"That's probably all there is to the famous porcelain. Mu Ying interjected.

"It's not all. Jingdezhen as one of the main production areas of China's porcelain industry since the Song Dynasty, the porcelain workers of the past dynasties have inherited the imitation that can be easily cooked, and naturally it is still based on the shadow blue, blue and white, glaze red, pastel, bucket color, five colors, color glaze and Ming and Qing Dynasty imperial vessels, and other kiln imitation porcelain, most of which come from Luozhou, Shaanzhou, Nanxun, Jianfu, Beihe, Dongguang and other places. Jingdezhen has been an important town for porcelain production in China for thousands of years, if Fanjiajing is said to be the main distribution point of famous porcelain imitations in the country today, I am afraid it is not an exaggeration. At this time, Zhang Tianyuan just let go of his hand and added with a smile, in fact, he had never been to Fanjiajing in Jingdezhen, but he had only seen it in the book, if it was possible, he would definitely go to that place.

"Yes, that's right, 'open and honest' is a style of this street. A qiē is all public, and a qiē does not shy away from customers. You can see many shops with large and small wooden basins filled with mud water to coat porcelain, bottles and jars filled with hydrofluoric acid and potassium permanganate to etch the shine of porcelain, and straw and plant ash to wipe porcelain to make it stale. The shopkeepers and their fellows not only do their own porcelain in broad daylight, but also 'process' the porcelain sent by visitors from all over the world. Walking down this street, you can see advertisements on the walls with lime water and brushes that say 'Old for porcelain', and the address, house number, and telephone number are clearly indicated, and business is booming. Some shops pù for customers or merchants to write inscriptions, here there are a lot of full-time 'style' hands after years of practice, the Ming and Qing Dynasty imperial ware to write handy. It's almost real.

The good and the bad are mixed, and the anecdotes are full of ups and downs. The scenery is unique here. The price of antique porcelain here is not high, the reason is that there are many goods on the road. In Jingdezhen. There are also several high imitation porcelain manufacturers, scattered elsewhere, where the price of high imitation porcelain is expensive, less than a certain 'level' of merchants and collectors, will not patronize, the general people are to Fanjiajing to 'dig treasure'. Boss Park also nodded and said.

"In fact, Fan Jiajing is calculated, basically it can be said that Tong Su is not bullied, you go to buy it, and people will sue sù that it is an imitation. I won't sell the imitation to you as the real thing, this is comparable to Huaqiangbei, and the people who go there are to buy knockoffs. Mu Ying said with a smile: "I went there once before, bought a lot of imitations, and came back specifically to let the company's people practice their eyesight." ”

"Actually, what you said is not entirely right, the people there may not be bullied, but it is difficult to say who went to the second dealer. Most of the bustling crowds on this street are out-of-towners. There are a lot of people with bags on their shoulders and bags in their hands, all of whom come here to 'pick' goods, and they just rely on a few cloth bags to go south and north. Or for the local antique shops pù to transport the supply, or directly to the antique market in large and medium-sized cities to set up stalls for sale, generally 2 to 3 times a month. Quite a few people earn more than wage earners.

In spring and autumn, businessmen from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asian countries also flock here. It is worth mentioning. Among this group of businessmen, the people of Xijiang Fu and Zhou are one of the new forces. They can be found in the shops and inns on this street, and in the antique markets of some cities across the country, and the shopkeepers of Fanjiajing affectionately call them 'Fuzhou Yankees'. It is true that it is difficult to trace the origin of why Fuzhou people formed a porcelain sales army, but it is undoubtedly a prerequisite to reform, reform, and open up the environment of labor and prosperity. However, this problem also came out, many second-class dealers bought imitations from Fanjiajing, and there were people who directly acted as genuine products to deceive people outside, which affected Fanjiajing's reputation. ”

"Even if it's a sieve that's used to filter wheat, it's not completely clean, and there's always some husk left in it, which is normal. Zhang Tianyuan said.

"I've been to Fanjiajing several times, and every day after the sunset wipes the last hint of redness in the sky, the street in Fanjiajing begins to fall silent from the hustle and bustle of the day. But in the closed houses on both sides of this quiet street, all kinds of work are brewing and preparing for the arrival of another dawn. Fanjiajing, it used to be a fertile soil for active economy and rich human life, but due to the uncontrolled collection and distribution of imitations, it must have added a barrier to the authenticity and falsity of artworks. Boss Park sighed and said, it seems that this person from the stick country really has to be a rare Huaxia Tong.

"Fanjiajing's imitation market, in fact, is good, I used to read a book, called "Who is fooling China", this book is a profound exposure of all kinds of darkness in the antique circle. The blue-and-white bowl of the Yongzheng official kiln auctioned by a top international auction house at a price of more than 2 million yuan is actually a contemporary imitation of a master of Jingdezhen? The jade of the Warring States period intercepted by a certain customs office in the south and appraised by an expert in the cultural relics of the imperial capital is actually a contemporary jade carving handicraft processed and made in Bengbu? At a time when China's cultural relics have entered the 'era of 100 million yuan,' the Chinese antique market is flooded with sediment, and chaos is everywhere. These are what this book is about, the author is a person in the cultural relics circle, the front desk director of a city TV station, this benevolent brother in the pursuit of death, with a sick body, will know for many years into a book, painfully expose the shady curtain of China's cultural relics market, who is interested, you can take a look, absolutely interesting, there are many things you don't expect. Zhang Tianyuan stopped what he was doing and said.

