In the past few days, the most popular post on the antiques Internet has to be "CCTV (treasure hunt) deceives, the collection estimated at tens of millions is all fake". In fact, online complaints about CCTV’s treasure hunting and treasure appraisal columns are not just today, they have been around for a long time. Although this article is a bit biased, it cannot be said that all CCTV antique experts are a big liar. After all, most of them have been immersed in the Forbidden City for decades. Be honest, if you have something to say, you can't deny it all.

But one thing is indeed worthy of discussion. The experts invited by CCTV for treasure appraisal and treasure hunting have no binding mechanism, or the binding force is not strong, or there are even problems with the mechanism. For example, an expert treasure appraiser is only responsible for paying the appearance fee. If the appraisal is wrong, he will not be responsible at all. Even if the appraisal fee is wrong, he will not withdraw from it. Just like Pixiu, the son of the Dragon King, he can only go in but not out. Without the constraint mechanism, experts can be unscrupulous and make a conclusion even if they are obviously not sure about the antiques. Otherwise, they will lose the honor of the experts and the appearance fee. Over time, it fosters the bad habit of knowing everything and daring to say anything.

Anyone with a little knowledge of antiques knows that dating antiques is the most difficult task. There is no other better way than comparing the original objects with catalogs. People cannot travel through the time and space tunnel and return to ancient times. So I can only talk about my personal opinion. Therefore, in a strict sense, on-site identification is not a very rigorous scientific identification method. CCTV is keen on conducting on-the-spot treasure appraisals and lacks a rigorous scientific attitude.

Nowadays, for antique experts, treasure appraisal is a job that brings both fame and fortune, and the price is soaring. In the past two years, each antique was charged an identification fee of 200 yuan, but a few days ago an advertisement clearly stated the price of 500 yuan per piece. Some treasure appraisal experts even simply indicate the appearance fee. It is said that the average appearance fee per person is more than 20,000 yuan.

In the eyes of organizers and enthusiasts who participate in treasure appraisal activities, the experts invited by CCTV’s treasure appraisal column are authoritative. However, the experts at the scene were not convinced by antique lovers, and there were many who complained.

I have heard antique enthusiasts say more than once that the so-called CCTV treasure appraisal and treasure hunting experts may not necessarily have better vision than the second-hand "ghosts" (Shanghai slang for old ghosts) who practice stalls. people). Because every antique they buy or sell is paid for by themselves, or they lose money, or make money. They have bloody lessons, practical experience, and related interests. And those so-called experts stand up and talk without pain, and get paid anyway if they are right or wrong. They are like the Dragon King's son Pixiu, who can only get in but not get out. How can this be compared to the "ghost" of second-hand goods?

What's more, treasure appraisal experts are very good at attracting money. It is understood that an expert can see hundreds of antiques at most in a day, and second-hand "ghosts" usually have to strike several times for each antique they collect. We go back and forth, go home, read books, study and compare again and again, for fear of being deceived. Experts are not afraid of being deceived. Can the professionalism of the two be compared?

To be fair, the vast majority of CCTV treasure appraisal experts are wrong, not because they do it intentionally, nor because they have a false reputation, but because there is something wrong with this method. All comers are welcome, the more the merrier, and only profit but no loss can only encourage a trend of treating scientific appraisal as "entertainment".

I secretly think that it is time for CCTV’s treasure appraisal and treasure hunting columns to reflect. Since 2000, treasure appraisal programs have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and have also been favored by many enthusiasts of cultural toys, jade, and collections. favorite. However, in recent years, the popularity of these programs has decreased, and they have not received as much attention. Many people will wonder what to ask? Is it because the novelty is gone? Is it because there are not so many enthusiasts now? As for the novelty, art lovers and jade lovers will never lose their novelty to the countless rare treasures in China. In recent years, the number of lovers of antiques and jade has only increased, and more and more people have begun to pay attention to antiques and jade.

There are so many treasure appraisal programs, and there are so many expert groups in them. Everyone has different attainments and different opinions. What is true and false, what is false and what is true, what is false and what is true? Who can tell me why? If you say you can tell me what your opinions are based on, they are also based on certain things. Isn’t the source of these things just people’s opinions?

The picture given by the questioner is from a CCTV variety show, so let’s take a look at some of the members of the expert panel of this show.

Jin Yunchang

Mongolian, native of Beijing, born in 1957.

