Among the exhibits in Hebei Province have been, for example, "Qing Dynasty porcelain vase", covered with cartoon characters ..., "the Tang Dynasty vase" from the five-colored porcelain, invented centuries later, and other such "ra

One of the "artifacts" of the closed museum Tszibaochzhay
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in Ji'an City, Hebei Province, China closed the museum, abounding fakes. The museum's collection is almost entirely composed of fake works of art. Museum Tszibaochzhay (Jibaozhai Museum) was opened in 2007 (according to other sources, in 2010) was, for the construction of buildings and the purchase of exhibits spent 60 million yuan (6.4 million pounds). However, according to local residents, the director of the museum bought virtually everything for pennies and spend the money from the sale of public land. Only the owner of the Van Tszuntsyuanem (Wang Zongquan) was purchased more than 40 thousand items at a price of 100 to 2,000 yuan (about 10 to 200 pounds).

Among the most blatant fakes - porcelain vase covered with cartoon characters, one of which, for example, resembles a smiling squid. The exhibit was issued for the artifact in the Qing Dynasty. Another "rarity" - five-colored porcelain vase - has been dated to the era of the Tang Dynasty, although the technology for manufacturing such porcelain was invented centuries later, during the Ming Dynasty. Several items were allegedly signed by the legendary Yellow Emperor (Huang Di), who ruled China in the III millennium BC. In the signatures were used simplified characters entered by the Communist Party of China in 1940.

The museum has tried to hush up the scandal. The main museum consultant justified by the fact that the province is not enough experienced experts in authentication. According to him, even the fact that over 40 000 items were found in at least 80 works, the authenticity of which has been confirmed, it's a good thing. The director said that "even the gods do not know the exhibits are fake or not." Van Tszuntsyuan argues that buying items are not on state, and with his own money, and that his main goal in creating the museum was to promote Chinese culture.

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

Sources : dailystar.com.lb , shanghaidaily.com , news.nationalpost.com , telegraph.co.uk , artinvestment.ru