This article is from the WeChat public account: Relatable Research Institute (ID: buuuxiangji) , author: rich diamond, the original title: “let the false text stream into the museum, is the ultimate dream heritage speculators” from the cover: Oriental IC
“The villagers here offer a cultural relic of 300 yuan, which is almost the same as the cultural relics worth 10,000 or 10,000 on the market.”
Only the veteran artillery in the cultural relics circle knows the secrets of Yanjing Village, Yichuan County, Luoyang, Henan. If you go deep into the local area, you will find that the farmer’s house looks better than Qianling.
Whether it is the Spring and Autumn Lotus Crane Square Pot, the Warring States Fang Ding, the Eastern Zhou Dynasty Emperor Liuli, or the Eastern Han Ma Tafeiyan and various wall hangings, antique table lamps, the tens of thousands of bronzes here can make a layman who knows nothing about cultural relics startled .
Data show that there are more than 300 professional processing households in Yanjing Village, Yichuan County, Luoyang, Henan, with more than 1,880 employees and an annual output value of more than 90 million yuan.
In this little-known village, a group of ordinary-looking farmers are masters of bronze craftsmanship, which is enough to make real antique works even sold to Europe and the United States, which has caused headaches for the cultural relics collectors and appraisers.
The villagers in the villages are often followed by police because of the smuggling of cultural relics elsewhere. As early as the 1990s, a man named Fang Xingqing was taken away by the police because he sold a bronze mirror resembling a cultural relic unearthed from the Warring States Period to a cultural relics dealer.
He did not admit life or death, saying that it was a handicraft made by himself, how much was required, and there were still many at home. Finally, the police came to investigate, as he said.
“Made in Henan” is a word that bothers the collectors and appraisers, and many experts have planted it in “Made in Henan”. Also famous for counterfeiting technology, there is Nanshishan Village in Mengjin County, Luoyang, Henan, which is the most affected area in Tang Sancai.
The China History Museum, the Palace Museum and other institutions have paid high prices, and the rescue acquisition appeared in the antique market of Panjiayuan. A group of “Northern Pottery Figurines” from Henan are said to have been dug out for construction.
At that time, experts from all over Beijing identified it as authentic, and the results of C14 identification also showed that this batch of cultural relics completely coincided with the Northern Wei Dynasty. However, it is strange that similar “Northern Wei Dynasty pottery figurines” began to appear continuously in Beijing’s collection market. Only then did the Chinese History Museum become suspicious. The National Cultural Relics Bureau set up a task force to investigate, and finally reached Mengjin, Luoyang, Henan Gao Shuiwang’s home in the county male Shishan Village.
Gao Shuiwang acknowledged that this was a copy of his own and took out a crafts business license issued by the state. Including a batch of Tang Sancai horses and music figurines previously seized by customs, they also came from his high imitation workshop.
In order to avoid being hooked on the counterfeiting of cultural relics, Master Gao later put his own money on his high imitations. In the end, he was awarded the national intangible cultural heritage Tang Sancai burning technology representative for his superb imitation technology. Inheritor.
Bronze, porcelain, calligraphy and painting we often hearFake cultural relics are counted as pediatrics, and even worse, Xinjiang’s dry corpse relics are fake.
In the early days of reform and opening up, Americans were enthusiastic about buying cultural relics in Xinjiang, China, and they had long heard that Chinese cultural relics were fiercely faked, so they only bought dried corpses.
But what Americans never expected was that the bodies of major funeral homes in Xinjiang were stolen frequently during that period. Cultural relic traders dehydrated and dried the bodies, put on ancient clothes and buried them in the soil, and then waited for gold. The coming of the Lord.
The history of civilization in China for five thousand years is endless. The more historically rich the place, the more likely it is to conceal counterfeit technology and be a master of heaven.
In March 2012, an “Underground Industry Survey” involving Chinese cultural relics was announced. The survey analyzed China’s huge cultural relics counterfeiting system industry chain, and classified cultural relics counterfeiting by type.
The hard-hit areas of ceramics counterfeiting are Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, Henan (Mengjinnan Shishan Village, Yuxian Town, Baofeng County, Luoyang) , Longquan Area In Guangdong, Chaozhou and other places, the most serious disaster areas are the fake villages represented by Yanjing Village, Yichuan County, Luoyang, Henan.
Heavy-hit areas for jade counterfeiting: Henan (Shifosi Town, Ping County, Nanyang Town) , Anhui (Bengbu) , these areas are mainly Han Dynasty jade fakes, Liaoning is the country’s 90% imitation of Hongshan jade; the most severely affected area is the Gulou area in Tianjin. The Qingliangshan antique market is mostly local painters and painters, whose works are seriously faked.
