Ha Gia Ba village - The strangest lazy village in China, people only go to pick up stones in the river

Hejiaba Village, located next to the Yangtze River, Luzhou City, Sichuan, China. This is home to more than 400 households and is also considered a unique ethnic cultural village with many different ethnic groups such as Tu Gia, Miao Trai, Han, Muslim... The village is famous for its natural resources. a very special natural resource: cobblestone. This seemingly worthless thing helps bring a prosperous life to the people in the village. It is rumored that just picking up a large stone in the river to sell is enough money to build a house and buy a car.

Households in Ha Gia Ba village, although living next to the river, do not make a living by fishing. For many years, the villagers' income has been mainly from picking up pebbles in the Yangtze river bed and bringing them to them. sell. Many houses can buy a car or build a house just by selling a stone.

Ha Gia Ba village is known as Ky Thach Tran because the Yangtze River area here has a lot of rocks of all shapes and colors. Yangtze River Stone has a reputation of being unique and of high collectible value, sought by many players.

Every year to winter, the Yangtze River begins to recede, revealing a shoal with hundreds of thousands of stones. That was also the time when the villagers of Ha Gia Ba began to bustle about the "harvesting" of stone. There are people who are so passionate and eager to get rich that they give their all to pursue the path of becoming a gem expert. According to these people, just finding a valuable stone, a household here can change their life in one night. Even in many families, when a son gets married, the bride and groom are all these stones.

According to some experts, the rock in the Yangtze River is not an ordinary stone and only Ha Gia Ba has it. This type of stone is called "Changjiang strange stone", originating from the faraway Tibetan plateau, then down the water of the Yangtze River to come here, moreover these stones are very strange, no stones. Each one is similar to another, they all have artistic value and display value.

Every day, people here will wear a bag on their back, walk along the river and collect stones. After bringing the stone to the shore, people will carefully consider the shape, carefully study the texture and color of the stone. From large boulders to small boulders like pebbles, the people here do not give up. They put their hopes in the stones.

In this village, from the elderly to children, everyone is extremely fond of and proud of the strange stones, the creatures that God has favored for the villagers, helping them to get rich is not difficult. Almost every house in Ha Gia Ba is filled with stones in the yard, waiting for "stone connoisseurs" to come enjoy and exchange.

For those who have been skilled at gathering stones for a long time, they will easily recognize which stones have a high trading value. The more unique the pattern, color and shape of the stone, the more money it sells. According to people here, there was a villager who sold a stone for 140,000 yuan (about 500 million VND) and this is also a record so far no stone has been broken. It is thanks to this that people flock to the river to find luck. From farmers to office workers, there is no one who does not pursue this profession.

It is known that stone picking can bring in an income of 180-250 million VND per year. Mr. Vuong, a villager, said that although he does not have a pension, it is enough for him to have a comfortable life by collecting stones and selling them to collectors.

However, not all stones can be sold for sky-high prices. Strange stones need to be decorated and named to push the value to the highest. Some even study culture and embark on the path of literary creation. The task of the stone screeners is to find the most valuable things. People who do this work of choosing stones are usually men over 30 years old, sensitive to market trends. They select the best stones, wash them and put them up for sale.

Gradually, the reputation of "China's first strange stone village" Ha Gia Ba has spread far. More and more traders come here to survey and look for strange stones. Because of this, it is no longer easy to pick up or dig a good, valuable rock.

The story of the strange stone-picking profession in Ha Gia Ba village made many netizens both surprised and confused. There are many opinions that the value of this stone is also due to passing around and pushing the price up, but in fact the stone is only used for display, nothing rare, nor any other benefits.

Every year new stones along the Yangtze River drift ashore near Ha Gia Ba village. From February to April, when the river is dry, people flock to find rare stones. As long as the Yangtze River is still flowing and the demand for ornamental stone is high, the stone trade in the river will continue to grow.

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