Why did Ma Weidu build a private museum?

Because he already understands that the value of antiques is, by definition, constructed. When your collection becomes substantial enough and you’re no longer content to remain a small-time antique dealer—when you aspire to elevate yourself into a premier enterprise that sets the standard—you need to become a museum.

Your very existence is about defining standards, establishing value anchors, and ultimately背书-ing your own collection, which in turn forms a pricing system you can be satisfied with.

You live in a fabricated world—one where even your ruler, your metrics for judging value, are themselves woven constructs.