In 1982, he graduated from the Chinese Department of Capital Normal University and stayed at the school to teach ancient Chinese. He once served as the executive director of the Beijing Linguistic Society and the secretary-general of the Ancient Chinese Research Association. At the same time, he studied calligraphy under Mr. Ouyang Zhongshi and Kang Yin, and participated in the establishment of the calligraphy art education major of the First Normal University and the first doctoral program in calligraphy in my country. He was appointed as an associate professor and master's tutor in this major. Join the Chinese Calligraphers Association.

In 1997, he was transferred to the Palace Museum in Beijing. The following year, he was appointed deputy director of the ancient calligraphy and painting department of the academy. Over the years, the courtyard's collection of calligraphy and paintings, as well as steles and inscriptions as national treasures, have been studied with great concentration, broadening one's horizons, and rapidly improving one's artistic accomplishment and identification ability.

He has been fond of calligraphy since he was a child. He first studied Tang Kaili, then Wei Stele, and also practiced cursive calligraphy by Er Wang and Li Yong. After arriving at the Forbidden City, I was fortunate enough to study under Mr. Liu Bingsen. I fully understood the principle that "the past did not take advantage of the times, but the present has different disadvantages." He integrated a fresh and elegant modern aesthetic consciousness into the dignified and vigorous traditional calligraphy style. His works have been exhibited and won awards at home and abroad for many times, and are widely favored by collectors.

In addition to writing, he published various treatises on calligraphy, taught at Peking University, Renmin University, Normal University and other schools, and gave lectures on CCTV's "Appreciating True Inscriptions on Steles", "Tutorials on Wei Steles", "Studying Calligraphy and Explaining Doubts" and China Educational Television has a series of columns such as "Calligraphy Tutorial", and has also been a long-term member of the expert appraisal team of CCTV's "Art Investment", "Treasure Appraisal", and "Treasure Hunting" programs. He often popularizes the knowledge of calligraphy and painting cultural relic appreciation to the audience on the screen. Through long-term calligraphy and painting appraisal practice across the country, my own eyesight and knowledge have also been well trained and expanded.

Social positions include: member of the Appraisal and Evaluation Committee of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, member of the Consulting and Appraisal Expert Committee of the China Collectors Association, member of the Art Evaluation Committee of the Cultural Market Development Center of the Ministry of Culture, and member of the "China Culture and Art Development Promotion Committee" of the Ministry of Culture. Director of the Association, Vice President of the "Chinese Calligraphy Research Institute" of the Development Research Center of the State Council, and part-time researcher of the Central Institute of Educational Sciences of the Ministry of Education. (Excerpted from China Network Television Economic Channel)

Cai Guosheng

Male, born in December 1944, from Dinghai, Zhejiang.

Member of the Chinese Calligraphy Association, director of the Shanghai Calligraphy Association, associate researcher at the Department of Culture and Museum, member of the Art Evaluation Committee of the Cultural Market Development Center of the Ministry of Culture, deputy director of the Chinese Folk Collection Appraisal Committee, editor-in-chief of the "Folk Collection Series", Central Committee Specially invited expert on TV station's "Treasure Hunt" column. He also serves as a consultant and distinguished professor at Peking University School of Fine Arts, East China Normal University, Shanghai Normal University and many other universities.

He has been engaged in the appraisal of cultural relics, antiques, and calligraphy and seal carving for more than 40 years. He has integrated bells, tripods, weights, coins, and tablets into one furnace. He has absorbed the essence of famous ancient and modern masters, studied diligently, persevered, and made inferences by analogy into his own. His calligraphy works have been exhibited in Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan for many times, and have been selected into the "Collection of Contemporary Chinese Calligraphy" and "Selected Contemporary Calligraphy". Articles and works on appraisal expertise are often published in newspapers and magazines at home and abroad. Since the 1990s, he has successively created and published nearly twenty incisive professional books and three sets of film and television DVDs with special lectures on collection. This is rare in the field of antique appreciation and has also earned him praise as a "prolific expert."

