What was the treatment of agarwood in ancient China?

As early as the Qin and Han Dynasties in China, princes and nobles had used agarwood and smoked clothes to go to court, and chose agarwood as a daily ritual to pay homage to the gods. Nobles in northern song dynasty

Scholar-officials pursue the perfection of spiritual life and advocate four things: tasting incense, fighting tea, offering flowers and hanging pictures, which combine wealth with wealth.

The cultural lifestyle of combining learning with nurturing has greatly stimulated the demand and consumption of agarwood. Because there are many imitators of the four great things, high-quality agarwood is scarce.

It's hard to find. At that time, there were legends of "one or two agarwood, one or two gold" and "occupying the city with agarwood, a piece of gold".

Since last year, the collection value of agarwood has been continuously tapped by players, and its value has soared. The top agarwood on the market at present

Gram is close to 50 thousand yuan, and its value is one hundred times that of gold, so it is called crazy wood.

Background: Distribution of Aquilaria Resinatum.

Trees that can bear agarwood are divided into four "families", namely Olive Family, Cinnamomum camphora Family, Daphne Family and Euphorbiaceae Family. Olive family and camphor tree family.

Trees are mainly produced in South America, Mexico, Brazil and other countries. /kloc-In the 6th century, the Spanish first transported Mexican agarwood to Europe, and people learned it.

It is used to be called "Spanish agarwood", while the agarwood oil from Brazil and Guyana is commonly known as "Beto Rose Oil". South America, especially

Especially in the Amazon river basin, the climate and soil conditions are good, and the quality of agarwood oil here is good. For hundreds of years, local people have extracted agarwood.

Oil is exported to Europe, America and Arab countries, which is a traditional and stable foreign exchange earning industry. For many years, the agarwood industry in South America has only been extracted and refined.

Sesame oil, but agarwood has no consumer market.

Trees of Daphne and Euphorbiaceae are mainly produced in Asian and Southeast Asian countries. Euphorbiaceae trees are mainly produced in Taiwan Province Province and its surrounding islands.

The quality of agarwood is average, mainly extracting agarwood oil to make ordinary spices. There are nearly 20 species of trees in Daphne, including subspecies, many of them.

Precious agarwood varieties come from Daphne odora. For example, agarwood from Vietnam and Cambodia, agarwood from red soil, agarwood from India,

China Hainan Island Wuzhishan Dongdong produces black oil agarwood, and Kalimantan produces Anwen water agarwood. Aquilaria sinensis in China in Ming and Qing Dynasties

Once a large number of export trade, Hong Kong and Guangdong Dongguan, Xiangshan and other place names, should be the export port and distribution center of Aquilaria sinensis. pass

After hundreds of years of continuous excavation, China and India, two major Japanese agarwood producers, have basically extinct wild agarwood resources, which are distributed in Viet Nam and Cambodia.

Wild agarwood resources in Indochina countries such as Puzhai are on the verge of extinction. In recent years, Pacific island countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia have become Asia.

The main producing areas of Aquilaria sinensis in Africa, especially Indonesia, which is known as the "country of thousands of islands", have a large number of island tropical rainforests, and the forest coverage rate reaches 100%.

Seventy-four percent, with a unique natural environment for the growth of wild agarwood.

According to statistics, at present, Indonesia's agarwood production has accounted for more than 70% of Asia's agarwood production and has become the focus of Asian agarwood production.

Want a base. In recent years, the Indonesian government has attached great importance to the cultivation and development of agarwood industry, and hired Shannon from Taiwan Province Province, Viet Nam and other countries to give lectures at a high salary.

Guide local people to plant agarwood and actively develop artificial spice cultivation techniques. Indonesian government and local agarwood chamber of commerce promote the launch of "species"

The "Million Trees" campaign hopes to take agarwood as a pillar industry of export trade, and requires it to be bigger and longer. Ministry of Forestry of Indonesia, 2009

A VCR was filmed to excavate "upside down" agarwood and artificially cultivate agarwood for national publicity, including a Chinese version.

According to relevant data, at present, the consumption destination distribution of Asian agarwood (including artificially cultivated agarwood) is: about 90% of the total,

The essential oil of Aquilaria sinensis was extracted with the oil content of 1% to 9%. It accounts for about 10% of the total, and the oil content is%

/kloc-more than 0/0 kinds of high-grade agarwood, about 60% is used for carving and decoration, and only about 40% of high-quality agarwood can be played and collected.

Hidden field. High-quality agarwood resources are scarce, but people are still flocking to it, which leads to the soaring price of agarwood, which is currently at the top of the market.

Xiang has reached the sky-high price of ten thousand yuan a gram.

Knowledge article: the production and collection of agarwood

The optimum growth temperature of Aquilaria sinensis is 19℃ to 34℃, which requires sufficient sunshine, but it can't be directly exposed to the sun for a long time, so it is very suitable.

Wrapped in other trees to grow. Common wild agarwood always grows in the gaps of large broad-leaved trees and is slightly acidic.

