Can you imagine the effect of a small French-style house with a history going back more than 100 years, encased and decorated by more than 400 million old pieces of Chinese porcelain, more than 5,000 old porcelain vases and more than 4,000 old porcelain plates and bowls, more than 100 porcelain cat pillows from the Ming and Qing dynasties, more than 400 stone statues from all periods, and more than 20 tons of natural crystals and onyx? A sensible adult might not be able to imagine it, but crazy and imaginative children might. Zhang Lianzhi is such a person, let us say he is imaginative or let us say he is a madman, in any case, it took him eight years with his mad love to design and build such a porcelain house, which has become a masterpiece in Tianjin, China and even in the world. About the porcelain house, and recently because of the porcelain house judicial auction into the public business, it is said that Zhang Lianzhi gave an estimate of 9.8 billion yuan, the china house behind the dispute we do not know, but I hope that this crazy house will maintain the status quo, because to date, the china house not only belongs to him personally, but it belongs to Tianjin, it belongs to China, many people go to Tianjin, specifically to see this crazy Many people go to Tianjin, specifically to see this crazy house.
In fact, before I came to Tianjin, I already knew the china house, the china house is the most personal attraction in Tianjin, other attractions in Tianjin are very common, I did not go to the china house to come to Tianjin in vain. Although on TV, on the net and in books many times have seen the porcelain house, but the real face, but still stunned stunned, more let me not think is so valuable a porcelain house, so unobstructed on the side of the road, no wall, no protection, any passerby can touch the outer wall of these porcelain vases, the vehicle traffic accidents can cause great damage to the porcelain house. It is such a value of hundreds of millions, Zhang Lianzhi spent 8 years of energy, a lifetime collection of porcelain house, the entrance fee is actually as little as 35 yuan, there is a very professional explanation, compared to those who easily hundreds of dollars of junk attractions tickets, is too generous.
Well, look at the picture, the next time you have the opportunity to go to Tianjin, do not miss the porcelain house, or specifically to go to Tianjin for the porcelain house is also worth it, remember the address: No. 72 Chifeng Road, Heping District, Tianjin.
Whether you know how to appreciate porcelain or not, whether you understand the value of ancient porcelain or not, all visitors will be blown away by this small house cloaked in ancient porcelain, a building like no other, a grotesque and exquisite building, a building you can hardly imagine.
The roof has porcelain tiles spelling out China in English and the porcelain house in Chinese. A complete porcelain vase is placed on the fence and the roof. Regarding how many porcelain tiles were used, some say 700 million, some say 400 million, so I guess no one knows exactly how many.
Such a house worth hundreds of millions of dollars is actually on the side of the road, there are many small ancient stone sculptures on the pavement, not even a security guard, any passer-by can go to touch those ancient porcelain, really worried that one day by the bad guys to vandalism.
From time to time there are tourist buses stopping here, and a group of tourists come to visit the porcelain house.
The wall is called the Ping (bottle) Peace Wall, and it is said that more than 3,000 porcelain bottles were used. It is also said that the "Imperial enamelled lantern with figures in the garden", which was auctioned by Zhang Lianzhi in 2007 for 84 million RMB, was also embedded in the Peace Wall.
Buy a ticket to enter and be even more dazzled by the world's unique ancient porcelain architecture.
Let's start with the toilet in the corner. This small, unimpressive toilet is probably one of the most distinctive in the world.
Ever imagined sitting on a toilet and admiring ancient porcelain from thousands of years ago? But I can see that many of the porcelain plates are vacant, so it's not as if they've been taken by visitors to the toilet.
What makes this porcelain house so expensive and rare is that all the tiles, porcelain and stonework are relics, not a single piece of modern porcelain, and many of them are still valuable ancient porcelain.
The entrance to the porcelain house, looking at the dense porcelain tiles, you will understand that the claim of hundreds of millions of ancient porcelain tiles is not a fool's errand.
I guess everyone who has been to the porcelain house will have many questions: Who is Zhang Lianzhi? How did he get so rich? These two questions are left to be explored at the end.
Then there is the question that everyone will wonder, where did he get so many porcelain pieces and porcelain antiques? The vast majority of these ancient porcelain pieces came from the Three Forks of the Tianjin River, where for hundreds of years ships travelling up and down the Hai River were loaded with tribute porcelain to the royal family, which could not have a single flaw. However, during firing and transport, the porcelain would inevitably fail or break, and if the "faulty" porcelain was sent to the palace, it was subject to severe punishment or even beheaded.
