Then when the Cultural Revolution swept China, jade began to flood the Hong Kong market, most of it confiscated from persecuted Chinese families and sold by the communist government.
至港未久，即聽說祖父遭受清算鬥爭，家中財物俱被沒收，晚景淒涼。楊達志睹「玉」思親，對那塊玉產生濃郁深厚的感情。接著中國大陸鬧文化大革命，許多老年人被打入牛棚，年輕人由於對玉的價值無知，隨意變賣家中玉器，大批廉價的玉器湧入香港。