What are the categories of antique collections?

Antique collections are also classified. What are the classifications of antique collections? Then let's take a look at the antique collection categories I carefully recommend to you, hoping to help you.

Types of antique collections

1. ceramics. Ceramics is a general term for pottery and porcelain. China people invented pottery as early as about 8000-2000 BC (Neolithic Age). Ceramic materials are mainly oxides, nitrides, borides and carbides. Common ceramic materials are clay, alumina, kaolin and so on. Ceramic materials generally have high hardness, but poor plasticity. Besides the use of utensils and decorations, it also plays an important role in the development of science and technology. Ceramic raw materials are the earth's original resources, clay, which is quenched. Clay is tough, plastic when it meets water at room temperature, slightly dry and grindable; Fired to 700 degrees, pottery can hold water; It will be porcelain when it is burned to 1230 degrees, and it will not absorb water at all, and it is resistant to high temperature and corrosion. In today's culture and technology, its flexibility of use still has various creative applications.

2. Painting and calligraphy. Calligraphy and painting are the general names of calligraphy and painting. Also called calligraphy and painting. Books, as the saying goes, are not actually written by ordinary people. Generally speaking, you only need to be correct, and there will be no mistakes in application. If libraries and museums collect words written by ordinary people, it is unnecessary. Libraries and museums should preserve the treasure of Chinese characters. The original works written by famous calligraphers in history have many creations or uniqueness in writing techniques, which we call calligraphy art.

3. Jade articles. Jade refers to articles carved from jade. Jade includes ancient jade, and jade carved over 65,438+000 years old is called ancient jade or ancient jade. There are many varieties and styles of modern jade ornaments, including: jade beads, jade bracelets, jade pins, jade pendants, inlaid ornaments, jade rings, gold inlaid jade products, jade belts and so on. Besides jade materials such as jade, agate and secret jade, jade, green gold, chicken liver stone, malachite, lindong stone, coral and crystal are also used. Specifications and styles are constantly being renovated, and single bead strings include flat strings, pagoda strings, colorful strings, shaped strings, conformal strings and so on. These jewels and jade ornaments, through careful collocation, will give people a perfect combination of life and clothing.

4. Miscellaneous services. It mainly includes bamboo, wood, teeth, horns, Four Treasures of the Study, lacquerware, embroidery, bronzes, Buddha statues and gold-plated objects. And some items that cannot be accurately classified, such as pendants, bracelets, walnuts, etc. The biggest feature is that they are fun.

The difference between antiques and cultural relics

Cultural relics include movable and immovable. Specifically, movable objects can be divided into stone tools, bone implements, dental implements, jade articles, ceramics, bronzes, ironware, wood products, calligraphy and painting, books, weaving villages and other miscellaneous items. Immovable can be divided into ancient buildings, ancient cultural sites, ancient tombs, ancient kiln sites, ancient workshops, ancient battlefields, cliff stone carvings, rock paintings, sculptures and so on. In addition, some items with special value are also included in the scope of cultural relics protection, although the historical period is not far away, such as? Cultural relics of the People's Liberation Army? 、? Cultural relics of the Red Army's Long March? 、? Cultural relics of revolutionary martyrs? And then what? ""cultural relics? Wait a minute. In a word, all cultural relics and relics with historical, scientific, artistic and commemorative value belong to cultural relics, while antiques only refer to the movable part of cultural relics and are part of cultural relics.

In other words, antiques are the general name of precious antiquities, covering a wider range than cultural relics, and modern things cannot be called antiques. Cultural relics cover a longer time than antiques or antiques, because cultural relics can be ancient, modern or contemporary.

Reasons for collecting antiques

1 nostalgia

Nostalgia is human nature. Some people say that in the fast-paced modern society, in the face of the pressure of life, the psychologically fragile modern people are prone to all kinds of inexplicable anxiety and irritability, and naturally miss the past because of the lack of realism.

Some collectors start collecting activities, not for a clear purpose, but often out of nostalgia. For example, grandpa's big pipe, grandma's Hosta, and parents' yellowed marriage certificate. Seeing things and thinking about feelings, homesickness arises spontaneously. Collecting these things around you is not a simple collection, but a collection of family and love.

The love of antiques, in the final analysis, grows old with traditional culture. Ma Weidou, a famous athlete, said? The more cultural relics there are, the better the market will be. If the culture is overdrawn, the market will decline. I remember that the official kiln porcelain market was still booming in the last two years, but it has cooled down in recent years. On the other hand, the price of porcelain in the Song Dynasty has been rising steadily, which is a good example. ?

Step 2 bring care

If you buy stocks and bonds and then sell them, even if you make money, you won't feel anything about them. Antiques are different. You spent 65438+ ten thousand yuan on an antique. After playing for a while, even if you sell it at the original price, you will feel a lot. This is the charm of antiques. A collector's affection for antiques. This is also the charm of antiques. It is because of this charm that people are reluctant to throw away their antiques. The more interested buyers are, the higher the price of antiques will be.

Step 3 play with it

In addition to pinning emotions, the process of playing with antiques itself is also a pleasure. Ma Weidou said? Antiques are my adult toys? . He thought: What is this? Play? Just like an acquaintance, you can know not only his family affairs, but also his temper and hobbies. If you are familiar with a person, as soon as you sit in the room and he speaks, you will know that he is coming. Furthermore, as soon as he coughs, you will know it is him. Take one more step, he won't talk, and you will know it's him when you hear his footsteps. Want it? Play? It is necessary to reach this level.

4. Value added

It is not objective to say that collection is not driven by economic interests at all. Most collectors are also shrewd investors. As we all know, art collection is an investment activity with a higher return than real estate and stocks. Throughout the ages, antique dealers and antique shops have always been lucrative industries.

Ma Weidou thinks:? It must be measured by money. It is meaningless to say that this work of art is priceless. Recently, a work by Picasso was sold for more than 1 100 million dollars. I think this is the best criterion to measure Picasso's artistic achievements. What we are proud of today is that the prices of ancient works of art in China are rising. Although at present, there is not a piece of China art whose price exceeds $6,543,800+million, I think I will definitely see it in my lifetime. ?

5. Health

There are some old intellectuals (or literati) and veteran cadres in the collection team, and their psychological orientation of collection mainly lies in health preservation. They regard collection as an elegant leisure activity, and through the appreciation of collection, they gain psychological pleasure, cultivate sentiment and achieve the purpose of prolonging life. As Zhao Xiyu, a poet in the Song Dynasty, described it, "The windows are bright and clean, arranged and listed, with fragrant seal in the middle, beautiful and elegant. Take the wonderful traces of the ancients, watch birds and seal snails, and see the peaks from afar, and visit Zhong Ding in person, such as the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. Yanquan in Guangdong and Yu Pei in traffic don't know how to live on earth. " The so-called leisure happiness, which is worse? "

6, it is difficult to distinguish between true and false

From playing with antiques, learning bones, learning antiques to the contemporary convention: playing with antiques. The fun of antiques is that it is difficult to distinguish between true and false, and true and false are always like a mystery. No matter how advanced the scientific detection means, it is ultimately decided by the human eye. The mystery of antiques is that there is truth in truth, truth in falsehood and endless fun. It is precisely because of the distinction between true and false that collectors are provided with a broad and profound stage to display their eyesight, financial resources and courage, and the stories of fighting each other are extremely wonderful. In fact, playing with antiques is like a battlefield, but this battlefield belongs to psychological warfare.