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Agarwood, in ancient China, was used by dignitaries and dignitaries.

Especially after the famous ancient Chinese medical books such as Compendium of Materia Medica and Annotation of Shennong Baicaojing have justified the name of this kind of thing.

Many princes and nobles used this kind of thing to incense, to help sleep, and to relieve pain.

Because the output was scarce, it was also a very precious thing at that time. Later, in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, because the output became more and more scarce, this kind of thing became more and more precious.

Ordinary folk can't afford it at all, only those dignitaries still use this thing as a plaything.

Not only is it used for lighting and incense, but also this kind of agarwood is used as a base ornament for red sandalwood blue and white, white jade agate, and even some incense burners.

After the founding of New China, because the country had been in a closed state for the past few decades, coupled with the suppression of people's cultural life by the policies at that time, people's demand for agarwood was not particularly strong.

At that time, agarwood was only regarded as a precious Chinese medicinal material by people.

Even after the opening, after the game market regained its vitality, for a long time, people did not find the special value of agarwood.

This situation continued until 2002. At that time, even the top-quality agarwood was only priced at 100 yuan in the market.

However, since 2002, with the vigorous development of the domestic antique market, the value of agarwood has been valued more and more by people who like to collect, and the price of agarwood has also been rising.

Until today, even the price of artificial agarwood has reached the point of tens of thousands of grams, and the price of the real top natural agarwood has reached an unbelievable level, often hundreds of thousands, even tens of thousands. In case gram is a very common thing.

Because of the rising market price, this kind of wood, which was originally known as a traditional Chinese medicinal material, has become farther and farther away from the life of ordinary people.

And now in the market. Agarwood is not only regarded as a traditional Chinese medicinal material, but more as a top-level carving raw material, and even the price of some natural top-level agarwood is far more than ebony. On top of such a rare material as Jin Sinan.

It is precisely because it has become a raw material for carving that many people like, which also makes the artistic value of this wood rise sharply. Coupled with its magical medical effects, this wood is a carp leaping over the dragon gate overnight.

Same as Emerald. From the original status of ordinary wood, it has become a crazy wood sought after by everyone in the collection market!

However, it is precisely because of the crazy pursuit of the rich in China, which has also caused a shortage of goods in the international agarwood raw material market.

Vietnam, which has always been supplying the Chinese market, is now very difficult to find natural agarwood materials.

With the decline of Vietnamese agarwood in the international agarwood market, another emerging supplier of agarwood raw materials is emerging.

And this raw material supplier is Indonesia!

The territory to which Brunei belongs is the island of Kalimantan in the territory of Indonesia, and this island is Borneo in our Chinese population.

Since Indonesians discovered that agarwood can make money. They set their sights on the country's rich forest resources.

You must know that although Indonesia has the title of the country of a thousand islands, at the same time, they are also one of the countries with the highest coverage of tropical rain forests in the world.

A large area of ​​primitive deep forests endows the country with very rich timber resources, and on their countless islands, various precious timbers grow.

So when Indonesians want to develop agarwood, they can easily find this precious wood, but after they searched around, they found that although Indonesia has rich wood resources, it is an area rich in agarwood. But there is only one, and that is their Kalimantan Island.

With the discovery of agarwood here, the name of agarwood in Kalimantan soon became known internationally.

And now the natural agarwood in the domestic market. Almost 70% come from the Indonesian island of Kalimantan.

Of course, the agarwood produced here is also divided into three, six, and nine grades. A 16mm diameter live agarwood bracelet can be bought for a few hundred yuan.

The live agarwood with medium oil content and fragrant degree, that is, the price of several thousand yuan, and the agarwood that can reach eighty or ninety points of fragrant fragrance, the price will often be thirty or fifty thousand.

And the top submerged Kalimantan agarwood. The current price has reached 50,000 rosary beads!

It can be seen from these prices that this agarwood rosary and bracelet are very popular in the current Chinese market.

In order to distinguish the quality of an agarwood bracelet, one of the very important factors is the oil content and the degree of fragrance formation with the agarwood, and these two factors will affect whether the agarwood can sink in water.

You must know that most of the wood will float on the water because of its density, and because agarwood mainly contains content, not only wood, but also part of it is oil.

