Chapter 205: Strange Prices (Medium)

The boss surnamed Luo invested more than 60 million yuan in the orchid market in one go, and several of them were sky-high orchids worth more than two million. But the result? Orchids that were once worth two million can now only be sold for more than 100,000 yuan, and the prices of other flower seedlings worth tens of thousands have also plummeted, 80,000, 60,000, 300 yuan, and 200 yuan......

"It's miserable enough."

The boss surnamed Luo is not like Qin Xuebing, he has a lot of careers, and he was trapped for more than 60 million at a time, and there must be a problem with the capital chain: "But I just can't figure it out, how did they fry a flower to a sky-high price?" ”

"How do antiques sell for sky-high prices?" Ye Zijing asked rhetorically, although there is a difference between the way of frying orchids and frying antiques, it is actually the same truth.

"The most direct way to do this is through auctions." Qin Xuebing said, hyping antiques, an antique that was not originally very expensive suddenly sold at the auction, and the price of similar antiques immediately skyrocketed.

"That's why there are flower fairs and flower shows, as long as you can show your face at the flower fairs and flower shows and earn enough fame, you can pull up the price of the entire orchid variety."

Ye Zijing thought for a while and said: "But one of the most typical ways to speculate on orchids is to have several well-funded dealers invest millions of dollars in the orchid market to join forces. The dealer buys a batch of orchids at a price of 30,000 seedlings, and then sells them at a price of 50,000 seedlings, and the partner dealer buys them back and sells them to another dealer at a high price of 100,000 yuan. Constantly buying and selling, causing the price of one or several orchid varieties to soar, attracting other investors to follow suit. The market price deviates far from its own value.

When a large amount of money entered the market, the story of orchids making rich was produced in large numbers. And when it was expected that there would be no more money injection, the dealer threw out a large number of orchids in his hands. Cash out of it and walk away. The price of blue will inevitably fall due to the lack of sufficient financial support.

experienced an economic crisis. The orchid market is also relatively rational, and sky-high orchids will not appear so casually. Today we went to the shop of Boss Huai Yonghuai, this Boss Huai is a person who really likes orchids and has never been involved in the hype of orchids, so when the economic crisis comes, it will have little impact on him. ”

may have been with Lan for a long time, 64-year-old Wang Yonghuai looks 10 years younger than his actual age, and the expression on his face is calm and kind. As an old orchid friend who has been raising flowers for more than 40 years. He has always looked at the ups and downs of the orchid market with a normal heart, "I have never participated in the hype of orchids, and I have never spent a lot of money to buy orchids." ”

In 994, Huaiyong was on a business trip and met an old farmer on the mountain at the door of the inn, with a pot of lotus petals and three seedlings blooming. There is also a lone seedling of dragon root orchid, the old man said to Huaiyong that he has been setting up a stall for a day, but he has not sold it, and he has to wait for money to buy some daily necessities to go home. He saw that Sanmiao lotus petal was planted in a broken enamel bowl, which was an ordinary lotus petal. It has been seriously scorched, there is a dragon root seedling next to it, it looks like a lotus petal, ask the old farmer price, the old farmer said ten yuan a seedling, Wang Yonghuai felt that the orchid was not good, not worth the price, but the old farmer was not easy, so he bought these seedlings of orchids for forty yuan.

Huaiyong took care of these orchids. Finally, it bloomed for the first time in 1999, and it was a "blockbuster" and cultivated many seedlings, each of which cost more than 600,000 yuan.

Now, Huaiyong has thousands of pots of orchids, and there are more than 10 varieties cultivated from raw grass alone, all of which are raised on the balcony and on the roof, so that the orchid can make friends.

Walking into the Huaiyong orchid shop, the first thing that catches your eye is not an orchid, but an orchid picture, with obvious Yang? State school style and solid realism skills.

"This is a painting by Wang Lanruo, a famous modern longevity painter, who is an old friend of Boss Huaiyong, and specially sent this painting to him." Ye Zijing once thought about buying this painting, but it was a gift from an old friend, so how could Huaiyong sell it.

"The painter who is over 100 years old?" Qin Xuebing has some impressions of this old painter, mainly because he is old enough.

What needs to be particularly emphasized is the richness of Wang Lanruo's painting themes and the realism of the depiction, which may also be Wang Lanruo

As an artist with a special marriage to the Shanghai School tradition, Wang Lanruo's paintings are one of the main reasons why they were able to establish an independent and self-existing style in art.

As we all know, traditional Chinese painting, especially literati painting, is often within the scope of a few themes that have been circulated and passed down through constant repetition to obtain the so-called verification of the taste of brush and ink. As the modern inheritors of this form of value, the vast majority of Shanghainese artists of Wang Lanruo's generation are no exception, and some artists cannot even get out of the scope of being "circled" by masters such as Wu Changshuo for the rest of their lives.

On the contrary, Wang Lanruo's choice of subjects is almost never taboo, from idle flowers and wild grasses, moving and diving plants, from figures to landscapes, what the eyes see, what feelings feel, almost everything is painted, and everything is painted. Although his solid realistic modeling ability comes from the systematic sketching training obtained from the classroom exercises in Shanghai that year, his willingness to and persist in sketching for a long time is obviously the main reason why this ability has been strengthened and sublimated in continuous exploration.

