As we all know, a good piece of agarwood takes decades, or even hundreds of years, to form, so the output is very small, and the market is in short supply. Correspondingly, the price of agarwood is also very expensive and has a high collection value. In ancient Chinese society, those who could use agarwood were not rich and expensive. Among them, the best agarwood in China is in the Forbidden City. The master introduced to you today by Xiaobian collected a dragon bed made of 3 tons of agarwood from the folk.
Dragon bed
Purchase dragon bed experience
Lin Rengui is an entrepreneur from Fujian Province who has opened two nationally renowned shoe factories. In addition to the factory's working capital, he invested most of his money in the antique market. Because of this hobby, he opened an antique city in Putian City and served as the honorary president of the Fujian Collectors Association. According to him, in the spring of 1993, he heard a message through friends in the collecting circle: there was a royal descendant in Linyi, Shandong Province, who had an ancestral dragon bed at home.
Recent photo of the dragon bed
After hearing this news, Lin Rengui and his friends ran to Linyi, Shandong Province, to buy this dragon bed. According to the seller, this dragon bed comes from the palace, and their family is also a descendant of the Aisin Kyora family. After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the eunuchs smuggled out some calligraphy and paintings and dragon beds, some of which were taken away, and some of which remained in the family. With the change of the times, the antique relics taken out of the palace have been sold out by them, leaving only this dragon bed.
Local photo of the dragon bed
And even this dragon bed, the more than a dozen descendants of this family have different opinions. Some people advocate selling, some people suggest retention, some people open millions, and some people ask for tens of millions. In order to persuade them to sell the dragon bed to himself, Lin Rengui went door to door to solicit tickets, and ran a dozen times to reach a consensus: to exchange a dozen pieces of porcelain worth more than 20 million yuan for the dragon bed.
Identification of the dragon bed
When he first saw the dragon bed, Lin Rengui thought that the bed was made of rosewood. Later, he spent a month cleaning up all the dust on the bed, smelled the aroma, and found that it was agarwood. In order to verify his conjecture, Lin Rengui invited industry experts to examine, and the results were confirmed that the bed weighing 3 tons was not only made of agarwood, but also came from Indonesia. The introduction of the expert made him even more excited.
Lin Rengui traveled through the Forbidden City and the domestic antique market and did not find a second dragon bed made of agarwood, so he called this dragon bed 2.2 meters long, 1.8 meters wide and 2.4 meters high "the first bed in China". Because the dragon bed is exquisitely made and is carved with 55 living green dragons carved on it, Lin Rengui is more convinced that it comes from the palace. After learning that Lin Rengui's family was hiding such a treasure, some experts came to the door and hoped that he could donate the dragon bed to the country.
The masses visit the Dragon Bed
Lin Rengui only said one sentence: "First get me 500 million yuan and then say, this is what I bought." Lin Rengui later said that the agarwood that made the dragon bed had grown for at least a few thousand years and was a priceless treasure. Relevant experts suggested that he bid 2 billion, but he was not short of money, so he did not sell. If you have to sell it, you will sell it to the Chinese people, 500 million. Foreigners will not sell it no matter how much money they have. It can be seen that Lin Rengui does not want to sell this treasure, and the so-called "500 million" is just a threshold to scare off others.