- If you rely on others to identify the authenticity of antiques, you can never make money!
Collecting Chinese antiques can only rely on yourself. Any antique appraisal expert is unreliable. There are no reliable experts in the Chinese antique appraisal circle. Even Shi Shuqing and Yang Boda can bend for money, not to mention others!
If you don’t stand up and expect others to rely on others to identify Chinese antiques, you will never make money.
- People in the industry are snobbish, which is normal
In fact, snobbery is the norm in the communication between collectors and the exchange of interpersonal things. It is very abnormal to be purely moral, regardless of snobbery. Things are precious, so moral is absolutely precious. It is impossible for Ma Weidu to eat at the same table with ordinary people.
- Temperament determines the height
In the Chinese antique industry, every antique collector has a different temperament, knowledge, scope, and mind. If antique collectors want to succeed and establish a great cause, they must cultivate their own temperament to be as big as the sea. You can see the story of Ma Weidu’s TV station staff smashing his house to pieces, and you will know Ma Weidu’s temperament and height.
- Learn to enjoy loneliness
- Antiques are just passing by and will not always be owned
Everyone hopes that every good antique will always be around. Antiques are like human feelings, we all want to be in love forever. If we understand this truth and know that there is no constant between the world and the earth, change is a matter of course, unchanged? There is no such thing! The Shanghai Museum Ceramics Hall is called Temporary Building, to commemorate Mr. Xu Zhantang from Hong Kong, who played out the true meaning of life!
- If you want to succeed in antiques, you need to be flexible
There is a Chinese saying “The success of the work depends on the change” (功业见乎变).
Don’t stare at the history of Chinese ceramics every day, the Ming and Qing porcelain appraisal, and go to the antique market stalls.
- Restrain yourself with faith
I found that a person with thoughts and beliefs has absolutely different achievements in antique collection. When an antique collector has nothing to control himself, it is easily the beginning of failure.
- The more difficult it is to collect Chinese antiques, the slower it should be
Sometimes it is difficult to analyze the authenticity of antiques, and it is puzzling. Suddenly, your own thoughts say that this can solve the problem. This is the effect of static.
So if you have to deal with the complicated and difficult antique appraisal work, you must first calm down and think about nothing. The more you think about it, the more you turn your mind, all your nerves will turn, and in the end you will become sick or die. Although the current Chinese antique collection world is in chaos, if you persist, spring will come.
- Collecting Chinese antiques is a real practice and training of the mind
The real self-cultivation is not only in the mountains, not only in the temples, but also in the antique collection. Collect antiques in self-cultivating and cultivate yourself in antique-collecting.
No matter what profession you are engaged in, you must integrate your antique collection activities into your work, face the realm of experience, refine your mind, and refine your heart.
Don’t be afraid of encountering obstacles to destiny, it can improve your character, improve your level of antique appreciation, and increase your wisdom. Nowadays, many people are struck by demons, Ye Peilan, Cai Guosheng, and Li Zongyang are the helpers, and of course they are also struck by demons.
- The so-called self-cultivation is to modify oneself
If you have a broad mind to accommodate everything, you won’t have things you can’t figure out, you will seeing all people as good people, see all things as good things, and see all situations as good situations.
Being able to find your own shortcomings frequently, and being able to constantly get rid of ego-attachment, this is self-cultivation. Otherwise, what would you cultivate?
- Reading and writing are for being a man, not for making a living
Why does one want to read, and why does one want to write a book?
The most correct answer in the tradition is to ” read a book to clarify the reason” and “write a book to tell right from wrong.” We can see who reads the most books and writes the most books in the antiques world of China. Ma Weidu and Li Jianchen take the lead, both have published dozens of antique books. When you read and write and think, it is the time to open the door of wisdom. Such a person will be 100% successful because he knows how to sum up experience.
- Associate more with people who are beneficial to yourself
In the Chinese antique industry, keep in touch with people with mature personality and reliable character to help you grow up and you can rely on them in times of trouble. Make more contact with the elderly, you can learn a lot of experience and knowledge, but remember not to find scumbags like Liu Yan.
- Contentment is wealth
To be a man and to do things, we should leave room. Don’t take too much of the good and cheap. Taking too much will cause trouble. The so-called “contented person is rich”, the top ten pseudo-experts selected in the past few years as they have done too much and cheated too much money.
- Be a good man
Knowing one’s own duty, knowing the time and situation, and obeying the destiny after fulfilling one’s duty. In the antique world, one should do this, which is just like an antiques collector..
- The best friendship in the Chinese antique world
The Chinese believe that a gentleman’s friendship is like water. Good friends are not fair-weather friends who keep in touch with each other every day.
- Learn to swallow the breath
When you receive fake antiques, when you want to lose your temper, you should quickly do a qigong exercise, open your mouth, take a breath, then breathe in your nose, swallow it, and then think about whether you want to lose your temper. It is the best policy to think for yourself and strive not to be fooled next time. Of course, some people pass the disaster on to others, so that they can reduce their economic losses.
- Do not work with good friends
If you bring your good friends together when you are engaged in antique collection, they will often become enemies later, which is really not worthwhile.
- Don’t help too much
There is an old saying among Chinese countrymen that giving a measure of rice makes you a benefactor, while giving a load of rice makes you an enemy. He will always be grateful for helping him and relieving him when he is in trouble; but helping him too much, he will never be satisfied.
- Greed hurts the body
When you are in wealth, don’t hurt yourself by raising them. On the contrary, when in the poor and low, “don’t be burdened by profits”.
When people are in poverty, they must make money for life, but they cannot be excessively greedy. The so-called “people die for money”, excessive greed and excessive fatigue, will also damage the health of the body and endanger lives.
- It is easy to bear fatigue but difficult to bear complaints
The most difficult thing is “work without resentment.” It is often said that you must bear complaints when you do things in China. But experience tells us that it is easy to bear fatigue, while it is hard to bear complaints. It does not matter if you do more things, but it’s overwhelming to get scolded for doing things.
- One can’t do big things if one is stubborn
If you study the personalities of some successful and unsuccessful figures in the Chinese antique circle, you will find interesting comparisons. Some antique collectors have a personality and like to accept better opinions from others.
However, there are too few people who can change immediately, withdraw their opinions immediately, and switch to better opinions from others.
- Arrogance is an inferiority complex
I often say that an arrogant antique collector is simply inferior. People who are not inferior will not be arrogant. Therefore, all arrogant people are poor people and have a sense of inferiority; as they have a sense of inferiority, they are arrogant in turn, he does not understand life, that is the truth.
- The highest state is ordinary
In the Chinese antique circle, the higher the knowledge, the more complicated the thinking. Highly educated but turning into a pure and single-minded person, that is the world’s first-class people, who return from brilliant to ordinary.
Source: China Art Net