The price difference between the pear and the pear is a thousand times different

Although there are only one word difference between “Huang Pear” and “Hua Pear”, many people still confuse Rosewood and Huang Hua Li. In fact, yellow rosewood and rosewood are two completely different types of wood. There is a "yellow" difference between the two, and the price is a thousand times different. This confusion between the two kinds of wood is not only caused by consumers who are not knowledgeable, and even professional museums are subject to omissions.

Bright color, exquisite material, and exquisite texture make rosewood another quality wood that has potential for development after red rosewood. In historical records, rosewood often appears with the names of Huanghua pear and Huazhu palm. These kinds of wood are often mistaken for the same kind of folk. After the baptism of time and history, rosewood is known for its excellent use, and it has become one of the indispensable carriers for the heritage of ancient and modern furniture culture.

Although there are only one word difference for the easily confused rosewood “pear” and “rose pear,” many people will still confuse rosewood and yellow rosewood. In fact, yellow rosewood and rosewood are two completely different types of wood. There is a "yellow" difference between the two, and the price is a thousand times different. This confusion between the two kinds of wood is not only caused by consumers who are not knowledgeable, and even professional museums are subject to omissions.

On July 11th this year, Guangxi’s first private museum, the Guangxi Jianlin Museum, was declared a courtroom by the Autonomous Region Museum. On the day of the International Museum Day on May 18th, the Guangxi Folk Collection Exhibition was held in the Museum of the Autonomous Region. The Jianlin Museum selected and sent several pieces of furniture such as the "Huanghua Lidiao Diaoguan Guanmao Chair (Three-piece)" and "Huanghuali Flower and Bird Square Fangjiao Cabinet". It was later discovered that the Museum of the Autonomous Region qualitatively expressed its furniture wood species as "modern rosewood." When Huang Huali arrived at the district museum, it became a “rose pear,” which made the Jianlin Museum unacceptable. Because the current price of rosewood is 20,000 yuan per ton, while the price of yellow rosewood is 20 million yuan per ton, and the price difference between the two is a thousand times. In this regard, the Autonomous Region Museum stated that the exhibits were concluded after expert appraisal and there was no possibility of correction. The two sides therefore made a court order.

Experts in the industry told the reporter that Huanghuali and Huali are similar in name, and although people often confuse it, it is rare to see disputes due to identification.

According to the author's author, Zizi Zhuang, “The rosewood was not separated from the Huanghua pear in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The imported rosewood was a rosewood material, and the daffodils produced in the genus Dalbergia of Hainan Island. Huang Tan is called Huali, both of which belong to the same family but two different types of timber."

Yang Jiaxuan, a researcher in the timber industry at the Chinese Academy of Forestry, told reporters that rosewood trees belong to the genus Pterostilium, and the traditionally known yellow rosewood belongs to the genus Dalbergia. Rosewood wood has a spicy odor, while yellow pear has a medicinal odor and soft smell.

Hu Desheng, a research librarian of the National Palace Museum and a member of the National Heritage Accreditation Committee, said that there are also new and old points in the history of the rosewood. Huanghua pear is the old pear in people's traditional understanding. The color is from pale yellow to purple, and the color is delicious. The texture is clear and scented. . The comparatively elegant furniture of the Ming Dynasty was mostly made of old pear wood. The new pears are generally used for various types of rosewood. They have a reddish-yellow wooden color and are much less textured than the old pears. They cannot be confused.

Rosewood furniture is more useful The current use of rosewood rosewood furniture market is mainly produced in Burma, "big red sandalwood", commonly known as "Burma rosewood." Heartwood is orange, brick red or purple, often with dark stripes. There is a banded texture, interlaced texture, showing a deep, shallow section. There are cow hair lines (shaped like a fox tail), monkey face (commonly known as the face), bird eyes pattern, the plane 180 degrees to watch the phenomenon of polarized light. However, these textures do not necessarily appear in one rosewood product at the same time.

