"In many cases, such as opening a bank account in Japan, a seal is required, and it is very expensive to engrave a seal in Japan, and soft seals such as rubber seals are not recognized in Japan, and hard seals such as wood and horns are usually used. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info Japan usually uses round medallions with a diameter of about 1~1.8 cm, instead of square medals. ”

Fujita couldn't put it down, playing with the small Tian Huang seal and said: "This is a piece of high-grade Tian Huang that I specially auctioned at a high price, and found a real seal engraved by the master, and carried it with me, which is also a status symbol." ”

"We Japanese really started to use seals in the Nara period, which is equivalent to the Tang Dynasty in our country. This is mainly due to the influence of ancient Chinese culture. The gold seal of Emperor Guang of China, which was unearthed in Shikashima in Kyushu in 1784, was the first gold seal to be transmitted from China to Japan. Of course, this seal is only used as a symbol of state relations, not as a seal for actual use. In addition, there were no kanji in Japan at that time, so the use of seals did not become popular. ”

"In the Edo period, it was customary to use seals on private documents in addition to administrative documents, and seal books were created for the purpose of registering official seals. This was the origin of the later "seal registration system". In Edo period, seals were the most important thing to protect people's private property in addition to life, and since then, Japan's unique "seal culture" has begun.

"In the Meiji era, the Meiji government tried to abolish seals in order to emulate the signature system of Europe and the United States, believing that the use of seals was a bad habit, but there was a lot of opposition to abolishing the seal system that had been deeply rooted in Japan and the low literacy rate of the Japanese people at the time.

"In Japan, a seal is a status symbol, and a good seal can only be used by people with a certain social status, and it is a status symbol. Shows formality and status. When signing a document, a relatively formal document should not only have a signature, but also add the person's own private seal or official seal. This shows a kind of rigor and formality. ”

"In ancient times, there was no machine engraving of the seal, so the seal is basically from the hand, different people carved out of the seal is not the same, involving the use of knives, seal materials and a series of equipment, the difficulty of forging the seal and the degree of insurance will be improved. That's why it's stamped. In addition, the position of the seal is also an anti-counterfeiting mark, where it is printed, and the angle of the seal is exquisite, which itself is an anti-counterfeiting mark"

Wu Tianyuan didn't expect the Japanese to attach so much importance to seals, he went to Japan several times and saw that everyone carried seals with them, and when he asked curiously, he found a huge business opportunity!

"After young people enter the company, the company will make a stamp for each employee, which is generally returned when they leave the company, and is used to sign various documents within the company, from contracts to confirmations for reimbursement of transportation expenses. The Japanese also put a lot of effort into the production of stamps, and many companies issue stamps to employees with dates, and the date must be adjusted to the day before each use, and then stamped. ”

"What's more interesting is that Japanese name stamps are all round, but China seems to have more squares, right?" Fujita smiled, "So when I went back to Japan and took out Fang's name stamp, people around me said that it was the first time I saw a name stamp and Fang, and I thought it was very atmospheric and beautiful. ”

Wu Tianyuan laughed and said secretly: "That's because your little Japan is an island country, and you don't have any mineral deposits, so you can only save it!" ”

Sending Fujita away, Wu Tianyuan pondered, and this time he had no opinion to remind him of a new business opportunity, seal!

China's seal carving culture has been passed down for thousands of years, starting from the Qin Dynasty, and the material has changed from bronze to jade and stone. Every auction has a special auction, and his first pot of gold is also obtained through seals.

"Since Little Japan values seals so much, this market is absolutely huge. According to Fujita, horn and plastic medals are now the main popular ones in Japan. Only those with status can use stones or jade medals, and Tian Huangshi can only be used by the best people? ”

Wu Tianyuan was a little excited, there are stone resources in China, and Tianhuangshi is naturally precious, and now it is basically mined. However, there are many other stone species that work well, and the best varieties are not necessarily worse than Tianhuangshi.

"For example, Huang Longyu!"

Wu Tianyuan suddenly remembered a name, Huanglongyu was originally called Yellow Wax Stone, it has the color of Tianhuang, the hardness of jadeite, good hardness, high transparency, bright and rich colors. Because it is produced in Longling, and yellow is the main color, it is finally named Huanglongyu.

It is mainly produced in the Xiaoshan Nature Reserve of Longling County, Baoshan City, Yunnan Province and the surrounding Supa River Basin, which is very close to the jadeite production area of Myanmar, and belongs to the Yunnan-Burma gem and jade metallogenic belt formed by the mutual extrusion of the Eurasian plate and the Indian Ocean plate.

Its main colors are yellow and red, and there are also mutton fat white, blue and white, black, gray, green and other colors. It is known as "yellow as gold, red as blood, white as ice, and black as ink". The yellow ones include golden, honey yellow, egg yolk, chanterelle yellow, orange yellow, loquat yellow and other different shades of yellow. The red ones are chicken blood red, cinnabar red, pork liver red, rose red, light red, water red, etc.

Wu Tianyuan hurriedly asked Wang Hong to collect the latest information about Huanglongyu, and found that at the beginning of 2004, the good mountain material on the market only cost a few yuan per kilogram, but now it has risen to thousands of yuan or even tens of thousands of yuan per kilogram. Due to the scarcity of resources, good seeds, turf, mountain water, grass and flower materials, etc., are difficult to find, and the price is in a rapid and sustained growth. The rapid increase in price has created a miracle in the history of jade.

"I asked an expert, and said that a few years ago, you speculated on Huanglongyu and Kunlun jade, and as a result, the price of raw materials rose hundreds of times. However, in recent years, it has gradually returned to rationality, after all, it is a new variety, and it takes time to precipitate. ”

Wang Hong smiled: "Boss, are you interested?" Although the price of Huanglongyu is rising rapidly, its absolute price is far lower than the 2000-30 million yuan per kilogram of Hetian mutton fat white jade, and a top pendant of jadeite exceeds 100 million yuan, and a top bracelet exceeds 200 million yuan. As one of the three recognized excellent jade species, the value of Huanglongyu is far from being fully reflected, and its investment and collection space is self-evident. ”

Wu Tianyuan nodded and said: "Huanglongyu as a jade culture is indeed inferior to Hetian jade and jadeite, after becoming famous overnight in China, the collection world is mixed, but the reason is because its appearance time is too short, and its unique jade culture has not been formed, and the culture needs a certain amount of time to form." ”

"The early experience of jadeite in China was not satisfactory, and when it first appeared, it was similar to today's Huanglongyu, and it took about seventy or eighty years for it to become the object of everyone's pursuit. With the accumulation of time, the value of this non-renewable natural resource itself is comparable to gold, and the potential for appreciation is huge, and I have reason to believe that Huanglongyu will form a new jade culture. ”

Wu Tianyuan has seen the top Huanglongyu collection, the texture is not worse than Tian Huangshi, this is really a big business opportunity, he hurriedly set off to Longling, Yunnan, to find the Huanglongyu vein, occupy rare resources. (To be continued.) )