Kowloon has been paying attention to this place for a long time, and in Jinhua, there used to be a crazy story of playing with stones......

I dug a yellow stone by the stream and sold it for 10,000 yuan, so that the riverside was full of people, and everyone was frantically picking up stones...... Such a scene is not unfamiliar to the Jinhua people living by the Wujiang River.

They robbed the yellow wax stone, a few years ago, it suddenly became the collector's eyes of the "fragrant bait", especially last year, the transaction volume reached its peak, according to the Jinhua Arts and Crafts Industry Association Yellow Wax Stone Carving Professional Committee incomplete statistics, Jinhua folk "play stone people" amounted to more than 100,000 people.

Buy a stone for 50 yuan, and you can sell it for 8,000 yuan as soon as it changes hands.

Hong Daping, who runs the "Hong Stone" collection store on Wandering Road, is the vice president of the Yellow Wax Stone Carving Professional Committee of the Jinhua Arts and Crafts Industry Association, and he has witnessed the soaring price of Yellow Wax Stone.

He remembers that in 2010, someone bought a piece of yellow wax stone for 50,000 yuan, and within a month, it changed hands for 180,000 yuan.

Such a "myth" is staged in Guzi City almost every weekend.

A small stone of one or two hundred yuan is coaxed by someone at a price of 30,000 yuan or 40,000 yuan; even if it is a yellow wax stone of not very good quality, as long as it is placed on the stall and the price is two or three thousand yuan, it will be bought in a matter of minutes.

In Hong Daping's shop, there was also a record of selling more than 10 pieces of yellow wax stone in one day.

Mr. Yu, who has been in the stone business for more than ten years, recalls that a year ago, every weekend on the Guzicheng collectibles trading day, there were cars parked on both sides of Wandering Road.

"It's full of stalls, most of which sell yellow wax stone, and it's conservatively estimated that there are more than 500. ”

Mr. Yu said that some of these vendors are from Jinhua, some from Jiangxi, Anhui, Fujian and other places, and some even bring one or two tons of stones from other provinces, "The turnover in a weekend is at least about 3 million yuan." ”

In the kind of atmosphere where as long as it is yellow wax stone, some people are rushing to ask for it, people from all walks of life in Jinhua want to come to get a piece of the pie, engage in seedlings, engage in construction...... They have all started the business of yellow wax stone.

Why is such a stone so crazy, and what is the current situation?

This is Kowloon's primary concern.

Speaking of the popularity of Jinhua market, Kowloon first learned about it in Mr. Fang Jiang's article, seeing is believing, when the train arrived in Jinhua, Kowloon and Xiao Qiao asked all the way where the Jinhua Yellow Wax Stone Market was.

After the guidance of passers-by, they came to Guzi City Wandering Road, where is the market foothold, unfortunately the sky is raining, the roadside is deserted and set up a few stalls, from time to time there is a shout: "The stall is going to be closed, sell it cheaply!"

The Jinhua market started on Saturday and was too late for two consecutive days, and Kowloon was too late, in the words of the Jinhua people, Saturday was the market for players, and Sunday was a garbage market.

Jiulong asked Lao Chen, who set up a stall, how is the business now, Lao Chen shook his head and complained: "Now there are fewer people who buy yellow wax stone, and more than half of the stalls are missing.

"I have a friend who spent 3,000 yuan to buy a palm-sized yellow wax stone, and now no one wants it at 1,000 yuan, the quality is poor, there are impurities, there are cracks, and the light transmittance is not good, this kind of stone is difficult to get rid of now. ”

Lao Chen told Jiulong that this friend worked in the unit and had no research on yellow wax stone, and at that time, he also watched many people around him rush to buy yellow wax stone, and he bought it as soon as his brain was hot, as for the quality of the stone, he didn't understand it at all.

And there are not a few such people in Jinhua.

There is a backlog of yellow wax stones in their hands, and there are many people who can't get rid of them for three or four months.

In the impression of these players, the desertion of the yellow wax stone market began at the beginning of this year, and the Guzi City collectibles trading day, which was once shoulder to shoulder, originally had more than 500 stalls, but the number of stalls dropped by about 300, and the most obvious thing is that there are fewer vendors in Anhui, Jiangxi and other places.

For this reason, many vendors who set up stalls in Guzi City had to engage in promotional activities, buy one and get one free, especially those yellow wax stones of not very good quality, which are often given as gifts.

Hearing the voice of Lao Chen's sigh, let Jiulong once wonder if he was looking for the wrong place, since he couldn't find good things on the stall, it was better to go to the shops along the street to see, Jiulong and Xiao Qiao came to Zhu Zhixin's "Wuzhou Jade" Museum to shop, he is the person in charge of the Wuzhou Jade Development Research Institute, the treasure is really extraordinary, especially the Taishan crow skin carvings, all of them pay attention to the selection of materials, exquisite craftsmanship, in the words of his lover: "At the beginning, ten crow skins can choose a good one, the gambling is too big, and there are many cotton in it so I have to throw it away." ”

Jiulong is very curious, Jinhua's local stones are good, how can Mr. Zhu operate Taishan jade, Mr. Zhu responded in one sentence: "As long as there is a market, any jade can be operated." ”

This is true, if Baoshan Dahong freezes well, I believe there will be a market, which makes the spirit of Kowloon lifted.

Then came to Ying Jianxing's shop, his carvings made Kowloon understand what it means to "turn decay into magic".

After admiring a lot of wonderful carvings, seeing that it was still early, Jiulong picked up his mobile phone and found Teacher Fang Jiang's phone: "Teacher Fang, where are you?"

"I'm in Jigu Pavilion, come here. ”

Teacher Fang replied.

When I arrived at Jigu Pavilion, I saw a Chinese face, a heroic middle-aged man was pointing out a few wax stone carvings on the table, and a man on the opposite side listened attentively, no need to guess, it must be Mr. Fang Jiang who pointed out the country.

Meet and greet, say hello, Mr. Fang generously shook hands with Kowloon: "There are not many people in the market today, disappointed! If you come yesterday, there are a lot of people here, our wax stone here is the best stone quality in Quzhou, Jinhua, Zhejiang, after thousands of years of river washing, the waxy is the strongest, warm and thick, different colors, and scarce resources.

"Now it's hard to see good, wax stone from all over the world will continue to come in, as long as it is good, it will be washed away, indicating that no matter whether the market is good or bad, fine stone is not worried about selling. “

Jiulong nodded, this time when he came out, Jiulong didn't bring the big red jelly, mainly because he didn't want to sell it, and it was big and inconvenient to carry.

It seems that this teacher Fang is an expert, it is better to ask him to comment on his big red jelly, although the stone is not brought, the all-round pictures of the big red jelly are stored on the mobile phone, and the connoisseur can recognize the quality of this stone at a glance.