This phenomenon only started after 2018, before that, although the market of Haihuang and Yuehuang was also deceptive, at least it was not as chaotic as it is now, and it was not as obvious as it is now. Nowadays, not only the Haihuang and Yuehuang markets are openly cheating, but even the auction companies are also cheating with all kinds of Ming-style furniture. With a little brain analysis, we can debunk these deceptions.
Let's take a look at the market, the sales of raw materials for sea yellow and Yue Huang, some people cut down sea yellow on the self-media platform, in order to tempt consumers, they will boldly open the cutting while saying that it is the national protected plant "Huanghuali". I used to make a metaphor for this kind of behavior: it's like a group of fake antiques sellers looking for a ruined old tomb to take a video, saying that the things in their hands were just stolen from the tomb. These low-level deception methods will also attract many people, but are these people who cut down protected plants and rob graves illegally not afraid of legal punishment? It is obviously a low-level scam. Looking at the merchants who sell bracelets and handicrafts in the live broadcast room, the raw materials of the rotten sea yellow are processed into fakes with a density higher than jade through high-tech technology, fooling ignorant enthusiasts, and the price can rise dozens of times compared with the raw materials. However, consumers buy the same raw materials and process them by themselves, because they do not understand the craftsmanship of the merchants, the handicrafts made cannot reach the luster and density of jade. This kind of fake sales also attracts a large number of consumers. These are just the tricks of Shanghai Huang and Yue Huang in the market, and the old furniture of "Huanghuali" in the auction hall is even more outrageous.
In recent years, due to the official implementation of the "Mahogany National Standard" by the Academy of Forestry in 2018, the sea yellow and Yue Huang that were previously designated as Huanghuali have been changed to fragrant branches, Hainan pear, and unidentified tree species. The major auction companies will publicly auction all kinds of mahogany Ming-style old furniture with completely different tree species from Haihuang and Yuehuang, if it is really the old furniture of the Ming Dynasty, even if it is not Huanghuali, at least it has some historical value. But many of them are bought raw materials, and they are lacquered and aged as they are made and pretended to be "Huanghuali" in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and the price is expensive. In fact, there are a lot of old mahogany furniture left over from the end of the Ming Dynasty, and there are many people who collect these old furniture, which are obviously made of the same material as the fake huanghuali of the auction company. But other people's can be auctioned, but their own hands can't be auctioned, which is also the most incomprehensible thing for many people to play with old furniture.
These chaos that can be answered as long as you ponder carefully, but there are still people who keep hyping up "Huanghuali", constantly inducing everyone to consume and plant desperately, once the trap is gone, you can't climb out at all, because of the surplus of resources, and fakes can't be consumed as drugs, they will inevitably only fall and not rise, these scams have obviously become a kind of pyramid scheme.