In 2000, he was named a member of the Chinese Calligraphers Association with both virtue and art. In 2001, he won the first Oriental Celebrity Achievement Award and in 2005, he won the Chinese Contemporary Outstanding Meritorious Artist Award. In 2006, he won the Bauhinia Award, the highest artistic achievement award in celebration of the tenth anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China. In 2007, he won the title of "Outstanding Chinese Contemporary Artist". (Excerpted from the Economic Channel of China Network Television)

Jia Wenzhong

Jia Wenzhong, courtesy name Wenzhong and alias Tongzhai, was born in 1961 in a Beijing Jinshi family. He is the fourth in the bronze Zhang School of old Beijing. From generation to generation. University culture, graduated from the postgraduate class of "Archaeology and Museology" in the Department of Archeology of Peking University. He has worked in Beijing Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau and Capital Museum. He is currently a member of Jiusan Society, a researcher at the China Agricultural Museum, and a visiting professor at Peking University, Tsinghua University, Minzu University of China, and Nanjing University. Director of the Central State Organs Artists Association and Central State Organs Calligraphers Association. Editor-in-chief of the journal "Cultural Relics Restoration Research" and editorial board member of the journal "Cultural Relics Protection and Archaeological Science". In 2002, he was selected as one of the 100 experts and scholars with "remarkable academic achievements and innovative spirit" in China's cultural and museum circles by China Cultural Relics News.

He is an epigraphy and stone expert, a cultural relic appraisal expert, an inheritor of full-scale rubbings, and a calligraphy, painting and seal engraver.

(Excerpted from Baidu Encyclopedia)

Jin Shen

After the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution, he went to the mountains and countryside in Inner Mongolia. He graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Inner Mongolia Normal University and studied Buddhist archeology at Tokyo University of the Arts in Japan for five years. He is now a current Chinese art Researcher at the Academy of Fine Arts. For many years, he has studied the archeology of Buddhist grottoes and the art of single Buddha statues. He has traveled to Asian Buddhist sites such as Japan, South Korea, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, and has repeatedly inspected Asian art collections in public and private museums in Europe and the United States.

He has shed light on the archaeological aspects of Buddhism, not constrained by old theories, and subverted old theories. His achievements can fill academic gaps. He is also unique in identifying the authenticity of single Buddha statues, and has profound insights. Words set the tripod. He has appraised cultural relics for the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and Chinese and foreign museums, eliminated the false while preserving the true, and discovered national treasures; he has given lectures for colleges and universities at home and abroad, spreading the knowledge among the people.

His works include "Illustrated Dictionary of Buddhist Statues Chronologically in China", "Illustrated Catalog of Famous Buddhist Sculptures", "Identification and Collection of Buddha Statues", "Genealogy of Buddha Statues" (translation), "Identification of Authentic Buddha Statues", There are more than 20 volumes including "Treasures of Ancient Buddhist Statues Collected Overseas, Hong Kong and Taiwan" and "Ancient Buddhist Statues Collected by Two Families" (authored by ***). He has also published more than 100 papers in "Cultural Relics", "Literature and History", "Dunhuang Studies Research", "Dunhuang Studies", "Literature and History Knowledge", "Collectors", etc., and there is a collection of essays "Buddhist Art Series". (Excerpted from the Economic Channel of China Network Television)

Overall

The expert groups here are all those who specialize in literature and archeology, and are more knowledgeable than the majority of people in this regard. Have the right to speak. If he can be on CCTV, it means he is talented. No matter how well you study, you will always make mistakes and make mistakes. Are ancient cultural relics real or fake? They just make judgments based on their opinions. Sometimes fake things may be better than real ones.

This kind of program is also a reality show. Reality shows do not have too many constraints to express themselves. This kind of treasure appraisal program is to show the wisdom and cultural crystallization of the Chinese nation. To a certain extent, Chengdu enriches the audience’s experience and lets everyone know about Five Thousand Civilizations.

Really, experts don’t just play around, they also have tools for observation, such as mirrors with high magnification and so on. This kind of thing is like an exam. You can know the questions at a glance and it won't take too much time. You can't know the questions even if you don't know them for ten thousand years. My father can know the authenticity of some types of porcelain, let alone an expert. He has seen too much and studied too much. As for the value, it is based on the auction prices of similar things. However, there are always some things that experts are not sure about, some are off-the-beaten-path miscellaneous items, and their general value is not too high, so there is no need to fake them. Experts may not be 100% sure and will judge them to be true; some are of extremely high value. If it's true, it's worth millions or billions. Generally, if you're not sure, you'll just say it's false because you can't afford to be held responsible. As for "Treasure Appraisal", there must have been a screening process before. I think it will at least let experts know what is there. In addition, this program is not live broadcast and can guarantee that controversial things will be cut out. However, it cannot be ruled out that the initial screening is also a group of experts. They see things very quickly. After all, there are still a small number of real things, and most of them are fake at a glance. My father and I participated in a similar event, and the three experts read a hundred things in the morning. Multiple items.

