Chapter 473: An Ancient Wood Forest

The big king, the two tigers of the little king are very majestic, not to mention the well-behaved and cute, the main thing is that they can also help Xiang Ming work, the standard nanny. That's a good hand, you can keep up with Xiang Ming, and you can also guard the mountain gate as a watchman.

Xiaohua, the leopard, is also extremely cute, like a big cat, like the owner, but Xiaohua rarely appears in Xuantianguan, appears in front of everyone, it is like a ghost in the night, a stealth assassin, like to hide in the corner, at any time to give the enemy a fatal blow, so its figure is not a sight, but Xiaohua is the war beast that follows Xiang Ming for the most time. Xiang Ming likes to take it with him everywhere, and there are small flowers guarding in the dark, which is very reassuring.

Those enemies who dared to sneak attack Xiang Ming were secretly bitten off their necks by Xiaohua one by one. But now that Xiang Ming's cultivation is advanced, there are really not many places to use Xiaohua. For this reason, Xiaohua always complains that she hasn't bitten for a long time!

Xiang Ming let the big eagle and Xiaohei fly by himself. Anyway, he just watched the scenery, and by the way, he was a guide for Li Qian. The two communicated through the communicator inside the combat helmet.

Li Qian has not been in Xuantian Temple for a long time, and she is not too familiar with the environment of Xuantian Temple. For the first time, looking down on the mountains and rivers of the forbidden area in the air, it has a unique flavor.

"It's so beautiful, there is no scenery in the world that can be compared to Xuantian Temple!" Li Qian was full of emotion.

In fact, what is said is also the truth, hundreds of square kilometers, to be honest, there are really not many people. In the forbidden area, the maximum number of people in Xuantian Temple was less than 400 in the past. There are dozens of Taoist priests, and the servant team headed by Nangong Mama is about 100 people, plus the hundreds of people who were driven away a few days ago who were sent to serve in the Xuantianguan Hotel, and the hundreds of waiters from the Diaoyutai Royal Palace. Then there are 300 people living in the elderly. The largest number of people belonged to the Sword Special Combat Team, and of course those family members were not inside the restricted area, but within the military management area of the restricted area. The normal strength of all the swords is now 3,000 plus hundreds of disabled veterans in the hospital and the Invalides. There are only so many people in the entire forbidden area, and it is really sparsely populated.

A large amount of ancient vegetation has been preserved. Ancient trees, precious tree species, the ratio of giant numbers is the ratio.

It's really hard to find a pristine place in the country. A large number of attractions are flooded with man-made landscapes. There is no original taste in it at all.

"Li Qian, did you see the big stone on the cliff behind the Xuantian Temple? That was where I greeted the first rays of sunlight in the morning since I was a child, and practiced picking purple yang in the morning!"

"Oh, that stone looks like a big stone egg. ”

"That is a sacred place, the place where Master Jiang Ziya cultivated back then! Listed as a forbidden place for the Xuantian Temple! Don't you see that there are many small stones under that big stone? There are probably hundreds of them, and they used to be the cultivation places of those elders in the temple!"

"Uh-huh. Xiang Ming's forest is spectacular!" Li Qian wanted to say about the ancient tree in the mountain behind the Xuantian Temple. You don't see how tall you look from the ground, but if you look at it from the air, you can see a huge green canopy.

"It's an ancient wood, there are hundreds of thousands of ancient trees, there are precious tree species such as golden silk nanmu, sandalwood, etc., these are not the most valuable, and all the valuable things are buried in the ground?"

"What is that!" Li Qian also knew a little about Nanmu.

Throughout the ages, whether it is the emperor, ministers, or relatives of the emperor, whether it is the masses, manufacturers, scholars, classical experts, all praise Nanmu as a domestic precious wood. Across the world, in the construction of Chinese-style garden architecture with foreign aid, Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and Switzerland and other countries specify the use of Nanmu, which may be considered to be thick and long with a straight trunk and a small sharpness, which is very suitable for use. As Yang Jiaju said, the golden silk nanmu is a treasure that the Chinese people are proud of, which also makes the Chinese flavor of the courtyard building stronger. Golden silk is a very precious high-quality material, and its growth law makes the big pot late (it takes 60 years to grow vigorously in the golden stage). Due to the strong luster of the wood (especially when planing, there are obvious bright spots, some people use it as golden silk nan), even if it is not painted, it becomes brighter and brighter. The bark is thin with dark punctate pores, and there is a black ring where the inner bark meets the wood. Because the earlier Nanmu was mostly a large material, and the tree had few straight knots, the texture was smooth and not easy to deform, and it was not rotten or moth-eaten for thousands of years, so it ranked first among the white woods in addition to hardwood, and its wood value was also above some hardwoods. In the Qing Dynasty, not only the beams and pillars of important palaces were made of nanmu, but also rosewood or rosewood was often used to match nanmu to make furniture, usually such as nanmu for the core board of the tabletop, and hardwood for the frame such as plastering. Now, the rare and endangered golden silk nanmu is rare in the country. The Forbidden City is the largest and most complete ancient building in our country, the Forbidden City in Beijing now only has a few Nanmu furniture of the Qing Dynasty; the Ling'en Hall of the Ming Ming Tombs is the largest existing Nanmu Palace, the 60 giant pillars in the hall are all made of the whole golden silk Nanmu, the diameter is very thick, and two people have to hug each other. In addition, the Chengde Summer Resort's Jingcheng Hall is also the current premier Nanmu Palace. The folk also have Nanmu's arhat bed, the step bed and the carved flying cover, plaques, couplets, and couplets. Now the furniture made of golden silk nanmu is very rare on the market, and it can be said that there is no price.

There are three kinds of Nanmu, one is Xiangnan, the second is Jinsi Nan, and the third is Shuinan. Nanmu is a unique and precious wood in China, and is a national second-class protected plant. The wood of Nanmu is hard, durable, excellent corrosion resistance, with a special fragrance that can avoid insect damage.

"Essentials of the Museum" contains: "There are three kinds of Nanmu, one is called Xiangnan, also known as Zinan, the second is called Jinsi Nan, and the third is Shuinan. The south is fragrant, the wood is slightly purple and fragrant, and the pattern is beautiful. The gold filament comes out of the river stream, and the wood grain has gold filament. The most beautiful of Nanmu, the sunny place or the formation of the pattern of the character landscape. The water rivers and mountains are clear and the wood is very loose, such as salicyl, but it can be used as tables and stools. "Golden silk nan is the best kind of nanmu, as long as the golden wire is obvious, it can be determined as the golden silk nanmu, the golden silk can be seen in the light flashing, bright and bright, exquisite and abnormal, it was the royal special wood before, which shows its dignity. Most of the golden silk nan comes from the deep mountains of the land of Sichuan and Shu, and the quantity is scarce, and the price is comparable to gold.

Some of the ancient trees buried in the ground are golden silk nanmu and ebony.

Ebony (gloomy wood) has both the quaintness of wood and the charm of stone, and is known as "Oriental Sacred Wood" and "Plant Mummy". Earthquakes, floods, and mudslides bury all the plants and creatures on the ground in low-lying places such as ancient river beds, and some trees are buried in the silt. Under the state of hypoxia and high pressure, under the action of bacteria and other microorganisms, ebony is formed through a carbonization process of tens of millions of years, so it is also called "carbonized wood". Ebony has been used as a ward off evil spirits throughout the ages, and crafts, Buddha statues, and amulet pendants have been made. The ancients said: "A half square of ebony in a home is better than a box of treasures."