Crazy Cordyceps

In Lhasa, from Jokhang Temple to the south along bakuo East Street, less than 300 meters away, a mosque of no small scale appeared in the Tibetan architecture complex Taking this as the center, the surrounding area is hebalin Hui residential area The popularity here is no less than that of the nearby bakuo street, but different from the tourists of bakuo street, almost all of the people here are running for the same purpose, that is, Cordyceps In this area, there are almost 100 shops selling Cordyceps on both sides of the street In Lhasa, there are many houses for people to return to As time goes by, there is also a famous market for caterpillar fungus in mosques The season of caterpillar fungus merchants in August and September is not the most bustling time in the mosque market, but Ma Jinxiang's shop with less than 20 square meters can still have a day's sales revenue of one million, he said every shop here is the same And if it is in May and June when Cordyceps is just growing, it may double At present, the most expensive grass in Majia shop is collected from Naqu, Tibet, when it is newly produced this year It can be sold at a price of 120000 yuan per Jin This kind of grass worm is full of gold and has good taste In the herb shops in the mainland, the price can soar after luxury packaging The broken grass with the worst appearance also needs to be sold to seven or eight kilograms Ma Jinxiang said that he has been engaged in Cordyceps business for many years, but now he is not as hard as at the beginning He has to go to Changdu, Naqu and other areas to "collect medicine" many times When the new product is produced, there will be local Tibetans who will bring the new grass to Lhasa to give it to him Different from the Majia brothers, more Cordyceps merchants from the mainland are willing to go directly to the production area to collect grass First, there is less price difference between them, and second, they are more confident In May and June of each year, hundreds of thousands of Chinese Herbal Medicine Merchants engaged in Cordyceps business travel to ABA, Sichuan Province, Yushu, Qinghai Province, laqu, Changdu and other major Cordyceps producing areas to buy and reserve sales volume at the time of new production This kind of creature growing on the meadow above the 3500 meter snow line attracts almost all powerful Herbal Medicine Merchants and investors with a total annual output of about 130 tons In the eyes of ordinary people, it represents "sky high price", but in the eyes of operators, it is glittering wealth Luojiawan, a native of Anhui Province, moved to Chengdu more than ten years ago to do medicine business From Shuangliu Airport in Chengdu to Bangda airport in Changdu, Tibet, there is only one flight every day "It's very difficult to buy tickets in May and June It's normal to have too many passengers and wait for a week without a return ticket," said rogawan In Roga Wan's memory, the rise and fall of Cordyceps prices is breathtaking Since the opening of Chinese medicine market in 1980s, the price of Cordyceps has been on the rise In the early 1990s, the average price of Cordyceps in the domestic market was about RMB 1.5 million per kilogram, and reached about RMB 15.000 per kilogram by 2003 In 2007, it soared to a historic high price of about 120000 yuan per kilogram In 2008, affected by the global financial crisis, the price went all the way to 30000 yuan After 2009, the price began to soar again, which is still bullish In 2007, people who gambled heavily on Cordyceps made a lot of money According to rogawan, the price of Cordyceps at the time of new production was 45000 / kg, which rose to 110000 in two months "In that year, we supplied goods to retailers and confiscated the payment The price has gone up many times," he said At the time of the May 12 earthquake in 2008, Sichuan's new production area was in full swing Many people thought that the earthquake would have an impact on the production, so the price rose from the 12th day of the earthquake to the 30th day of the same month, reaching a maximum of 110000 per kilogram, and then began to plummet to more than 30000 Because Cordyceps is produced at a low price in May every year, and then goes up with consumption, many people buy it at a low price when they are producing new Cordyceps and sell it when the demand is strong before the Spring Festival But that year, "many people want to jump from the building at a loss," said rogawan Another important link in the interest chain of Cordyceps in grass producing villages is digging It is no exaggeration to say that the gold buried in the soil in the grass producing villages is what they live for In May and June every year, if you come to some towns in Naqu, you will find that the peddlers in the streets are selling a hoe that doesn't seem worth ten yuan at a price of more than 30 yuan each If you go to the public security bureaus, courts and procuratorates in Naqu and Changdu, you will be told that other work of the government agencies has basically stopped, and the staff will be deployed to the intersection of the grasslands Check station to maintain order; if your car is stopped by a group of local villagers at the intersection or bridge, do not think it is a special welcome Strange faces appear in the grass producing area in such season, often arousing local people's alert In order to compete for the top of the mountain where grass is produced, there are often conflicts between villages What's more, some schools in grass producing areas will take more than a month's "Cordyceps vacation", and children from all families will follow adults to dig grass in the mountains In order to increase the weight of Cordyceps, the body of Cordyceps is sometimes filled with lead powder "The first ones who drop when they are holding Cordyceps in their hands are always hands and feet," said some experienced grass collectors This kind of tawny, slightly bigger than matches is not easy to find After the snow on the meadow on the plateau melts, the price of Cordyceps sinensis is buried in the soil, showing the fine sub seat on the surface, and the average person can hardly find several in a day The local people need to bend down, or kneel down, and stick their faces on the ground, so carpet search can get something, so in the season of digging grass, Tibetans are all going out to put up tents on the mountain "The villages in Naqu were very poor when they went there a few years ago, and now they have built buildings," Ma said The villagers there are very rich Some families come to Lhasa to buy houses, and go back for another two months every year in the season of grass digging The encounter of insects and bacteria in the soil makes Tibetan people migrate once a year, and also changes their fate.