Ma Weidou talks about Feng Shui in Yuanmingyuan.
Cai Mingchao's photo of the animal head Cai Mingchao in Yuanmingyuan is as valuable as Ma Weidou's and is very famous in the antique world. 1990 The auction in Paris, France, took out the rabbit head and the mouse head, and the price rose to 3 1 10,000 euros, which was the price of two pieces together. The whole world knows that this is a cultural relic of China, which is of great significance to us, so Cai Mingchao commissioned a person to shoot these two cultural relics on the spot and directly quoted the price. However, during the inspection, Cai Mingchao said, "I don't give a penny. This was originally a cultural relic of China. Do we have to pay for our things? " For a time, his actions were praised as patriotic, but many people said that he was all wet.
Although the payment is controversial, "I can't afford this money. As a China person, I just did my duty to make our voice heard. " In the face of Cai Mingchao's behavior, Ma Weidou once said: He humiliated us in China, made us treacherous, and thought we were national heroes! However, 310 million euros, if converted into RMB, is almost 250 million RMB. This is only a conservative estimate, and other expenses have not been included. However, Ma Weidou thinks that this is not a question of money, because the word "rules" is the most important feature of the auction house, so he violated the rules and was fined for not paying.
Ma Weidou, a patriot, also said that things are ours and a symbol of our culture, but now the people who own the rabbit's head and the mouse's head are not those people in those days, but later buyers. In other words, the animal head has changed hands many times, many years. These people have nothing to do with the history of that year, and others have spent money, so it is more in line with the law to want to spend money. Although it looks dirty to us, people don't think so. What do you want from their chassis?
Some professionals think that Cai Mingchao's behavior violated French law, but strangely, Christie's auction house didn't sue him. Four years later, it announced that it would "donate" rabbit heads and mouse heads to China for free.