Even though the auction is drawing to a close, the atmosphere is still in full swing, and it will soon be the turn of the last cultural relic to appear. The finale is Wang Xizhi's cursive script of Ping An Tie, with a starting price of 55 million yuan.
Collectors bid all the way. In just a few minutes, the price of cultural relics soared to 270 million yuan. At this point, the audience was silent, and no one wanted to add any more money. Seeing that the deal was about to be finalized, Hu Yanyan, the general manager of the auction house, received a phone call.
It was the collector Liu Yiqian who said he was willing to add another 5 million yuan to the 270 million yuan.
No one bid. In the end, the copy of Ping An Post was sold for 275 million yuan, and the handling fee was 308 million yuan. The whole article of cultural relics is only 4 1 word, and the average value of each word is 7.5 million yuan, which is amazing. And this transaction also set a new record in the auction history of China.
Everyone marveled at this expensive work, but ignored the hidden story behind it. In fact, this "safe tie" has also been mistaken for? Worthless? Even as rags, they are publicly sold in the market. So why did it suddenly increase in value today?
Antique myth: the old man bought it for five yuan? Dirty cloth? , turns out to be a collection of Qianlong!
It can be traced back to the mid-1960s, when there were many antique dealers near the Liulichang in old Beijing. One day, an old man was wandering here and came across a rag on display in a small booth. This cloth is dirty and the edges and corners are badly worn, but you can still vaguely recognize the graffiti distributed on it.
The old man noticed that there were many red seals on the cloth. He thought the cloth was very valuable, so he wanted to pay for it. At that time, the economy was still relatively depressed, and the business of the entire antique industry was very deserted. The hawker deliberately raised the price 10 yuan, hoping to make a big profit.
Ten dollars was not a small sum at that time, and the old man pretended to give up at first sight. Just as he was about to leave, the vendor offered to reduce the price and offered to give the elderly another five yuan discount. After the deal was made, the old man only spent five yuan to collect junk.
But who knows that old people are also laity? After buying the rag home, I rummaged it over and over several times, but I didn't see anything, so I left it idle.
Until 1979, by chance, Mr. Xu Bangda, an appraiser of calligraphy and painting, heard about the existence of this cloth, and personally visited the house, which was a quick look.
According to Mr. Xu's memory, he was surprised when he first saw this cloth, because there were many traces of red marks on the canvas, which indicated that this cloth had been collected by many people and handed down in an orderly way. Among them, there is a dry dragon seal, and its value is self-evident. After further identifying the impressions of famous literati and emperors in the Qing Dynasty, xu teacher concluded that this cloth was a copy of Wang Xizhi's work Ping An Tie, and the copy was probably a famous person in the Song Dynasty.
The spread of royal cultural relics among the people reveals the reasons behind the sharp increase in the value of copywriting.
With the publication of Mr. Xu Bangda's research results, the copy of Ping An Tie has also attracted public attention, and more and more antique experts have studied it. But one question has never been eliminated: since the word was originally a private collection of Qianlong, why did it end up in the hands of folk antique dealers?
At present, the most convincing argument is this: at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the royal family declined. In order to get money, eunuchs and maids in the Forbidden City stole some precious treasures from the palace and sold them outside the palace, resulting in a large number of royal cultural relics wandering among the people and their whereabouts unknown.
This "safe tie" may also be one of the stolen treasures, but the people I met didn't know the goods, and after many twists and turns, they finally put it on the stall.
At present, there is not a completely exact conclusion about the detailed source of this edition of Ping An Tie, even some ancient people can't tell it, but the mainstream views are roughly divided into two types: Wang Shimao, a calligrapher in Ming Dynasty, and Xu Bangda in contemporary times, who think it is a copy of the Song Dynasty and is more likely to be written by Mi Fei; Gu Fu, a writer in Qing Dynasty, thought that he copied the Tang Dynasty. What is certain is that this "Ping An Tie" will not be a product after the Song Dynasty, which can be judged from the seal left by the ancient players above.
The reason why the price of this "safe tie" has soared is not only because of its age, but also because of its artistic value. As a copy, this calligraphy and painting can be said to show the essence of Wang Xizhi's calligraphy to the fullest. Even? Read all the treasures? Ganlong is also highly praised and full of praise. Can it shine in Asia? , which means comparable? Fa Tie Sanxi Hall? One of the "sunny posts in the fast snow"
From the cultural relics collected by the emperor, to the rags that have been reduced to stalls, to the top treasures worth more than 300 million yuan, the inheritance of Ping An Railway has been drifting from place to place, which is legendary. As future generations, it is a miracle that we can witness such a complete treasure handed down.