The price of Chinese folk crafts has risen by more than tens of thousands.

“These folk arts and crafts are too expensive, and they must be hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars at a time, and they have become a luxury!” On the morning of the 4th, after visiting the 7th China Changchun Folk Art Exposition, Changchun Fandi issued Amazed.

The Expo held in Changchun Convention and Exhibition Center covers an area of ​​100,000 square meters. There are 58 categories of 220,000 kinds of folk handicrafts such as ceramics, root carvings, embroidery, jade, cloth, four treasures, and national musical instruments. The reporter found at the scene that many of these distinctive folk arts and crafts were marked by a sky-high price of millions or even more than 10 million yuan.

Ssangyong played the water as the head, the lion dance ball and the dragon and phoenix were drawn on both sides of the painting... In the exhibition area of ​​Hall 4 in Ningbo City, a nine-story “boat drum” with a length of 320 cm and a height of 338 cm attracted attention. Wu Shengdong, the exhibitor, introduced that this “boat drum” was created by more than 10 artisans in 5 years, and the cost of materials and labor costs it to be worth no less than 10 million yuan.

Ji Songcong from Hangzhou, Zhejiang, is a swordsmith. The sword he cast along with the three-handle iron that he came to Changchun is also very expensive. The “Chang-long Sword” is priced at 1.2 million yuan. It was cast from the cast iron that landed in Argentina. ; 1 to 1 equal copy of the Kangxi sword, Yongle sword also exceeded 200,000 yuan.

In the Gendiao exhibition area, the 18 Arhats brought by Wu Gongde, the vice president of the Hainan Genyi Association, are sought after by many root art lovers. For the price of 9.8 million yuan, Wu Kongde said that these lohans were made by four sculptors for three years. The ebony used was ebony that had been rushed into the river to retain geology since tens of thousands of years ago.

In fact, the astronomical price of folk handicrafts is not limited to the Changchun Folk Fair. In recent years, these arts and crafts carrying Chinese folk wisdom and culture have attracted increasing attention to their artistic value and prices have gradually increased. At some auctions, there are even more than 100 million yuan in transaction prices.

In this regard, there are views that the sky-price folk crafts have deviated from the "practical, economic, and beautiful" principle of arts and crafts. Some people think that it is the market demand that determines the price trend. Nowadays people's consumption level is rising, and the purchase of handicrafts is changing from the original emphasis on price to quality.

Cao Baoming, deputy director of the Chinese Association of Folk Literature and Artists, believes that apart from the scarcity of some handicraft raw materials, the reason for stimulating higher prices of folk handicrafts cannot ignore the factors of the artists themselves. “The crafts of these handicrafts are inherited by their ancestors. They give their works a high price, and they also demand the market to recognize their artistic achievements.”