What are the advantages of agarwood wood carving?

Aquilaria wood carving is an ancient traditional carving art, and it belongs to the family Daphne, also known as Shenshuixiang, which is produced in Hainan, Jiaotuo (now Vietnam) and East India. This kind of wood is mainly used to make spices. In the Ming and early Qing dynasties, this kind of wood was also used in the palace to make pen containers, refills, pen containers, ruyi, bottles and so on. Fine workmanship, just like rhinoceros horn. Jiang Chunbo, a famous woodcarving artist in Suzhou in the late Ming Dynasty, once had an agarwood woodcarving landscape cup. This landscape cup is made of high relief and splicing technology. The author borrows a flat-bottomed cone-shaped Daphne root, the inner opening is hollowed out like the bottom of a pot, and the outer wall is slightly embossed to outline distant mountains, houses and figures, in the same way as rhinoceros horn and Tian Huangshi. Then, using the mosaic technique, other Daphne plants with carved scenery were glued and inlaid on the tapered wooden wall from bottom to top.

In this way, the whole cup bottom is concave and convex, with a stronger sense of relief and an appearance like a rhinoceros horn cup. The theme of this work is seclusion in the mountains. Carved patterns are undulating mountains, and strange stones are scattered at will. Several strange pines stand behind the house and on the cliffs, flourishing and leaping. There are also some small maple, cypress and tung trees, which are inserted between the steep cliffs far or near. The mountains are majestic and the scenery is very quiet. Its exquisite carving skills and immortal artistic value fully reflect the industrious wisdom and outstanding talents of the ancient working people. Aquilaria sinensis is a very precious material since ancient times and the best raw material for arts and crafts. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the royal family of the court advocated making all kinds of learning tools with this kind of wood, and the craft was fine, just like the rhinoceros horn. Because agarwood is precious, many rotten wood is thin and dry, so it is rarely used for carving. Therefore, in the auction market, once there are large items made by Daphne, there will often be surprising performances. The agarwood forest has a beautiful environment for people to practice and grow up, which is very suitable for the landscape of leisure and spiritual cultivation areas.

?