Seventh: Changchun Junzi Orchid.
Changchun Junzi Lan, the gods are also bankrupt. In the 80s of the last century, the whole people of Changchun fried the orchid, and the original few yuan pot of Junzi orchid was fried to 140,000 yuan, and finally the bubble burst, and countless people went bankrupt. Some people say that Junzi Orchid is the earliest IQ tax in China and the earliest private financial bubble event in China, and its nature and trajectory are comparable to the Dutch tulip bubble in the 17th century.
The orchid is not an orchid, but a wildflower native to southern Africa and later introduced to Japan. In the thirties of the 20th century, Junzi orchid flowed into China. In the 80s of the 20th century, Junzi Orchid swept the country, and Changchun became the largest distribution center of Junzi Orchid in China. Raising orchids at home is a true portrayal of Changchun back then. There is nothing wrong with raising orchids, but if it turns into speculation, the flower of sin will bloom and mercilessly devour everyone, pushing them all into the abyss.
Rare varieties, strange forms, elegant temperament, for Changchun people who have just had some money, Junzi Orchid stimulates their taste, but also releases their deep desires. Rumors such as "someone has made a fortune by relying on Junzilan" quietly permeated the sky over Changchun, and the local ** took advantage of the situation to join in and add fuel to the fire.
Around 1980, Junzi Orchid began to be in short supply, and ** went all the way up. A pot of Junzi orchid with better quality was sold for 200 yuan or even higher, while the average monthly salary of Changchun people at that time was less than 50 yuan. But the heart of comparison and the desire to get rich make people lose their nature, and on the windowsills of every household in Changchun, you can see Junzi Orchid everywhere. In Hongqi Street, Changchun, take a pot of Junzi Orchid, you don't need to walk the whole street, and the ** given by the buyer can rise 3 times, so that you can earn doubtful life.
At the beginning of 1985, a large flower farmer surnamed Wang in Changchun sold a pot of Junzi Orchid to a Harbin tyrant for 140,000 yuan. What is the concept of 140,000?According to the house price at that time, this money was enough to buy a full 14 suites in the best location in Changchun!The news "spread far and wide", and the people of Changchun fell into madness, which also pushed them deeper into the abyss. We know that once Pandora's box is opened, the devil will come out of the cage, and the nightmares of humanity will be endless.
The fanatical speculation of the whole people, the game of beating the drum and passing the flowers, finally pushed Junzilan to collapse. When the bubble burst, many Changchun citizens suffered heavy losses and went bankrupt.
Because the Junzi Orchid in their hands can't be sold.
Sixth: Hainan Huanghuali.
From the stalls in the 1980s to China's most precious "King of Mahogany", Hainan Huanghuali has skyrocketed 10,000 times in just 30 years, creating an incredible myth of wealth. But in this myth, some people make a lot of money, and some people are fooled, either losing money by making a mistake in investment, or buying a fake and stomping their feet. The different fates of these people together constitute the true mirror of Haihuang's 30 years of rivers and lakes, which is absurd but true.
Speaking of Huanghuali, people will always instantly think of some words: high-end, precious, rare. In the auction hall over the years, Haihuang's furniture or ornaments can easily fetch tens of millions of sky-high prices, constantly refreshing history and refreshing our perception of wood.
Huanghuali Ancient Tree, Haikou Park.
Some say it is the king of the wood, but others say it is the source of evil. In fact, as early as the 80s of the last century, Hainan Huanghuali was just an ordinary commodity on the stall. In 1985, in the timber market in Hainan, the price of Haihuang raw material was 1 yuan, and you could still buy large materials. However, since the second half of 2002, Haihuang has begun to have a still water undercurrent in the timber trading market, and some ill-intentioned behind-the-scenes speculators have maliciously speculated on the investment value of Haihuang.
At that time, there was such a story in your circle: a businessman surnamed Wen found a case of sea yellow strips in the antique market in Beijing 20 years ago50,000 of ** to buy it. 20 years later, this Haihuang case appeared at an auction, and the final transaction price was 23.5 million, a 1,500-fold increase. Earn hemp!
That's it, 23.5 million yuan.
In just over a decade, Haihuang's growth has soared from 20,000 tons to 8 million tons, and at its peak, it has exceeded 10 million tons, becoming a veritable "king of ten thousand trees." Through this kind of storytelling, more and more speculators are attracted. In the later stage, even if there is really enough financial resources to chase high, it is said that only some small materials can be received, because there is not much stock of Haihuang. According to them, Hainan Huanghuali grows slowly, and it takes at least 200 years from seedlings to mature timber, so now the resources of Haihuang are close to exhaustion, at least in the short term, the raw material fault of Haihuang will not be able to make up, so the theoretical Shanghai Huang's ** expectation will only get higher and higher.
