After wandering around the market for more than two hours, Yang Jing finally walked out of the west gate with a lot of regrets.
Outside the west gate of the Panjiayuan Flea Market is the north-south Warwick Road. On the east side of this road is a row of business shops, most of which sell jade, jadeite, amber and other things. Of course, there are also those who specialize in seal carving.
Yang Jing looked at the watch. It was just past ten o'clock and he was not hungry, so he simply strolled south along Warwick Road.
The main reason was that Yang Jing remembered that the holy ring could absorb the natural treasure energy from various jade and gemstones, and he had just made eight million the day before yesterday. If he could come across a suitable stone, he could buy it and absorb the treasure energy from it.
However, after Yang Jing entered the shop specializing in jade and jadeite, he lost interest in going in again. There were indeed good things in these shops, but even if Yang Jing had just made 8 million, after seeing those ridiculously high prices, he gave up the idea of buying directly.
Damn, for a piece of 10-kilogram new mine blind material, the boss dared to ask for 200,000 per kilogram. As for the window material, 500,000 or even 1 million per kilogram is common. And the clear material, a fist-sized piece of high ice-type spring-colored, the boss dared to ask for 13 million!
Damn, even robbers are not as evil as you, right?
Even if you have money, you can't spend it in places like this. Spending money here is just like being taken advantage of!
So Yang Jing simply didn't go into the store, and just walked aimlessly along the road south, just to relax.
As he walked, Yang Jing was attracted by a shop across the road whose door was filled with various stones.
Yang Jing just walked along the way and saw that all the store fronts were clean - this is the capital, do you think the urban management here is just for show?
But what happened to this store? How dare the boss be so arrogant? How dare he ignore the Urban Management Brigade of our great country?
Yang Jing crossed the road decisively and walked a few dozen steps before arriving at the store. He discovered that the store was not a traditional street-side store, but was located in a residential area. To be precise, the store named "Qishige" was on the first floor of a 20-story residential building.
There was originally a wrought iron fence on the street side of this high-rise residential building, and inside was the yard of the residents on the first floor of the residential building. However, the owner of the shop made a hole in the wrought iron fence and installed an wrought iron gate of the same style. The gate was open during the day and locked at night. If you didn't look carefully, you couldn't really tell that there was a door on the fence.
Those stones were placed in the yard, not on the street outside, so the Urban Management Brigade certainly couldn't control them...
The gate was open and there was no one in the yard, but Yang Jing noticed that there was a surveillance camera above each door in the yard. These two surveillance cameras were enough to cover the entire yard and a small area outside the gate.
Yang Jing walked in and found that the yard was not small, seven meters by ten meters. There was a lawn in the yard, but now it was all covered by densely packed stones of different sizes and shapes.
Seeing so many stones displayed here, Yang Jing knew at a glance what this shop mainly sells.
Strange stone!
Strange stones refer to naturally formed stones with unusual shapes. Their materials, shapes, colors and patterns are unusual, which can satisfy people's curiosity or aesthetic habits and can be viewed, collected and played with.
Strange stones have been a popular collection since ancient times. It is no exaggeration to say that stone culture is the oldest cultural heritage of mankind. Whether in the Paleolithic Age or the Neolithic Age, humans have begun to use stones, so this culture far exceeds the history of any other human culture.
Moreover, with the gradual development of human civilization, human beings' application of stone has gradually transitioned from the earliest use and utilization of stone to appreciation, and gradually formed a stone appreciation culture.
Strictly speaking, whether it is jade, jadeite or gemstone, they all belong to a kind of stone culture. It's just that jade, jadeite and gemstones have formed another kind of culture after being carved by people, and the stone appreciation culture has gradually formed the traditional stone culture.
The coverage of strange stone culture is very broad. Any naturally formed stone with a strange shape can be called a strange stone. Famous "stones" such as the Flying Stone in Huangshan, the Nine Horses Painting Mountain in Guilin, the Camel Stone, and the Stone Forest in Nanyun are all large natural scenic stones.
Yingshi, Taihu stone, Lingbi stone, etc. are garden landscape stones. There are also some stones specially used to make large, medium and small bonsai, which are bonsai stones.
This is just a rough classification. If we break it down into smaller categories, we may not be able to finish even if we spend a whole day talking about it.
Just like these strange stones displayed in the yard of this shop, most of them fall into the category of garden landscape stones.
Although these stones were of different sizes, the smallest one was estimated to weigh several hundred kilograms. If outsiders wanted to move these stones without mechanical equipment, it would probably take at least four or five people to move them. As for the largest stone, Yang Jing estimated that it weighed at least four or five tons!
If these stones are bought by buyers and placed in the courtyard, they can not only be appreciated, but also play the role of warding off evil spirits. Of course, this involves the more advanced Chinese Feng Shui theory.
But it is undeniable that strange stones have great collection value. In essence, the collection value of strange stones is closely related to or in positive proportion to their appreciation value. The greater the appreciation value of a strange stone, the greater its collection value. The appreciation value of a strange stone determines its collection value. The best ones are pleasing to the eye and loved by everyone.
Some rare stones may only be worth a few dozen yuan, but some rare stones can be worth more than 100 million yuan. As for how to measure the value, it all depends on the degree of recognition of the stone in the buyer's mind.
As the saying goes, "It tastes better than what you eat, and it looks better than what you see." This is exactly what it means.
Of course, some extremely rare stones will have their value no matter whether you like them or not.
It’s like the four great wonders of China – Dongpo Pork, Time, Chick Hatching and Chinese Condor Heron, their value is immeasurable!
But generally speaking, most of the strange stones seen on the market are mid- and low-end ones, with prices ranging from a few thousand to hundreds of thousands.
Just like the stones that Yang Jing is seeing now, in Yang Jing's eyes, their value is not that high.
Yang Jing had never played with strange stones before, but today, when he saw so many strange stones displayed outside, he was attracted. He actually didn't know much about this business, so he didn't know much about the true value of these stones, and could only estimate based on his own preferences.
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