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.

However, that was the scene of a year ago, and now it's gone.

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

Why is such a stone so crazy, and now it is deserted again?

>> Trading boom a year ago

50 yuan to buy a stone, a change of hands to sell for 8000 yuan

Yellow wax stone is also known as dragon king jade, because the surface of the stone texture color sense is like waxy and named, Yiwu River, Lanjiang River, Wuyi River is rich in yellow wax stone.

Hong Xiaoping, 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 remembered that in the second half of last year, 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 Xiaoping'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 of a weekend is at least about 3 million yuan." ”

In the atmosphere of "as long as it is yellow wax stone, some people will rush 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.

>> Deserted market after a year

There are fewer people buying yellow wax stone, and more than half of the stalls are missing

Only about a year, but the scene is very different, once in Guzicheng stall Lao Chen said, last weekend, he and a few friends sat together to drink tea, talking about the yellow wax stone, everyone shook their heads, "Now the yellow wax stone to get rid of, not as easy as last year." I have a friend who spent 3,000 yuan to buy a palm-sized yellow wax stone, but now no one wants it at 1,000 yuan. The quality is poor, there are impurities, there are cracks, and the light transmission is not good, and this stone is now difficult to get rid of. ”

Lao Chen told reporters 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 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 in June this year, and the Guzi City collectibles trading day, which was once one after another, originally had more than 500 stalls, and the number of stalls dropped by about 300, 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.

>> The trading market has shrunk, and connoisseurs think it is normal

It is the inferior yellow wax stone that is eliminated from the market

Although the market is gradually cooling down, in Hong Xiaoping's view, this is not a bad thing.

"There are fewer hot-headed buyers, everyone is more rational, and the market is more mature than before. Hong Xiaoping said that some people in the market were crazy in the past, so that the inferior yellow wax stone was also robbed, which made the surface of the market look very hot, "In fact, these inferior stones are worthless, as a collection, the quality must be guaranteed, there is room for appreciation." ”

What is being left out now is these low-grade yellow wax stones. And those high-quality yellow wax stones are still hot. "Rare things are expensive, and those transparent and pure yellow wax stones can still be sold at a good price. ”

Hong Xiaoping said that a friend has a yellow wax stone in his hand, and bought it for 200,000 yuan the year before last, although it is not top-notch, but it is also superior, and now even if the price is 1.5 million yuan, some people are still rushing to pay.

Nowadays, Hong Xiaoping's customers have many more merchants from other provinces.

"In the past, almost all of our customers came from this province, and this year there are many customers from Shanghai, Fujian and Guangdong, some of whom are professional merchants and some are players. Hong Xiaoping said that these mature merchants from other provinces account for about 20% of all his customers. "They are very professional, and they don't look down on ordinary quality stones, so they have to buy at least tens of thousands of yuan. ”

Why is the yellow wax stone market deserted?

Why is the yellow wax stone market suddenly deserted, Hong Xiaoping believes that this is related to the current economic environment, "This year's economy is not very prosperous, many people do not have much spare money, and there are fewer people to buy." Hong Xiaoping introduced that in the past, customers who bought yellow wax stone were mainly entrepreneurs, collectors and merchants, "this year, people who do business are relatively tight, yellow wax stone is not a necessity after all, and they are not so enthusiastic." ”

Some time ago, Hong Xiaoping and a few connoisseurs went to Kunming, Yunnan and other places to investigate, and found that the Huanglongyu market there was not as lively as in previous years.

On the other hand, it has something to do with the weather, "It's hot now, and people don't want to carry so many rocks around. Hong Xiaoping said.

In addition, there are now fewer and fewer high-quality yellow wax stones in several rivers in Jinhua.

How to judge the value of a piece of yellow wax stone

In Hong Xiaoping's view, the collection value of yellow wax stone is mainly in two aspects. One is the artistic level, that is, the craftsmanship of carving, if it is a master's hand, the value is higher, and the second is the quality of the material, that is, the stone itself.

It is very difficult to distinguish the quality of yellow wax stone, even if it is an "old expert" like Hong Xiaoping, he often looks away. "The seven or eight yellow wax stones at the door of my store were all bought by me for thousands of yuan, but when you cut it open, you can see that there are many impurities, which are not clear, and they have become waste stones. ”

In Hong Xiaoping's view, investing in yellow wax stone is a technical work, the quality of yellow wax stone, to analyze from the texture, density, toughness and color aspects, "ordinary citizens generally do not know how to distinguish, to invest, the risk is still very large." ”

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