Ebony (gloomy wood) combines the elegance of wood with the charm of stone, and is known as "oriental sacred wood" and "plant mummy". Earthquakes, floods, and mudslides bury all above-ground plant organisms in low-lying areas such as ancient riverbeds, and bury some trees in silt. Under the action of bacteria and other microorganisms in the state of hypoxia and high pressure, ebony is formed after a carbonization process of up to tens of millions of years, so it is also called "carbonized wood". Ebony has been used for generations to ward off evil spirits, making handicrafts, Buddha statues, and amulet pendants. The ancients said: "The home has an ebony half square, which is better than a box of treasure."
The modern "ebony" is a kind of mahogany, the timber market generally called "ebony" refers to the black African ebony and East African black sandalwood, they are a category of tree species, belonging to the national mahogany standard.
Ebony, which is about 1,000 years old and weighs an estimated 80 tons, is buried underground for at least 500 years, and the entire trunk and part of the trunk have been carbonized into black and brown.
Extended reading: A villager in Hubei province dug out a large number of ebony Trees The largest tree is 25 meters long
Early excavation of ebony (gloomy wood) is mainly distributed in Sichuan four major rivers and their tributaries (now due to the construction of large projects and drought and other reasons, there are large-scale dark wood excavations in many places, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, etc. have a number of excavations, and the general scale is large, the tree body is huge, non-mechanical hoisting can not be moved, in recent years, in Anhui Anqing along the river area also found a lot of dark wood traces. According to the measurement of carbon fourteen isotopes by a number of ebony enthusiasts, most of the ebony are between 2,000 and 40,000 years old.
With the development of large-scale infrastructure projects, as well as the emergence of various large-scale hoisting excavation equipment, the current gloomy wood has been found in the two Guangdong areas (Guangxi, Guangdong), many of which are iron wood dark wood, wood is extremely hard, the quality is superior; its quantity will also become more and more rare with the amount of excavation, the rarity of things is the eternal truth, this kind of wood excellent ebony has a high collection value.
Since 2012, in Yongxing Town, Mingshan District, Ya'an City, Sichuan Province, and the adjacent Caoba Town in Yucheng District, Hejiang Town has found a large number of ebony, mostly Zhennan wood, but also ma willow, etc., the longest is 20 or 30 meters long, and the chest diameter is more than 2 meters.
On September 4, 2013, Liang Cai, a farmer in Xiushui County, Jiangxi Province, found a suspected ebony that was 24 meters long, 1.5 meters in diameter and weighed 80 tons in the river.
In April 2014, a villager in Chuantan Village, Chuantan Township, Wuning County, Jiangxi Province, found ebony that was more than 4,000 years old and dug up a total of 4 sections of ebony with "one long and three short".
There are many kinds of trees that form ebony (dark wood), including: hemp willow tree, green tree, camphor tree, nan wood (golden silk nan wood, small leaf nan wood), red tree, yew tree, horse mulberry, yellow willow wood, yellow cedar, locust wood, sandalwood, iron wood, etc. (the five kinds of dark wood found so far are commonly qinggang, ma willow, camphor, red tree, and nan wood). Generally, tree species with scent and sterilization characteristics can be formed (but not all the somber wood that has been formed has a fragrance, and it depends on the different tree species that are formed, and whether there is a fragrance or not; generally only the somber wood of nan and camphor has a fragrance).
Ebony is inherently hard (iron-powered dark wood is the hardest, red-stemmed dark wood is softer; whether it can sink underwater after forming a gloomy wood and returning to the sun (natural shade drying) depends on the different tree species it forms, ironwood ebony can still sink into water after drying, and the finished small pieces of other tree species generally float on the surface of the water). Gloomy wood is more peculiar.
When the dark wood was first unearthed, its outer color was mostly black, and there were also outer black and inner red (such as ancient red tsubaki, buried in the ground for more than three thousand years to form this color), or outer black and inner yellow (such as ancient golden silk nan wood, buried in the ground for more than four thousand years, only this color), iron ebony through the body and outside are black (inner and outer all black carbonized iron ebony is usually more than 5,000 years), outer black and inner green (such as ZhenNan), color gradient; its original ancient trees are only red toon, nan wood, green bar, hemp willow, camphor, catalpa and other varieties, Not all ancient trees can become ebony, and not all ebony is black, or black is ebony, such as india, Myanmar produced black wood and Chinese persimmon wood, diesel sandalwood, chicken wing wood, is a black modern wood (is a type of tree species, modern "ebony" refers to a kind of national mahogany standard).
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