Southern Shengjiamu
Located in the waves of the South China Sea, Hainan Island has been known as the Immortal Mountain on the Sea since ancient times, and its unique geographical location and climate environment have produced a variety of rare treasures, especially precious tropical plant species, whether it is in the majestic Five Finger Mountain in the middle of the country, or the rivers and lakes flowing across the island are lush and tall tropical trees, for hundreds of thousands of years, cypress, mountain jasmine, chai dragon tree, galera, wood milk fruit, autumn maple, jialan, black olive, birch, maple poplar, half maple lotus, oak wood, slope barrier, white orchid , green orchid, mulan, Hainan datou tea, mountain red, rosewood, peach, heavenly wood, mao lychee, slender dragon, sycamore, willow wood, fishing camphor, wood ginger, beech wood, Qiongnan and other rare wood species, they have grown freely in the primeval forest for hundreds of years and thousands of years, absorbing the heavenly essence and the earth, enjoying the joy of life!
Refining and reborn
More than 5,000-40,000 years ago, due to earthquakes, flash floods, lightning strikes, typhoons and other reasons, the precious ancient trees of Hainan's primeval forest that have grown for thousands of years were buried deep in the coastal seabed of Hainan Island, as well as in major rivers and lakes such as wanquan river, Changhua River, Nandu River, etc., buried in the riverbed silt or stratum, oxygen insulation and sealing, and then after thousands of years of river water, sand and gravel for many years soaking and grinding, with the microbial action in the water, fish and insects gnawing, shrimp and crab habitat caused by erosion, slowly only the strongest trunk remains. With the passage of time, it has changed the original vital signs: the inherent fats and sugars of the wood are dissolved in the water, the living space of moths and bacteria is removed, and the sediment at the bottom of the water is corroded by the sediment, highlighting the texture and beauty of the material, more rigid and upright, showing a magnificent posture, forming a simple and dignified, copper wall iron pillar-like resolute characterization. Their colors have evolved brilliantly and colorfully, and they have accepted the colors re-given to them by the divine power of nature: brown, gray, purple, black, outer red, inner black, black skin and yellow heart, etc., and have given them a different style, which is strange and magical, and can be called the essence of the tree and the soul of the wood. After thousands or even tens of thousands of years of baptism of nature, they silently wait for the sun to shine again. Until a major drought in 2004, the riverbed was exposed, and their magnificent figures finally reappeared in the world.
Characteristics of gloomy wood construction (camphor fishing)
Characteristics of gloomy wood construction (Shanchi)
Due to the carbonization of nature for thousands of years or even tens of thousands of years, it has formed a form that resembles stone and wood, and has both the elegance of wood and the charm of stone, the texture is solid and thick, the color is black and shiny, the cross-section is smooth and delicate, corrosion-resistant, insect-resistant, and each piece is natural. Because of its peculiar, simple and elegant natural shape, it is known as the sacred wood of the East by Westerners.
The vast texts are contained
Although the Oriental Sacred Wood is speechless, people's word of mouth and historical records have been endless, and they have been respected by people throughout the ages, and there is a saying that "even if there is a box full of gold, it is not as good as the ebony side".
(1) As early as 1027 BC, when the Western Zhou Dynasty became king, there was a record of the Yin Mu being listed as a tribute in the Yi Zhou Shu Wang Hui Chapter;
(2) Zhang Dai of the Ming Dynasty said in "Tao'an Dream Memories of Mu Youlong": "The wooden dragon came out of the Liaohai Sea, gargled for the wind and waves, shaped like a giant wave jumping, and there were many ripples all over the body. Taste the Liaojing of the Ping King, and go to the capital..." Later, Zhang Dai's father exchanged seventeen rhinoceros horn cups. After the death of his father, Zhang Dai spent a hundred taels of gold and transported it back to his hometown in Shanyin by land and water, "passed down as a world treasure".
