According to legend, whoever can find the foothold of the rainbow will find eternal happiness and wealth. Although the rainbow often exists, it can never find its starting point. Until 1500, a Portuguese exploration team found a gem in Brazil, which flashed with colorful neon lights. This kind of gem, tourmaline, is called "tourmaline" in China. Tourmaline can be found in the river ditch. Speaking of tourmaline, there are two important figures in the history of China. In 644 AD, Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong, got this gem, called it "Tomalin" and carved it into a seal. Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty was crazy about it, and after her death, she was buried with a tourmaline lotus carving weighing1.056.23g, with the current price of 752,000 silver. It was later discovered that this gem was also produced in China. Nujiang Prefecture in Yunnan is an important tourmaline producing area in China, and there is another person in Nujiang-Lan Huiming. Dani Village, Gongshan County, Nujiang Prefecture is the earliest place where tourmaline was discovered in Yunnan, which was discovered in 1950s and 1960s. The old people in the village recalled that many women and young girls made earrings with this gem that can be found in the river ditch. Later, according to the research of geological address experts, these tourmalines were washed out when rocks cracked or mudslides occurred. In the 1980s, the Nujiang River began to mine tourmaline. Twenty years ago, a handful of noodles could be exchanged for a small handful of tourmaline, and 10 noodles could be exchanged for 1 1 kg. Lan Huiming was born in Nujiang in this era and has seen many tourmalines: "I went to the United States to study in 2002 and found that the price of tourmaline in the American market is relatively high, which is a far cry from Nujiang." Lan Huiming, who had seen tourmaline since he was a child, began to hoard tourmaline ore as soon as he returned to China and became the largest tourmaline collector in China. In 2008, he founded his own tourmaline brand-Lan Ruo, and opened his own private museum of tourmaline in Liuku on 20/0/0. In order to collect the best colored gems in the world, he even set up an office in California, because Tucson and Las Vegas in the United States have the largest professional jewelry exhibitions in the world. Beer for tourmaline earned hundreds of thousands. In the private tourmaline museum in Lanhuiming, Lan Ruo, there are almost varieties of tourmaline from all over the world. In colored gems, he is known as the "King of Tourmaline". Lan Huiming's first experience of making money with tourmaline is a bit legendary. "A Burmese came from Myitkyina and found a big tourmaline on the road, and there are many small ones. The asking price is beer 10, raincoat 10, and 4 Xiaohe cigarettes. " Lan Huiming immediately agreed, and the Burmese followed him to the store, staring at a camouflage uniform. Lan Huiming added another set to him without saying anything. Later, there was a stone bought from Burmese, which was not polished well and sold. Lan Huiming took 70 thousand, which is better than hundreds of thousands. However, King Tourmaline also made mistakes at the beginning. He once bought a fake green tourmaline: "Some people will melt beer bottles and make tourmaline bare stones, which are very close to the color of green tourmaline. Tourmaline crystals are generally triangular, with a small number of hexagons and some filaments on the surface, which are difficult to imitate. Some counterfeiters tear off the skin of bamboo and add silk to it. Hard, use Suu to spin silk. " Of course, he soon learned how to identify this fake tourmaline, for example, there may be some small bubbles in it, and the weight and texture in his hand are different. Up to now, there are more than 300 tourmalines with a weight of more than 200g, including a rare 3 kg tourmaline. Once, a businessman offered tens of millions to buy this big tourmaline, but Lan Huiming refused. He won't sell this scarce resource easily. The tourmaline king also has troubles. With his growing fame, more and more people are looking for Lan Huiming to identify or sell tourmaline every day: "Many strange calls are for me to help see the goods." The day before the reporter interviewed, Lan Huiming received three such calls: "One of them is looking at the goods in Pakistan. When I told him that the quality of this tourmaline was not very good, he was unhappy at once. But I can't lie to him and say it's good. If he listens to me and invests, he won't hurt others. " There are nearly a hundred such requests every month. What makes Lan Huiming laugh and cry the most happened in Gongshan County. Lan Huiming was introduced by a friend to the hotel to see the goods, saying that there is a tourmaline that is good. "Everything is put in a beautiful safe, and it is well wrapped after unpacking." But Lan Huiming saw at a glance that something was wrong. "It is the fake tourmaline I mentioned earlier, and