"I bought a few pieces of 'exclusive' Huanglongyu bracelets that I bought heavily. Later I found that all of them were made of cotton." Recently, Mr. Lin from the jadeite business talked to the Nanfang Daily reporter about his early collection of Huang Longyu's experience, and he showed a disappointment. . In Guangzhou Jewellery and Jade Market, Mr. Lin is a very experienced jade wholesaler. However, facing Huang Longyu, a new member of the jade family, he is a stranger.

Huang Longyu is a new type of jade found in the riverbed of Yunnan Longling County in 2004. It was formally entered into the “National Gem and Stone List” by the state and became a natural jade equivalent to Jadeite and Hetian jade. Since then, a large number of private capital has poured into the production area, and Huang Longyu’s worth has soared. Because Huanglong jade is rich in color, coupled with full oiliness and excellent hardness, toughness, luster and transparency, it is often compared with jade, Xinjiang Hetian jade, Tianhuang, bloodstone and other traditional beauty stones. The industry has always been eye-catching, and even hailed as the only jade neophyte that can push Hadakata and Jade in the development momentum.

However, with the fame of the rising tide, Huang Longyu's phenomenon of rising from the cotton has also attracted the attention of collectors all these years. Especially for non-professional players like Mr. Lin who used to spend a lot of money to participate in the collection, they are not clear. These few collections in their own hands are growing up. In the end, it is only an accident in an individual sense, or Huang Longyu. Has a universal fatal injury.

Shrinking the industry with shoddy attention In many collectors' eyes, raising is an unfamiliar concept.

The so-called cotton, generally translucent to slightly transparent white clouds, irregular mesh, veins of light-colored floc. It is based on this appearance characteristic that industry insiders have compared this phenomenon on jade to the “rise”.

According to a survey of geology data, the reporter found that Mian was actually formed of aggregates of fine pores or hidden cracks in jade. The main fillers were some air or a small amount of liquid with a density much lower than that of jade. When there is light, these air or liquids are usually scattered or refracted, and show a slightly transparent floc. The existence of cotton often results in the loss of a transparent and warm beauty in the texture of a piece of jade material. Therefore, it has always been regarded by the industry as a “cockroach” that can directly affect the value of the jade material.

Luo Zhuying, vice president of the China Ornamental Stone Association, is the first collector to enter the Huanglong jade collection field. His earliest knowledge of Huang Longyu can be traced back to 2004 when a Guangxi owner was working as a hydropower station in Longling County. He accidentally discovered this stone in the river that resembled yellow wax stone but looked more beautiful. A few friends of his hometown came over to identify. Among them, a stone friend knows that Luo Zhuying is also very “crazy” when he plays the stone, so he calls it.

“In the early days of Huang Longyu’s discovery, because there were not many people playing, the markets circulated the finest materials that had been fished in the river, so I didn’t hear anyone’s stuff was cottoned.” Luo Zhuanying told reporters: The problem is that Huang Longyu emerged as a nationally recognized new jade species in the jade market, and Shiyou and jewelers from across the country have flooded into this area. The good things in the river were quickly lost, and later people could only go to the mountains and grab the mountains.

Dan Weibo, deputy director of the Guangdong Ornamental Stone Association and an advisor to the Huanglong Jade Association of Yunnan Province, was also a big player in Guangdong's early entry into Huanglongyu's collection field. He also confirmed to reporters that in the first few years, it was easy to buy top grades across the country. The material can even be said to be all over the place, but as the capital chasing Huanglong Yu is getting more and more, even if you go to Longling, it is not so easy to find a few pieces of fine material.

Tan Siyun, who has been assisting Tan Weibo to manage Huang Longyu's business all these years, revealed to reporters that the problem of heaving was because good materials appeared in the late stage of the market, and some unscrupulous merchants sold them to customers in order to gradually cause problems. Market attention. In the first few years, Huang Longyu’s prices have soared. Some industry players are thinking of making quick money. At that time, most of the Huanglong jade lovers were at the entry stage. They did not understand the quality of Huang Longyu. Under the marketing of bad businessmen, they bought lots of defective products.

However, Tan Siyun said that after years of development, Huang Longyu's industry has gradually matured, and Huang Longyu's players have accumulated a wealth of experience through previous failures, and there are more and more people who distinguish between good and bad. In the market of Yunnan, the origin of Huanglongyu, there is also a clear dividing line. A good price is very high, and the defective product price is so low that nobody buys it.

It is not Huang Longyu's unique phenomenon. Currently, Huang Longyu's raw materials are varied. However, the main raw materials in the market are mountains, aquatic hides, turf, shallow pits, deep pits, mountain streams, and seeds. Wait. Among them, the most popular among collectors is seed, mountain stream and turf.

So, what kind of raw materials is more likely to lift cotton? According to some people in the industry, high-quality seed, mountain water, and turf are generally not raised. Yu Liangcai, the head of Huang Longyu, a professional wholesaler of Guangzhou Hualin International Jewelry City, told reporters that Qiang Mian is because the material is relatively new. In this regard, rising or more seen in the mountains, aquatic hides, shallow pit material, deep pit material.

