The cost of fake dinosaur eggs is only 100 yuan

In a small county in the west of Nanyang City, several antique shops have a round egg stone. For the first time, the reporter had the privilege of witnessing the so-called "Dine dinosaur egg fossils of the world's nine wonders."

"How much is it?" the reporter asked.

"Single, a 600 yuan. Four-piece, a 1,000 yuan." The owner answered.

"I'm here with acquaintances. You don't want to deceive me." The owner asked the reporter to ask him so. After staring at the reporter, he read out a paper box from the back room and said, "All here is real, it's all from The Yangcheng, Danshui, and Ximei County households in Xixi County collected their farm households, and the fake ones were purchased by us and it was unclear who did it.The cost of a fake dinosaur egg was roughly 100 yuan. about."

Is the dinosaur egg fossil sold here really or not? The friend who accompanied the interview found an expert expert. The expert told reporters: "I have seen all the dinosaur egg fossils that you have seen and sold. All of them are fake, and none of them are true. Trafficking in dinosaur egg fossils is illegal and will be investigated for criminal responsibility. Who dares to openly sell?"

The expert said that the protection of dinosaur egg fossils is indeed flawed. In traditional Chinese concepts, artifacts are the heritage of humans and dinosaur eggs are not artifacts. However, the Cultural Relics Protection Act also stipulates that ancient vertebrate fossils and ancient human fossils with scientific value are protected by the state as well as cultural relics. However, it was also suggested that: "Dinosaur egg fossils can not be equated with fossils of ancient vertebrates." Due to legal blind spots, protection of dinosaur egg fossils was once awkward.

Until October 27, 1993, the Henan Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics issued the “Letter on Determining the Level of Cultural Relics of Dinosaur Eggs and Eggs” to curb the increasingly rampant acts of stolen and selling dinosaur egg fossils. The above-mentioned precious cultural relics are prohibited from being stolen, sold, smuggled and exported.

On December 28th the same year, the People's Government of Henan Province issued a circular on the protection of dinosaur eggs in accordance with the Law on the Protection of Cultural Relics. The circular on "Cracking down criminal activities on digging, digging, reselling, and smuggling dinosaur egg fossils" clearly states: "Dinosaur egg fossils are an important scientific and cultural heritage. They belong to the national precious cultural relics and are owned by the state. Every citizen has the obligation to protect... For the purpose of personal collection, the acquisition and transfer of dinosaur egg fossils is also an illegal act and must be stopped immediately. Individuals who have collected fossils of dinosaur eggs should be sent to the cultural relics department unconditionally...."

At this point, the sale of dinosaur egg fossils has been effectively curbed.

However, as a handicraft fake dinosaur egg fossil, as long as you do not deceive consumers with real dinosaur egg fossils, it will not violate the law. In fact, some shopkeepers have wiped the ball and the customer has come. He said it was a dinosaur egg fossil. The management department came and he said that it was a craft.

So, how are these fake dinosaur egg fossils made?

According to the expert, these fake dinosaur egg fossils are not affiliated with real dinosaur egg fossils. Specifically, the producer first acquires or picks up pieces of eggshells left behind by fossils of dinosaur eggs, and then places these pieces of eggshells in a mold of a fake dinosaur egg fossil. Inside, put cement, sand, and then disassemble the mold, a fake dinosaur egg fossil produced. The falsification sites are mainly concentrated in places where dinosaur egg fossils have been excavated, such as Yangcheng and Danshui in Xixia County.

In the Nanyang people's "Mother River" - Baihe bank, there is a newly built flower and bird market, many people here stall selling antiques.

"This is the ink cartridges of the Qing Dynasty." "This is Tang Sancai unearthed in the Tang Dynasty." "This is the Shoushan stone seal of the Qing Dynasty...." The stall owners saw the reporter holding a stack of hundred dollar bills, one after another carrying the antiques to their hands. Reporter recommended. "Where did these artifacts come from?" the reporter asked. "They are all purchased from farmers' houses." The stall owners seem to have unified their calibers and they all responded.

