Yu Chunming was a professor of architecture at Nanchang University. In 1996, he was invited to visit UCLA as a scholar in the United States. In his 40s, he was equivalent to overthrowing his former life and starting from scratch.

This clear life actually let him go on the road of export porcelain collection. In 2010, he returned to China and brought a porcelain treasure collected by many famous people in Europe and the United States to Nanchang University. Based on this, he founded the first provincial museum of community export porcelain.

In recent years, China has set off a nationwide collection boom, porcelain auction records create endless prices, the rise of hundreds of years ago, porcelain and kiln porcelain ruling reputation. But for people, "export porcelain" is a quite strange concept, few people know it is the real value and charm.

"The export porcelain was born in China and exported overseas. It has been circulating for hundreds of years, integrating Chinese and Western elements." Yu Chunming made a brief summary.

Yu Chunming still remembers seeing the scene of "export porcelain" for the first time. It was like a doomed fate. Therefore, in many years, I had a glimpse of overseas Chinese porcelain for hundreds of years in my own foreign auction house At the auction house in the United States, in early 2005, I met an archaeologist who had worked in the national provincial museum. She made a teapot, which looked like foreign porcelain and sighed, "I asked her curiously that it was made of Chinese porcelain. She told me that it was Chinese porcelain during the Qianlong period. The body and glaze had the characteristics of the Qianlong period, but the screen was not the Chinese model.

Although Yu Chunming has already changed to painting, he has been studying in ceramics. In the early days of China, he tried to collect some antiques sporadically, and even went to the United States. He and his wife often went to antique shops and family cultural relic auctions. With the first export of porcelain, "electric shock", he firmly collected these scattered overseas Chinese porcelain.

He soon determined his collection direction in the field of export porcelain. " Because I don't have much money and can't afford to buy high-grade porcelain, I decided to consider choosing the direction of academic research. My approach is to start collecting all kinds of porcelain, and so on, almost collecting, buying high-end, more expensive equipment types. Yu Chunming said.

Export porcelain cheap, and imitation goods less, can be assured to buy and research. Soon after, he began to collect auction catalogues and export porcelain books. At this time, I know that most of the related books are written by foreigners, and the Chinese rarely involve them. He spent more than 2000 dollars on David? Howard's "Chinese heraldry porcelain", and then know Howard's wife, Anna? Howard, and from her to buy some high-quality export porcelain, so that the quality of the collection looks higher. He also bought Sotheby's (microblog) and Christie's auction catalogues for more than ten years at a collector's heritage auction, so that they can fully understand the auction situation and export porcelain in these years.

Because of his professional experience and artistic talent, Yu Chunming's accumulation of knowledge and experience in exporting porcelain is shorter than the average height. He said that he would buy some porcelains at some small auction houses, and see the contrast between porcelains and export porcelains, thus accumulating experience in porcelain dating. Whenever there are previews of museums and auction houses, he will definitely be on the spot. The preview of auction can be used to touch porcelain, so his recognition experience grows rapidly.

Among all types of export porcelain, especially heraldry porcelain is worth mentioning. Heraldry porcelain is a kind of private trade porcelain commissioned by European nobles and royal families to the East India Company. Porcelain shapes a persistent person, family, group logo or badge. It inherits many family histories. It is exported porcelain in different periods through the clarity of Heraldry porcelain and the style and characteristics of Heraldry in dating.

"Heraldry porcelain has deep symbolic significance." Yu Chunming pointed to a medallion porcelain in his collection and explained, "this is the" octagonal Medallion porcelain plate of dandas family in Scotland in Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty ". This kind of porcelain was custom-made. At the time of marriage, the shield was the top of the dandas family, their family, and the lions and eagles in the jungle were women's family. The writing of the medallion and the motto of the family, and the courage to try meaning."

In the export of porcelain, the porcelain kilns decorated in China are more Chinese and Western decoration. There is a medallion porcelain, the pattern is a Chinese family, the arms of the British family coat, the arms of the coat is the same family, two families are particularly interesting.

Yu Chunming, a Chinese painter, chooses to export porcelain, mostly to buy the taste of Chinese painting. The painter is very good, and has a certain degree of difficulty or enamel and other high art porcelain. Later, after reading some books, I found that there are some very special family crown porcelain and commemorative porcelain, which have important historical value in the history of Sino foreign exchanges. It's also important to start expanding the collection gradually.

Yu Chunming thinks that the cultural connotation of export porcelain is very rich. Through it, we can clearly understand the development trend of Ming and Qing porcelain craft and artistic style. Porcelain in the domestic preservation of small, today only see a few kilns, it is difficult to have a comprehensive and comprehensive Chinese porcelain, porcelain export history of Chinese ceramic research to provide a richer variety.

"A good thing like China should come back to China." 2010, he will be very strange, for hundreds of years, back to his birthplace, Jiangxi, the flow of overseas Chinese porcelain, China. After receiving his donation, Nanchang University has established a museum of porcelain for export with the most types and the highest grade in China.

In front of these cultural relics, Yu Chunming has always maintained a humble attitude. "Cultural relics are eternal and we can only pass them in front of them," he said. For thousands of years, they have been in the hands of many generations, how many stories, in front of them, how many generations have disappeared, and we are always as a collector, studying it, and his own collection of heritage sites, recording and inheriting.