Qianlong blue and white pen wash (photo provided by interviewee)
2017 Record
□ Xiao Shanshan, a reporter from this newspaper
More than 10,000 pieces of collections, self-built private collection of more than 3,000 square meters… This is the life of collecting written by Huang Bangxu, a veteran collector and deputy secretary-general of the China Museum Association’s Civic Museum Committee. His “Huang Collection” is located in Guanghan City, Sichuan, close to the famous Sanxingdui Museum, porcelain, jade, bronze, calligraphy and painting, antique miscellaneous pieces… The whole nine yards. In his collection, there are many cultural relics such as the “Dayazhai” pastel fish tank in the late Qing Dynasty.
Free admission to the private collection
Because of the influence of his family, Huang Bangxu began to collect at a very young age, and to this day, there are more than 10,000 pieces of calligraphy and painting, jewelry and jade, porcelain embroidery, etc. “I can’t put it down, and many friends come to see it at home. And then I thought, why not find a house to display them? So, with the approval of the relevant departments, I built the ‘Huang Collection’ in my hometown in Guanghan in 2001, and at the beginning, there was only a large studio house of more than 1,000 square meters, allowing the babies to settle down. ”
Later, Huang Bangxu collected more and more things, and the collection hall was also expanded, and now the exhibition hall covers an area of more than 3,000 square meters, covering an area of 8 acres. At the same time, the internal structure of the collection hall is becoming more and more professional, and the Ming and Qing Dynasty furniture hall, calligraphy and painting hall, ceramic hall, miscellaneous parts hall, etc. have been opened, which are open to the public free of charge all year round.
Collecting “water depth” will also buy a fake if you are not careful
In the cost of the collection alone, Huang Bangxu has already spent millions of yuan. Because if he wants to collect, he must collect fine products. The reporter saw that there was a white jade ring of mutton fat in the Tang Dynasty in the collection hall, although it had experienced thousands of years of wind and frost, the color was still warm and the pattern was clearly distinguishable. Majiayao pottery from the Neolithic period, calligraphy and painting from the Song Dynasty, jade from more than 3,000 years ago… In the collection, the reporter was dazzled.
Huang Bangxu told reporters that collecting is a science, and to really do a good job, we must be a “person with a heart”: “This heart not only means to pay attention, the key is to have a normal heart.” If you want to dig a golden doll with a hoe, you will definitely be deceived. I also suffered losses, I heard that there was something for sale in Sanxingdui, rushed over, my heart was too earnest, I was coaxed by others, dragged to the night, traded under the kerosene lamp, and the result was bought back to see during the day, fake! So we have a jargon in this line called ‘night does not observe treasures’, I would rather wait slowly until the day, rather than rush for a while, this is the truth. ”
“Dayazhai” pastel fish tank
In the collection, the most distinctive piece is the Kangxi five-color bottle. “This bottle is also called ‘beauty shoulder’, which is the best porcelain at that time!” Huang Bangxu pointed to a purple-blue flower on the bottle and said excitedly: “Look, this is a real sapphire blue, which is painted with gemstones ground into pigments.” The time to use this technique is very short, and later to make the same bottle, there is no such blue color, so it is precious. ”
In addition, there is also a Qing Guangxu “Dayazhai” pastel fish tank with more origin. In order to celebrate his 70th birthday at the end of the Qing Dynasty, Cixi spent 300,000 taels of silver to send a superintendent to make a batch of porcelain named after his study “Dayazhai” in the porcelain capital Jingdezhen. This batch of porcelain is as large as a fish tank and as small as a clay box. Each artifact is written with the three characters “Daya Zhai” and a chapter of “Heaven and Earth Family Spring”. “‘Dayazhai’ porcelain, known as the return of the Chinese ceramic industry in the history of ceramics, is very precious, and this fish tank of mine is the treasure of the collection hall.” Huang Bangxu said.