"Ah, I've read this book too!" Mu Ying said suddenly: "At that time, the senior management of our company was recommended this book, and I also read it carefully, I really can't believe that what is said in it is true." ”

"This girl, can you tell me about it? "Boss Park seems to be interested, probably because he is also in the antique business.

"Let's let Tian Yuan say, I don't have a good memory, I can't remember that kind of information. Mu Ying shook her head and said.

"Okay, anyway, this jar is almost washed, Yingzi, you can wipe it for me, and I'll tell Boss Park about it." Zhang Tianyuan stood up, wiped his hands with a towel, and took another sip of herbal tea, before continuing: "According to the author of this book, the official kiln of the Ming and Qing dynasties has formed a black chain of interests. At present, in Jingdezhen, the market price of high-imitation products is 2-80,000 yuan, and in previous years, it was more than 100,000 yuan, and it will generally not be circulated in the low-end market such as ordinary antique cities. It is mainly auctioned by some auction companies at home and abroad, and the transaction price is generally 10-100 times higher than the ex-factory price. There's a huge difference in between. Most of them are divided between the second-tier dealers and the inside line of the auction company, and those who have the right to decide the lot make a lot of money. Take a high-imitation lot that sold for 1 million yuan as an example. The ex-factory price is 40,000 yuan, accounting for about 4% of the transaction price, and the counterfeiter makes a profit; the appraisal fee is 30,000 yuan, accounting for about 3% of the transaction price, and the 'appraisal experts' make a profit; the auction company's commission and state tax are about 200,000 yuan, accounting for about 20% of the transaction price, but this item is often stolen and may not be paid; and the actual owner of the fake is auctioned, making a profit of 730,000 yuan. About 73%. ”

"No, even if some experts can buy it, the identification instrument can't be faked, how can a high-quality imitation pass the machine?" Boss Park was shocked.

That's a good question. Zhang Tianyuan said with a smile: "The book revealed that most of the tests now are to check the bottom of the porcelain, analyze the composition of the porcelain fetus, and see if it is consistent with the old porcelain." The high-quality imitation products in Jingdezhen are produced completely in accordance with the traditional binary formula, and the raw materials come from the old pit of ancient materials. There are also experts who look at the bubbles under the glaze of porcelain, because ancient kilns were fired with firewood. The temperature is uneven, so bubbles of uneven size will appear, but the amount of natural gas outgassing for modern porcelain can be regulated, and the temperature inside the kiln can also be controlled. Go to the new porcelain thief light. It is better to produce the warm and moist slurry of old porcelain, which is originally made of potassium permanganate or hydrofluoric acid bubbles. Now there are more advanced formulations.

Not only that, in addition to imitating ancient jade. Every year, some 'made in Luozhou' antique bronzes are treated as precious cultural relics when they pass through customs, and they are detained together with their colleagues and owners. In more cases, the victim confessed the source, and after being copied by the original creator on the spot, he finally turned around and avoided the pain of imprisonment. ”

"This, this, this is incredible. Boss Park's eyes almost didn't pop out.

"What is this, the legal cost of counterfeiting is too low, even if it is detected, it is basically nothing. At present, many antique collectors regard the rules of their ancestors as classics and will never violate them, but in fact, the rules of the game in these cultural relics markets are extremely unreasonable! At present, China's cultural relics market has a primary market and a secondary market, and the antique markets, galleries, and cultural relics shops that everyone often goes to belong to the primary market, and the secondary market is mainly an auction company.

The primary market now adopts a very primitive and traditional trading model, which is the so-called leakage and eye-catching, buying the wrong thing and thinking that it is unlucky, and buying good things cheaply is to pick up leaks, which is an ancient rule. This kind of primitive collection is a niche behavior, there is no regulation, and now it is used in the antique market of hundreds of billions of people, and it has become a harmful game rule. In the secondary market, auction companies, Article 61 of the current Auction Law, commonly known as the exemption clause, is strictly opposed to the Law on the Protection of Consumer Rights and Interests, and objectively connived at the chaos of illegal businessmen making and selling counterfeits, and auction houses knowingly selling counterfeits. "The more Zhang Tianyuan understands the current antique shop, the more thrilling he feels.

In the past, he thought that the rules set by the ancestors must be good, but after he really went deeper, he realized that what the author of this book said was really right, what kind of rules of the ancestors can be confronted by the law?

"Isn't there a special cultural relics appraisal agency in your country?" asked Boss Park.

Zhang Tianyuan shook his head and said, "Maybe you feel incredible. However, there is a lack of authoritative cultural relics and artworks appraisal institutions for the cultural relics market in our country. At present, there are several committees under the Huaxia National Appraisal Committee for the appraisal of cultural relics in China and several committees at the national level, but in principle, they do not serve the people, but only for museums. In each province, there are cultural relics groups or committees to conduct appraisals of second-class or third-class cultural relics, and there are clear provisions that these experts cannot be involved in the appraisal of non-governmental relics. In addition, there is a lack of a complete identification system for cultural relics and artworks, and a lack of systematic and scientific category identification standards. 'If there is no appraisal system and no appraisal standard, where will the appraisal experts come from? How can they conduct appraisal? Everyone relies on their own experience. ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Tianyuan paused and said: "In the final analysis, there are actually two types of people who make a fortune by antiques, and of course there are also small people who occasionally get rich, but if nothing else, there are two types of people who earn the most." One is the speculators of cultural relics and artworks who have sufficient financial capital, and the other is the corrupt officials. These two types of people, with the help of the absolute prestige established by money or power, monopolize the right to speak on the value and price of cultural relics and artworks, and only need to repackage their collections and send them to the big auction house, they can create huge profits!" (to be continued......