Chapter 55 Primary Selection
In the evening, Su Xiaofan moved out of the guest house of Yenching University.
The benefits that Jing Shizhen obtained for Su Xiaofan are very good.
In addition to the appearance fee of 60,000 yuan, Su Xiaofan's board, lodging and other expenses during his stay in Beijing will be reimbursed by Yanjing TV.
Moving to this hotel near Yanjingtai at night, there is also a negotiated price with Yanjingtai. Su Xiaofan does not need to pay, and Yanjingtai will settle the bill with the hotel after leaving.
After staying, Su Xiaofan and his sister made a video call.
Knowing that her elder brother actually went to Yanjing TV as a treasure appraisal guest, Su Xiaoxiao was so surprised that she almost threw her phone away.
In Su Xiaoxiao's view, Su Xiaofan is just a braggart.
Su Xiaoxiao repeatedly told Su Xiaofan on the phone, don't blow it too far, or you will face a lawsuit.
Actually, neither Su Xiaofan nor Su Xiaoxiao know much about treasure appraisal programs.
Not to mention that Su Xiaofan still has a few years of experience in the antique business, even those who know nothing about antiques, many of them can go to the TV station to become an expert.
Whenever a business becomes hot, there will always be some illegal things.
Some people will use the name of experts to cooperate with uninformed TV stations to go to the folks to appraise treasures, and then describe some worthless modern handicrafts as priceless antiques.
The purpose of these people is to "whitewash" the fake, but what is the benefit of "washing" the fake? The deceitful trick is yet to come.
Many people will have the idea of selling their "collections" after they know their value is invaluable.
But antique collection is an industry that tests personal ability.
From knowledge to understanding to funds, all are indispensable. Most people do not have such conditions at all, and can only blindly follow the opinions of "experts".
So those "experts" came out on their own initiative, and they would use the name of free to help the treasurer issue the certificate.
The certificate of appraisal is free, but if you want to send it for auction, you have to pay the auction commission, and you also need to declare the operation, which is quite a lot of money.
According to the value of the collection, this number ranges from thousands to hundreds of thousands.
Tibetan friends who are fooled by the "experts" and firmly believe that the objects in their hands are priceless, naturally feel that the future of money is bright.
So those auction commissions of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands are not taken seriously by them, and they are often paid out happily.
After collecting commissions from dozens or hundreds of people, Tibetan friends in those places will find that the companies and people who organized the activities disappeared overnight.
So in the past few years, all kinds of experts have been published in the treasure appraisal column.
Even though Yanjing TV is relatively strict, there have been acts of smashing treasures to attract the attention of the audience.
Right now, it is not incomprehensible to specially invite an expert like Su Xiaofan for the sake of ratings, let alone Jing Shizhen's endorsement.
Hung up her sister's video, Su Xiaofan fell asleep soundly.
The next morning Su Xiaofan got up a bit late, and didn't go out, so he simply had breakfast and lunch at the hotel.
【Vajra Bodhi Bracelet, the cultivation is over! 】
【Low-level magic weapon: Vajra Bodhi beads! 】
Just after eating and returning to the room, two lines of information popped up in Su Xiaofan's mind.
"Well, can the Yunyang Pool turn ordinary items into magic weapons?"
Looking at the string of Vajra Bodhi that suddenly appeared on his wrist, Su Xiaofan's eyes lit up.
Low-level magical artifacts are not the incomplete ones encountered before. Thinking of Uncle Jing and Zhao Hengjian's pursuit of magical artifacts, Su Xiaofan couldn't help feeling hot in his heart.
He paid close attention to the other three items in the storage pool.
It will take more than a day for my dragon-shaped jade pendant to be fully cultivated. As for the Eight Diagrams Mirror and Jade Guanyin, it will take two more days.
"It feels a little different, but how to use this magic weapon?"
Su Xiaofan carefully looked at the diamond bracelet on his wrist.
Compared with when I first bought it, the bracelet seems to be a little more agile, and it will attract people's eyes unconsciously.
But Su Xiaofan still doesn't know anything about the function of the magic weapon. He is going to ask about the knowledge related to the magic weapon after formally worshiping his master and respecting his uncle.
But this string of vajra beads came just right.
People in the antique shop like to wear something, and this prayer beads can also support Su Xiaofan when he goes for appraisal in the afternoon.
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At one o'clock in the afternoon, the car sent by the program team to pick up Su Xiaofan stopped at the hotel entrance.
Yanjing TV’s treasure appraisal event was actually recorded in two places.
The recording today is the primary election, and only some clips of the primary election will be recorded. After the primary selection, the collection will enter the studio for the final appraisal recording.
In fact, the primary election is the time to really test the ability of experts.
Every expert must identify real antiques among hundreds or even thousands of items, and the identification time for each item is very short.
Humans make mistakes, and the purpose of the primary selection is to roughly identify genuine products.
Finally, in the actual recording of the Appreciation Program, four experts commented and gave the final appraisal result.
The venue for the primary election is a stadium rented by the program group.
A row of long tables was placed in the stadium, and this was where several experts identified.
In front of the long table, several temporary passages are blocked, which are used for the Tibetan friends who come to appraise treasures to line up.
At the entrance to the venue, there are several large posters for the promotion of experts, and there are brief introductions of the experts on the posters.
