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How to collect 27 pieces of porcelain?
He discovered the Longquan official kiln in the early Ming Dynasty.
He opened the first private museum in China with Longquan celadon as the theme.
Ye Yingting's Celadon Life
Our reporter Zhou Xiaohua.
From June 7 to 9, 2005, more than 30 well-known ceramic archaeologists gathered in Lishui. It is said that Longquan kiln was discovered here as early as the early Ming Dynasty by a private museum curator named Ye Yingting. Hold the first edition of the monograph "Discovery of Longquan Official Kiln in Daming Prefecture" and the expert demonstration forum of Longquan Official Kiln in Daming Prefecture, and organize experts to visit the official kiln on the spot.
Longquan celadon kiln has been a mystery since the Song Dynasty. So most experts come with a grain of salt. However, when they stepped into Chuzhou Celadon Museum in Lishui City, they were shocked to see the broken porcelain pieces and restorers in the exhibition hall, and their doubts were immediately eliminated.
A few days ago, the author visited the legendary Ye Yingting and was deeply moved by his story of collecting celadon for decades.
Ye Yingting fell in love with Longquan kiln celadon when she was studying in Longquan Normal School. It was a Sunday. I went out to play with some classmates and accidentally went to a celadon factory. I was very curious to see that the soil turned into exquisite utensils in the hands of the master during the rotation of the machine, and I became interested in celadon from then on. At that time, there were pieces of celadon behind the school, so he often picked up these pieces of porcelain that others didn't pay attention to, and sometimes he played an erhu there alone. During the holiday, he went up the mountain to look for the ruins of ancient kiln, fumbled for the porcelain pieces he found and classified them.
By the time she was about to graduate, Ye Yingting had collected celadon. On the day when they were moved back to their hometown from school, there happened to be a heavy snow. From Longquan to Suichang, it was basically a mountain road, and the snow in the ravine did not reach the knee. He was carrying a heavy celadon one foot deep and one foot shallow, and accidentally tripped over a stone. When he was picked up by his companions, he kept clamoring to see if the porcelain was broken. I walked in the ice and snow for two days before I got home. When my grandmother saw it, she complained bitterly: "This silly boy doesn't have enough to eat, and he still buys this useless thing."
After graduation, Ye Yingting became a primary school Chinese teacher. With a fixed income, he is more obsessed with celadon, and almost all his salary is spent on collection. Later, when the brothers separated, he didn't want a house or anything, but wanted the porcelain collected at home.
1982 may be an important turning point for Ye Yingting. In this year, he happened to meet an old gentleman on the bus. His surname is Jin, a Shanghainese, and he likes collecting. Because of the same hobby, Ye Yingting accompanied Mr. Jin to collect collections from house to house. Teacher Jin also taught the enthusiastic young man his personal collection "Tao": how to raise Tibet with Tibet and get economic returns from the collection. Since then, they have become friends who have never forgotten.
In Ye Yingting's collection, there is a Buddha statue in the Southern Song Dynasty. This Buddha statue is about 27 cm high, and its workmanship is very exquisite, especially its glaze color, which makes people unforgettable. In modeling, it adopts the method of exposing the fetus. Surprisingly, this Buddha statue has seven small heads protruding from its belly, which is what Buddhists call "secular desire". When visiting an old collector, the hospitable host showed it to him. For a moment, he was stunned. Since then, this various Buddha statues have appeared in his mind from time to time. After more than a year, he finally got up the courage and asked the old gentleman if he could transfer it. The old man immediately pulled down his face: don't mention the transfer, it has been in our family for generations. But Ye Yingting couldn't forget that glance, so she went to see the old man from time to time, hoping to open the door sincerely. Once an old man was ill in bed. Ye Yingting personally bought food and cooked for the old man and took good care of him, which was better than his relatives. In 2003, Ye Yingting began to prepare a private museum, hoping that this "Buddha in my heart" treasure could be used as the treasure of the museum. The old man replied, let me think. A few months later, he finally got this rare treasure. Ye Yingting waited for this porcelain for three years.