However, for the ** that the sea yellow is higher than the sky, the discerning person knows at a glance that it is a mirror flower. There is no price in the market, and it has become the real scene of the Hainan Huanghuali market later. 5 million, 8 million, 10 million, ** looks beautiful and generous, but does anyone really buy it?Is there a real trading volume?At least in the eyes of many people, that is to make a game, in order to fool the new leeks into taking over the plate and completing the harvest.
What's even more outrageous is that there are all kinds of fake huanghua pears on the market, such as Vietnamese huanghuali pretending to be sea yellow, or in the bead market, directly selling inferior wood as sea yellow.
These counterfeit goods not only damage the interests of consumers, but also make the real value of Haihuang dusted.
Fifth: Pu'er tea.
In southern China, almost every provincial capital city has a tea market where people choose tea, bargain and buy tea. And the tea merchants inside, they deal with tea and tea customers all day long. Tea is their reliance on making a living, and it is also where the joy of life lies. But when tea is endowed with some kind of financial attribute, everything becomes unreal, and the fate of many of them has changed dramatically, and they have even been pushed down the abyss and fallen into a place of no return.
There are many famous teas in China, and Pu'er tea is one of the tea with the longest history, and it is also the tea that has been speculated the most by private tourists. Speculation and foaming have often turned Pu'er tea into a scythe for harvesting leeks over the past few decades. From aged Pu'er fried to ancient Pu'er, from Icelandic fried to Lao Banzhang, from tea tree fried to tea plantation, and even created the latest and peculiar name in the history of world folk finance: financial tea, a kind of Pu'er tea that has been harvested by countless people.
Financial tea, a strange noun, a magical pair. When the tea we drink every day has a magical copulation with such a thing as finance, it instantly becomes hateful. And financial tea, which has been staged several times in the past few decades, rock tea, black tea, and of course, the craziest one has to be Pu'er. The so-called "financial tea" is a kind of financial model speculation led by individual tea merchants and Pu'er tea as the medium, as long as someone places an order, you can find a tea customer to pay a deposit, but do not do the actual spot delivery, and so on after the tea ** soars, it will be sold to the next tea customer by the previous tea customer, and so on.
If you talk about people, it's drumming and passing flowers.
Around 2005, the roasted tea group, which was led by Hong Kong tour capital, began to advocate the concept of "the older Pu'er tea is, the more fragrant it is", and the investment value of Pu'er tea has been speculated to the sky. During that period, there were frequent shocking news of sky-high prices of Pu'er tea, although it was difficult to distinguish between true and false, but the sudden wealth it released really encircled many people. "It's better to save money than to save Pu'er tea" has become the most popular phrase on the streets and alleys, and it has also become the consensus of the tea circle.
By 2007, the entire Pu'er tea market had gone into a frenzy. At Guangzhou's Fangcun Tea Market, tea merchants are smiling, their mouths foaming, and their eyes radiating the light of wealth. They believe that the next Buffett is themselves.
It's a pity that they didn't end up being the next Buffett, but the pick-up man. As more and more money is involved, the bubble of Pu'er tea is getting bigger and bigger, but the admission funds are depleted, and this game of drumming and passing flowers can no longer be played. The bubble burst, and many investors lost so much that the tea they bought with a lot of money could only be piled up in their own warehouses and could no longer be sold.
Chickens fly and eggs are beaten, and chicken feathers are feathered.
Fourth: agarwood.
Is agarwood an IQ tax?Will agarwood become the next Gentleman's Orchid?This is a problem. As the first of the four major spices in ancient times, agarwood is known as the "diamond of the plant world", which has been sought after for thousands of years, and has always been associated with words such as elegance and luxury. However, some people regard it as a treasure, while others call it an IQ tax.
In recent years, the ancient style of agarwood has gradually become a trend, not only let many elegant people fall in love with agarwood, some local tyrants who have a lot of money to be bored, take tens of thousands of grams of Qi Nan to burn incense, and easily burn millions a year, so that people can understand what it means to spend money like earth.
The strong demand has made many people who are keen on collecting and speculating rush in to dig a pot of gold. With the emergence of speculation and speculation, as well as the manipulation of the market behind the scenes by some speculators with ill intentions, there is more and more chaos in this market.
A few years ago, ** reported a news story that sounded rather hilarious. A wealthy female businesswoman in Beijing, who was overwhelmed by the charming aroma of agarwood, bought a string of agarwood bracelets for 450,000 yuan at the fair, went home and found that something was not right, and asked an expert for identification, and the expert said: "Fake!".50 pieces are not worth it. "The rich businesswoman almost died of anger.
