Today I will show you the real Hainan agar
Come on, let's go to the picture first
Hainan agar
Thick legs are not the focus, agarwood is
This is the "mouth" agarwood
This term is only understood by us agarwood farmers, and we communicate on a small scale to help each other identify wild agarwood
Because when picking incense, agarwood varies according to the part of the incense,
For example, the top of the tree is incense, the tree body is incense, the location of the root incense is different, and even the size of the wound, etc.,
We will define different types of agarwood for different parts, such as "Baokou" agarwood, "hanging mouth" agarwood, "Baotou" agarwood and so on
This term can be defined as the industry jargon of incense picking, because the quality of wild natural agarwood can be divided into hundreds of grades, even thousands
Many people want to learn agarwood identification with me, so I joke that I have to go into the mountains with me to collect incense for ten years, and then I will have a little success.
On paper, I finally realized that I had to do something about it
You have seen more wild agarwood trees, all kinds of strange ways of incense have been seen, and then you have tasted it again, and you will naturally enter the Tao, which is definitely not comparable to the agarwood experts who can read
Most of the agarwood on the market now is "industrial agarwood" or "essence agarwood". Are directly from the source factory to purchase and process the good "agarwood powder", and then subcontracted to customize for incense, many people who write agarwood articles to taste do not know what the agarwood tree looks like, not to mention the knowledge of incense.
I always compare such a truth: you have not seen a pig run, have not eaten natural pork, only eaten artificial pork, you claim to be a pork expert and start to write pork articles, and you are not embarrassed to really sit with those who have eaten pork?
I once optimistically estimated that the world's annual wild natural agarwood production is less than 100 catties, so many agarwood ornaments and finished products on the Internet, you have to think about these will be wild?
Only artificial planting of agarwood will become mass production, as long as there is money, land, planting agarwood trees, a large number of injections of chemicals to ripen the incense, agarwood will continue to push the market, but I call it "industrial agarwood", my personal cognition, this agarwood is not agarwood, in vain
This kind of "industrial agarwood" I avoid
More friends always ask me Vietnam Hoi An agarwood, Fusen agarwood, etc., I only have a bitter smile, this I also call it "foreign agarwood", wild agarwood is not allowed to import and export, you say this "foreign agarwood" what is it? I also avoid walking.
Because I have always believed that only wild natural agarwood can be medicated, can be drunk or even taken, is the real agarwood.
Only wild agarwood that grows naturally in the mountains is agarwood
Let's take the picture above
This piece of agarwood is full of oil, in vernacular parlance, that is, the oil is very rich, the density is high, and it can sink into water
In Hainan we call it "Hainan Agar"
This kind of Hainan agar, the growth of agarwood trees is at least 80 years old, from injured incense to incense growth, at least 20 or 30 years old, far from artificial chemical ripening in just a few months of incense comparable
It is a pity that this good quality agarwood is a little thin, if it is thicker, the value will increase by dozens of times.
Because it can be carved into rosary beads or pendant ornaments to carry with you, the selectivity is very large
I opened the headline column "Agarwood is not Agarwood" to try to popularize some knowledge about wild agarwood from the perspective of Shannon, agarwood lovers should have the right to know, know the truth about the production of "industrial agarwood" that is really artificially grown, and then choose to buy
I hope that more people can pay attention to and love wild natural agarwood, if we can plant more agarwood trees in the mountains and let them grow naturally, it will be a precious gift we will leave to future generations after a hundred years