Chinese traditional handicraft has a long history, extensive and profound, and enjoys a high reputation in the world. Take "eight unique crafts in Yanjing" as an example. "Yanjing bajue" refers to jade, cloisonne, carving, carving lacquer, gold lacquer mosaic, silk mosaic, palace carpet, palace embroidery. Some experts believe that the climax of folk art, the "Eight Wonders of Yanjing" in the first century, is the last peak of Chinese handicraft, and the last one is the "official kiln".

Yanjing No.8

According to records, the Ming and Qing Dynasties were the heyday of the "Eight Wonders of Yanjing". At that time, the two sides set up 42 workshops, each of which was composed of skilled craftsmen from all over the country. Their own wisdom and exquisite crafts showed the emperor and the distinguished guests folk skills. "Yanjing bajue" was born in such an environment. If we compare the "Eight Wonders of Yanjing", we can easily find that we have our own characteristics, such as cloisonne, also known as "copper wheel pattern enamel". At present, the earliest items collected by the National Palace Museum were founded in the Ming Dynasty and were popular in the tuntian period. Cloisonne is made of copper tires. When the blue glaze is the best, it is called "Cloisonne". After Qing Dynasty, it sold well abroad. The most complex and detailed are blue skills, all kinds of bottles, bowls, plates, smoking utensils, table lamps, sugar cans, candy, trophies, etc. The whole production needs to go through more than 100 processes to complete, and some even need dozens of artists to work together to complete. The process of jade carving has a long history. For Kangyong, the most brilliant jade in the past three years, its variety is diverse, its style is complex, and its carving ability is unprecedented, especially the large-scale jade carving is amazing. For example, Ganlong jade carving "Yushan Mountain tourism map" weighs more than 10000 pounds, so it weighs very little. Ivory carving has always been a "Royal handicraft", and its products are mainly paid tribute by the royal family. On the one hand, ivory itself is a precious material; on the other hand, due to the high folk carving technology. These craftsmen left many classic works for future generations, such as the "yuewenqing book" collected by the Palace Museum. Lacquer is also an ancient art, it is painting, sculpture, paint decoration in one. The peak of lacquer carving in Ming and Qing Dynasties. The Ming Dynasty paint is fine and delicate; the Qing Dynasty blade is sharp and accurate. There is a royal lacquer sculpture in Hong Kong market, which is very popular with collectors. Gold lacquer mosaic also belongs to the category of lacquerware. It has a very long history. It can be divided into paint hook gold, Roman mosaic, gold and silver, carving and other varieties. Among them, the most inlaid works. Mainly used in cars, ships, cars, ceremonies and royal appliances and accessories. Silk mosaic is also known as "refined gold craft". It is made of gold, silver and other expensive materials, inlaid with a variety of gems, pearls, or made with weaving technology. Silk mosaic is the biggest feature in production, which is very troublesome and expensive. It is said that in the ninth year of the Qing Dynasty, the royal palace had been weaving carpets for embroidery. There are four main processes of palace carpet production, namely design, weaving, film cutting and finishing. Beijing embroidery refers to the way of embroidery in Beijing area, which is different from Hunan embroidery, Guangdong embroidery, Shu embroidery, Suzhou embroidery and Beijing embroidery, also known as palace embroidery. Its production first uses gold and silver thread to make patterns, and then uses color thread to embroider solid textile machine. Beijing embroidery can often reflect the royal style and brilliant. False beauty said

However, in the collection and trading market, like the "Yanjing bajue", there are few crafts in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and fake things are everywhere. When you enter the antique market, you will immediately find that the market here is dangerous, fragile, and there are traps. If you are a little careless, you may fall into the trap and it is difficult to extricate yourself. Of course, for the antique market, it's natural to pay tuition fees. Where businesses are really hypocritical for the poor, some even break the state when the state sells them. This phenomenon can be said to be common in some ancient new things. It's important to note that antique suppliers often make stories to trick buyers. If merchants want to sell ancient calligraphy or ancient porcelain, they will tell buyers that this "famous" work is ancestral and a "treasure" home, because someone is at home or their children go abroad to study, use money and so on. If the buyer once the letter is true, it is necessary to pay tuition. It can be said that beautiful legends, tortuous experience and mobile stories in the antique market create many trading traps, which make many people afraid and sometimes even hard to detect.

New and old workers

Especially for the ancient craft, the traditional old workers are calm, heavy, meticulous, intelligent, and the new employees are often fast, scribbled, impetuous, and similar. Today's experts always think that the breakthrough is technology. The new workers are not only rougher than the old, but in many ways better than their predecessors. In terms of carving categories, the past advanced carving machines can't match. According to the industry's point of view, contemporary jade carving has long been better than the Qianlong period in terms of process. At the jade Carnival of the National Palace Museum, you can see that its relief is very shallow. Why? Don't say that you don't want to further in-depth performance, but limited to the time of hand tools. But now jade carving, want to carve deep can at will. In other words, tool improvement is not only a rapid means, but also represents the progress of means of expression. The freedom of speech in the past is also unimaginable.

Focus on the contemporary

Fortunately, at the autumn auction in 2007, contemporary handicrafts and ancient antiques were auctioned on the same stage for the first time, with a total of 95 pieces of works from participating collectors down more than 51 million. Due to its exquisite craftsmanship, Nissan Yueshi Pavilion is one of the most popular works in the exhibition. On the day of the auction, the auction price went from high price to 7 million yuan, which was responded. Immediately, it flickered on the ladder of 100000 steps of rapid rise, which had been raised to 9 million yuan, and the final transaction was 13.44 million yuan. In the same auction, contemporary Wu Desheng's "Shuangjiao white jade" decoration sold for 40.25 million yuan, which created the highest auction market in Contemporary Chinese art market. The astronomical transformation of contemporary handicrafts marks that contemporary handicrafts are becoming a new investment product, and opens up a huge growth space for the price rise of contemporary handicrafts. Therefore, the vast majority of collectors and investors, must not be too old, but also blind superstition of ancient crafts. I firmly believe that with the increase of collectors, the collection of contemporary handicrafts has a bright future.