The more oil there is, the more fragrant it will be, and the more it will sink, so the top-quality agarwood often cannot float on the water, and it will sink to the bottom when thrown into the water.

So I want to distinguish the quality of agarwood from bad, and whether a heavy piece of agarwood can sink into the water.

And now the four trays of agarwood bracelets placed in front of Jin Muchen are undoubtedly the top-quality agarwood, which can be experienced from the smell and feel.

Although Jin Muchen had never personally touched agarwood bracelets before, he had been in contact with Fang Bo for a long time, and he still understood some of the basic elements of identifying agarwood bracelets.

For example, at first glance, these agarwood bracelets are basically black and brown with some dark blue and yellow in them. When you take a nose and smell it, you can almost smell these bracelets. The refreshing scent of traditional Chinese medicine.

The next step is to experience the feel. Because this agarwood bracelet is made of tree oil, it looks shiny and feels greasy.

But as soon as you get started, you can't feel the greasy feeling at all, and it's cool to start, which can make people's original impetuous emotions calm down before they know it.

Jin Muchen can be considered an eye-opener today. In the past, he always heard Fang Bo mention the benefits of this agarwood bracelet. He thought Fang Bo was bragging, but when he got started today, he finally understood the mystery of this agarwood.

No wonder those rich people now like to play this stuff so much.

This feel, coupled with this wonderful medicinal effect, is doomed that this agarwood bracelet is definitely not an ordinary baby.

Several bracelets are heavy to start with, although he can't do a submersion test in front of Su Dongge now, but just from the heavy feel, he can be sure that these bracelets are definitely all. It is the kind of top-grade agarwood that cannot float on the water.

These bracelets have different shapes, some are bracelets with round rosary beads connected in series, and others are long strings with relatively small diameter rosary beads connected in series. Anyway, they are different.

And if he tastes carefully, he can also detect the subtle differences between these bracelets, but if he is asked to talk about the differences between these bracelets, he can't conclude for a while. It is only where the profound meaning comes out.

So at this time, he could only put down the agarwood bracelets and turned his attention to Su Dongge. The old man smiled when he saw Jin Muchen's turning eyes.

"Mr. Jin, are these agarwood bracelets still eye-catching?"

"Into the eye, in the eye, of course it is in the eye, but Mr. Su, although the younger generation is also in the business of antique writing, but this piece of agarwood is really not much contacted. And you are an expert in this field, I don't know you Would the old man be willing to explain it to me?"

Jin Muchen's humble attitude made Su Dongge feel very comfortable, and he waved his hand gently.

"Well, I'm welcome. The most popular agarwood in the market now is produced in Kalimantan. You should know this, right?"

Jin Muchen nodded, and then the old man continued.

"This agarwood in Kalimantan has now been listed as a national treasure by Indonesia. However, the agarwood in Kalimantan is also different from each other. First of all, let me tell you~www.wuxiaspot .com~ What is the difference between the agarwood in Kalimantan and the agarwood in other regions? The difference is mainly reflected in the change of the agarwood's fragrance. One of the first. The characteristic is the first sweet, the kind of sweetness that can make people calm and calm, this sweet fragrance will penetrate into your nose, no matter who asks, you can smell it. Feel."

The old man opened his mouth, and Jin Muchen knew that the decades of immersion in others were really not for nothing.

If he hadn't explained it, he would have been foolish enough to tell the difference between this Kalimantan agarwood and other agarwood.

"Kalimantan is divided into four provinces, and the agarwood produced in each province will have a slightly different taste. Among them, the agarwood produced in the eastern and southern provinces are similar in fragrance, and they are all strong medicinal flavors. West Kalimantan has a slightly different flavor. The taste of agarwood in the province and East Kalimantan is relatively similar. They are mainly cool, and then the slightly fragrant herbal taste will have a refreshing coolness. North Kalimantan is close to Tarakan Island. Part of the agarwood has a very good taste. The agarwood here has a very close milky fragrance, and the aroma is very good. Generally speaking, the agarwood in East Kalimantan and South Kalimantan is slightly worse than the north and west. Some. As for the Kalimantan agarwood fragrance in a broad sense that is not produced in the four provinces of Kalimantan, it is even more inferior.” (~^~)

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