At present, the domestic agarwood market is filled with a large number of fake agarwood, and the situation of fake and shoddy abounds, and fakes are flying all over the sky, making it difficult for people to distinguish the real from the fake, and they will fall into the pit if they are not careful.
What's even more worrying is that in the circle of agarwood, there are now strong hints of "relying on the collection of agarwood to counterattack and turn over". For example, the Qinan bracelet that I bought for thousands of yuan in the early years can now be exchanged for a suite in Beijing. Another example: a big boss who lives in a villa on the outskirts of Beijing, still set up a stall in Panjiayuan in the early years, and later started by collecting agarwood, and is now worth more than 100 million.
Similar wealth stories are involving more and more people, and such scenes are easily reminiscent of Junzilan back then. Will agarwood collapse?See.
Third: jadeite.
Troubled times**, prosperous times play. From Hetian jade to Hainan Huanghuali, from Wenwan walnut to Huanglongyu, and then to the dzi in recent years, the water of antiques is very deep, and the muddy water of jade is bottomless. There is a saying in the jade circle: persuade the gentleman not to play jadeite, and play jade to ruin his life. In the early years, the plot of the movie "Crazy Stone" starring Huang Bo was caused by a piece of jadeite, but in reality, the story of jadeite is far more exciting and bizarre than the movie.
After the investment boom in **, speculation Pu'er, speculation Tibetan mastiff and so on, jadeite has become a new target for private funds, and it has soared all the way over the years, and the more the price rises, the more sought-after. Although there are always people who ** the jade bubble is about to burst, but to this day, the jade still seems to be very strong, and there seems to be no ceiling.
Why is jadeite being fried?Hit a scarcity. Jadeite, also known as Burmese jade, is currently produced in many countries around the world, but 95% of gem-quality jadeite comes from Myanmar. And jadeite, which is a non-renewable resource, means that jadeite will only be mined less and less. And we all know that scarcity is expensive, and the scarcer it is, the more valuable it is, which is the root of the hype of jadeite.
In the mountainous areas of Myanmar, despite decades of development, jadeite mining methods are still very primitive. Through the short ** on Douyin, we can see that whenever the horn sounds, a large number of quarrymen rush wildly, and there is a sense of sight that the six major sects are besieging Guangmingding. Subsequently, these jade miners tied ropes around their waists, jumped into the water by biting plastic pipes, found jadeite raw materials by touching their hands and feet, and then carried them ashore with bamboo baskets, which is the real scene of jadeite mining in Myanmar.
In the early years, in the auction of jadeite public market, there was a very prominent phenomenon: connoisseurs looked at 1 million raw materials, often doubled the bid (2 million to buy) and could not be auctioned, and finally were bought by others for 3 million**. In the 2004 jade public auction held in Myanmar, a piece of old Hpakant jade material, in March, the price of 180,000 euros was not wanted, but in the blink of an eye, in June, this piece of material was re-hung out, and it was 7590,000 euros were sold, a full quadruple in three months.
However, how popular it used to be, how lonely it is now. According to industry insiders, in recent years, the domestic jadeite market has long lost its former glory. Affected by the economic environment, fewer and fewer people buy jadeite, and there are even fewer large transactions of more than 300,000 yuan.
In the jade and jade market in Pingzhou, Foshan, Guangdong, a female boss told the reporter that they have now mainly switched to live broadcasting, "no one buys offline, and no one comes to watch". There is also a boss who said that in the early years, how could he make one or two million sales a month, but in the past two years, selling tens of thousands of yuan every month will burn high incense.
But is it really because the economic environment is not good?
Second: purple clay pot.
Hetian jade, mahogany, jade, antique calligraphy and painting, finally it is the turn of the purple clay pot. From 2008, when the first purple sand artworks in China appeared in the form of a special auction, to 2014, when the most fanatical trading cycle in the history of purple sand pots appeared, it was difficult to find a master pot, and the works of some young artists were also auctioned at a sky-high price of millions at every turn, which directly made some connoisseurs look stupid. However, bubbles are bubbles after all, compared with previous years, today's purple clay pot market has entered a dormant period, and even some high-level workers and masters have no price.
The purple clay pot is a traditional Chinese folk art, and many people like to use it to make tea. Many years ago, the purple clay pot was also frantically hyped by some private tourists, seriously deviating from its value category as a tea utensil.
Some famous artists, that is, the purple clay pots made by masters, are even more difficult to find, and have repeatedly set sky-high transaction records. Not only that, but some young artists who have just emerged have also soared with chickens and dogs, and their works have been bought in an instant with ** that stunned them. What's even more bizarre is that the transaction price of the works of some contemporary Zisha artists has even exceeded that of many old pots of the Ming and Qing dynasties, which makes many famous Zisha artists of the older generation fall directly below the glasses.