With the rise of the collection boom in China, the manufacture of fake cultural relics has blossomed all over the country and has formed a relatively complete industrial chain. The fake cultural relics of the above-mentioned origins will be poured through the hands of cultural relic dealers, appear in cultural relic markets around the country, and even go overseas .
The producers of fake cultural relics are located at the bottom of the entire industrial chain. They earn a small amount of money, and the speculators who really rely on fake cultural relics to make huge profits are also superior. People are lamented that the cultural circle is very deep.
In 2018, the total auction turnover of Chinese cultural relics and artworks around the world was US $ 6.41 billion. 
It is a group of “national treasure gangs” that drive this industry chain. The so-called “national treasure gangs” refer to those who sell and package fake cultural relics and eventually find ways to become “real cultural relics.”
They gain reputation through a series of packaging methods such as expert appraisal and media reports, and then sell the cultural relics to sky-high prices. And some so-called experts are often part of this industry chain and exist as parasites. As long as you give money, it is not a problem to give any kind of identification.
A Beijing International Auction Co., Ltd. appraiser valued 78 million yuan for Jingdezhen ceramic vases.
In 2003, in order to cheat bank loans, rich businessman Xie Genrong wore fake “golden jade clothes” with scattered jade pieces, and invited five domestic experts in the field of cultural relics.It was designated as a rare treasure and was valued at 2.4 billion yuan. Xie Genrong used this to defraud the bank of 700 million yuan, and eventually the bank’s 540 million yuan was beaten.
Some scholars who helped Xie Genrong to endorse the fake antiques pushed each other to “look away”, and nothing was left.
Not only did you spend a lot of money to buy expert identification, some even compiled fake relics into authoritative books.
In July this year, some netizens disclosed that a Roman candlestick unearthed in Jiayuguan, which was first appeared in the ancient books of the Silk Road document published in 1986, was lost. Misedited editors helped the fake antique dealer to make this picture book, among a large number of real cultural relics, entrained into a fake “Weijin Roman” cultural relics ready to pit old poles.
Thirty years later, this album pitted an academic mallet that didn’t like to study, incidentally frightened Gansu and Jiuquan Cultural Relics Bureau. “
Some netizens said that it is not uncommon for fake relics to appear in various catalogs, and now there are even whole books that are fake relics.
In addition to this, the cultural relics circle also has even more uncommon threats of calculations and trading of power and money, which has led to various incredible news about fake cultural relics being reported in the media.
In recent years, a lot of fake products have appeared in large-scale international art auctions. The higher the transaction price, the greater the incentive for new imitations.
At the 2014 Kunswick auction company in Germany, (Kunker) At the 246th coin auction, a “Pseudo Manchurian country Jilin Province Maintain the medal “ (Auction No. 3293) and sold for 840 Euros. This is the most powerful villager I have ever seen.
There are also some fake cultural relics, which are exported to domestic sales. Through some overseas packaging, they become real cultural relics when they return home, and are treasured by some museums.
Hong Kong businessman Qiu Jiduan donated 6,000 pieces of porcelain to his alma mater Beijing Normal University, and said that the donations included the fines of various dynasties and kiln mouths in China. However, as soon as the news came out, it caused a lot of skepticism in the antique world and the cultural circle.
Attentive netizens found the clue from Qiu Jiduan’s photos of these cultural relics, “Daming Yongle Emperor Zhu Xi”
Chinese antique expert Ma Weidu once said, “Similar fake museums are set up in many places in China to make money.”
In recent years, with the art market rising and various auction records constantly being refreshed, the pursuit of economic benefits from cultural relics collection has been the main goal of some people: the poor are counting on Taobao to become rich overnight, and the rich are counting on Art works to obtain huge benefits, this kind of benefits is not only straight money, but also to gain other benefits through donations.
Because of this, many people in the industry have a bland attitude in the face of the various fake texts that have been hot on the Internet entering the museum. “Because the water is deep, no one knows these fakes. Behind them, what secrets are hidden. “
Friends of antique fans in Beijing lamented to me that in the early years Pan Jiayuan was still able to find good things, and now looking at it, it really has become a gathering place for counterfeit goods.
He missed a few years ago when he went to Panjiayuan antique market to find a good thing, a vase in the Ming Dynasty. Take it home and take a look. There is a QR code on the bottom of the bottle. Sweeping with a mobile phone is indeed Ming Dynasty.
This article is from the WeChat public account: Relatable Research Institute (ID: buuuxiangji) , author: rich adamantyl