So, people in the capital before, always in Tianjin three forks on the tribute porcelain for a comprehensive clean-up, will be damaged and broken or defective porcelain pick out. Those who had to discard the scrap and fragments for the "peace", then a basket, a boatload of buried in the three forks, people at the time, this phenomenon will be called "year after year peace".
Zhang Lianzhi's father was famous for his hobby of collecting broken porcelain pieces, and as long as the porcelain pieces were dug up from the Three Forks, someone would be the first to inform his father, and as long as he heard about what place had dug up porcelain pieces, his father would also be the first to go, before the reform and opening up, ancient porcelain pieces were like rubbish in people's eyes, and one yuan could collect a large pile.
Later, his father passed away, three forks and then dug out porcelain pieces, people will come to inform Zhang Lianzhi. And Zhang Lianzhi collection of porcelain greater than his father's ambition, he no longer need to go to the scene, but let people send porcelain tiles in boxes packed, a box can have thousands of pieces, which is the main source of hundreds of millions of ancient porcelain tiles.
You can see that even the words Da Ming Chenghua nian zhi are everywhere. The Chenghua Doucai chicken pot cup was sold for 280 million, and although these are broken bowl pieces, they are probably not cheap.
The lampshade on the door post is also a porcelain pot, which has been drilled with many holes. While marvelling at the porcelain house, there are many people who question whether Zhang Lianzhi is not destroying antiques?
There are many porcelain bowls on the walls at the entrance. The Chinese say of the value of Jun porcelain, "A family with ten thousand taels of gold is better off with a piece of Jun porcelain", and Jun porcelain is known as one of the "Five Great Porcelains" of China.
The highlight of this pile of porcelain is the round object in the middle, a 200 million year old fossilised dinosaur egg in the middle of the brown sphere.
In addition to the porcelain and stone carvings, the house also has a group of cultural relics that cannot be ignored, that is, more than 300 lions of various sizes, which are stationed in various corners of the house according to their respective sizes, these stone lions span the Eastern Han, Tang, Song and Qing dynasties, each of which is extremely valuable.
But the coolest one is a porcelain one, a dark green porcelain lion from the late Ming and early Qing dynasties standing against the door. It is said that there was once a pair of these porcelain lions, an old one in front of Duan Qirui's house, and the other one perished in the war, leaving only this one alone, and also the largest surviving three-coloured glazed lion in the world.
The pair of bronze deer inside the door are old relics of the Empress Dowager Cixi, and are now unevenly coloured by guides who say things like "touch the deer's mouth, touch the deer's back", and are disgusted by the words of guides who say things like "touch what, how?
The small French-style building is hollow in the middle, and the four-storey fence is also plastered with porcelain tiles, which have Jin Dynasty celadon, Tang Sancai, Song Dynasty Jun porcelain, Longquan porcelain, Yuan and Ming celadon, Qing Dynasty pastel and other fine pieces from various eras.
In today's world of high prices for antique porcelain, where a piece of Yuan blue and white can fetch over $200 million, Zhang Lianzhi has plastered antique porcelain tiles and porcelain on the wall like bricks and tiles, wouldn't you say it's crazy to the core?
The gazebo on the first floor is also a spectacular place to visit, and although I was already blown away on the ground floor, coming here was even more so.
The entire ceiling of the pavilion is full of ancient porcelain plates, and the circle in the middle is full of rare fish-printed plates, so I'm really worried about how firmly they are glued together.
Exquisite, luxurious, unique, unbelievable, either crazy or genius, we will never understand the world of the tycoon, dense phobic friends have a little panic? Perhaps there is another type of person in this world who suffers from intensive enjoyment disorder, such as Zhang Lianzhi.
Zhang Lianzhi, like his father, has become obsessed with collecting cultural relics, like an "addiction" deeply rooted in his body, and over the decades his antique stock has filled four large warehouses.
In fact, the porcelain house we see today is not the whole of his collection. There is another porcelain house of his on Five Avenues, the Yue Wei Xian restaurant where you can sit and eat among the antiques, but it is not as grand as this one.
The back wall of the porcelain house, also filled with complete porcelain vases, is said online to have used up more than 5,000 complete antique porcelain vases.
There are also porcelain cats everywhere. There are nearly a hundred of these Ming and Qing dynasty porcelain cat pillows, in addition to those on the fence, and some standing on tree stumps, alive and well.
The most hilarious is this cat of fortune, hiding among the dense foliage, which the average person can't spot.
In addition to the cat, there is also the iron rooster, which was the most prominent one on the balcony in the Qing Dynasty. Because Zhang Lianzhi was a Rooster.
If you look carefully and study it carefully, you probably won't be able to see it for a few days, because every piece of ancient porcelain has an origin and every antique has a story.
