What is the value of North Extension?

As a traditional and ancient collection variety, in recent years, the overall performance of Beituo in the increasingly hot domestic art market is relatively cold, and both the transaction and the number of participants are not ideal, which makes it feel marginalized in many collections. According to the incomplete statistics of Yachang Art Network, in recent years, there are 3 106 tablets in China, and 1729 tablets have been sold, with a total turnover of 847 1000 yuan and a turnover rate of 57%. In this statistic, it should be said that most of them are supported by the transactions of manuscripts and letters, and the proportion of transactions of Beituo is not large. In the List of Inscriptions on Rare Books of Ancient Books published by Yachang since 2006, the highest turnover of the stele extension-20 kinds of sculptures of Longmen in Jiadechun this year (turnover 1 1 1,000 yuan) only ranked 76th, which shows that the market of stele extension is bleak. The market of Beituo has been sluggish for many reasons. First of all, except for a few famous works by Song Tuo, most of the inscriptions are Qing Tuo editions, and rare books, rare books and rare books are rare, with low prices, inactive transactions and frequent auctions. Although in 2003, the Shanghai Museum of Natural History spent a huge sum of US$ 4.5 million to buy "Song Chunhua Pavilion" from overseas collector Anse, it was a rare Song Tuo after all (although it later caused controversy). From June, 5438 to February, 2005, Hanhai Autumn Auction also sold a Song Chunhua Pavilion sticker volume 6, which was valued at 750,000-900,000 yuan, and was finally sold at a high price of 3.96 million yuan. Compared with the two, at present, the vast majority of stele extensions on the market are below 10,000 yuan, and those exceeding 6,543.8+10,000 yuan are rare. In big companies such as Guardian and Hanhai, some high prices can still be auctioned. For example, this year, Guardian auctioned 6,600 yuan of Yan Zuo's second post,13,200 yuan of Yiying tablet,16,500 yuan of Xianbao tablet, and 7,700 yuan of post-Chao filial son's remains and tablets. In many small and medium-sized companies, only two or three thousand yuan can be auctioned, and there are many without reserve price. This can be seen from the current situation of the domestic stone extension market. Secondly, compared with popular varieties such as calligraphy and painting, few collectors and investors participate in the rubbings. Guardian and Poly's oil paintings can be auctioned over 100 million yuan at a time, which is higher than the total turnover of China's stone extension in recent years. Why? Because there are many collectors involved, especially a large number of new investors, it is difficult for Beituo to attract the enthusiasm of collectors. The main reason is that the profit space is small, it is difficult to realize, and large funds can't get in. Oil painting has a strong trend in the past year or two, and the effect of making money has become prominent after the intervention of many investors, causing a chain reaction. The same is true of Chinese painting. It is not difficult to choose the right way to make a profit of 20%-30%. Beituo can't form short-term profit effect. Hundreds of thousands of investments can only be completed in multiple blocks, and it is not easy to cash out. For various reasons, it is difficult to attract large funds to join. Without the influx of off-site new funds, the real warming and strengthening of North Extension is still far away. It is impossible to reverse the whole market trend only by one or two high-priced lots. The collection of stele extension needs profound traditional culture and a heartfelt love, not just as a means of investment, so the current collectors are mostly painters, researchers and enthusiasts. Looking back at history, the same is true. Most people who are keen on the collection of stele extensions are obsessed with it, such as literati, painters and enthusiasts. During the Qing and Kang Dynasties, Sheng Xing took epigraphy as the research object, and collectors such as Jin Nong, Huang, Ruan Yuan and Gui Fu were all masters of calligraphy and painting. Mr. Zhu Wenjun, the father of Zhu Jiajian, is a famous master of epigraphy and epigraphy in modern times. He loved epigraphy all his life and had a very rich collection. At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, he donated more than 700 tablets of Han and Tang dynasties to the Palace Museum, among which Jiuchenggong Quanming, which was bought at a large price in the early Northern Song Dynasty, is the earliest tablet ever seen. Orphaned books are Lu Jun Bei in the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhang Qianbei in the Early Han Dynasty, Yunhui Bei in the Northern Song Dynasty, Preface to the Holy Teaching of King Ji, Shi Guwen in the Ming Dynasty, etc. Luxun, a great modern writer, is also a collector of inscriptions. According to the investigation, there are more than 6,000 steles left by him, which is really an amazing collection of steles. I'm afraid it's more appropriate to regard the stele extension as an elegant life than pure investment. I think this good tradition needs to be preserved. It is difficult for the market of stele extension to really heat up, which has both market reasons and its own factors, among which the lack of valuable initial extension, rare books and rare books is also a big reason. After all, unlike oil painting and Chinese painting, there are many choices. Nowadays, not only Song Tuo is hard to see, but even Ming Tuo and excellent Qing Tuo are rare.