2005万元！故宫“宫灯”拍出天价 | Palace Museum's royal lanterns auctioned

还记得故宫上个月说要拍卖的宫灯吗？

Sold!

昨晚，

故宫公益拍卖会举行，

天灯、万寿灯、宫灯复原品顺利落槌，

共拍得2005万元！

其中，

“天灯”以1060万元的成交价，

成为“最贵”的一组拍品。

故宫博物院院长单霁翔说，

本次拍卖所得善款将一分不留，

全部用于贫困地区的教育和文化等事业。

40多分钟，7次落槌，2005万元收官！

4月2日晚，由北京故宫文物保护基金会主办的“景禧灯华——故宫万寿灯天灯宫灯复原品公益拍卖”在北京故宫博物院乾清宫前举行。

拍卖品由今年春节期间故宫“贺岁迎祥——紫禁城里过大年”展览中的重要实景展品组成，包括天灯（一对）、万寿灯（一对）、宫灯（五对）复原品，均依据故宫档案藏品研究成果复原制作。

拍品从五组宫灯开始预热，起拍价均为10万元。其中一对葫芦挂灯以38万元高价成交，五组宫灯总计拍得145万元。

万寿灯和天灯压轴登场，均以460万元起拍。起拍后，竞价迅速进入“白热化”，经过频繁举牌，万寿灯最终以800万元的总价成交；故宫天灯则拍出当晚最高价——1060万元！加上五组宫灯，本场拍卖共筹得善款2005万元。

万寿灯

天灯

Replicas of China's Palace Museum's royal lanterns, including a pair of Heavenly Lanterns (tian deng), a pair of Longevity Lanterns (wanshou deng), and five pairs of smaller palace lanterns were sold at a staggering 20.05 million yuan (2.98 million U.S. dollars) at a charity auction in Beijing on Tuesday. 

The historically accurate lantern copies, created based on the archives from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912), were used at the museum's Spring Festival exhibition this year, drawing an average of over 20,000 visitors a day from January 6 until early February. 

The money raised from the auction will be donated to sponsor educational and cultural programs in the country's impoverished areas, according to Shan Jixiang, the museum's curator.  

何为天灯？

据史料记载，立万寿灯、天灯是清代早中期过年最盛大的活动之一，每年十二月二十四日安设天灯、万寿灯，至次年二月初三、正月十八日依次撤出。从立到撤，前后需要使用八千多人力。

民间也有在春节期间悬挂天灯的习俗。清代潘荣陛的《帝京岁时纪胜十二月祀灶》中记载：“廿三日更尽时，家家祀灶，院内立杆，悬挂天灯。”

然而，由于清朝国力渐衰，安置天灯这一传统也逐渐走向没落。道光二十年（1840），皇帝下谕，此后停止竖立万寿灯和天灯。直至今年，在故宫消失了179年的“天灯”和“万寿灯”才重新在乾清宫前竖立。

The installation of Longevity and Heavenly lanterns was once an important part of the Spring Festival celebrations in the imperial court as well as among civilians in the early-and-mid-Qing Dynasty. It was however not until this year that the royal lanterns were relit since the long-established tradition was called off by Emperor Daoguang in 1840.

故宫举办拍卖会，竟是因为“灯”太大了放不下？

故宫博物院院长单霁翔透露，首次复原的天灯和万寿灯展品是故宫目前最大体量的一组“文创产品”。

万寿灯复原品灯柱总高10.9米，直径5米。因万寿灯主要承担装饰功能，其造型和装饰也格外精美繁复。

天灯复原品则体型更大，灯柱总高13.9米，直径0.6米。

单霁翔表示，故宫没有库房能存放那么大的（文物）。与此同时，单霁翔也希望故宫博物院能够通过此次宫灯拍卖为国家扶贫事业做出应有贡献。

The copies of the Longevity Lantern, which is 10.9-meter high and five-meter wide, and the Heavenly Lantern are the "largest cultural creative products" ever designed by the Palace Museum, according to Shan. 

The time-honored Palace Museum has been gaining popularity among the country's youth with its miscellaneous cultural and creative products including cosmetics, homecare and stationeries. In 2017, the sales of such products hit 1.5 billion yuan (0.2 billion U.S. dollars), Shan revealed at the Yabuli China Entrepreneurs Forum in February. 

Through developing its own cultural products and auctioning the lanterns, Shan hopes the Palace Museum could increase its income and contribute to the nation's poverty relief efforts.

善款全部捐献 一分不留！

据悉，天灯、万寿灯复原品均被无锡惠山古镇文化旅游有限公司董事长鲍坚强竞得。而五对宫灯则分别由云南红酒业有限公司董事长武克钢、中国紫檀博物馆副馆长赵莉、科沃斯机器人有限公司监事会主席王炜等人拍得。

本次拍卖所得善款将全部用于山西、内蒙古和广西部分贫困地区的教育和文化等事业。

单霁翔表示，明年春节前，故宫还将复原一套天灯和万寿灯，但不会再进行拍卖。

网友：为拍卖立意点赞！不过还需注意追踪善款去向

故宫此次公益拍卖获得了大量网友的点赞和支持。

也有网友善意提醒道，立意虽好，但也要注意追踪善款去向。

更有“优秀”的网友提出建议——卖给横店做道具岂不妙哉？

While many netizens on China's Twitter-like Weibo came in support of the auction that aimed at promoting welfare in poverty-stricken areas, some others warned to keep track of the charity's donations.

故宫拍卖宫灯为慈善，你怎么看？

（部分中文综合自北京日报、北京商报、北京晚报）