Chen Lei studied art history and the early of China in a university. He was able to recognize the of different cultural relics from former times, especially the Tang and Song dynasties. One day he was looking in a second-hand furniture shop when he saw an object among the many different vases and . It was a mirror in the Song Dynasty and in the style of that time. He recognized that it was a cultural relic, but at a price he could afford, so he bought it at once. Later he gave it to his local museum. The people there were very happy and without consider it one of the treasures of their collection. To them, it was much more than Chen Lei paid.