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Do you know lobular rosewood? Needless to say, I am sure that you can say at least a dozen or twenty lobular rosewood "truths", but are these "truths" correct? But in fact, many of the widely described descriptions of red sandalwood are paradoxes! Today, Xiao Bian reveals the "six rumors of red sandalwood" that have been misrepresented in these years.
Proverbs 1: Red sandalwood without anise
Truth: Since the Jin and Tang Dynasties to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there are many ancient books on the use and introduction of red sandalwood in China. None of them mentioned or described the red sandalwood without any anise, and the statement that the red sandalwood has no big material comes from the north.
As we all know, Indian lobular rosewood is the best of the red sandalwood. However, many old houses and temples in India are built with red sandalwood. The thirteenth line of Guangzhou (the imperial firm of the Qing Dynasty) had several fires and burned a lot of valuable wood and furniture of red sandalwood and huanghuali. Some of the wood was still stored for one or two hundred years. The last fire was in Qing, because the hardwood wood and furniture were very resistant to burning. The fire burned for more than ten days, and the melted silver flowed out of the two-mile Galaxy! In CCTV's documentary "Imperial Firm" There are very detailed explanations, and interested friends can find it online.
Some woods have received a batch of red sandalwood materials when collecting red sandalwood in India. The Indians told him that this is the sandalwood rosewood produced in Indonesia, and the price is half that of Indian production. After the batch was pulled back, the craftsman asked the craftsman to manually open a large material into a one-centimeter thick plate. He tested it in detail using various methods of testing red sandalwood. All the indicators are the same as those produced in India, except that the brown eyes are slightly larger and the sandalwood is slightly weaker (the average person does not feel it). The materials are all large, with a maximum diameter of 70 cm and few hollows. In our domestic Ming and Qing Dynasties, the use of this sandalwood rosewood material produced in Indonesia has yet to be verified.
In summary, the view that the red sandalwood has no big ingredients is simply untenable. Experts in the North have never seen the sandalwood material, so it is understandable to say so. The red sandalwood material in the warehouse of the Forbidden City was used up in the early Qing Dynasty. In the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the soldiers were rioted for years, and the treasury was empty. The Qing court was unable to buy big materials, so the rest of the warehouse was hollow materials and small materials. Not surprising at all. In fact, as long as you carefully examine the red sandalwood furniture that has been preserved in the Forbidden City, you can find that many of the furniture is made of whole materials and large materials, so the red sandalwood is said to be no matter whether it is in the palace or in Guangdong. Live the foot.
Proverb 2: Over-cutting in the Ming and Qing Dynasties led to the extinction of lobular rosewood
Truth: The original words of this rumor are: "The emperors of the Ming dynasty sent people to Nanyang to harvest sandalwood every year, and even took the goodness of Nanyang's Jiamu." From the (Republic of China) Zhao Yuzhen's "Quick Guide", Chapter 29 · Woodware.
In fact, from the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, Yan people were not allowed to trade with foreign fans. After Hongwu, the "sea ban" gradually relaxed. At the time of Jiajing, the imperial court ordered the imperial court to enforce the "sea ban." After the suffering subsided, the "sea ban" was cancelled. The "closed country" began in 1757. After the Qing soldiers entered the customs, they occupied the Forbidden City. At that time, there were not a few pieces of rosewood furniture. There was no evidence that there was a large amount of rosewood in the palace.
Rosewood is a sacred tree in ancient India, because the Buddha used to sing the Buddha Sakyamuni is the rosewood (documented in the ancient books of Buddhism), so the Indians respect and love the rosewood. There have been thousands of hectares of red sandalwood forests in India, and in ancient times artificial replanting and breeding of red sandalwood trees began. There is no such thing as logging. In addition, there was only one record of the procurement activities directly recorded by the court in the Qing Dynasty. It was a failed purchase. The purchase was indeed a small material that was “rough and unsatisfied. Because the Qing government did not get through the Guangdong self-purchasing, neither familiar with the local situation and customs, and did not know the local language and buyers who would buy hardwood, the procurement will naturally fail, let people give a few small pieces to send. In ancient times, the buyers who knew the local language, customs and hardwoods were all in Guangzhou. At that time, the Qing Palace might think that the price of Guangzhou was expensive. They wanted to bypass Guangzhou and go directly to Nanyang to purchase. The result failed. In the future, I have never sent such a court purchasing group, or I will continue to buy wood from Guangzhou.
Proverbs 3: 100% of Ming and Qing dynasty precious redwoods are gathered in Beijing
Truth: The original words of this rumor are: "The red sandalwood that can be used in the Ming Dynasty has been bundled. Finally, the red sandalwood produced in the world is 100% collected in Beijing." In fact, the two generations of red sandalwood and huanghuali in the Ming and Qing Dynasties The largest distribution center for valuable hardwoods such as rosewood is Guangzhou, not Beijing.
Proverbs four: Ten Tan nine
Truth: "Ten Tan Nine" can be said to be our most "recognized truth", in fact, this is also a fake!
In hardwood, the hollow is not proprietary to red sandalwood, and all hardwoods have a hollow phenomenon. Hollow wood is very difficult to grow and live for a long time, because it is difficult to resist natural disasters such as tropical typhoons, earthquakes and tsunamis. Even if it is not cut down, it will fall by itself. The red sandalwood material is not hollow or the hollow hole is so small that it can grow for hundreds of years or even thousands of years without falling.
Proverbs 5: In ancient times, red sandalwood was 10-20 times more expensive than yellow pear, and now inverted yellow pear is 10 times more expensive than red sandalwood.
Truth: No matter how beautiful and beautiful the huanghuali is, there is still a gap between the huanghuali and the red sandalwood. There is a pair of red sandalwood top cabinets built in Guangdong in the middle of the Qing Dynasty. The door is engraved with inscriptions: "Da Qing Qianlong was in the autumn of the Shunde County Department of Guangdong Province, and the total amount of silver was more than 300 yuan.庵Feng’s knowledge.†At that time, the monthly salary of a county magistrate was less than six or two silver, and more than three hundred and two silvers were able to buy a manor at that time!
Proverb 6: The rosewood furniture culture plays a very important role in guiding western furniture
Truth: Rosewood was originally imported as a spice. Many ancient books have recorded three types of sandalwood: red sandalwood or red sandalwood; yellow sandalwood (scented) is yellow pear; and white sandalwood used to burn incense from ancient times to today. In ancient times, many high-quality rosewood anises were sold to Europe by the then rulers, British, used to make spices, dyes, food and food coloring used in wine, but rarely used for furniture!
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