What s going on with Ten Sandalwood and Nine Emptiness ?

Ten sandalwood and nine emptiness, the most important reason is that the growth cycle of sandalwood is too long. In the past, artificial afforestation was not popular, so sandalwood, like other trees, relied on its roots to absorb water and nutrients and supply its branches.

However, the climate is not constant, there are four seasons in a year, and there is a difference between the rainy and dry seasons. When sandalwood encounters a good time when the wind and rain are good, it will grow faster, and the annual rings formed at this time will be fuller. If sandalwood had been living in such a smooth environment, there would have been no hollowing, but every environment is not perfect.

When the dry season comes, or when the nutrients are seriously insufficient, sandalwood should start from its own conditions, open sources and reduce expenditure, and maintain its own vitality. At this time, in order to get more nutrients and water, sandalwood will "borrow" some nutrients from the places with more nutrients in the trunk to supply them to the places where they are most needed.

The middle part of the sandalwood torso is the part with more nutrients. When nutrients and water are needed elsewhere, sandalwood borrows some of the water and nutrients from the center of the torso. Over time, the middle part shrinks, so the older the sandalwood, the larger the hollow in the middle part.

Rosewood was a sacred tree in ancient India, because the Buddha Shakyamuni used rosewood when he was cremated (recorded in ancient Buddhist books), so Indians respect and love the rosewood tree very much. Because the red sandalwood is hard, the fragrance is eternal, the color is gorgeous, and the poison is not invaded, it is immortal, and it can avoid evil, so it is also called holy sandalwood. Therefore, people often use red sandalwood as a mascot to keep peace and auspiciousness.

The emperors of the Qing Dynasty did not hesitate to spend a lot of money, and it took nearly a hundred years to replace almost all the furniture in the court with red sandalwood. Buddhism and rosewood imported from India conquered the emperor of Dongtu, who regarded himself as the son of heaven, and became the quintessence of the country.

Rosewood grows slowly, and there is a saying: a hundred years of sandalwood. We can count the growth ring lines on the cross-section of rosewood.

For wood where the rings can be seen clearly, there are generally 3 to 5 rings per millimeter along the diameter on average. That is to say, it takes 30 to 50 years to grow for 1 centimeter, and 100 to 160 years for each inch. The red sandalwood we see is small about 10 cm in diameter, common around 20 cm, and more than 30 cm but very rare.

For sandalwood with a diameter of 20 centimeters, it should have grown for at least three hundred years, and it may be five or six hundred years more.

A few years ago, a friend of wood had seen a relatively clear annual ring pattern on a small leaf red sandalwood bead with a diameter of 1 cm, half a bead, about centimeter, and there were 19 annual rings visible on it. Then 1 centimeter has 38 annual rings, 38 times equals, about 126 years.

In addition, the red sandalwood of the wild forest often has the phenomenon of "ten sandalwood and nine emptiness". Because the wild forest of red sandalwood grows in the mountainous area with a complex environment, the land is not fertile, and the maturity cycle is hundreds or even thousands of years. Due to the harsh growth environment, the tree pole will be bent, resulting in irregular textures, uneven grain thickness, wood oiliness, and sinking when entering the water.

The extreme lack of nutrients, in order to protect itself, the red sandalwood itself will slowly absorb the nutrients of the heartwood, causing the part of the red sandalwood close to the heartwood to become more and more soft, until the nutrients of the heartwood are completely absorbed, and then the chaff, white, and finally become "dead sandalwood", and the oil is also exhausted, like sawdust. We are the same, when we are hungry, our hearts are empty, and we often say that "the hungry heart panics". We sometimes see red sandalwood handles without brown eyes, which are made of this material.

If it is not adopted in time, it will slowly corrode away and eventually disappear.

In fact, the hollow heart rate of the red sandalwood trees growing in the real wild forest may be higher than 90%, almost hollow. The diameter of the logs is also thinner than that of the red sandalwood plantation, and from the data, it is rare to exceed 25cm, and the rings are almost impossible to see the circular circle.

So, curved, hollow, slow growth ......This leads to the limitation of using red sandalwood wild forests to make large pieces of furniture, which makes the old red sandalwood furniture more rare and precious. It is also this rare wood**, coupled with the ingenuity of the office, that has achieved valuable and luxurious, highly collectible ancient furniture.

Ten sandalwood and nine empty means that all red sandalwood is basically hollow, and the yield is very low. Corresponding to this is a slightly larger rosewood furniture, which will be surprisingly high.

Because this "definition" has been widely circulated, almost everyone who has something to do with red sandalwood knows that there is such a thing.

Over time, the basis for judging the red sandalwood seems to have become, and the red sandalwood that is not empty is not the red sandalwood.

Ten sandalwood and nine empty is used to describe the low yield of raw materials of red sandalwood, which means that the red sandalwood log wood with ten bucket timber has nine arguments to grind the town of Sun hollow, this sentence also reflects the value of small leaf red sandalwood, why is small leaf red sandalwood ** so expensive.

"Ten sandalwood and nine emptiness" is a term in the furniture industry.