Natural jewelry and jade come from the evolution of the earth for billions of years, and it is a generous gift from nature to mankind. Compared with other minerals, it is extremely rare. This doomed the value of jewelry must be high.
The landlord's first question implies a hypothesis: consumers will "change their attitude immediately" after spending the price of natural gems and buying synthetic gems. If you spent ten dollars on a synthetic ruby of 1 carat, would you still feel this way?
2. Deposit the value
Although jewelry does not circulate as money like gold and silver, its asset reserve value is better than gold and silver. In fact, many famous high-grade jewels have been stored in the royal families, official families and the royal jewelry vault in Iran. The quantity of precious and rare jewels is often a sign to evaluate the royal wealth and national strength. This situation is no exception in China. People are used to passing it down from generation to generation as a "family heirloom".
The landlord "didn't see any ordinary people fiddling with this to make money", which is true. This is only because the fluidity of jewelry and jade is weak, which does not mean that jewelry has no stored value. If the landlord has a family heirloom jade, you can check its current price.
3. Cultural values
In the development of human history, jewelry has a far-reaching impact on cultural life and social progress. China's famous "He" story is a typical representative of jade cultural values, which equates the value of jade with the value of society, state, power and land.
If the jade handed down from the landlord's family is used by Empress Dowager Cixi, its price can be imagined.
4. Emotional value
People not only meet their emotional needs through communication, but also jewelry can be used as a bond to maintain feelings and convey people's rich and delicate emotions. The wedding ring for marriage, as a piece of jewelry, may have limited value, but the emotional value of the beautiful memories and life experiences brought by this jewelry is priceless.
It is precisely because of this value that jewelry meets people's demand for jewelry.