In those years, the entire purple clay pot rivers and lakes fell into a completely irrational frenzy. The hot ** attracted more speculators, who flocked to it with a lot of banknotes, hoping to replicate the success of Haihuang and Hetian jade, and then cut a stubble of leeks.
Under the dual stimulation of money and fame, the demons in the purple clay pot circle danced wildly, interpreting the appearance of all beings. Some craftsmen with high skills but not enough fame are so anxious that their works cannot be sold at a high price. Later, some brains pinched their fingers, and there were!How to play?Borrowed seals. It turns out that as long as it is stamped with the master's seal, the value of the work will double, and it will soar directly to tens of thousands or even millions!The money came too quickly.
Even more outrageous!Some people who are anxious for quick success and quick profit feel that they can't get up by pinching mud in the house every day, so they go directly to kowtow, serve a cup of tea, and apprentice to famous artists and masters, so that their works can sell well, or sell **.
There were also some shameless masters, and they didn't bother to pinch the mud, so they asked their apprentices to help him make pots, and began to count the money with their own big seals. I said, why don't you just grab it?
In addition to this bizarre way of borrowing and printing, OEM pots, etc., there are also many pot dealers who are shoddy, and even directly use pulp, chemical, and locomotive pots to pretend to be **pots**, these people are dedicated to fooling consumers and cutting the leeks of the people.
It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and now, due to the combined effect of many factors, the purple clay pot market has already changed, not to mention that no one cares, at least those sky-high pots are already priceless, and those masters who are hungry for profit can finally stop.
At the end of the song, people are scattered, chicken feathers are everywhere, and the purple clay pot is full of human nature.
First: Clematis.
From cordyceps sinensis to dendrobium, from wild ginseng to black wolfberry, and then to the sour jujube kernel that is currently being fried, traditional Chinese medicinal materials have always been the hardest hit areas for private tourists. Among the hyped Chinese medicinal materials, of course, there is also golden clematis, a wild plant that was once praised as a "sacred grass", which was fried to 230,000 catties at its peak, and was also frantically dug by people, directly dug to the endangered, and finally chicken feathers.
Golden clematis is mainly distributed in southern provinces and cities such as Fujian and Jiangxi. As early as ancient times, clematis was regarded as a rare herb among the people, and it was a good medicine for the doctors of the past dynasties to hang the pot to help the world. It is rumored that during the five dynasties at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the mother of the King of Min suffered from an incurable disease, and the King of Min praised it as "the king of a hundred medicines and the ** of grass" because of the miraculous use of golden clematis
In the first ten years of the last century, the common people had some money and began to pay attention to health care, which also gave birth to many health care products and sky-high "miracle medicines", and golden clematis as the ancient "king of medicine", its rare output and long-term accumulation of huge fame, let these private capital see business opportunities. So these people created momentum on the **, saying that the golden clematis was a special royal product for the ancient emperors, a "miracle medicine" that had been verified by thousands of generations of doctors, and a health preservation product of extraordinary value.
At that time, the common people were very simple, and when they heard that there was such a good thing, they didn't pay for it obediently!As a result, under the speculation of these pharmacists and speculators, the price of golden clematis has skyrocketed and gone straight to the sky. At its most exaggerated, it even reached an astonishing 230,000 catties!Such a high **, even the later Cordyceps sinensis is ashamed of itself. What's even more terrifying is that driven by interests, people began to go into the mountains to dig clematis, according to the memories of people in the circle back then, those who dig clematis are crazy, they dig when they see it, no matter how big or small, they all have to dig home. The frenzied excavation led to a sharp decrease in the number of golden clematis in just a few years, and finally it was directly dug into the list of "National Wild Protected Plants".
Heaven wants you to perish, and you must first make it mad. Because the wild clematis has been dug up, and the market demand is very strong, what should I do?Then engage in planting. In 2015, artificially planted clematis appeared for the first time in Fujian, and it was the advent of artificially planted clematis that finally pushed this "sky-high price of divine grass" into the abyss.
Many growers blindly follow the trend of planting, and the golden clematis that used to require old farmers to go into the mountains to dig can now be planted directly in the greenhouse, and the number is so large that it cannot be dug up in eight lifetimes. In addition, some unscrupulous merchants took the opportunity to deceive and made the golden clematis market into a miasma, and the common people finally saw through the tricks of these people and no longer bought lotus, so the golden clematis fell below 100 yuan at the worst.
Golden clematis has fallen, but in Fujian, there is now another sky-high "magic drug", and the movement it has made is that the ancestor of the "magic medicine" of golden clematis will also call a big brother!Just because the bubble it created is so high, the huge amount of capital it has inhaled, and its influence on China's capital market is unprecedented.
But consumers are not stupid, they will see through it sooner or later.