CCTV’s Treasure Hunt came to our city, and the auditions started a week before the program started to be recorded. I went to see it several times, and it was the experts on TV who were at the auditions. They won’t tell you whether it’s true or not. I feel like they can’t tell you the history, true or false of a lot of things. When you see something suitable, put it on the program list, then go back and look through the information, and you will have the effect of knowing everything in the program. There is a pen holder at home. My grandfather said that he had this thing when he could remember. I took it to the audition and showed it to them. Is it true or false? For many years, nothing was explained.

My friend hired two bodyguards to take the ancestral night pearl and went to CCTV to appraise the treasure from Shanxi. The relevant experts took a look at it and they said it was fake. I returned to Shanxi with my head down and went south to Shantou half a month later. Someone wanted to buy it, and my friend asked for 3 million. They didn’t make a counter-offer and just paid and took it away...

The first is the issue of qualifications. If experts are the most reliable, who can be regarded as an expert? I think antique second-hand dealers should be experts, such local experts. They are real and sharp-eyed than experts in treasure appraisal. And it’s not very watery, so at least it’s not deceptive.

I have an uncle. I have been selling antiques for 40 years, starting from a street stall to a stall. Many experts actually came to ask my uncle to take a look.

Some experts even asked where the photo was taken and how much it cost. My uncle laughed and said, "How much do you want?" .

The experts were confused.

Say I am an orphan. My uncle said I specialize in selling solitary products!

Later, my uncle gave this expert a set of advice. After all, they were friends, and we had a great conversation.

Later, the expert pretended to be a farmer and went to appraise the treasure.

Expert in treasure appraisal. He was full of praise and spoke eloquently. Speaking of you, you are an orphan.

Later everyone made a fortune. A few years later, treasure appraisal experts learned about this and made a special trip to see my uncle. Then I took an antique and asked my uncle to appraise it. My uncle said, this thing of yours looks real.

Experts are excited. It is definitely true when it comes to this kind of unique product. My uncle smiled. After all, you came to see me from so far away, so let me give you a unique set that is one year older than yours. Don't just say that what I give you is fine. You go write a script and shoot it.

In the evening, everyone had a great time chatting. After three rounds of drinking. Taking a group photo...

Collecting has become a hobby for inheriting culture, and it has also become a way of materialistic speculation. The professionalism and fairness of TV treasure appraisal programs have also been questioned by everyone.

Friends who have watched a treasure appraisal program must be deeply impressed by the purple gold hammer wielded by the host Wang Gang. After signing an agreement with the collector, if the collection is identified as fake by experts present, the host will smash the "fake" to pieces without mercy. Many friends must have had this question: "What if the experts are wrong?" Everyone's worries are justified. No one is a sage, and who can guarantee that he will always be right?

But the show is so cruel. What experts say is true is true, and what experts say is false is false. Many experts in the industry also frowned on this. There are some treasures that connoisseurs know are good at a glance, but it is sad to see them being smashed on TV. Across the TV screen, who can tell clearly how many "unjust, false and wrongful convictions" have occurred here? Ning Yuxin, director of the Cultural Relics Appraisal Professional Committee of the China Management Science Research Academic Committee, even commented: "Thirty percent of the 'fake' products here are treasures!"

If this is a question on the ability of TV treasure appraisal experts , that’s it. Now more rumors are pointing to the "tricks" involved: TV programs have become a channel to hype up one's own collections and make money. Many people pointed out that there are many shills in the collection program, and the real owner of the treasure may be an expert on the stage or a big boss behind the scenes. After being hyped on TV, it suddenly became a famous instrument, and the audience rushed to grab it, and its value soared. Some people even use the reputation of the TV station to endorse it and launder fake products into genuine products through treasure appraisal programs.

Just imagine, if the rumors are true, then under such a messy inside story, if you really take your family’s heirloom treasures for appraisal, if the director of this issue needs to break one or two to increase the dramatic effect, then you will be unlucky. If not you, who else could you be? Therefore, regardless of whether these rumors are true or false, we ordinary people can just watch them as entertainment programs.

Nowadays, there are many treasure appraisal programs to distinguish between true and false. First of all, learn some knowledge yourself. Experts may also be wrong. Study more and visit more museums. Only by mastering knowledge can we know how to identify.

For ratings!

Ordinary enthusiasts go to street stalls to pick up artifacts, while experts pick up artifacts during the treasure appraisal process. Experts spend hundreds of thousands to buy millions or tens of millions of cultural relics from enthusiasts. , this kind of thing is not uncommon. Just have fun. Sooner or later, these cultural relic experts will ruin the collecting world.