Sichuan Maolin Museum is located next to Kuanzhai Alley in Chengdu. The museum is not big and is not open to the public at ordinary times. If you visit, you need to introduce and invite friends.
After seeing the Maolin Museum, some famous people in the industry were surprised and envious. Surprisingly, this small museum actually contains pottery from Hongshan Culture more than 6,000 years ago to ceramics from all dynasties during the Republic of China period. The number and value of the collection are not even as high as that of the National Museum.
What I envy is that this is a private museum, and the director Liao Maolin was able to have close contact with these antiques for more than 6,000 years every day in his life.
has a vague impression of this name and has seen articles written by him in newspapers.
Liao Maolin , started doing business in the mid-1980s, devoted himself to real estate development in the 1990s, and in 2000, he transformed into antique collection due to his hobbies.
It is said that it was out of control and became a ceramic collector who was short of money with gold bricks; invested hundreds of millions of dollars, and had a collection of tens of thousands of pieces of fine ceramics from Hongshan Culture, Xia, Shang, Zhou, and even the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing and Republic of China. I dreamed of establishing a professional ceramic museum with a real national collection, and even expanding new channels for sharing auctions, appraisals, investment and financing...
In short, for a real estate tycoon who once owned tens of millions of houses, land of thousands of acres, and assets of billions of yuan; after spending tens of thousands of gold, I fell in love with ceramics without hesitation, which is singular and respectable. How many folk porcelain collectors and lovers can compete with Maolin?
Someone asked Director Liao how long it took to collect these tens of thousands of ceramics. He replied, 30 years. When asked again, Director Liao, how much money he spent, he did not answer, but said that he had used his life savings. Until now, he is still buying collections, and even selling the villas and shops he had lived in for many years, leaving a scooter.
Director Liao said that when he saw those exquisite porcelains that were lost overseas and among the people, he would buy them and collect them even if he had a loan or sell his house and car, and keep them together and protect them. A few years ago, he saw a Haiyanhe Qingzun in Europe who was stolen by the Eight-Nation Alliance in the Old Summer Palace. He immediately bought it at a high price and flew back to China.
Liao Zhongkai's relatives, from a giant to a collector,
Liao Maolin, whose original name is Tianliang, was born in Wenjiang, Chengdu, Sichuan in October 1953. Director Liao said that his original ancestral home is from Guangdong, , Huizhou, , and is a descendant of the Liao family and a relative of Liao Zhongkai.
Born by a famous family, Liao Maolin has been in the business world for more than 30 years, creating miracles after miracles. With his early diligence and advanced thinking, he founded his first company, Chengdu Textiles Factory, in 1984, specializing in wool textiles. He sold tens of thousands of blankets that year, and two years later, he became the largest distributor in southwestern China. At the end of 1986, Liao Maolin renamed the warehouse to Sichuan Great Wall Trading Company.
The wise Liao Maolin turned his sales to the household appliance market based on his accurate judgment of the market. He mainly engaged in color TV sets. Within three years, he became a leader in domestic color TV dealers. His annual profit increased by nearly 10 times year-on-year compared with previous years.
In the following years, Liao Maolin accumulated a large amount of funds. In 1992, he invested RMB 10 million to enter the real estate industry and established Sichuan Great Wall Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. After three years of operation, the company became the largest real estate company among domestic private enterprises at that time. Liao Maolin's assets were valued at RMB 2 billion, becoming the richest tycoon in Chengdu.
March 30, 1995 Liao Maolin was invited by the Singapore government to attend the seminar on "Facing Chinese Enterprises in the Twenty-first Century" in Singapore, and gave a speech on "Investment Opportunities for Foreign Businesses in China's Real Estate Industry" at the meeting. Liao Maolin is a business genius with advanced thinking. There are only three or five years of ordinary private enterprises, and very few have been in more than ten years, but Liao Maolin has been running a company for more than thirty years. After
has a certain economic foundation, Liao Maolin's thinking has also undergone fundamental changes. In 1984, Liao Maolin bought his first piece of porcelain from the fresh market, and since then he has formed an indissoluble bond with the Chinese ceramic culture for 5,000 years.From liking to loving, then obsessing, to planning to build the Maolin Museum, it has not been smooth sailing along the way. His family and friends have repeatedly advised him not to devote all his life savings to the museum, but in order not to lose national treasures, he even sold his villa and bought rare treasures.
