According to Liu Dong's identification, 56 of them are Hainan huanghuali. Of course, the ones that can be collected by Uncle Long are the famous aniseed in Haihuang.
From the cut sections, we can see that the diameter of the heartwood of these sea yellows is more than 20 centimeters. The diameter of the heartwood of the most precious one is about 45 centimeters. And almost every sea yellow has a ' on the heartwood.
Ghost-face tattoo'.
"The largest piece of sea yellow was bought from a local village for 10,000 yuan when I went to Hainan eight years ago. At that time, the piece of wood was used as a beam for someone else's house. As a result, I stayed at their home for the night.
After that, he demolished his house!" Although it was a bit of a joke, Liu Dong could feel Uncle Long's joy.
Of course, in 1992, the "ten thousand yuan household" represented the era of wealth, and the price of 10,000 yuan was not low. But compared to this precious piece of sea yellow, 10,000 yuan is really worth it. Now, any
A collector is willing to pay tens of millions, or even tens of millions, to buy this piece of Hainan Huanghuali with a heartwood of 45mm.
Except for the 56 sea yellows, the remaining sixty-four are all yellows. Of course, compared to the precious sea yellows, these yellows are slightly less valuable, but they are also aniseed, and the average heartwood is 30
More than centimeters, the thickest one is about sixty centimeters. Like sea yellow, these yellower heartwoods also have some beautiful ghost-face wood grains.
After looking at the huanghuali wood, go down and see the chicken wing wood, which is known as the four famous trees in ancient China along with huanghuali wood, rosewood and iron knife wood.
The wood of chicken wing wood is sometimes white and black, and some are yellow or purple in color. The oblique sawn wood grain is in the shape of a fine flower cloud. It resembles a chicken wing. Especially in the longitudinal section, the wood grain is slender and floating. It changes endlessly and naturally forms landscapes and character patterns.
Chicken wing wood is produced less than rosewood, rosewood and other woods, and its wood texture is unique. Therefore, it is cherished by the world for its small quantity and beautiful and gorgeous charm.
The wenge wood currently on the market is divided into Burmese wenge wood and African wenge wood.
Burmese chicken wing wood is produced in Myanmar and Thailand. It is also called 'Honghua Yadoumu'. The heartwood is dark brown or chestnut brown, often with black stripes; the tube holes are visible to the naked eye; it is dense and sinks in water.
; The material is smooth and delicate. The heart of the tree has a sandstone core, which is something similar to sandstone, and the radial patterns extend outward from the heart of the tree.
The core of this sandstone is so hard that it sometimes breaks the saw.
The proportion of sand core in the entire tree wood varies, ranging from 20% to 50-60%. The maturity period of Burmese wenge wood is about 150-200 years, and most of them can reach a diameter of 30-40 cm at this time.
, the thicker ones can reach 60-70 cm, but they are rare. In order to sell it at a good price in the market, it is also called "old chicken wing wood".
African chicken wing wood. The heartwood is dark brown, slightly yellow, often with black stripes; the tube holes are the thickest among the three types of chicken wing wood; the texture is the thickest; the density is also the lightest and does not sink in water; the material is brittle and hard
Slightly worse. There is no sand core in the heart of the tree. The log is larger and straighter. It is also called "black chicken wing wood" in the market, or falsely called "East-South Asian chicken wing wood". The value is much lower than that of Burmese chicken wing wood.
many.
Naturally, the chicken wings collected by Uncle Long here do not include African chicken wings. They are basically Burmese chicken wings, but the number is not as large as that of huanghuali, only 68. But they are all 70 centimeters or more in diameter.
Old chicken wing wood. The thickest one is nearly one meter in diameter. It would take at least three to four hundred years to grow like this.
"Unlike huanghuali and red sandalwood, chicken wing wood can only be bought with money, so it's a bit missing!" Uncle Long said with some regret.
"Uncle Long, you already have a lot! I don't know how many people are rushing to get these chicken wing trees when they are released!" Liu Dong said with envy in his tone.
"Haha!" After hearing Liu Dong's words, the old man laughed proudly.
"Okay, continue reading below. I have collected quite a lot of good wood over the past twenty years!"
After hearing what the old man said, Liu Dong was naturally moved.
However, when he walked to the next group of timber, Liu Dong was surprised.
"These two ironwoods are the least tree species in my collection!" Uncle Long said with a hint of regret on his face as he looked at the two pieces of wood placed vertically, 20 meters long and about 150mm in diameter.
But for this situation, Liu Dong also wanted to understand the reason at this moment.
Compared with expensive rosewood, huanghuali, chicken wing wood, mahogany and other precious woods, although ironwood is also one of the hardest woods, its value has never been high. Although it was also used to make furniture in the Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty,
In the later stages, it gradually disappeared.
Although ironwood has a wide range of applications in modern times, its value has always been low. If it weren't for the fact that these two pieces of ironwood were too large and he planned to enrich his collection, I'm afraid Uncle Long wouldn't have kept these two pieces of ironwood.
Put the wood materials into your own storehouse.
"Uncle Long, is it really Jinnan?" Liu Dong looked at the five pieces of wood in front of him, his tone full of disbelief.
