Jade has not been popular in China for a long time. Although it appeared very early, it was only recognized and accepted by the world during the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.
The rise of jade fashion has to be mentioned. The two famous women who led this trend were both powerful in modern Chinese history. One was the Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty who ruled China for half a century, and the other was a former member of the Kuomintang.
"First Lady" Soong Meiling.
Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty loved jade carvings all her life. After her death, many jade products and red and sapphires were also buried together. There were two jade watermelons with green skin and red flesh, black seeds and white silk, which were worth 5 million taels of silver at that time.
Two emerald cabbages, with green leaves and white stems, a green grasshopper hanging on the heart, and two yellow bees next to the green leaves, worth 10 million taels of silver. This shows how much Empress Dowager Cixi likes emeralds, and also marks the "draper curtain"
The ruler of "Tingzheng" was extremely luxurious, but these objects were later stolen by Sun Dianying. One of them is now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, while the jade cabbage is missing.
Song Meiling is also famous for her love of jade. In the 1930s, a Beijing jadeite king bought a piece of jade material with excellent green color. He found a skilled craftsman to carve it into a pair of bracelets. The style was novel and the jade quality was as bright as water.
It turned out that Du Yuesheng, the leader of the Shanghai Youth Gang, bought the bracelet for 40,000 yuan. When Soong Meiling saw the jade bracelet worn by Mrs. Du, she fell in love at first sight and couldn't put it down. Mrs. Du had to give it to Soong Meiling.
At Soong Meiling's 100th birthday party in 1997, when this famous woman with a traditional bun and a black cheongsam appeared in front of many guests and the media, people were shocked. She was seen wearing a complete set of jade jewelry: jade earrings
Nails, jade bead necklaces, jade bracelets, and jade rings. The color and texture of the entire set of jade jewelry are of the highest quality. Dressed in the entire set of jade jewelry, even though he is a centenarian, he is still so graceful, elegant, and elegant.
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According to estimates by some experts, the set of jade jewelry worn by Soong Meiling is worth more than 100 million yuan, which shows Soong Meiling's love for jade.
Due to the love of these two celebrities for jade in modern times, jade has also won the reputation of "King of Jade".
The jadeite that the two women above love is all green jadeite that grows well. Therefore, in the early days of jadeite craze in China, people highly praised green jadeite. In the 1980s and 1990s, green woolen materials were
It is several times or even dozens of times higher than jadeite of other colors. Because jadeites of other colors are usually mixed together, many people disdain jadeites such as red, yellow, blue, and purple.
However, in recent years, jadeite with a single and pure color has gradually become more and more popular, especially blood jade bracelets made of the best red jadeite "cockscomb red", which cost tens of millions per pair, compared to the glass emperor
Jade jewelry made of green is even rarer.
The reason why Zhuang Rui was dumbfounded when he looked at this piece of wool was because he knew the value of red jade. Not long ago, when he was still working in a pawn shop, a multinational auction jointly owned by China Overseas and an overseas company sold a pair of top grade red jade.
Blood jade bracelets made of jade, these two bracelets were sold at a price of 13.88 million RMB.
At that time, Zhuang Rui had the opportunity to observe this pair of bracelets at close range. Its color and seed water were very similar to the red jade in this piece of wool. I don't know if it was because the jade in the wool was too large. Zhuang Rui even had a feeling in his heart.
, the color of that pair of bracelets seems not as bright and bright as the jade in this piece of wool.
Zhuang Rui took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit the fire with slightly trembling hands. After deeply inhaling the smoke into his lungs, he didn't know if the nicotine had taken effect. Zhuang Rui's excitement slowly calmed down.
When he got down, he didn't rush to look at the piece of wool again, but quietly finished smoking the cigarette in his hand before returning his gaze to the piece of wool.
This time, Zhuang Rui's mood was much calmer. He was no longer attracted by the bright red color. Instead, after observing the distribution of red jade in the entire piece of wool, he quickly withdrew his spiritual energy.
Even though Zhuang Rui had calmed down just now, his heart was still beating like a drum. His heart was beating hard, as if it was about to jump out of his throat. Zhuang Rui quickly stood up and returned to the pile of gambling materials.
, found the rest of the drink he drank, poured it all into his mouth in one breath, and then calmed down again.
Zhuang Rui is usually a very stable person. He has seen a lot of the world. Fatty Ma's 40 million has never made him so excited. But the scene he just saw made Zhuang Rui just think in his heart.
At that moment, I couldn't help but feel my heart beat faster and my blood vessels swell.
This piece of wool is between forty and sixty centimeters long and wide. It can be considered a large piece of wool. A rough estimate should be more than a hundred kilograms. What Zhuang Rui saw was that the weight of this piece of wool was
In the middle, there is a third of the area, which is about the size of two footballs, and it is all filled with this kind of almost transparent, bright and top-quality red jade.