During the collection process for more than 30 years, Liao Maolin would buy fakes from time to time, and he would only spend money on knowledge to improve his appreciation level. I have seen too much, learned too much, washed my eyes, and improved my appreciation ability. Liao Maolin worked fifteen or sixteen hours a day for his favorite collection career. In the early days, he often went to Taobao in the antique market before dawn; he spent a lot of time on weekends to receive collectors and cultural relics enthusiasts from all over the world. What is even more commendable is that he is also a filial son. No matter how busy he is, he will always take time to accompany his 95-year-old mother regularly.
protects traditional culture not only in words.
Liao Maolin devoted his life's energy and wealth to the ceramic culture he was obsessed with. He had the most primitive desire for collection. He said: "I think that businessmen with strength and vision can become the guardian of traditional culture, and personal classic collections are a supplement to the national collection. Most of the collections in many national museums abroad come from folk collections."
His appreciation level is among the few in the entire ceramic collection industry. Collectors at home and abroad often invite him to identify the authenticity of the collections. Mr. Liu Xinyuan, director of the Jingdezhen Ancient Ceramics Research Institute and Member of the National Cultural Relics Appraisal Committee, said after a week-long appraisal exchange on the porcelain collection of Liao Maolin from June 15 to June 21, 2010: "I regret meeting Director Liao too late. The Maolin Museum's collection uses ceramics to write a general history of Chinese civilization records for 5,000 years!"
Over the past thirty years, Liao Maolin has passed by and handed over millions of porcelains. The current Maolin Museum's collections are so abundant, its specifications and its historical status are beyond the reach of many collectors.
Today, Liao Maolin has a greater goal and a more innovative concept to build a unique porcelain museum in the world for five thousand years, and uses ceramics to run through the splendid Chinese civilization of 5,000 years, allowing future generations to learn history and retain memories through porcelain. It is our responsibility to inherit and carry forward China's five thousand years of porcelain culture.
In order to achieve this goal, Liao Maolin kept learning and researching, integrating theory with practice, and spent all the time every day except resting, studying, identifying, researching, and purchasing porcelain. In the future Maolin Museum, there are special museums from the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and comparison museums with authentic and fake collections; the museum will display the historical significance behind the porcelain through film and television and stories; it can allow collectors to identify national-level rare porcelain at close range; it can teach future generations to pay attention to traditional Chinese culture...
summer black pottery leaf pattern pot
Warring States Green glaze lifting pot 205mm high
It's a long story. Around the 1990s, an exquisite Yuan Dynasty underglaze red porcelain jar appeared in front of Director Liao. It is said that from a temple in Tibet, it was once placed on the temple's worship table. The porcelain jar was wrapped in thick cowhide, and the jar was filled with butter. It was obvious that it was a sacred object of the court. Everyone knew that such things would not be sold, and in the end it could not hold back the barter of the smart merchants. Two trucks of scarce building materials were exchanged back, and the boss offered a price of 120,000; Chengdu was in the era of Wanyuanhu, and at that time, it could buy several houses at this price. At that time, for Mr. Liao, who became rich first, the money was no longer a problem. After several bargains, he won 60,000 yuan...
Western Han Dynasty Black pottery double-eared pot height 153mm Diameter 98mm
yuan blue and white porcelain sculpture "Guiguzi Down the Mountain"
Gradually, Liao Maolin fell in love with this thing. Of course, there will never be few things to be deceived and paid tuition. He is a shrewd and capable person who is good at studying, so he began to study and explore.Everyone knows that collection requires a lot of money. As the collection increases and the grade increases, the road goes further and further away and becomes uncontrollable. In the end, I even gave up the real estate industry and specialize in the collection research and appraisal of ceramics. The business card handed to me by Liao Maolin said: Director and Researcher of Sichuan Maolin Museum and positions related to collection appraisal auction.
Ming Hongwu, wrapping flower pattern plate
Qing Yongzheng tea powder glaze pot height 8.8cm diameter 8.5cm foot diameter 9.1cm
Qing Qianlong, pastel color longevity double-ear bottle
From 1984 to the present, Liao Maolin used his life to collect ancient ceramics from the Neolithic Age to the modern and modern times. Liao Maolin used his collection to show a brilliant picture of Chinese culture that has been in the process of 5,000 years with ancient ceramics as the main line, and used ceramics to write a general history of Chinese civilization that recorded the five thousand years of history.
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