China's four great redwood is which four

The yellow rosewood and rosewood, chicken wing wood, ironwood and called the four great ancient Chinese wood.

Benzoin yellow sandalwood

Benzoin yellow sandalwood, endangered species, Hainan specialties, legume disc-shaped flower subfamily of evergreen trees. Its wood is known as "yellow rosewood", commonly known as "buck wood", "Compendium of Materia Medica" called buck incense, its wood chips in water can lower blood pressure, blood lipids, its wood wood hard, beautiful texture, is the production of classical hardwood furniture of the best materials. Although the descending yellow sandalwood easy to live, but extremely difficult to become a material, the real material needs hundreds of years of growth period, so as early as the end of the Ming and early Qing dynasties, Hainan Huanghuali wood species on the verge of extinction.

The heartwood of balsam pear is the most valuable, after planting 7 to 8 years after the formation of heartwood. The heartwood is reddish brown, material dense hard heavy, fine texture beautiful, natural natural pattern (commonly known as "ghost face"), corrosion and abrasion resistance, not cracked under the warping, and exudes fragrance, durable, is the production of high-level mahogany furniture, handicrafts, musical instruments and carvings, inlaid, beautiful decoration of the material, and the imported sour wood is the same name. Its wood is distilled from the descending oil, can be used as spices on the fixed aroma agent. Root heartwood and trunk heartwood can replace the descending incense, for medicinal purposes, as a good analgesic.

Pterocarpus indicus

Pterocarpus indicus, also known as the "green dragon wood", belongs to the family of pterocarpaceae, subtropical evergreen trees, five or six feet high, the leaves are compound leaf flower butterfly-shaped, fruit winged, wood is very hard, color red, pterocarpus indicus wood into the water that is sunk. Rosewood is a particularly hard and heavy class of legume genus rosewood collectively, is the highest level of mahogany in the timber. It is a kind of hardwood with deep purple-black color. Most suitable for the production of furniture and carving works of art. With rosewood made of artifacts by waxing and polishing without lacquer, the surface shows a satin-like luster. Therefore, it is said that anything made of rosewood is cherished by people.

The rosewood is also known as: murumuru, murumuru, rosewood, feather-leaf sandalwood, cycad wood, cypress wood. Rosewood diameter is usually about 15 centimeters, the trunk is twisted less straight, very many holes, known as "ten sandalwood nine empty" said. Sapwood yellow-brown white heartwood orange-red-yellow less black pattern, there is a very fine Bugle (wave marks), the wood contains rich orange-yellow pigment, specific gravity 1:1 or more, the fiber organization was S-shaped structure. Tube holes in the dense curved extremely like cow hair, so there is "cow hair grain rosewood" called.

There are about fifteen kinds of rosewood. But the real meaning of rosewood only one, that is what we call "small-leaf rosewood. Small-leaf rosewood, Indian rosewood is the best. The earliest record of rosewood is Jin - Cui Bao's "Ancient and Modern Note", said "rosewood, out of the Fu Nan, color purple, also known as the purple sandalwood." Rosewood non-thousand years can not become wood, and often say "ten sandalwood nine empty", the largest diameter of rosewood is only about twenty centimeters, the degree of its preciousness can be imagined. In a variety of hardwoods rosewood texture is the most dense, the weight of the wood is the heaviest, into the water that is sunk. Small-leaved sandalwood wood grain is not obvious, the color of the first for the red-orange, for a long time is a deep purple such as paint, almost can not see the annual grain. The vein line is very fine, was stranded like a cow hair.

"Purple" means auspicious, in addition to the unique fine wood and the degree of rarity of rosewood, so in the Ming and Qing dynasties, rosewood will be doubly treasured by the royal family. The two emperors spared no expense, set the world of skilled craftsmen to create a variety of rosewood furniture, jewelry. These things at that time, it is a superb, not to mention handed down to this day. Plus these, as if to zitan wood on a had more mysterious color. In fact, Europe and the United States attach importance to the degree of rosewood than our country is particularly, it is said that Napoleon's tomb has a 15-centimeter-long rosewood coffin model, visitors are not surprised and envy, thought rare. So for rosewood "inch wood inch gold" such a statement is not excessive.

