Red sandalwood furniture has gone through hundreds of years of transformation, vicissitudes and damage, and there is not much left. Only the Forbidden City and museums and gardens all over the country are treasured. For example, Four Beams of Red Sandalwood Sitting on the Pier in Beijing Palace Museum, Red Sandalwood Throne with Mud Around the Waist, Red Sandalwood Carved Balsamic Armchair in Shanghai Museum (Qing Dynasty), Red Sandalwood Fan-shaped South Official Hat Chair in Taiwan History Museum (Late Qing Dynasty), Red Sandalwood Golden Dragon Throne, Red Sandalwood Noble Chair and Red Sandalwood Carved Dragon Shelf. In China, some material suppliers often mention that rosewood has certain spirituality and is often used to make deities and buddhas. Therefore, when dealing with rosewood, we must be respectful and never use rosewood to seek illegitimate interests.
In India, there are many legends about rosewood, which is shrouded in a mysterious color. For example, when the rosewood tree is alive, its branches are very soft. If people cut it down, it will harden in just five to ten minutes. Red sandalwood is regarded as sacred wood or Shenmu by Indians and has been regarded as Buddha wood for hundreds of years. Rosewood logs generally do not split. In some noble old houses, the beams and columns are sometimes the whole rosewood.
After all, the story of the gods is just a legend. So it doesn't really matter whether rosewood is spiritual or not. However, as a precious wood, red sandalwood is made of superior materials, and its furniture is antique. Because of its strong practicality, it can inherit the classical culture of China and is praised by the world. However, the resources of rosewood are extremely scarce, so people should cherish the resources, do more research before making furniture and other products with rosewood, and don't waste resources easily. In addition, as a rosewood operator, it is really necessary to do "a gentleman loves money and takes it properly" in business, and it can't be recharged.
In fact, cherishing resources and being honest and trustworthy are not only the requirements for mahogany operators, but also the requirements for the entire mahogany industry practitioners. Otherwise, even without God's punishment, people will feel guilty and even be punished by law. People in China always think that purple is an auspicious color. For example, the word "purple gas coming from the east" comes from the story that when Laozi, the ancestor of Taoism, went through the customs, Yin Xi of Guanling saw the purple gas coming from the east and knew that a saint was coming, so he asked Laozi for help. Seeing that the world was sinister, Lao Tzu left a great work of historical significance, Tao Te Ching, and left in a hurry. The Forbidden City, formerly known as the Forbidden City, shows the status of purple.
Cui Bao, a teacher in the Jin Dynasty, wrote in Notes on Ancient and Modern Times that "rosewood, which comes out of Funan, is purple in color, also known as rosewood." Rosewood has a deep purple color, which has always been cherished by emperors, generals and literati. It is expensive and ranks first among all trees, and is called "the wood of emperors".
The Tang Dynasty was the period when China's woodwork was maturing, and the making of small objects with rosewood began in the Tang Dynasty. In the treasure house of Masayoshi Institute in Nara, Japan, there are several pieces of rosewood artifacts given to the emperor by the emperor of the Tang Dynasty in China. After Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, built water conservancy projects and encouraged reclamation, which promoted the rapid recovery and development of agricultural production and the development of handicrafts and commerce. The royal family paid more attention to rosewood and began to cut it on a large scale. Due to the scarcity of red sandalwood, red sandalwood in China was quickly ignited.
In the early years of Yongle, Judy of Ming Taizu sent Zheng He, who was full of silks and satins, to the Western Seas for seven times, and returned empty-handed. However, when the empty ship is sailing at sea, it swings too much in the wind and waves. In order to prevent capsizing, it is necessary to ballast with heavy objects. Rosewood produced in Southeast Asia happened to be scarce in China at that time, and it could also be used as ballast, so many rosewood were shipped back to China. Since then, Ming Chengzu sent officials to Nanyang to buy rosewood as statute law, which continued until the demise of the Ming Dynasty, and the rosewood produced in Nanyang Islands was almost cut down.
Not all the wood purchased in the Ming Dynasty was used immediately, but many of them were stored for later use. So in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, most of the rosewood produced in the world was collected by China and stored in Guangzhou and Beijing. The rosewood used in the Qing Dynasty was mainly harvested in the Ming Dynasty. Due to excessive logging in the Ming Dynasty, it did not revive in the Qing Dynasty, and its source dried up, which is also an important reason why rosewood is cherished by the world.