To be honest, Yang Jing did not expect that the country would do such a thing, but this is an absolute good thing. Apart from anything else, at least the reputation of the Grand Canal Museum has been completely opened up.
The footage broadcast on "National News" was recorded by the news interview team specially in Tianqu. Yang Jing was eager to have this, so he accepted the interview very calmly, and then there was this news that shocked the whole of China.
The power of "National News" was immediate. On the second day after the news was broadcast, teams of experts from all over the world arrived in Tianqu. These experts were from museums all over the country, including provincial museums, municipal museums, private museums, and some master-level figures.
Of course, experts from the Palace Museum and the National Museum also arrived at Tianqu early in the morning of the same day. These experts came to escort the Imperial Seal and the Peking Man skull fossil. The news said that in order to honor Yang Jing, the country would put the Imperial Seal and the Peking Man skull fossil on display at the Grand Canal Museum.
Yang Jing had not expected this reward, but he liked it very much. He had worked hard to find these treasures, and even if he handed them over to the country, he hoped that the Grand Canal Museum could exhibit these national treasures. At first, Yang Jing thought there was not much hope, but the upper level actually gave him such a reward, which really made Yang Jing overjoyed.
Yang Jing's four masters also came with him. Although they had seen the treasures in the last Tsar's treasure before, they had never seen Yang Jing's other collections. This time, taking the opportunity of escorting the imperial seal and the Peking Man skull fossil, they planned to appreciate their apprentice's collection.
As for other experts from the Palace Museum and the National Museum, they had only heard that the young collector Yang Jing had collected a lot of good things, but they had never seen them, so they also planned to have a sneak peek like those museum experts from all over the country.
Yang Jing would naturally not refuse such a request. Yang Jing did not intend to make money from the museum when he opened it. Although the museum has not officially opened to the public, Yang Jing would not refuse these industry insiders to take a look at it in advance.
That's right, after the Grand Canal Museum opened to the public, Yang Jing didn't intend to sell tickets at all. The entire museum is completely free to the public. Chinese citizens who want to visit the museum only need to show their ID cards to enter the museum. Foreign tourists need to show their passports to enter.
Yang Jing doesn’t lack the money from selling tickets, he just wants more people to see his collection.
Collectors have one thing in common, which is that they want to show their best collections to the world and have their collections recognized by the world. This is the same for both individuals and countries. Otherwise, there would not be so many museums in the world, let alone so many private museums.
Yang Jing decided to exhibit only more than 20,000 pieces of collections in the Grand Canal Museum. To be honest, this number of collections is not the largest compared with ordinary private museums in China, let alone compared with those national and provincial museums.
However, all the collections on display at the Grand Canal Museum are exquisite. Although these collections have not been truly classified as cultural relics, Yang Jing knows that even the inferior ones in his hands are definitely national second-level cultural relics. And there are tens of thousands of pieces that can reach the national first-level cultural relic standards!
You should know that there are only about 220,000 movable first-class cultural relics in China, and only a little over 550,000 second-class cultural relics. All the collections in the Grand Canal Museum have reached the national second-class cultural relics standards, and more than half of them have reached the first-class cultural relics standards.
Yang Jing was still very confident about this. Of course, the greater source of this confidence was still Mr. Yang.
Old man Yang lives in Tianqu, and he is in good health now. After learning that Yang Jing had moved all his collections to the Grand Canal Museum, this old man and Yang Jing's grandfather spent almost every day in the Grand Canal Museum, enjoying the occasion.
Grandpa loves collecting, but he doesn't know the standards for classifying cultural relics. But Grandpa Yang knows, because he used to work at the Palace Museum. If he doesn't know the standards for classifying cultural relics, who else dares to say they know?
Therefore, according to Mr. Yang's rough judgment, among the collections in Yang Jing's museum, at least more than 10,000 pieces meet the classification standards of national first-class cultural relics.
The most amazing thing is that, according to Mr. Yang’s estimation, many of Yang Jing’s collections even surpass China’s “Nine National Treasures”!
The so-called nine national treasures are actually the nine most representative cultural relics selected by industry insiders from all the national treasures of China, covering nine aspects: gold and silver wares, bronze wares, stone carvings and murals, documents and letters, calligraphy, paintings, handicrafts, ceramics and jade wares.
In this order, the nine national treasures of China are the Sun Bird gold ornaments, the Li Gui of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Qin Stone Drum Inscriptions, the bamboo slips of "The Art of War", the "Ping Fu Tie", the "Five Oxen Picture", the pearl relic tower, the Ding kiln baby pillow, and the Dushan Great Jade Sea.
These nine national treasures are all national treasures of great value and are naturally extremely precious. They were selected by many cultural relics masters after many considerations and choices.
Of course, these nine national treasures are not necessarily more precious than other national treasures. For example, among the bronzes, is the Li Gui from the Western Zhou Dynasty more precious than the Simuwu Large Square Ding? More precious than the Zenghouyi chime bells? And for jades, is the Dushan Great Jade Sea more precious than the Golden Jade Clothes? And if the existing "The Goddess of the Luo River" and "The Night Revels of Han Xizai" cannot be compared with the "Five Oxen Picture" because they are imitations, is the "Five Oxen Picture" more precious than "The Procession of Emperor Taizong of Tang" and "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains"? The latter two are authentic works.
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