Sandalwood is divided into new, old two kinds. The old color purple, the new color red, have irregular crab claw pattern. Rosewood characteristics are mainly manifested in the color of rhinoceros horn color, most of its annual pattern is stranded silk, although there are straight silk place, but a closer look there is always a stranded silk pattern. Rosewood bristle eye fine, heavy wood. Identify new and old rosewood method, the new rosewood soaked in water after losing color, the old rosewood soaked in water does not lose color; in the new rosewood on the color does not fall off, the old rosewood hit on the color of a rub off.

Small-leaf rosewood is also a valuable traditional Chinese medicine, in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" records, rosewood can stop bleeding, pain, regulate qi and blood. With rosewood similar wood and sandalwood, for evergreen shrubs, produced in China's Guangdong, Yunnan and other places. Its leaves are long dolomorphic, the tip of the leaf without petals, calyx cleft into four pieces, the solid is a drupe. Woody, heavy, fragrant, yellow and white two kinds. Used as spices, or made of fan bone, box box and other small objects. Wood quality is not as good as rosewood.

China since ancient times that rosewood is the most valuable wood, due to too valuable, so rosewood artifacts than huanghuali less. Although rosewood is not as gorgeous as Huanghuali, but the silence of the ancient is not comparable to any wood.

Chicken wing wood

Chicken wing wood is distributed in subtropical regions of the world, the main origin of southeast Asia and South America, because there is similar to the "chicken wing" texture and name. Texture interlacing, clear, abrupt color, in the mahogany belongs to the more beautiful wood, a slight aroma, the growth of the annual cycle is not obvious.

Chicken-winged wood is a type of mahogany with a chicken-wing ("V") pattern on the string section of the heartwood. Chicken-winged wood is known for its remarkable and unique texture, which has always been loved by the literati and consumers. In the market of antique furniture, there is a new and old division of chicken wing wood. Mr. Wang Shixiang will be divided into: the old Chicken Wing Wood "dense texture, purple-brown shades of grain, especially longitudinal cutting and slightly oblique section, delicate floating, giving people a feeling of feathers shining brightly." The new chicken wing wood "wood rough, purple and black, grain is often cloudy and unclear, stiff and straight without rotating momentum, and the wood is sometimes easy to warp stubble."

Ironwood (non-mahogany)

Ironwood is the hardest wood of a tree, is unique to Yunnan's precious broad-leaved species, the national second-class protected plants. It belongs to the genus of the goldenrod, evergreen tree, 30 meters high, straight trunk, crown tower-shaped, produced in Jinghong, Mengla, Menghai, Gengma, Ruili, Luxi and other counties at an altitude of 1,300 meters below the river valley slopes, hot and humid, is the local people's favorite timber species for military, shipbuilding, construction, special machine parts and the production of musical instruments, arts and crafts with. Ironwood seed oil content of 74%, can be used to make soap.

Ironwood can be subdivided into two kinds: coarse wire ironwood and fine wire ironwood. Coarse wire ironwood is the main furniture material, color dark brown, sometimes used too hard will appear black. Coarse wire ironwood is often cracked, but the cracks are generally shallow and do not exceed 20 centimeters in length. Brown eye with the direction of the wood cut off different long and short, and sometimes stranded, and the distribution of random uneven. The overall look of ironwood, wood grain smooth, often presenting the texture of clouds and water, and even beautiful grain almost chicken wing wood, but it is essentially different from chicken wing wood, that is, chicken wing wood body light, ironwood weight; chicken wing wood brown eye smooth and unhindered, ironwood brown eye silk into the flesh. Knowing this, I should say that recognizing ironwood is not a problem.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties in the furniture, can find examples of ironwood furniture, to the Ming style for more, there is no doubt that the Ming Dynasty has been a large number of ironwood furniture. Typical Ming style furniture abounds, and the most simple and simple, high interest.

After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the excellent ironwood furniture dramatically reduced, the quality of the ironwood furniture in the commercial impact, not the favor of the fickle society. Rosewood and yellow rosewood furniture interpretation of the court, the aristocracy, and the literati luxury, representing the history of the ancestors in this field reached the highest level; and this highest level is piled up by a piece of furniture like ironwood such as the cornerstone of excellence, never reach the highest peak for no reason at all. From this point of view, the ancient simplicity of the ironwood furniture like an elder, to the ancient narrative of a long and true story.