According to his relatives and friends, Wang Lanruo never gave up the opportunity to sketch the objects he was interested in, such as buying crabs at home, he often painted and then cooked, cooked and painted again. In one of the books on his desk, the author has visually inspected the works of this kind of crab, which accurately reproduce the images of various varieties of crabs with teeth and claws from a variety of perspectives, with varying brushstrokes and colors.

Obviously, the aesthetic value of this kind of training should not be underestimated, because it may be all kinds of laziness and trickery that are high-profile in the name of promoting the spirit of traditional art that have led many artists who claim to have "epiphany" of the "secret" of Chinese painting art into the wrong path of self-deception.

"Ye girl, are you going to buy orchids again?" Huai Yong said with a smile, Ye Zijing is their big customer here. Because Ye Zijing's efforts to raise orchids are really flattering, an orchid will suddenly die after not long in raising, so it needs to be updated in the market.

"Boss Huai, have you cultivated any new varieties here?" Ye Zijing blushed slightly, from childhood to adulthood, there were no less than 100 pots of orchids that died in her hands, which can be called a spicy hand destroying flower maniac.

"No, it's impossible to breed new varieties in two or three years." Huaiyong also wants to breed new varieties, and as a senior orchid friend, cultivating new varieties is undoubtedly the greatest achievement.

However, every orchid needs a long process from cultivation to mutation and then to reproduction, otherwise the orchid will not be speculated to such a high price.

"What's the best introduction?"

Ye Zijing thought for a while, and said: "One pot for each variety, help me introduce five or six varieties." ”

"Ye girl, you are engaged in wholesale."

It's also a shame that Huaiyong is familiar with Ye Zijing, otherwise he would have thought she was frying orchids: "By the way, how about the batch I bought back last time?" ”

"It's all good, it's growing well, and this time I bought orchids to decorate a new house." Ye Zijing's face was not red and she was not panting.

"She doesn't have orchids at all." Qin Xuebing was secretly amused, he didn't see an orchid when he went to Ye Zijing's house last time, it seems that this girl is also an expert in "raising flowers", just like raising small animals, she will not be spared.

"I see, follow me to the roof, there are more choices." Huaiyong led the two of them to the top of the building, where about 500 orchids were planted, and the rest were in flower beds in the suburbs.

"This is the dragon root orchid, the most satisfying variety I have ever bred." Huaiyong pointed to a few flower pots, his face was full of relief, after the interview of Longgen Orchid, he was immediately included in the flower secretary, and his name will be passed down from generation to generation.

"There are already buds, so the flowering period should not be far away, right?" Qin Xuebing doesn't know much about flowers, especially orchids, there are too many varieties, even senior orchid friends can't master all orchids.

"It's going to be soon, and it will bloom during the Chinese New Year." Huaiyong said.

"Spring is blooming, just in time."

Qin Xuebing smiled slightly, and asked again: "By the way, why is it called the Dragon Root Orchid, is it because its roots are like dragons?" ”

"Like a dragon's claws."

Huaiyong was very patient and said: "But this is not the point, no matter how beautiful the roots are, they are buried in the ground, and the eyes cannot see them, the most important thing about the orchid is its ornamental value, and the dragon root orchid is the best choice regardless of leaf shape, flower bud or opening product." ”

Variety identification is the identification of the comprehensive quality of orchids, and it is the most important science to show the skill of Yilan. Therefore, everyone in Yilan has been extremely cautious about this, never jumping to conclusions, and always pursuing the principle of "three looks".

A look at the shape of the leaves, is the so-called: watch the flowers for a while, enjoy the leaves all year round.

In the flowerless season, the main basis for people's identification of famous orchids is to look at the leaf shape, including leaf buds, plant shape, etc. The color of the orchid buds when they are unearthed has a certain reference role in the appreciation of orchid varieties, and the budding stage needs to be carefully observed. Generally speaking. Where the new shoots are white, white-green, and green, the spring orchid is generally a plain heart variety, and the orchid is mostly a plain heart or green flower; The tip of the bud has a white rice-shaped "white peak", and it is possible to produce fine flowers.

Second, look at the buds.

The traditional orchid not only has its own characteristics in leaf shape, but also has its flower buds. Therefore, people should look at both the leaf shape and the flower bud when identifying. Regarding the identification of flower buds, the predecessors summed up the "nine forms and eight styles" of Lan Hui's head shape and the "five doors and eight styles" of Huihua small row bells. These valuable experiences are of great benefit to us in identifying varieties and are worthy of our good digestion and absorption.

Third, look at the opening product.

The most direct and effective identification of orchid varieties is to look at their opening products, which is also the main reason for the introduction of varieties to see flowers. Generally speaking, as long as the product is in place, you can identify what kind of variety it is by seeing the flowers.

But everything has its particularity, the same variety of orchid is often different due to different planting methods, such as Song Mei can bloom four or five kinds of flower shapes, green clouds, Xishen can also bloom several different flower shapes, but we can not conclude that they are different varieties because of their different products. Therefore, Wu Enyuan, a generation of orchid artists, said: "Because the planting method is good or bad, the opening product has a high ear." That's what I'm talking about.

"Boss Huai, what is the price of Longgen Orchid?" Qin Xuebing heard it in a fog, he didn't know anything about these at all, but looking at Ye Zijing's expression, he seemed to be very satisfied with the Dragon Root Orchid.

: Thanks to the support of the Tibetan friend "Honest Man 888" monthly pass, there are still two votes away from 30 votes, can it be solved today? I started packing up my things and moving the house, and it was raining heavily outside, which was really painful. (To be continued......)