Pan Haiying, general manager of Union Redwood, told reporters that large red sandalwood is scented, also known as fragrant rosewood, mainly produced in Laos and Myanmar. She said that the red sandalwood wood has stable performance and is suitable for carving. However, carving will destroy the beautiful patterns that nature gives to the red sandalwood, and it is suitable for the finishing touches of local carvings. Under normal circumstances, it does not carry out complicated carvings.

Actually, the deputy manager of the mahogany furniture department of Lizai Store, Feng Xinhua said that the genre of contemporary furniture used rosewood rosewood is more. Because rosewood, such as big red sandalwood, has a brighter, brighter color and is suitable for making innovative and new classical furniture, it is also loved by the younger generation. Compared to the collection value of other furniture, rosewood furniture made from large rosewood is more homely.

Meilian mahogany furniture sales staff told reporters that the purchase of large fruit rosewood furniture consumers are generally between the ages of 30-50. Most consumers in this section value the bright and festive color of rosewood, and also like the structure of the improved furniture. They believe that the improved rosewood furniture is more ergonomic and more comfortable.

Pan Haiying believes that because each piece of rosewood has a unique natural beauty, and is closer to the modern life, compared with rosewood and other furniture, it also has a furniture culture symbol of the 21st century. She believes that whether rosewood furniture has cultural and collection value depends on its molding process and whether it uses traditional production techniques. Because the quality of ancient generations is worthwhile, the dregs of the past are of no value. The fine collections of the Ming and Qing dynasties in China are not restricted to rosewood and yellow rosewood furniture. The surviving furniture in the Forbidden City after the vicissitudes of the times is evidence, only propaganda. Red sandalwood and yellow pear furniture have a collection value, and they are inevitably suspected of being speculation by businesses.

The carrier of the ancient and modern mahogany culture rosewood is not only suitable for furniture production, but also the carrier for the production of traditional Chinese furniture culture. Industry experts believe that "Ming-style furniture" generally refers to the production of the Chinese Ming Dynasty to the early Qing Dynasty (about 15-17 century AD), with Huanghuali (xiang xiangmu), rosewood as the main material, and some use of rosewood, red acid High quality hardwood furniture such as wood, iron wood, chicken wing wood and other materials. According to research, from the Daoguang period to the end of the Qing Dynasty, some high-quality rosewood was used to make large pieces of furniture. After that, furniture made of rosewood and rosewood as main materials was used in China for a long time.

Classical furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties was beautiful, simple, simple, rigorous in structure, and moderate in decoration. It has been hailed as the peak of the history of ancient Chinese furniture. It is also unique in the history of furniture in the world and is self-contained and has an outstanding position. As one of the main materials used in the later period of ancient furniture, rosewood deserves to be an important carrier for inheriting ancient cultural techniques.

Feng Xinhua stated that the rosewood is not only the carrier for the ancient culture, but also the carrier for the contemporary mahogany culture. She explained that contemporary mahogany furniture not only inherited the traditional hand-made methods of Ming and Qing classical furniture, inherited the mahogany classical furniture culture, but also innovated new techniques, new styles and new cultures, and formed a neo-classical mahogany cultural style with the characteristics of the era. . Due to the fact that high-quality top grade lumber such as Hainan Huanghua pear and red sandalwood are already or will soon be faulted, the relatively rich material of rosewood will become an important wood inheriting contemporary mahogany furniture.

The amount of rosewood exploitation has been reduced year by year. In the history of the development of mahogany classical furniture, there have been social phenomena of the pursuit of furniture beauty from the Emperor to the people. The literati writers regard quality mahogany furniture as a manifestation of quality and taste. Some magistrates and nobles also regard the pursuit of exquisite mahogany furniture as the capital for display. People have used mahogany furniture as a symbol of elegance since ancient times. In a sense, mahogany furniture embodies the user's wealth, status, and cultural taste.