If there is any wood rarer than small-leaf red sandalwood, it is the legendary golden nanmu. Because it was already extinct in the Ming Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, Qianlong even demolished the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum in order to obtain this golden nanmu.
.This shows the rarity of golden nanmu.
Of course, although there are many nanmu in nature, only purple nanmu is called golden nan. And according to the standards of the Qing court manufacturing office, not all nanmu with golden threads can be called golden nan. It must be that
The whole piece of wood must have a gold coverage rate of more than 80%, and it must have auspicious features, such as tiger skin patterns, wind patterns, mountain peaks, sea of clouds, wave shapes, etc.
According to Mr. Nanfeng's classification and naming of golden nanmu wood grain, it can be roughly divided into four levels: ordinary level, medium level, fine level, top grade and treasure.
Medium-level textures include: ordinary water ripples, new material black tiger skin texture, golden peak texture and painting-like peak texture, etc.
The fine textures include: old material black tiger skin, golden tiger skin pattern, gold thread pattern, gold ingot pattern, cloud pattern, water drop pattern, blister pattern, etc.
The top textures include: top water waves and top wavy patterns, phoenix tail patterns, dense water droplets, golden chrysanthemum patterns, sesame dot gall wood, Ding Ding Nan cloud patterns, etc.
The treasured textures include: gentian pattern, dragon scale pattern, gold and jade full hall pattern, rose pattern, grape pattern, gall wood and textures that form beautiful scenery, bird and animal patterns.
Moreover, the wood of golden nanmu is hard and corrosion-resistant. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "water cannot soak it and ants cannot burrow". Golden nanmu grows slowly, and its growth pattern makes it a late bloomer (the golden stage of vigorous growth takes 60-90 years)
, it takes hundreds of years to become a pillar.
After extensive logging during the Ming and Qing dynasties, golden nanmu that can be called a pillar material is now very rare.
I really didn’t expect to see five of them in Uncle Long’s place.
Seeing the golden nanmu shimmering under the light and smelling of camphor, one can imagine the excitement in Liu Dong's heart.
Looking at these five nanmu trees, Uncle Long's face was filled with excitement and pride, with a deep sense of satisfaction.
"Haha, the diameters of these five golden nanmu are all between 20 and 25mm, and the gold wire coverage is between 50 and 80%. The best one has a gold wire coverage of 76%, and has the rare gentian pattern.
, 2.5 meters long and 23mm in diameter." Uncle Long clearly remembered all the detailed data of these precious woods that he had collected all his life.
"Uncle Long, these five pieces of wood are so precious!"
"Yes! It took two generations of my father and me, and it took me nearly a century to travel across half of China to find these five roots! Of course they are extremely precious!" Uncle Long said this with a face.
There is a hint of reminiscence on it.
Liu Dong lingered around these five pieces of golden nanmu for half an hour before moving on to look at the next group.
However, the next group of wood is familiar to him because he has just used it before. It is ebony, which is called the Eastern sacred wood, and is also called gloomy wood.
There are eight pieces of sunken wood collected by Uncle Long. The largest one is more than 13 meters long and 120 centimeters in diameter. Judging from the texture characteristics of the wood, it should be the top-grade ironwood sunken wood among ebony.
The remaining seven ebony pieces are all between 30 and 90 centimeters in diameter, and vary in length, but they are all between two meters and below six meters.
"Of these eight pieces of ebony, two are ironwood, one is yellow willow, two are sandalwood, one is yellow cypress, and two are golden nanmu. But these two are golden.
One nanmu is four meters long and 35 centimeters wide, and one is 3.5 meters long and 56 centimeters wide. They are not too big, which has always been a regret in my heart!" After saying this, Uncle Long couldn't help but shook his head.
"Uncle Long, isn't this big enough?" Liu Dong couldn't help but say. You must know that the golden nanmu gloomy wood is the highest grade among the gloomy woods, and is said to be incorruptible for thousands of years. If others know that Uncle Long has such big two gold
Silk nanmu is a gloomy wood, so I would rather die of envy.
Looking at the expression on Liu Dong's face, Uncle Long smiled and said: "Xiaodong, the largest golden nanmu I have ever seen is 12 meters long and one meter wide!"
After finishing speaking, Uncle Long continued to walk forward, leaving Liu Dong with his mouth wide open and a look of disbelief on his face.
After a long time, he came back to his senses, shook his head secretly, and laughed at himself: "It seems that I am still too ignorant!"
Further down, in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, rosewood became the three major tribute trees in the palace together with huanghuali and small-leaf rosewood. It is also called old rosewood in the north of the Yangtze River.
Rosewood, as the name suggests, is a long-lived rosewood. It is called rosewood in the "National Standard" and is mainly produced in Southeast Asian countries such as Laos and Thailand. In my country, before the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, it was also found in Guangxi, Yunnan and other provinces. But it disappeared completely after the Republic of China.
Its wood is hard, delicate, and can sink in water. It usually needs to grow for more than 500 years before it can be used. The most obvious thing that distinguishes it from other woods is that its wood grain is often deep red with dark brown or black stripes, giving people a
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