Sorry, please allow me to make a sad face.
I just finished looking through a bunch of information, and I felt quite uncomfortable.
Everyone is praising how beautiful and good the red rosewood is and how similar it is to red sandalwood.
But the more I looked at it, the more I felt like it looked like a stand-in.
Live your whole life in the shadow of others.
Even its name is borrowed
"Redwood".
It’s a collective term now, but back then?
specifically refers to it.
Those few sentences in the "Antique Guide" are actually quite sad.
"Except for red sandalwood, mahogany is the best wood."
It sounds like a compliment. If you taste it carefully, it will last forever.
There is always a red sandalwood tree lying across the front, and a huanghuali tree standing next to it.
It doesn't even have its own name.
Because it has a slightly sour taste, it is called "rosewood". Northerners are too troublesome to distinguish it, so they simply call it "redwood".
In this way, it assumed the title of the entire family. However, not many people mentioned its real name.
The "waste materials" Zheng He threw on the shore
What pricks me the most is its origin.
When Zheng He went to the Western Ocean, he was afraid that the ship would be light, so he cut off its ballast.
After returning home to unload the goods, they throw them on the shore for whoever wants them.
A tree that has been growing for hundreds of years in the deep mountains and forests has finally grown into a usable material. However, instead of the craftsmen coming with the reverence, it was used as a material for padding the bottom of the boat.
It was soaked by the waves, tied by thick ropes, and finally thrown into the mud like garbage.
Is it like those lives that were wrongly paid for?
I tried my best, but in the end I ended up "last".
The "clean" and "strong" in the nature of wood
But the wood of red rosewood is a bit interesting.
The wood nature is strong, easy to crack, and has a bad temper.
But unfortunately, its texture is delicate, and no matter how rough it is, the edges won’t hurt your hands after cutting.
Xu Shen of the Eastern Han Dynasty said that jade has five virtues. What is "clean" among them?
The jade is broken. No matter how sharp the fracture is, it won't hurt anyone to the touch.
That's it for red rosewood.
He is covered in scars, but he retains his last tenderness towards the world.
He is also very detail-oriented with a bad temper.
Because the wood fibers are short, the knife can be cut horizontally or vertically, and even complex flowers can be carved without falling apart.
The craftsmen used it as a substitute for red sandalwood. During the production process, they discovered that this wood has its own temperament and its own abilities.
Hey, there's something about this texture
Mr. Wang Shixiang once said that the color of new mahogany is yellow, sometimes quite like huanghuali.
Why is the "grimace pattern" of huanghuali valuable and looks "like" on you?
Those landscape patterns on your body, those water ripples on your body, and the gold stars and gold threads that occasionally appear on your body, are they any worse than red sandalwood?
Zhou Mo recorded in "Mu Jian" that some people used old mahogany to pass off as red sandalwood, and mixed it directly in log piles for sale.
When I read this, I suddenly wanted to laugh.
How much do you have to look like to impress all the experts?
What a talent this must be, and how ironic it must be.
Immortals understand, it’s three hundred years too late
Fortunately, someone understands it.
When I looked up information, I saw a pair of "Ming-style assorted fence railing frames" made by Xianyou.
The railings are all made of old red rosewood materials, and are made of more than 300 pieces of small wood. They have a straight lattice style, an ice pattern shape, and a gable structure. The wood properties of the large materials are eliminated by the way of joining the small materials.
Is red rosewood strong?
Then use craftsmanship to make it obedient.
"Emphasis on art and light on materials".
These four words give Hong Rosewood enough face.
Three hundred years ago, it was a stand-in. Three hundred years later, someone finally took the trouble to consider it in its current state.
Final question: Who are you?
It is listed as an endangered species in the CITES appendix.
Laos and Vietnam have blocked exports.
The existing good materials are less than 6%.
In a few years, it may really be gone.
However, until now, if you ask ten people, nine of them will still say: "Oh, is it that wood that looks like red sandalwood?".
No, it's not.
Its texture is grown through its own struggle, its sour fragrance is its own weapon against insects and ants, and its heavy hand is its own density accumulated inch by inch over hundreds of years.
It doesn't need to be like anyone.
The light of the substitute should also be seen
As I wrote this, I looked out the window and saw that it was completely dark.
The piles of boat logs piled up on the coast emerged in my memory, and my mind wandered to the incident in the Qing Dynasty where lacquer was used to disguise the real red sandalwood. My mind still remembers the oily texture of the old material that the master Xianzuo is holding today.
Everything in the world is afraid of the word "serious".
After being treated as a supporting role for three hundred years, it still lives up to what a protagonist should be.
Even if you are just sitting in the corner, you will shine with your own light.
Perhaps, this is enough.
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