each one is about the size of the middle finger." After unpacking seven or eight pieces, Lan Huiming refused to continue to look at the goods. Lan Huiming, who was dressed casually that day and didn't look like the boss at all, was regarded as a "nobody" who didn't know the goods. After being rejected, the other party even told him: "These things are all seen by Lan Huiming himself, and he likes them very much. If you don't want it, we will sell it to Lan Huiming! " In most cases, Lan Huiming will refuse to send photos to see the goods: "It is risky to see the real thing." Spend more time reading professional books on gems and keep learning. He communicates with the big coffees in the gem circle on WeChat every day: "These big coffees are all over the world. When you see good things and discover new gems, you can share them in the first time and learn a lot. " The market has its own choice. Tourmaline has appreciated since 2008. Lan Huiming spent hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of tourmalines in those years, and now it has soared to tens of millions. It was in this year that Lan Huiming founded his own tourmaline brand "Lan Ruo". After becoming a boss, he not only continued to study professionally, but also began to think more rationally about the market: "In the history of China, emperors and princes used jade, and jade was the most popular in China. However, after the reform and opening up, people's aesthetic standards have changed, and the color of jade is relatively single, which is difficult to meet the aesthetic needs of young people. Colored gems has begun to enter everyone's field of vision. Tourmaline has 15 colors and can be processed into different jewelry, which is colorful and meets more needs. " Lan Huiming said that this provided a cultural soil for the price increase of tourmaline, but the rapid warming made the tourmaline on the market mixed. 20 14 tourmaline has appreciated to a high point, and many consumers don't understand why tourmaline, which looks similar in size, sells for three or five thousand in some places and three or five thousand in others. A large number of artificially optimized tourmalines on the market are sold at low prices and high prices. Subsequently, the tourmaline market cooled down and the price dropped. I think this is a rational phenomenon. "When Lan Ruo was founded, Lan Huiming insisted that Lan Ruo only sold pure natural tourmaline, and the tourmaline ore was directly polished without any artificial optimization. Although the cost of this natural tourmaline is high, it ensures the quality of tourmaline: "Some merchants melt the tourmaline with low cost and poor quality and purify it. The possible cost of middle finger size is only 800- 1000. After using diamonds as jewelry, the cost will exceed 5000, but it will cost 30,000-50,000. "Lan Huiming said that this kind of tourmaline looks good because of its high purity, but heating will change the color of tourmaline, so it is not a pure natural thing. This is what Lan Huiming doesn't want to see. After the establishment of Lan Ruo tourmaline with its own characteristics in Nujiang River, it mainly sells Nujiang tourmaline except a small amount of tourmaline imported from Afghanistan. As of Huan 20 12, tourmaline accounts for 17 of the 48 deposits discovered in Nujiang. Mainly distributed in Fugong County and Gongshan County on both sides of the Nujiang River. In the early years, tourmaline ore was found at any time after many villages were named in river ditches or mudslides. Until 20 12, another Shanghai tourist picked up a green tourmaline in Dani village and later sold it for 50,000 to 60,000 yuan. " The quality of Nujiang tourmaline is very good, but it is not easy to produce large crystals and small crystals. "Lan Ruo tourmaline buys tourmaline ore in Nujiang, polishes it in Thailand and sells it at home. Thailand is the result of several choices made by Lan Huiming. He has seen more tourmalines and his eyes are becoming more and more critical. Many tourmalines that he used to particularly like feel rough and hard to see. And the high-quality polishing process can reflect the beauty of tourmaline to the greatest extent. As a native of Nujiang, Lan Huiming feels that Nujiang needs its own specialties. After more than a year of research and development, Lan Huiming led the team to develop a set of tourmaline health care products: "Nujiang does not have its own well-known brand at present, and tourmaline's function of regulating and supplementing the human body is recognized, but at present no one in China has made tourmaline health care products. This will become a product with regional characteristics of Nujiang Prefecture, and it will be put on the market as a characteristic industry of Nujiang Prefecture. "Tourmaline is the most colorful gem. The same tourmaline, because of its colorful colors, can present different colors and can sell well in the market. I am fire eye jade. Pay attention to me and present more exciting content for you.