Looking at the first floor balcony from across the street, all these lumps and bumps up close are natural crystals and onyx, and over 20 tonnes are said to have been used throughout the house.
Inside the porcelain house, paintings of famous people from different eras and countries are composed through porcelain tiles of different colours; this painting is Zhang Daqian's 'Lotus Flower Painting'.
Red pieces of Jun porcelain are said to be more expensive, and in ancient China, red porcelain was rare.
In addition to Zhang Daqian's painting, there are also porcelain tile paintings by Zhang Xuan of the Tang Dynasty, Su Shi of the Song Dynasty's 'Withered Wood and Strange Stones', Qi Baishi's 'Knowing Fish', Picasso's 'Self-Portrait', Leonardo da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa' and many more.
This chair is not a bit unusual, the seat is diamond-shaped, it is said to be a chair commonly used by the women in the ancient green houses, not to separate their legs to sit, but to put both legs on one side, sitting out of elegance.
There are also many valuable pieces of furniture, such as this set of tables and chairs inlaid with shells.
There were several sets of these inlaid shells in the Palace of King Gong, which was also one of the crimes that Heshen was given to die for, on the grounds that the furniture was too extravagant.
With a wooden pavilion on the third floor balcony and an ancient cannon, Zhang Lianzhi's collection was truly all-encompassing.
Look at the roof downstairs, full of ancient porcelain of historical value, including many treasures, any one of which is estimated to be a treasure elsewhere, here, on the roof in the wind, sun and rain.
The porcelain dragon hovering over the house, the longest one reaching 768 metres and 80 centimetres in diameter, meanders and dances with spectacular grandeur. It is said that the porcelain dragon alone uses up more than 8 million pieces of ancient porcelain and is the longest ancient porcelain dragon in the world.
The handrail of the staircase is also made of porcelain tiles, and there are various paintings on the wall. The feathers of this rooster are all made of dense porcelain tiles.
What is this pile of tourists looking at around here? There is a pile of old furniture, but the focus is on the three stones.
The three broken Chinese white jade stone carvings are relics from the Yuanmingyuan, and were acquired by Zhang Lianzhi at a cost of over $30 million.
Zhang Lianzhi's porcelain house not only attracts countless tourists, but also eyes from all over the world.
Zhang Lianzhi and Jay Chou admiring the porcelain.
The porcelain dragon shape on the roof of the fourth floor hovers all the way from the roof to the outside of the house.
Falling leaves drift onto the roof of the porcelain house, dappled with light and shadow, and the porcelain in the house has all survived for hundreds of years and now exists in a way that is unimaginable.
In addition to these, there are several Buddha heads in the small shop next to the porcelain house that are not allowed to be photographed, one of which is described as costing over a hundred million dollars, I don't know anything about antiques and I don't know if this is the case. Some people compared Zhang Lianzhi to Gaudi, who built the legendary building in Barcelona, and thought he was a mad genius, but Zhang Lianzhi's porcelain house did not win a piece of applause, but also attracted a lot of controversy, some people think that these porcelain and antiques are heritage treasures, money can not be so wasteful heritage, too extravagant and pompous. But Zhang Lianzhi has his own ideas, he believes that although the personal collection of porcelain and antiques, but placed in the warehouse can only be their own appreciation, built him into the house, all the people can appreciate it. Of course, the porcelain and antiques were Zhang Lianzhi's, and there was nothing anyone else could do with what he was willing to do with them.
What kind of a man was Zhang Lianzhi? How did he get so rich? It is said that he was a descendant of the Zhang family, one of the eight families of salt merchants in Tianjin in the Republic of China, and that he grew up living in the Italian Concession, where his neighbours and visitors were all prominent figures in modern Chinese history, although families like his were, unsurprisingly, raided in the middle of the last century. But it is said that after the reform and opening up he went to sea, and it is not known what kind of business he did, but in any case he made a lot of money, and then he had a lot of collections, and in order to complete the huge project of the "porcelain house", he even sold two seaside villas in Canada and three properties in Tianjin, and it is generally said on the Internet that he opened a The Internet generally only says that he opened a "museum that can eat" - Yue Wei Xian restaurant, but I went to see the Yue Wei Xian in Tianjin Five Avenue, the door is closed, it seems to have closed down, besides, even if you open ten restaurants, I'm afraid it does not earn so much money, right? I don't know if you believe it or not, but I don't believe it anyway. Anyway, he's one of those super-rich, very mysterious, obsessive collectors of wealth.
No matter where Zhang Lianzhi came from so much money, no matter how much controversy there is in the porcelain house, in any case, travel to Tianjin, grab a trip to the porcelain house, maybe the future of this crazy house will also not exist.
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