(3) Yuan Ming of the Qing Dynasty wrote in "Zi Bu Shu": "Crossing the heavens and the earth to overturn the number of disasters, re-emerge from the world, so as to re-enter the earth, ten thousand years is not bad." Its color is dark green and the grain is like a tapestry. Placed on the ground, a hundred steps away, the flies do not fly. ”
(4) Li Tiaoyuan of the Qing Dynasty wrote in the "Notes on South Vietnam": "Ebony, produced by the Qiongzhou islands, is folded by the natives and is widely used."
(5) The greatest work in the history of Chinese literature, "Dream of the Red Chamber", also has its traces: in the fortieth "Shi Taijun Two Feasts Grand View Garden Golden Mandarin Duck Three Xuanya Tablet Order", "Feng Jie holds a Western cloth hand towel in her hand, wrapped in an ebony three-inlaid silver fence."
(6) "Guangzhixuan": "The black wood is crisp and light, can be a small utensil, out of the Qiong sea".
(7) "Hainan Miscellaneous Works: Vietnam Chronicle": "Native gold pearls, tortoiseshells, corals, Qinan, sandalwood, bouquet of incense, cinnamon, ebony".
Judging from the records of the classics, most of the gloomy wood used in ancient times was produced in Hainan.
Over the centuries, gloomy wood has become a treasure to ward off evil spirits, Nafu, and town houses, and has become the preferred material for emperors and nobles to build palaces. The emperors of the Qing Dynasty even listed it as a material for the exclusive use of the imperial family, and the people could not use it privately.
Shi Yun: "Shen Mu is rare in the world, but it can fight Gyeonggi with pearls and jade." The quagmire does not damage the bones of zhengzheng, and once you enter the Huatang light clothing. It can be seen that the Oriental Sacred Wood (Hainan YinMu) has also always been a treasure valued and loved by the traditional Chinese scholar class.
The Tao Fa is born naturally
The reason why the Oriental Sacred Wood is called "Gloomy Wood" is mainly to describe its carbonized wood characteristics from the perspective of scientific mechanism. Ancient trees with a growth period of up to 1,000 years are buried deep in the strata, formed by carbonization for thousands of years or even 10,000 years, and for each oriental sacred tree, two life courses give them the yin-yang disposition.
Traditional Chinese Taoist thought holds that everything in the universe is both antithetical and interdependent. Call it "yin" and "yang". In nature, the sky is yang and the earth is yin; the sun is yang and the moon is yin; fire is yang and water is yin; day is yang, and night is yin; in human society, male is yang and female is yin; in the biological world, the bodies of animals and plants are yin, and life activities are yang. Specific to the Oriental Sacred Wood, by examining its formation mechanism and its physical characteristics, combined with the "Yin and Yang Theory" in Chinese philosophical thought, as a living wood, it has grown in the primeval forest for hundreds to thousands of years, and it reveals the characteristics of this "wood", that is, "yin". After being buried deep in the formation, it has experienced tens of thousands of years of vicissitudes, gone through the thousands of tempers of nature, and finally reappeared in the world today, its tenacious life resilience, and showed its vigorous vitality, that is, "yang". In the Oriental Sacred Wood, the endowment of yin to yang is expressed. It embodies the ideal state of Taoist thought in traditional Chinese culture in which everything needs to be stored and cultivated to become a great instrument, as Lao Tzu said in the twenty-first chapter of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching:
"The Word is a thing, but a trance." Trance, there are elephants in it, trance, there is something in it. There is a fine in it. Its essence is very true, and there is faith in it. ”
This point is similar to the formation and evolution of the jade stone of "gentleman's gentle as jade" in the traditional Chinese cultural symbols, which coincides with the characteristics of the wood and stone presented by the Oriental Sacred Wood, and the "Taoist Nature" idea in the traditional Chinese culture expressed by the Oriental Sacred Wood is one of the cores of our promotion of China's excellent traditional culture in the new era. It is also a symbol of practicing the green development concept of harmonious coexistence between man and nature. It is believed that under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the inheritors of China's outstanding traditional culture, the rescue, protection, inheritance and promotion of oriental sacred trees have a bright future.
President of The Hainan Provincial Fu Culture Research Association Zhang Rui, a collector of oriental sacred wood
April 10, 2022 in Haikou