Su Xiaofan looked at his profile before entering the venue. He is a true disciple of the famous teacher Jing Shizhen, a young bronze craftsman, and a senior practitioner in the antique industry.
Judging from the title alone, Su Xiaofan is undoubtedly the weakest, but just these points have made Su Xiaofan blush a little.
Su Xiaofan was the first to arrive at the scene. About ten minutes later, Jing Shizhen and two other experts entered the venue one after another.
Jing Shizhen introduced Su Xiaofan to those two experts. The two experts who were twice as old as Su Xiaofan didn't put on airs.
Just relying on the title of respecting Shizhen's disciple, he is qualified to sit here.
In the eyes of those two experts, Jing Shizhen was training his disciples to give them more practical experience in antique appraisal.
The atmosphere at the appraisal site was very relaxed. Except for Su Xiaofan, the others all brought their own thermos cups and chatted while drinking tea.
Su Xiaofan is not stage-frightened, and he has indeed been in the antique market, so he knows a lot about antiques.
Outside the stadium, there was already a long queue at this time.
For this event, Yanjing TV preheated and promoted it one month in advance,
The Tibetan friends who came to the scene were not only from Yanjing.
For example, in Dabei and Dadong provinces around Yanjing, as well as a few provinces further north, many Tibetan friends brought their belongings to the appraisal site.
"Uncle Jing, there must be thousands of people outside, how many antiques are there here?"
When Su Xiaofan went to the bathroom to smoke, he went to the door and glanced out, and he was stunned by the long queue.
"normal."
Jing Shizhen said indifferently: "Thousands of people are nothing more than one or two thousand collections. If there are three or five high-quality goods in these collections, it is considered good."
As I said before, there is a big gap between ordinary people and the business of collecting. They don’t know what an antique is.
Many people saw something that seemed to be a little old at home, so they took it to appraise it.
In the past, someone brought an iron basin for feeding pigs at home. It must have been handed down from the Qing Dynasty, so it must be a treasure.
Finally, the four experts unanimously agreed that it was an ordinary iron basin, coupled with the security guards who maintained order at the scene, that persuaded the man to leave.
So there are many people who come to appraise, but it does not mean that there are many real objects. These are completely two concepts.
"Uncle Jing, can you finish the appraisal today?" Su Xiaofan asked.
"How is it possible, the four of us today, it would be good if we can appraise three to five hundred pieces."
Jing Shizhen shook his head with a smile, and said: "Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, the primary election will be held here.
Xiaofan, the primary election must be fast, put aside the things that are not sure, and clear out those things that are completely irrelevant..."
Jing Shizhen explained to Su Xiaofan the secrets of primary selection of treasures.
The primary election does not seek accuracy, it is just doing fake work.
Wait until the three-day primary election is over, Jing Shizhen and others will re-appraise the authentic and unsure objects.
After the appraisal is completed, 10 or 20 representative antiques and counterfeit products will be selected and entered into the shooting and recording site of Ultimate Treasure Appraisal.
After all, the program time is limited, and more than an hour needs to be identified and commented on. At most, there can only be more than ten antiques appearing in the program.
"Several teachers, we can start."
Under the arrangement of the staff, the gate of the gymnasium was opened, and people who came to appraise treasures rushed in.
Yanjing TV’s program team is very experienced, and the temporary channel has been arranged in advance to ensure that only one person can stand at the front each time.
Combined with the staff's reminder, those holding fragile identification objects will keep a certain distance from the front and back.
In this way, the arrangement is now in order, the vocals are mixed but not chaotic at all.
While queuing outside, those who came to appraise had selected experts in their hearts.
As soon as the door opened, there was a long queue at the desks of Jing Shizhen and the other two experts.
What makes Su Xiaofan a little embarrassed is that there is only one person at his table, and he was squeezed out by Jing Shizhen's team just now.
"Ahem, what object are you trying to identify?"
Su Xiaofan coughed and looked at the wooden box that the man was holding in his arms.
"I... can I go to the back and line up?"
The man was in his early thirties, and he looked at Su Xiaofan with distrust in his eyes.
"Okay, wait until you're in the queue next time, maybe you'll get tomorrow." Su Xiaofan said indifferently.
"Okay, I'll give you an appraisal."
The man looked back, put the wooden box in front of Su Xiaofan, and said, "This is a bronze candlestick. I checked it. It should be before the Han Dynasty. Can you show me how much it is worth?"
"Fuck, is it such a coincidence?"
Su Xiaofan, who was wearing gloves, opened the wooden box, and was stunned for a moment when he saw it. He didn't need to use the repair system to check this thing.
"Sir, I'm sorry, this is a modern handicraft!"
As for the products of his own village, Su Xiaofan can smell them with his nose, and he can even tell which family this candlestick comes from.
"Impossible, my grandfather bought this thing for 180,000 yuan, and it has been in my house for seven or eight years. I wonder if you can identify it?"
The man shook his head repeatedly, and his voice was octave higher, which attracted Jing Shizhen and others to look over.
"Xiaofan, would you like me to take a look?" Jing Shizhen asked.
"Uncle Jing, if I can see the bronze ware wrongly, then I won't be sitting here."
Su Xiaofan shook his head, picked up the small fluorescent flashlight on the table, and illuminated a spot on the candlestick.
"Come, see if you know this word?"
Su Xiaofan greeted the man to the table and motioned him to look at the candlestick illuminated by the fluorescent flashlight.
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(end of this chapter)