The reporter saw several pieces of the Shoushan Stone Seal, which were quite old and sold at a cheap price. One of them was less than 100 yuan, so he cut the bargain price and finally spent 260 yuan to buy 4 pieces. A friend interviewed by reporters met with the situation and became jealous. In the end, he bought an old teapot and a bronze old ink cartridge for $800.

Seeing that the two reporters are real buyers, a young man trails the reporter and says that he has treasures in his family. The reporter “cannot stand the temptation” and went along with them. Upon entering the door, the reporter found that several rusty bronze tripods were placed on the counter in the house.

The young people said to the reporter that they were holding a bronze ding of comparative vicissitudes. You see that this fineness, this weight, and this voice all indicate that this is a true bronze artifact of the Chu era. The reporter asked: “How much is this? Where did it come from?” He replied: “The minimum is 3,000 yuan.” “The bronze country of Chu country is not so cheap?” “There is a hole at the bottom and we haven’t sold it. "The young man said, turning Ding over and over again and said: "Look at you as a real buyer, I'll tell you the truth." "I invited a connoisseur to look for another day," said the reporter, leaving the place with an excuse. Later, I specifically found a connoisseur to identify what the reporter bought. Unexpectedly, after the other party saw it, he laughed and said: "It's all fake. The ancient seal was rough and it wasn't any Shoushan Stone. The ancient yellow color was put in a frying pan. There was the ancient teapot. , bright color, inside also coated with fake pot ash......"

The reporter then went to another antique market in Nanyang, Wollongong, Nanyang. The Wuhou Temple here is Zhuge Liang’s arable land. Wuhou Temple is very lively, but the antique market in front of the door is unusually deserted.

The reporter browsed several stores and indeed found that many antique shops had bronzes. Learned from the last lesson, this reporter is not light to buy.

A local tourist in Nanyang told the reporter: “These imitation bronze wares come from Shifo Temple, where is the country’s largest jade carving antique market!”

After half an hour's journey, the reporter came to Shifosi Town. This reporter learned that the town has 50,000 people operating jade carvings and antiques, with more than 10,000 stores and annual sales of more than 1 billion pieces of jade carvings and other products.

Incredibly, in this huge market, one by one, such as "Han Han Gu Yudian," "High-Imitation Bronze Wares," "Integrity Antique Shop," "Antique Teapot," "Antique Craft Shop," and "Antique Coin shop, antique wood furniture shop, antique porcelain shop, and antique jade shop are just a few.

The reporters patronized one by one and tasted one by one and kept taking pictures. Except for a few who said that they were prohibited from taking photos, the rest of them were given a green light to let the reporter take a shot.

The billboard made of neon lights flashes the shop of “Han Gu Yu”. After the reporter entered the shop, he found that all the ornaments were rusty, ancient jade products covered with mud.

The owner smiled and said: "The jade here is neither the Warring States nor the Han Dynasty. It is all imitations." The reporter took out a few pieces and looked at it, but the ancient jade was not marked with "imitation."

In ancient coin shops, boxes filled with ingots and silver coins. The reporter took a look at it, and ingots are marked with the four characters of “Great Qing Bank”, and silver is printed with the “Head of Yuan” image. The owner said that the ancient coins in the store were all antiques, and the ingots and silver coins were made of white copper, not silver.

Into the bronze ware shop, the reporter's greatest feeling is to truly understand what is "little ugly." The antique bronze wares sold here, whether you think of it or did not think of it, have it all. With a large number of categories, a huge number, and a long span of time, it is the first in the country. It is said that many antique bronze wares in the antique market in Beijing's Panjiayuan came from here.

During the interview, a police officer told reporters that not long ago, when a leader in Henan Province inspected Shifo Temple, after listening to the introduction of a leader of Zhenping County, he said with emotion: “What is the largest jade carving distribution center in the country? Is simply a fraud center!"