When did mahogany furniture rise?

In the mid-1960s, when the Cultural Revolution began, the purchase of real estate in the name of "breaking capitalism" prevailed, and hardwood furniture also belonged to capitalism. Most people with hardwood furniture were robbed, and some hardwood furniture was smashed and some was taken away, so hardwood furniture became an ominous thing at that time. At that time, trust stores (equivalent to flea markets) had a lot of hardwood furniture marked for sale at low prices, but few people dared to buy it in the political environment at that time. By 1969, Lin Biao issued the mobilization order of 1, which once again caused great social unrest. At that time, many central state organs, units and individuals were ready to move out, and a lot of furniture was disposed of and sold in trust stores. Many hardwood furniture (left over by government agencies when Wang Fu was taken over in the liberation) is extremely cheap, a mahogany chair costs only tens of dollars, and there is an old mahogany with a carved hat. At that time, the domestic economy was underdeveloped, people's living standards were very low, and some people were afraid of getting into trouble, so the hardwood furniture in the trust store piled up like a mountain, and few people cared about it. In the sixties and seventies of last century, only a few people with a heart began to quietly collect hardwood furniture in Ming and Qing dynasties (most of these people have now become famous collectors of Ming and Qing furniture, and some have opened Ming and Qing furniture collection museums). In the end, most of these hardwood furniture flowed overseas at extremely low prices, which triggered the overseas hardwood furniture collection fever in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. However, due to the lag of information at that time and the domestic political turmoil, the economy was relatively poor, and the domestic people did not pay attention to the collection of furniture in Ming and Qing Dynasties.

In the 1980s, after ten years of turmoil, some Ming and Qing hardwood furniture that survived the property raid were returned to their original owners with the implementation of policies. However, due to the change of living environment (including living environment), many people can no longer keep these furniture. At this time, overseas buyers seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, used various channels, and even personally went to the mainland to buy all kinds of hardwood furniture in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. China also has a special "hardwood furniture dumping". They don't know much about hardwood furniture in Ming and Qing Dynasties, but they know that some people abroad "paid a high price" to buy hardwood furniture in Ming and Qing Dynasties, with emphasis on Huang Huali and mahogany furniture. So they deliberately bought hardwood furniture scattered in residents' homes and then shipped it to Guangzhou for sale. At that time (1985 or so), they bought a pair of Ming-style Huang Huali official hat chairs at a price of 2,000-3,000 yuan, which can be sold for about 6,000 yuan after being shipped to Guangzhou. Buying a Huang Huali chair can make a profit of 3000 yuan, which is equivalent to a person's salary for three years. Therefore, there was a high enthusiasm for "dumping hardwood furniture" at that time, and eventually a large number of hardwood furniture that survived in the folk flowed overseas. Nowadays, people are aware of the preciousness of hardwood furniture in Ming and Qing Dynasties, but the price of a pair of Ming-style Huang Huali official hat chairs is already 350,000-400,000 yuan.