What is the history of Huang Huali?

Hainan Huang Huali, also known as Hainan rosewood and Hainan Huang Huali.

"Gold in wood" refers to Huang Huali, which has been the first place in wood since ancient times. In ancient times, Huang Huali was not only a tribute respected by the royal family, but also a symbol of the status of celebrities and scholars.

Modernity is precious because it is rare.

So what's the history of Huang Huali?

Huang Huali, Hainan, was born in the tropical rain forest of Hainan Island, and survived because of the underdeveloped transportation in ancient times.

Sea yellow wood is thick and does not rot for thousands of years, with different patterns and "grimaces".

Reasons for the formation of flower face of Hainan Huanghua pear

In fact, any wood has a "grimace". Huang Huali, Hainan grows in Hainan's humid climate, and its growth period is very slow. It takes hundreds of years to grow into a heartwood with a thick mouth. When it encounters a harsh growth environment, it will form a unique scar phenomenon, which is what we call a "grimace" pattern.

These "grimace" patterns are more complete, clear and vivid than other wood, so Huang Huali is praised by the world.

Top box cabinet made of sea yellow. On the surface of the top cabinet, there are various animal-shaped "grimaces", some of which look like peacocks and lions.

It can't be said that it is the ingenuity of nature, which is beyond the reach of other materials such as rosewood.

Huang Huali's grimace in Hainan is the scar of Huang Huali Wood, and Huang Huali's grimace in Hainan is actually her grimace pattern, which is a gift from nature to Huang Huali, Hainan.

Huang Huali rose from the royal family in the Tang Dynasty and was deeply loved by princes and nobles. In the Tang Dynasty, it was often presented to the emperor by ministers to win the emperor's smile.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, heroes searched for logs of sea yellow everywhere, resulting in a large number of ancient trees being cut down. Because of its extremely slow growth, in just a few decades, sea yellow trees that can be used as materials have basically disappeared.

It was not until after the Opium War that Chinese mainland entered a long-term turmoil. Because Hainan Island was remote, people could not take care of the harvesting of sea yellow, and the logs were also recuperated to a certain extent.

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After the mid-Qing Dynasty, with the aesthetic changes of wood color by people and society, especially the royal family's attention to dark rosewood and old mahogany, Huanghua pear withdrew from Su Guang and Beijing.

Only people in Hainan and Leizhou Peninsula are making furniture, tools and building houses.

Now, the value of Huang Huali in the furniture market and Wan Wen market has soared, and it is common for a string of bracelets with full eyes to sell for 10,000 yuan. Because of this, illegal logging cases emerge one after another, and many precious logs are stolen and sold all over the country as handicrafts.