person stared at the porcelain and stared at the flaws, and his eyes were very poisonous! Those who imitate exquisitely will even be sent abroad to 'float around' first, dressed as 'returnee antiques', covered with fire paint when entering the customs, and returned to China for auction with a double value, with millions or even tens of millions of yuan. Tang Batian also talked about some of his encounters in Jing~Dezhen.

Speaking of this, Zhang Tianyuan suddenly thought of what he had encountered, didn't he imitate some high-quality imitations at that time and let Muyi sell them to foreigners. As a result, this mother Yi told others, and someone came to him on purpose, saying that they wanted to buy his things at a high price. (To be continued......)