Can you imagine a string of 108 beads with a diameter of only 6mm, which is priced at RMB 60,000? Just because this bunch of beads is made of agarwood.
"In fact, the 60,000 yuan of agarwood is not expensive, and there are more than 100,000 agarwood beads. This is determined by its origin, quality and ability to sink." Dong Rongmin of Beijing Panjiayuan Antique City specializing in agarwood "China Times" reporter said.
The formation of palm-sized agarwood is mostly going through hundreds or even thousands of years, and it is only produced in a specific hot and humid environment. "After artificially over-exploiting in recent years, the agarwood is now extinct, and its price is also punctual. Bullish, Dong Rongmin said that the price of a good individual like Nanxiang in Shenxiang is about 10,000 yuan. "And most of the time you want to buy, but the market does not necessarily have."
Agarwood
Market price soaring
In 2007, a 3 ton Agarwood royal dragon bed was exhibited in Fujian. The news came out of the world, and many experts from all over the world went to research and then denied the offer of the dragon bed owner for 500 million yuan. In their view, this is not only the "Agarwood Wood Dragon Bed" used by Zhang Tianyuan Palace, but also "national-level collection, priceless."
"Agarwood can be said to be the best example of 'things are rare", Dong Rongmin admits, as the ancients said, "a piece of money", because the formation of agarwood requires special scab, climate and sedimentation process, therefore Not only is China's territory sparse, but it is also rare in the world. After years of logging in China's dynasties, especially in recent years, with the uncontrolled indiscriminate use of market conditions, the agarwood tree of about 1-2 cm thick grease has basically disappeared. It is.
The reporter learned that the agarwood trees are generally longer than the tropics, such as Vietnam, India, Malaysia, etc., the formation of a small piece of agarwood is often the decay or injury of the trees themselves, the self-condensation of the grease after the insects, and after years of experience It takes only a year and a few hundred years of precipitation after the wind and rain to form, and as a result, the agarwood is almost all small pieces of wood. It is difficult to see large pieces or more than a few kilograms, and its objects are mostly limited to beads. Or a pen holder, etc. "A 3 ton heavy dragon bed like Fujian is too rare, and it is still a thousand years of agarwood from Indonesia. The price of 2 billion yuan or more is not unusual."
In fact, in the past ten years, Agarwood has soared from 10,000 yuan per kilogram in the past to one million gram today. As the royal wood of the Ming and Qing dynasties, agarwood can be said to be the best raw material for handicrafts, wood. Moderate and mostly small materials, it is very suitable for making all kinds of carved objects and stationery appliances with fine craftsmanship. It is also because of this, the more ancient Qi Nan is more gentle, the market value is also rising.
One million yuan
Still showing signs of selling
However, in the eyes of collectors, money can make ghosts, but there is no guarantee that they can buy agarwood.
In the interview process of the reporter, Mr. Liu, a Tibetan friend who came to buy a piece of agarwood carvings worth 850,000 yuan, was disappointed. "It took a few days ago and spent a few days to raise the money. There is no more to buy again, and the words show regret.
Since 2003, the two generations of agarwood wood carvings in the Ming and Qing Dynasties have repeatedly set high prices for auctions. In 2008, the Vietnamese Huang Qinan sculpture "Shuisheng Sanbao" set a price of 2.22 million yuan. "However, more boutiques are hard to see in the auction market, because the number is scarce, once it is collected, it will not be easily shot." Dong Rongmin bluntly.
Zhou Tianming, who has more than 30 years of agarwood collection experience, together with a group of agarwood collectors, initiated the establishment of the agarwood network of agarwood art exchange and used it as one of the channels for spreading agarwood knowledge. For this special collection hobby, Zhou Tianming bluntly "One is early contact, and I like it. The other is its special symbol of Dharma and medicinal value." Zhou Tianming said that Shen Xiang had been an essential item for the emperor's travel in his early years. The main reason was that it not only had a drive. The role of phlegm and ward off evil, and in the case of an emergency, the powder that Shen Xiangzhu grinds has the magical effect of qi and pain, warming and vomiting, and qi and asthma.
But for today's agarwood collection, Zhou Tianming pointed out that the price of too expensive people can't afford it, and even if you buy it, the novice is really difficult to distinguish. “Now the output of Indonesia and Malaysia is almost zero, so many of the products on the market are imitation agarwood.†To identify the true and false agarwood, you must master the three elements of smelling and touching, and learn to distinguish the true agarwood. The fragrance of the fragrance, "As long as you smell the truth, you will know if you have a fake."
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