Collection needs funds as a guarantee. In order to love celadon, Ye Yingting resolutely quit her "iron rice bowl" and started a construction company in the sea. With funds, he also began to "look around the world", hoping to recover the celadon treasures lost overseas and make some contributions to the cultural relics of the motherland. By chance, he saw a big bowl of celadon in Longquan kiln. After many inquiries, he learned that the owner was an 89-year-old American. So he called Mr. Qiu Xiaojun, a China collector living in the United States, hoping to get help. After many twists and turns, this big pier bowl finally returned to its hometown.
One day in April last year, Ye Yingting found a batch of porcelain fragments in Hangzhou antique market. These tiles are huge in shape, white in fetal quality, rich in glaze color and beautifully carved. Years of collection experience told him that this should not be ordinary folk kiln porcelain. So I quickly bought it and studied it carefully. As a result, I was pleasantly surprised to find that these porcelain pieces are very consistent with the fine products of Longquan kiln in the early Ming Dynasty that he began to pay attention to ten years ago. More importantly, these porcelain pieces also coincide with Jingdezhen official kiln in the early Ming Dynasty in shape and decoration. So, he went to lishui university Library to look for historical documents, which proved that these porcelain pieces were relics of Longquan kiln in the early Ming Dynasty. Later, he further inquired that these porcelain pieces belonged to Longquan kiln. After on-the-spot investigation, he found the official kiln site buried for 600 years. This subversive news has caused a sensation in ceramics and collectors.
Running a private museum is Ye Yingting's wish for many years. In 200 1 year, the state issued a policy to allow individuals to open museums. He was ecstatic and immediately entrusted the construction company to others and began to prepare the examination and approval procedures for the museum himself. However, the family did not understand and disapprove of this decision, and some people around him thought that he was deliberately speculating. But he didn't back down and became "the first person to eat crabs" with practical actions. In 2004, Lishui Chuzhou Celadon Museum, the first private museum in Lishui, was born in Yijing Garden Club, Huayuan Road, Lishui City, which is also the first private museum in China focusing on Longquan kiln celadon. After more than a year of trial operation, it officially opened on June 7, 2005. /kloc-More than 0/000 pieces of Longquan kiln celadon from the Three Kingdoms to the Qing Dynasty are displayed in the exhibition hall of more than 0/000 square meters, and dozens of them are celadon treasures returned from overseas. Mr. Zhu, an expert in celadon research in China, once commented: "These collections are not only of great ornamental and collectible value, but also of great historical research value. They are a microcosm of Lishui's ancient civilization, a key to the treasure house of China celadon culture and a window for the world to understand China. "
Overseas "Treasure", Ye Yingting (Action Plan 4)
In May, 2006, Ye Yingting was convinced that she could "win the treasure" overseas with her years of experience and intuition. With Ye Yingting's action plan, China's "Taobao Group" went to Hongkong and Japan, and gained a lot in a few days. On May 9, 2006, he carefully held Longquan kiln porcelain with a market value of more than 5 million yuan from overseas, only stayed in Beijing for one night, and hurried back to his hometown in Zhejiang at 10. After returning to China, these porcelains disappeared immediately ... Ye Yingting disappeared soon! ! ! At the end of 2006, the museum's collection and all restoration pieces were emptied by creditors overnight, and employees were implicated and beaten and resigned one after another. Including the security guard, there are only three employees left. Ye Yingting's phone was turned off, and Ye Yingting disappeared completely.
The author wants to ask why Ye Yingting's overseas "robbing treasure" fraud can be successful? How did he "win the treasure"?
First of all, Ye Yingting spent more than 300,000 yuan in a museum in Beijing (part of the Fifth Action Plan) to "prepare" for the June 2006 165438+ 10 in Beijing, and used the so-called "Longquan Imperial Kiln National Tour Exhibition" to plan a bigger scam. Ye Yingting rushed to Hong Kong to start the "Longquan Official Kiln National Tour Exhibition". After defrauding overseas patriots of their "exhibition" products, Ye Yingting seized more than 5 million pieces of fine Longquan kiln porcelain under the guise of Japanese "Taobao Group" and "Longquan Imperial Kiln National Tour Exhibition" ... Ye Yingting disappeared after overseas "robbing treasures" fraud, and overseas patriots were very angry! Ye Yingting sounded the alarm for foreign patriots and international cultural circles!
According to reliable information obtained by the author, overseas patriots are now preparing to recover Longquan kiln products worth more than 5 million yuan after being cheated through judicial and appeal centers.