At a Christie's auction, there was a very popular collector who refused to pay after auctioning the rabbit head of the Yuanmingyuan at a high price, and arrogantly threatened that this was originally a Chinese cultural relic.
This act has aroused heated discussion, some people think that he is a national hero with great feelings of family and country, and some people say that he is a fool who does not distinguish between right and wrong. After many years, when Ma Weidu mentioned this matter, an evaluation made netizens shout: "Unbelievable." What did Ma Weidu say about this man?
Renowned collector
The collector who is regarded as a national hero by some netizens is named Cai Mingchao, who is a more famous collector in Quanzhou, and Cai Mingchao's family is ordinary and he started in the clothing business. With a wealth of money, he later became fascinated with the collection of cultural relics and began to enter the cultural relics circle, and he had a special love for cultural relics, and he accumulated a lot of experience by years of exploration in the cultural relics circle.
After that, Cai Mingchao, who felt that the time was ripe, set up a heart and art auction company and began his career to rise.
A few years later, An auction was held in Hong Kong for a gilded bronze statue from the early Ming Dynasty, which had been overseas for many years and was now rare to return to the jianghu, and Cai Mingchao estimated the value of this Buddha statue and prepared to auction it.
The auction was fierce, the bronze Buddha rose from 80 million, and Cai Mingchao finally auctioned the gilded bronze statue for 140 million yuan and then donated it to the state. His boldness shocked collectors at home and abroad, and Cai Mingchao became famous and well-known in the cultural relics circle, winning hundreds of millions of trust.
If it were not for the beast head incident, Cai Mingchao would definitely be able to have a foothold in the cultural relics circle with this event, but the heat of the gilded bronze statue has not yet dissipated, and the beast head incident has once again pushed him to the top of the controversy in the cultural relics industry.
A few years later, Christie's in France was preparing to auction "rabbit heads and rat heads" to the world, two animal heads that originally belonged to China and were exiled overseas because of the humiliating history of modern history. As soon as the news came out, the patriotic people in China were indignant, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs originally wanted to recover the cultural relics belonging to China through legal means, but the cultural relics had no borders, and the mainland's efforts were ultimately fruitless.
The "patriot" who refuses to pay
The auction attracted the world's attention, and everyone always paid attention to the whereabouts of the two beast heads, which were of great value and significance, and many wealthy foreign merchants were bound to get it.
As a collector, Cai Mingchao naturally will not miss this auction that touched the hearts of the Chinese people, and soon after, news came from abroad: the head of the beast was auctioned by Cai Mingchao for a high price of 270 million yuan.
When everyone was shocked by Cai Mingchao's courage, he announced that he would donate the beast's head to the country, 270 million was a huge sensation at the time, and when everyone was looking forward to it, Cai Mingchao suddenly held a press conference and told everyone: "I will not pay, because these two cultural relics themselves belong to China." ”
Sharp words, domineering eyes, many netizens call it a national hero, he dares to use his hundreds of millions of credibility to fight for cultural relics for China, and his spirit is worthy of recognition.
After the Christie's auction, the legend of Cai Mingchao in the cultural relics industry did not stop, but he disappeared and disappeared since then.
It wasn't until Ma Weidu, the curator of the Guanfu Museum, recently pointed out the essence of "national hero" that everyone knew how ignorant Cai Mingchao's heroism was.
Ma Weidu is one of the few powerful cultural relics collectors in China at present, and his ability to treasure is obvious to all in the cultural relics industry, such an excellent cultural relics collector can't help but shake his head after facing Cai Mingchao's affairs, he said: "This kind of behavior should not be recognized, to some extent, this behavior has lost the face of Chinese, and he is even called a national hero." “
Ma Weidu looked at the puzzled expressions of the crowd and gave three reasons for his remarks.
Thought-provoking "behavior"
First, the value of cultural relics is reduced, the two animal heads can highlight its artistic value through bidding, and they can be more famous in France, and Christie's as a well-known auction platform can better reflect the hard-won of the beast heads.
Although art is priceless and should not be measured in money, in society, it can only use monetary code to highlight the geometry of value. For the people, its value has long been worth not two hundred million, and foreign people are so concerned about it, which is enough to prove the uniqueness of the beast head craft.
Although Cai Mingchao seems to have helped the nation out of anger, but it has greatly erased the value of this work of art, his behavior in the auction house is the behavior of "Lao Lai", which not only reduces the artistic value of the beast's head, but also smears the image of a Chinese collector, how can the initiative of not paying off the loss be called a national hero.
Second, in the auction abroad, words and deeds represent the country, Cai Mingchao for 31.49 million euros when the scene of the beast's head was sensational, this sensation is a recognition of the strength of Chinese collectors, only after having a certain economic strength, can they compete with foreign bidders.
Foreign media have made a big report on this, and the words and lines reveal the recognition of Cai Ming's super arrogance, and many foreigners believe that China's economy has developed rapidly, and the people can take the head of the beast with their own strength. How arrogant it was, how much it hit the face later, and later the "streaming shooting" became the root of some Western media's big fuss.
Third, the destruction of the cultural relics circle bidding rules, caused the cultural relics circle for a long time to produce a crisis of trust, for collectors, the auction itself is open and transparent, the high price must be the eternal auction truth, Cai Mingchao's "refusal to pay" stream auction let his reputation accumulated over the years collapse, and he also destroyed the good reputation of the Chinese in the French auction circle.
After the beast head was auctioned, it was finally purchased by the Peter family, for various considerations, the Peter family finally donated the beast head to China free of charge, although the process was bumpy, fortunately the ending was satisfactory.
brief summary
As a world-class art temple, every piece of the park's collection is a priceless treasure, and in the torch of the British and French coalition forces, the former golden and brilliant royal garden has become a broken wall. Times have passed, and whenever we look back at this humiliating history of blood and tears, every Son and Daughter of China will still have their blood boiling, but not forgetting history is the greatest respect for history.
Ma Weidu's remarks have caused everyone to ponder whether the pursuit of Cai Mingchao is a bit excessive, and it is really inappropriate to look at it from the perspective of the state. The cultural relics of the Yuanmingyuan were not robbed of one or two, there are still many cultural relics that are missing, if each cultural relics are auctioned in this way, I am afraid that it will only be pulled into the blacklist by the auction house.
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