Aquatic plants are a very popular material for the Huanglong jade collection industry. According to analysis by experts in the industry, most of the aquatic plants will start growing. Not only is the water plants of Huang Longyu having this phenomenon, but in other aquatic plants, the lifting of cotton is also a common phenomenon. This is mainly caused by aquatic plants. The condition and shape of the decision, with mineralogical inevitability. During the formation of Huanglongyu, under the effect of external temperature, humidity, physical pressure, and tectonic stress, jade materials may leave traces of feldspar in the form of cracks, hidden cracks, and other forms. The elements such as manganese and iron are gradually soaked and infiltrated into the crevices of the jade material during the formation of the jade material. After long-term precipitation, the aquatic weeds that we can see are formed. These micro-cracking pores also create conditions for the raising of the cotton. As a result, aquatic flowers that do not have the slightest tendency to thrive without maintenance are very rare.

In fact, rising cotton is not a unique phenomenon of Huang Longyu, but is widely present in other types of jade.

Experts in the industry pointed out that other jades also have a rising phenomenon. When the jade material has uneven, jade poor, thick sandwich, or exposed to dry rock beach and weathering dehydration and dry, often from the cotton phenomenon; when weak and not significant, with oil People can be eliminated. However, dry, intersticed cotton, fissured cotton, mesh cotton, although the treatment of oil conservation hidden method can temporarily disappear, but when the oil or water evaporation volatile cotton will be more or less reappear.

However, according to an anonymous expert from the Geological Bureau of Guangdong Province, it is unscientific to identify which kind of jade material is easy to grow from different raw materials.

The expert told the reporter that Huang Longyu's promotion was related to the cause of this type of jade. The National Standard of Jade, the definition of Huanglong jade, is a species of chalcedony. These chalcedony are formed on the basis of structural breccia by the action of low-temperature hydrothermal fluids, which contain water in geological sense. After the finished products are finished, some of the chalcedony lose water. Many people asked why Taishan Jade was not able to raise cotton. In fact, most of the quartz jade produced in Taishan are not chalcedony, but they are generally defined as quartzite. The particles are coarse and contain no structural water, so there is no problem of water loss. The chalcedony of different origins is not the same as water, and the same type will lose water. However, he also said that Huang Longyu also has some coarse grains without losing water.

Controversy Huang Longyu's collection value prospects are accompanied by rising concerns more and more attention by the industry, some new collectors are also concerned about the future of this new jade species collection value outlook?

Tan Weibo is a big player who is very optimistic about the prospects of Huang Longyu. As early as in 2007, when the industry was not yet fully known for Huang Longyu and his future was unknown, he had spent a lot of money on hiring famous master craftsman Gao Zhaohua to create a large-scale jade sculpture “The Sun and the Moon with Faith” at the time of Huang Longyu. Collections are famous. He and his daughter Tan Siyun's point of view is consistent, the problem of lifting is caused by the lack of tightness of jade, fine Huang Longyu completely without this problem.

In his view, Huang Longyu has concentrated on the many advantages of Jade, Hetian jade and other excellent jade species, and all aspects of water color have outstanding performance. For a professional collector, it requires a better vision and identification ability. As long as it is a good thing, it is impossible to lose the price. Because the real good thing is scarcity, people who know the goods are chasing what they want.

Fang Yuqiao, head of Yuyu Pavilion, further pointed out that “As a first-time Tibetan friend, we must make it clear that not all such beautiful stones produced in Longling County can be called Huang Longyu. This is not true. All Burmese jade can be called emerald is a truth.

He told reporters before that, even if Huang Longyu's original stone, most of them are not in the case of carving, but also do not have the value of viewing and collecting, only a few fine original Huanglong Yu has the value of viewing and collection. For lovers of good and bad collectors, the risk is undoubtedly greatest. Because the inferior Huanglong jade is just like ordinary stone, it does not have any investment value. "It's not as good as I am to receive one hundred items."

Specific to the problem of heaving, he believes that any investment is risky. If you want to reduce your risk, you must constantly improve your professional knowledge by continuing to learn. Only when they understood, did they know how to find out Huang Longyu who wouldn’t grow, and then they knew how to buy something that was truly collectible.

Of course, there are also some pessimists in the industry. Taiwan’s famous jewellery expert Tang Huimin told reporters that in addition to other jade, Huang Longyu has a more important shortcoming in addition to the problem of shedding. That is, the cultural heritage is not deep enough, and the capital is pushed up by the short-term to give him access. Bring risks. In his view, Huang Longyu does not have long historical and cultural heritage, unlike amber, tourmaline, and Hetian jade. His history can be found in the history of the Forbidden City and many celebrities. Therefore, he is not optimistic about Huang Longyu, at least that its prospects are inferior to Nan Hong.

The above anonymous geologists also stated that Huanglongyu is a species of chalcedony. This type of quartz jade is huge in quantity and does not possess the rarity that should be possessed by gemstones. As for how high the value of collections is, it can be seen as wisdom. Huang Longyu and Taishan Jade are both good materials for crafts, but they still cannot achieve the grade of gem.