Why the price of Diospyros cathayensis bonsai is high: a digger reveals the tricks behind the shabbiness

Diospyros cathayensis is a dark horse that has quietly risen in the bonsai industry and market in recent years. A Diospyros cathayensis bonsai with a good trunk shape, long years in a pot and abundant fruit truly lives up to its name of "golden egg"; some reach a thousand yuan, and some even as high as several hundred thousand yuan. The Diospyros cathayensis bonsai below was passed on by a friend to a bonsai enthusiast for nearly ten thousand yuan. You might as well take a look first.

Driven by profit, many villagers gave up going out to work and became semi-professional trunk diggers. They shuttle through dense forests all day long, hoping that the goddess of fortune will smile on them and let them experience the feeling of "a thousand gold for one trunk." But the facts are not quite so. The diggers look utterly shabby, and one digger lays out the tricks in a single sentence. Judging from the environment of the digger family below, his family is not very wealthy; instead, shabbiness is evident everywhere.

Diospyros cathayensis bonsai are expensive, while the diggers look utterly shabby. One digger lays out the tricks in a single sentence. Trick one: a good trunk is hard to encounter in a month. Uncle Wang in the village digs trunks all year round. According to Uncle Wang, Diospyros cathayensis bonsai are expensive, but not all Diospyros cathayensis are valuable. A valuable Diospyros cathayensis needs a good trunk shape and points of interest. The reality of digging is that in a month or even a year, one may not encounter a good trunk, so diggers are not as wealthy as imagined; instead, they look utterly shabby.

Diospyros cathayensis bonsai are expensive, while the diggers look utterly shabby. One digger lays out the tricks in a single sentence. Trick two: trunks die on the way during transport. A trunk dug down from the mountain cannot immediately be sold for money. It often needs years of field planting, and they dare not openly sell it on the street. Most rely on the internet to find someone destined to buy it. The long transport causes many trunks to die on the road. For the sake of credibility and retaining customers, they have to refund or reship. Back and forth like this, not only do they fail to make money, but they even lose out.

Diospyros cathayensis bonsai are expensive, while the diggers look utterly shabby. One digger lays out the tricks in a single sentence. Trick three: valuable Diospyros cathayensis bonsai have a price but no market. Bonsai are playthings for the rich, and diggers have no chance to enter the circle of sky-high-priced bonsai. Even if they dig up a valuable Diospyros cathayensis trunk, they have no way to sell it, which makes it a case of a price but no market. Ordinary trunk enthusiasts only play with trunks costing tens of yuan, or at most a thousand yuan; trunks costing tens of thousands of yuan simply cannot be sold.

Diospyros cathayensis bonsai are expensive, while the diggers look utterly shabby. What do you all think?