| Chinese Calligraphy,as a cultural existence of both practicality and art since ancient China,plays a unique role in human social activities.As an art commodity in the circulation,Chinese Calligraphy work cultivates the demand of value judgement and pricing.On one hand,calligraphers,as the producers who create spiritual products,need reasonable economic and cultural recognition.On the other hand,once the trading behaviors of spiritual products occur,parties from both supply and demand sides need to provide appraisal value respectively until achieving market equilibrium and reaching mutual agreements on the transactions.Although the two parties,producers and consumers,represent different functions,in the economy cycle,the commonalities of the two are the effective interpretation and analysis of the prices as the appreciation of the Calligraphy works.This paper concludes the relevant ancient Chinese calligraphy books and works.Also,the paper sorts and analyzes the price of Calligraphy work and the transactional behaviors from previous dynasties.Moreover,the paper investigates the event background of those transactions.The paper considers the text information contained in the ancient calligraphy works price narrative text and analyzes the price associated with specific characteristics of calligraphy works,as well as main stakeholders,including buyers,sellers,intermediaries,connoisseurs,inscriptions and postscripts of the works,and other relevant stakeholders in the process of art collection.Based on the analysis of price narrative text,from the particular to the general,the paper explains the price of calligraphy works in circulation from three aspects: calligraphy price noumenon,market factors after entering circulation,and external factors.The paper contributes to establishing an economic explanation system of the price of ancient Chinese Calligraphy works. |
