China's land is vast and fertile, and there is a unique wood that is expensive to sell when it is ripe, its trunk is straight in the middle, the lower part is covered with dense fluff, and its wood naturally emits a unique fragrance and has a more regular texture.
This kind of wood is good for both the manufacture of furniture and the use of construction, this wood is collectively known as golden silk nan wood, to know that a single one, its value can reach hundreds of millions of yuan.
If such a plant is to be planted, it will cost about 10 yuan, but the price of the final harvest has increased many times. I thought it would make people flock to it, but I didn't expect that no one was willing to plant.
The unique status of the golden silk nan wood
Golden silk nan wood is more delicate than other woods, and even placed in the bright light can be seen that there is a gold wire flash, so that the wood golden brilliance, there is a faint aroma of its own, people usually have a golden wire of the nan wood are called golden silk nan wood.
In ancient times, Nan wood has a high status, often used by the royal family or the family as a building material, Nan and camphor, zi, tang, these four kinds of wood are called the four famous woods.
It has a very cherished position in the architectural world, and it is used even in the construction of mausoleums, and the book "Natural History" has divided different types of nanmu.
It is roughly divided into three types: Xiangnan, Jinsinan and Shuinan. Each material has its own advantages, but only the golden silk will reveal the gold wire, and its texture has a natural pattern.
This is directly portrayed in the book, "The wood grain has gold wire, and the most beautiful of the nan wood." "Therefore, it is also known as the best of the Nan wood, for the royal family, most of the most honorable wood, including its dragon chair, palace and so on are used Nan wood."
If the golden silk nan wood is used as a building material, it not only has a good texture, but also excellent for craftsmen, because this wood is easy to trim and is not easily eaten by ants, and it will not be eroded by running water.
During the Ming Dynasty, a scholar commented on this in the "Five Miscellaneous Tricks" to have different roles in different situations, such as "sand plate" and "iron stone", and talked about its long-standing "color unchanged", you can imagine how high its tenacity is.
Planting conditions for goldenrod
So some people wonder, since this wood is so easy to use, when did it start to be discovered and used as a building material? According to the earliest books, it should have been widely used during the Yuan Dynasty.
Tao Zongyi's "Nancun Shu Farming Record" appears in some descriptions of the nan wood made into furniture, the earliest nan wood was used by people as a building material for making palaces, and later found that its structural texture is relatively superior, and it gradually circulated in the royal family.
And during the Yuan Dynasty, most of the palace architecture adopted this kind, and almost all the furniture in the sleeping hall was inseparable from Nan wood. The same was true of the Ming Dynasty, and was even recognized by people in the architectural community as the most ideal kind of building wood.
Today's cultural treasures are located in the Forbidden City in Beijing, and if you look closely, you can also find that buildings supported by nan wood abound, often paired with rosewood to achieve the best architectural results.
However, although the golden silk nan wood is the most important building material, its growth environment also requires certain conditions, and not all the nan wood is golden nan wood, it only occupies a small part of the nan wood.
Goldenrod prefers wet weather, and is mostly distributed in humid valleys or next to mountain depressions, if there is fertile, deep soil is better, but also in time to dredge and drain water, in the shade to thrive.
The gold silk nan wood for the environment is more than this, it needs to be able to survive at a higher altitude, and even for the temperature has certain conditions, should not be too cold or too hot, moist air is the best.
If it shines on a sunny day all year round, it will grow unevenly, contrary to most tree planting conditions. Nan wood usually appears yellow-green on the surface, if it is cut open, you will find that its texture has a very extreme beauty.
The growth of golden silk nan wood is relatively slow, and it usually takes about a hundred years to grow after planting the saplings, although it is valuable, but it takes too long, which is presumably the influencing factor that most people are reluctant to plant.
In addition, the centennial growth of golden silk nan wood needs a large enough position to allow it to stretch freely, so if someone wants to plant golden silk nan wood, it must also have a larger land to store its shelter, otherwise even if there is not enough space for planting, it is not appropriate.
The ultimate golden silk Nan hundred mile pick one
Although its cost price is not high, if you want to really plant and eventually get high-value golden silk nan wood, ordinary people generally can't afford to plant it, only those who have energy and money in their spare time can plant.
Golden silk nan wood
However, even if it is planted and finally obtained, it is not necessarily a good golden silk nan wood, it may be found that this golden silk nan wood is only a general color after planting for a hundred years, and there are more delicate grains and gold wires that are the best treasures.
Only the real golden silk nan wood will emit the most charming fragrance, which is not the existence of a perfume with a strong sense of existence, but between the seeming and the insignificant, the fragrance from nature is charming.
And the golden silk nan wood also has a delicate touch, as its favorite growth environment is not cold, the touch is mild and slippery, its luster does not need to be compared with the carving of the day after tomorrow, and this property will not be lost by the passage of time.
Therefore, if someone has ever wanted to plant golden silk nan wood, but the extremely risky results and high cost of planting conditions are enough to dissuade most people, and their saplings are not necessarily golden silk nan wood, not to mention that it may need to be maintained by generations of descendants.
Eventually, after the cultivation of the golden silk nan wood, it may become a protector of the state, and it is impossible to buy and sell privately to earn personal benefits, and only those who have great righteousness and sufficient money can meet the conditions.
In ancient times, the first royal nobles discovered this precious wood and cut it down in large quantities, especially during the Ming Dynasty, although they eventually left us with a lot of cultural heritage, but the number of golden silk nan wood was also greatly reduced.
Gold silk nan wood furniture
The use of the golden silk nan wood of the Ming Dynasty was also forbidden by ordinary people, which was a unique symbol of the royal family, and only the powerful could use this most ideal building material in large quantities, and unauthorized use was explicitly prohibited, and even sentenced to death.
The royal family of the Qing Dynasty even used less ordinary gold silk nan wood, which needed to be densely covered with gold wire, shining with gold-like luster to highlight the dignity of the royal family, so such a golden silk nan wood was also used as a symbol of auspiciousness.
Due to the harsh planting conditions, there are not many people who cultivate it, resulting in the rarity and luxury of today's golden silk nan wood, so most of the existing golden silk nan wood is cherished by the state, in order to protect these as part of the mainland culture.