On the lower right side of this piece of red jade, there is a small area separated by red mist. It is also red jade, but the water head is not so pure, and the red is slightly brown. In other words, this piece of wool weighs more than 100 kilograms.
Among them, it can produce at least thirty kilograms of the best red jade.
Zhuang Rui made a quick calculation in his mind. That big piece of red jade should be able to produce at least twenty pairs of bracelets. From the remaining materials, there would be no problem in carving out hundreds of pendants and toy pieces. Just these things.
It's already worth hundreds of millions, not counting the water next to it, which is not very good.
Although after possessing the superpower in his eyes, Zhuang Rui was not short of money. Even if Fatty Ma offered 40 million to buy a white lion, he could sternly refuse it. However, facing this piece of top-quality jade worth hundreds of millions, Zhuang Rui would not
I can't keep calm anymore. It would be difficult for anyone to resist this temptation.
In fact, Zhuang Rui's calculation of the value of this piece of wool was somewhat off. A pair of blood jade bracelets made of top-grade red jade can indeed fetch tens of millions. But if more than twenty pairs of blood jade bracelets appear at the same time, the price will definitely be higher.
It will plummet, so if he wants to sell at the price he wants, he can only release one pair in a few years. If he sells all the more than 20 pairs of bracelets, it may take decades.
Zhuang Rui naturally won't think about this at this moment. Now he is only thinking about how to buy this piece of wool. If the reason left in his heart hadn't told him to calm down, Zhuang Rui would have even wanted to spend all his wealth directly.
Immediately pull this piece of wool away. This piece of wool does not belong to him for a moment, and Zhuang Rui can't feel at ease for a moment.
"Boss Yu, these are the pieces. Take them out and put them together first."
Song Jun's voice rang in the warehouse, and then Boss Yu and the broker Mustache pushed a very simple luggage trolley and put several pieces of raw stone wool that Master Peng had selected and marked on the trolley.
In the car, we pulled them together to a table by the door.
"There are five pieces of wool in total. Three of them are very good. The total weight is 140 kilograms. Master Peng is an expert. I don't dare to charge this price randomly. The total is 6.6 million. Everyone is trying to figure it out.
Geely, what do you think, Boss Song?"
Boss Yu held a calculator in his hand, looked at the semi-finished wool on the ground one by one, clicked it, and after a while, he calculated such a number.
Zhuang Rui also came closer at this moment, looking at the pieces of wool that Master Peng had chosen.
These pieces are all semi-finished wool with the skylight opened. Judging from the green color that is rubbed out, the performance is very different. Among them, the green color of three pieces has reached the level of ice, and the three pieces of wool are not the same size.
It's small, each piece weighs about 40 kilograms. If the green color can seep into it, it doesn't need to be much. If it's about 7 or 8 centimeters, you should be able to take out two or three pairs of ice bracelets. It will be stable.
You can't lose money.
It's just that these pieces of wool have a very small "lock" in the green areas, which makes the pieces of wool become uncertain. There is a jargon in the stone gambling circle called "Don't be afraid of big cracks, be afraid of small locks."
Cracks are extremely harmful to jadeite. Large cracks are easy to observe, and it is easy to see the extent of their impact on jadeite. However, because the cracks are small and easy to change, they can be large or small, deep or shallow, which is difficult to see.
Elusive, due to the concealment and changeability of the locks, it is difficult to grasp, so there is a saying "Don't be afraid of big cracks, be afraid of small locks".
However, along with risks, there are often opportunities. Jadeite raw stones are unpredictable. Although wool with tufts is extremely risky, the structure of the jade inside is likely to be destroyed by these fine tufts. However, it is also possible that these are epigenetic fissures. The so-called
Epigenetic cracks refer to those formed after the jadeite is formed. Such cracks will not affect the jadeite inside, and the probability of producing the best quality is extremely high.
Most people usually gamble on sex. In addition, there are also types of gambling and land gambling. There are some people with strong speculative psychology who gamble on cracks and fog. Although this is very risky,
The price of cracked wool is generally not very expensive. After the bet goes up, the profit will be quite high, which is directly proportional to the risk. Obviously, Master Peng can be regarded as this kind of person.
After Zhuang Rui used his flashlight to see the fine strands on the pieces of wool, he immediately released his spiritual energy and looked inside the wool. At this glance, he was immediately impressed by Master Peng, who didn't talk much and was a bit dull.
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Zhuang Rui saw through his spiritual energy that the cracks on these three pieces of wool turned green after about four or five centimeters, and the cracks also disappeared. The jadeite inside was also good, with two pieces almost reaching
The glass is on the ground, and the other one is a little worse than the ice. But even so, if these three pieces of wool are cut into pieces, it is still possible to sell them by the thousands.
"Boss Yu, your price is a bit unfair..."
Just when Zhuang Rui knelt down to look at these pieces of wool, the price had already been discussed over there. It seemed that Master Peng was an expert on wool, but bargaining and bargaining was what Song Jun and Boss Song were good at.