Sexual soil grows well in an environment with sufficient water and temperature, so the tropical rain forests and island tropical rain forests in Southeast Asia are

The best environment for the growth of agarwood. Aquilaria sinensis is an agarwood. After natural disasters or human and animal injuries, agarwood resin quickly surrounds the wound.

Solidified into scars, invaded and parasitized by a fungus called yellow-green mole, or combined with bee and ant secretions and subjected to temperature.

Temperature, humidity, soil elements and time form inclusions with different qualities. Aquilaria sinensis can be formed in the roots of Aquilaria sinensis.

Any part of branches, heartwood, epidermis and agarwood can bear agarwood as long as the conditions are suitable.

The quality of agarwood produced by different tree species is different. In Vietnam, Cambodia and other countries in Indochina Peninsula, Daphne odora's agarwood is fragrant.

The main reason is whether the tung tree is a tall tree or a tropical plant with evergreen seasons. Its bark is gray-black with tendons, its leaves are thin and oval, and its back is velvet.

The hair is 4-5mm long, mixed with other large broad-leaved trees. There are two kinds of wind trees, one is commonly known as gourd wind, with loose wood and partial color.

White, another commonly known as ginger wind, has a slightly higher density than gourd wind and a yellowish color. Gourd wind is easy to be damaged because of its soft material.

After that, agarwood is the first choice for artificial cultivation of agarwood. Indonesia and Malaysia are mainly island rainforests near the equator.

There is also another Daphne plant growing here-eagle wood. Eagle wood is a tall evergreen tree with oviparous leaves and long hair on the back.

Associated with other broad-leaved trees. Because of the climate, soil and latitude, the wood color of eagle wood is darker, and the resin gland is thicker and heavier.

Xiang, from the appearance, there is a little black line in the taupe meat, which is very similar to the color of eagle wings and feathers, so it is commonly known as eagle wood. Mu Ying chenxiang

The aquatic agarwood synthesized by microbial decomposition is the top grade, and the smell of aquatic agarwood is elegant, elegant and greasy.

, and can form large pieces, suitable for carving all kinds of ornamental pieces and playthings.

Aquilaria sinensis is produced in bitter soil and is very famous in Fugui Township. People attach great importance to it and are highly sought after. It is quite difficult to collect agarwood. Wild agarwood is not like minerals, not like.

There are veins and no obvious signs. Finding agarwood can only be judged by experience. The agarwood tree grows in the original zone with an altitude of 400 to 1000 meters.

In the forest, several people usually walk together, and they have to sleep in the forest. If the agarwood is sick,

Trees often have reddish spots, which are scented with polyester. Rats and frogs often appear around this diseased agarwood, so there are many snakes, which are quite special.

Looking for snakes to find incense is also an experience, especially when there are many poisonous snakes. I once heard from a fragrance picker that I used to dig agarwood and met Shang in the virgin forest.

For the odorless agarwood, after remembering the terrain features and orientation, we usually cut a number of fragrant holes in the tree, and then let it smell naturally.

I have been collecting incense for many years, but now because there are so many people collecting incense from all walks of life, whenever I find a wild agarwood, whether it is fragrant or not, I always dig it up by the roots.

Because even if there is no fragrance, the agarwood itself still has a clear fragrance, and it is also a hot commodity on the market at present. Wild agarwood resources have indeed arrived.

On the verge of extinction.

The lodging Aquilaria sinensis was washed into the swamp by the flood, and was invaded and decomposed by microorganisms and fungi to form Aquilaria sinensis with high oil content.

Indonesia is the main producing area of Aquilaria sinensis. Finding Aquilaria sinensis in Indonesian swamp is also based on experience and luck. Usually several boats go together.

First, find a local black named "Sang" Wu, who lives in a thorny tree named "Xigu" in the west.

Aquilaria sinensis can often be dug around the valley trees. After choosing the right place, people lined up in waist-deep water and held iron bars more than one meter long.

Insert into the mud, dive out after detecting roots and wood blocks, and dig out wood blocks with rough and sandy surfaces, which are basically

Water is agarwood. Of course, this act of digging incense can't be arbitrary. Indonesia is a multi-ethnic country with 87% people believing in it.

Islam belongs to Muslim Sunnis. In addition to the five major beliefs, local people also care about five ceremonies a day, weekly gathering ceremonies and

The ceremonies of religious festivals are very pious. They believe that God is everywhere, and they are never allowed to go anywhere without the prayers of the elders.

Dig the soil. In particular, ethnic minorities in Indonesia believe in primitive fetishism, animism and polytheism. he

Children live on the edge of virgin forest. They think that there are elves in the swamp, and outsiders are not allowed to dig at will, which destroys the feng shui of the tribe.

. As a result, the aborigines drove away the incense pickers and used means such as the threat of poisonous arrows. Due to natural and man-made disasters, they lost their lives by digging incense.

Events often happen.

Is it sweet? Where to? Respect? I have been insisting on making real agarwood for a long time.