With the revival of Chinese traditional culture, people gradually realize the value of traditional wood and its furniture. Driven by various factors such as interests, after the over-exploitation in the last century, many precious tree species are on the verge of extinction, and the red sandalwood, which is mainly used for making rosewood furniture, is also declining. With the gradual increase in the price of rosewood, the means to obtain rosewood is also “rich”.

In Baoting County, Hainan, a group of men accidentally learned that a deceased old man's beech was made of rosewood. In the interests of smokers, the dig tomb stole rosewood casket. The stolen 6 pieces of pear cedar wood weighed over 410 kilos. , 630 yuan per catty, a total of 258,300 yuan.

Pan Haiying told reporters that because the relative growth of rosewood is relatively slow and resources are scarce, it has been declining year by year. Currently, it is imported from several Southeast Asian countries such as Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand. However, with the rising international environmental protection demand, these countries have adopted strict restrictive policies one after another. As a result, import channels have become more and more difficult. Therefore, it is not ruled out that some unscrupulous merchants take unfair purchase of rosewood for their profit.

According to industry insiders, due to the introduction of the World Environmental Protection Convention, hardwoods and other wild plants around the world have been banned from mining. If timber is legally extracted from the origin of Southeast Asian countries and shipped to other countries, it can only be made in two ways: by making furniture in kind, or by making semi-finished wood for furniture, and returning it to China through legal channels. It is expected that these precious timber from Southeast Asian countries will not be available for several years. By then, people would want to enjoy these expensive mahogany furniture. I am afraid it will be difficult.

-In the industry, it is said that rosewood furniture is suitable for home use. ● Ren Cheng, vice president of the House of Homelessness, head of the Redwood Institute of Culture There are 7 species of rosewood, which are relatively inexpensive mahogany materials, but their wood and wood quality are excellent. Making good furniture is a rare material. What is more valuable is that the general rosewood wood has a relatively large diameter and a relatively long length, which is suitable for making large furniture. At the same time, the materials are relatively cheap and are favored by consumers. Therefore, home furniture, rosewood furniture is a good choice.

Rosewood species are numerous and complicated, and the differences in color and texture are also very different. There is often a large change in color between the same tree species. At present, the best rosewood should be “Vietnam Cambodian Red Sandalwood”, which is generally produced in Vietnam and Cambodia. The most used and most popular in the market are the large fruit red sandalwood, mainly originating in Burma, Laos, and other countries. However, due to excessive logging in Burma in the 1980s and 1990s, the production of red sandalwood is now becoming smaller.

- Wood identification Rosewood and Asian rosewood Rosewood and Asian rosewood are most easily confused, both in terms of name, characteristics and performance. However, the former is in the redwood category while the latter is not in the redwood category.

Yang Jiaxuan said that both rosewood and Asian rosewood are not a single tree species, but they are collectively referred to as the material of multiple tree species. In botany, both belong to rosewood rosewood, of which seven tree species are classified as mahogany "national standard", collectively known as rosewood. The most used rosewood tree species is large red sandalwood. In addition to the seven tree species mentioned above, there are multiple tree species. In terms of density, etc., the standard of rosewood (air-dry density 0.76g/cm3) in the "national standard" of mahogany cannot be fully achieved, and it is called "Asian pear" ( Not yet classified as mahogany).

At present, the Asian rosewood that is often present in the Chinese market, posing as a large fruit red sandalwood, mainly includes Angora rosewood and African rosewood. These two types of wood are classified into the Asian rosewood because of their large diameter and relatively small density. However, from the appearance, rosewood and Asian pear are not easy to distinguish.

Feng Xinhua said that it can be identified through intuitive features such as fragrance, color and weight. The strong red sandalwood has a strong aroma. The Angora rosewood and African rosewood have a weak smell or weak acid odor. The heartwood of large red sandalwood is orange, brick red or purple, often with dark stripes, while the heartwood of African red sandalwood is blood red. Rosewood density is greater, while the density of sub-blossoms is small, so the red sandalwood is more important than Angora rosewood and African rosewood.