How many tomb robbers were there in the Nanyang area in the 80s and 90s?

Zhang Nan had dealt with many Nanyang antique dealers "before", many of whom were ordinary farmers and had a very good understanding of the actual situation in the countryside. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

These friends described the rampant phenomenon of tomb robbery near Nanyang at that time, and said this: When the autumn harvest is over, many old and young masters in various villages will call friends in groups, relatives and friends, carry Luoyang shovels and tools, and go to the field to explore holes everywhere.

Those big tombs that are passed on by word of mouth and known to everyone generally do not dig, and the target is too big. But using the Luoyang shovel to hunt for treasure everywhere is like doing farm work, and you dare to do it in the daytime!

Digging graves and robbing graves has become an indispensable job for many people, just as sparse and ordinary as farm work.

In the NY urban area, in addition to state-run jade shops, since the 80s, vendors selling jade have also appeared.

Moreover, from the mid-80s to the end of the 90s, almost all private jade vendors and shops in the country did not resell antiques! In Nanyang, it was nearly 100 percent!

However, a few decades later, the sentence "Chinese antiques out of Nanyang!" actually has a second meaning: that is, since the mid-to-late 90s, Nanyang has become the largest antique production base in China.

In another ten years, real, fake, and half-true antiques will flood the Nanyang antique market, everywhere!

It is also exported to all parts of the country.

In the 21st century, unless you are an expert, ordinary people will buy fakes when they go to Nanyang and want to buy some antiques.

At that time, the production of antiques was all collectivized and specialized, for example, there were 10 workshops and small factories casting bronzes in Jiacun, but none of them did the process of making old ones.

So how can the newly made bronzes be "antique"?

Don't worry!

Village B, which is five miles away, is a professional village that studies the art of bronze aging, and the "semi-finished products" of Village A will be taken over by Village B.

Not only bronze, but also ceramics, calligraphy and painting, jade, etc., many of them are operated in this way.

In his more than 20 years of antique career, Zhang Nan has been to Nanyang dozens of times, and he is very familiar with everything here.

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The car drove to Nanyang Baihe Hotel, which is currently the best hotel in Nanyang, Zhang Nan seems to remember that this hotel was renamed Nanyang Hotel in the 90s.

The registration was carried out with the "certificate" of the Ministry of Water Resources, and he successfully checked into this old brand hotel that was built in 60 years. The government hotel is chosen for safety, a large pile of things in the jeep, parked in the hotel parking lot without worrying about someone unclean hands and feet.

As soon as he settled down, Zhang Nan took Guan Xingquan to Taobao.

There are several state-run jade shops in the vicinity of the hotel, which are the outlets of large and small jade processing factories in the area.

Walk into a house at will, good guys! The jade carved mountain is put aside, dozens of large and small: the small ones are seven or eight catties, and the big ones weigh hundreds of catties!

Thirty years later, this is a rare encounter.

There are still a lot of jade ore reserves in Dushan, so there are many large jade carvings, not to mention other large and small jade objects, the output is very large, and the price is cheap.

Wait another 20 years, when the jade ore is mined, and the government introduces strict measures to limit mining, the price will skyrocket.

"Brother Guan, whatever you like, choose what!"

Guan Xingquan was not interested, "I bought it and it was useless." ”

"Nonsense! It's not for you to use! You won't buy a few bracelets, give Aunt Liu a pair, and prepare two for your future girlfriend?"

Aunt Liu is Guan Xingquan's mother.

The two of them spoke Mandarin, and Zhang Nan also had a bit of Beijing flavor, and said Guan Xingquan as a lump of wood.

As soon as I heard the smell, a salesman walked over.

"Two comrades, what do you need to buy?" was a saleswoman in her forties.

Zhang Nan looked at the various jade objects on the long counter and said, "Hello, we are from the Ministry of Water Resources, and we live in the Baihe Hotel opposite. I see that you have put one in this old pit permeable sky blue bracelet, is there any better?"

As he spoke, he lit up his credentials.

There are many things in the jade shop, but unlike the meticulous carving 20 years later, now the Dushan jade carvers are generally a bit coarse, and Zhang Nan is not very eye-catching, except for the bracelets that are almost negligible to the carvers.

The permeable sky blue bracelet on the counter is a bit large, with an inner diameter of almost four fingers, it is estimated that it is for a large lady, and Zhang Nan does not need it.

"Yes, you two, wait a minute. ”

"Bring more. ”

"How much?" the salesman heard, this is a big customer.

"At least ten pairs, the higher the grade, the better!"

The Laokeng permeable sky blue bracelet that Zhang Nan said in his mouth is the top product in Nanyang Dushan Jade, and after 20 years, it will be at least a five-figure price.

And that's the jargon, too.

Zhang Nan will buy bracelets not for the purpose of collecting and adding value, but to give them away -- this variety of Dushan jade bracelets is really beautiful! It is said to be translucent blue, but it is actually a transparent dark green, which makes people happy at first sight!

There is a desire to have it at first glance, and it is easy to look at it and not pull it out!

The salesman took a large bag, and when he opened it, it was a simple rectangular red paper bag, on which the price was written with a pen.

As soon as it is opened, each pack is a pair, and the bracelet is half-fastened in a red paper bag with red thread.

"Comrade, this is the best twelve pairs of bracelets in our store at present, the best old pit material, the same piece of material, you can't touch it twice a year. ”

The salesman didn't brag, the green color was deep and transparent, all of them were traditional cylindrical jade bracelets, the size was large and small, but the difference was not big.

This shows that when processing, it is not a rough cut of a cylinder from the rough stone and then cut off section by section, but has been conceived and reasonably selected.

Otherwise, 24 bracelets will become one size.

What's more valuable is these 12 pairs of jade bracelets, each pair of color difference, green distribution difference is very small, the pair is carefully selected, polishing is also in place, the surface flashes a beautiful glass luster.

This is a high-grade jade bracelet that is similar to high-grade jadeite, but has a different taste.

At this time, even Guan Xingquan's attention was attracted: these jade bracelets are so beautiful!

From the same piece of material, this is even more rare.

Good jade, as long as the size allows, the first choice must be used to make bracelets, which is the most cost-effective!

After some negotiation, all twelve pairs of jade bracelets were bought, and a total of 1,500 yuan was spent!

This is still the wholesale price, otherwise the price is even higher!

The general grade of Nanyang Dushan jade bracelet will be a few yuan a piece, Zhang Nanji got the mid-90s, the Dushan jade bracelet has risen in price, the most common mid-range goods, the wholesale price is dozens of yuan a pair, and the retail price is already hundreds!

This is the case with new jade, the difference between the wholesale price and the retail price is very large, there is not a price difference of several times, or even more than ten times, and the retailer will never do this business - not because of black intentions, but because if you don't do that, you will lose money.

Jade is not cabbage, and it is not a business every day.