Agarwood, in ancient China, was the use of dignitaries.

Especially after the Compendium of Materia Medica, Shennong's Baicao Jing Annotations and other famous ancient Chinese medical books justified the name of this kind of thing.

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

Because of the scarcity of production, it was also a very precious thing in that era, and later in the Ming and Qing dynasties, because the production became more and more scarce, this kind of thing was also more and more precious.

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

Not only is it used to light and incense, but even this agarwood is used as a base ornament for red sandalwood and white jade agate, and even some incense stoves.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, because the country had been closed for decades before, 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 just regarded as a precious Chinese medicinal material.

Even after the reopening, China's cultural and entertainment market has regained its vitality, for a long time, people have not discovered the special value of agarwood.

This situation lasted until 2002, when even the price of top-level agarwood in the market was only about 100 yuan.

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

Wait until today, even the price of artificial agarwood. have reached the point where tens of thousands of grams are at every turn. And the price of that really top-of-the-line natural agarwood. It has reached an incredible level, and it is very common to have hundreds of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of grams.

Because the market price has risen all the way, this kind of wood, which was originally known as a Chinese medicinal material, is getting farther and farther away from the lives of ordinary people.

Now in the market, agarwood is not only regarded as a Chinese medicinal material, but also as a top carving raw material, and even the price of some natural top agarwood. It is even more far above the strange materials such as ebony and golden silk nan.

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

Like jadeite, it has changed from the status of ordinary wood to a crazy wood sought after by everyone in the collector's market!

However, it is precisely because of the crazy pursuit of Chinese tycoons that this has also caused a shortage of goods in the international agarwood raw material market.

Vietnam, which has been supplying the Chinese market, is now a natural agarwood material. Already very difficult to find.

With the decline of Vietnam's agarwood position in the international agarwood market, another emerging supplier of agarwood raw materials. But it's on the rise.

And this raw material supplier is Indonesia!

The territory to which Brunei belongs is the island of Kalimantan in Indonesia, and this island is what we Chinese used to call Borneo.

Ever since Indonesians discovered that agarwood could make money, they have set their sights on their country's abundant forest resources.

Although Indonesia is known as the country of a thousand islands, it is also one of the countries with the highest rainforest coverage in the world.

The large area of pristine deep forests has endowed the country with a very rich timber resource, and on their countless islands, a variety of precious timber grows.

So when Indonesians want to develop agarwood, they will easily find this precious wood, but after they look around, they find that although Indonesia has rich wood resources, there is only one area rich in agarwood, that is, their Kalimantan Island.

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

At present, almost 70% of the natural agarwood in the domestic market comes from Kalimantan, Indonesia.

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

The price of agarwood with medium oil content and incense formation is several thousand yuan, and the price of agarwood that can reach eight or nine points of incense is often 350,000 yuan.

And the top sinking Kalimantan agarwood, the current price has reached the point of 50,000 rosaries!

From these prices, it can be seen how popular the agarwood rosary and bracelet are in the current Chinese market.

If you want to distinguish the quality of an agarwood bracelet, one of the most important factors is to look at the oil content and incense degree of agarwood, and these two factors will affect whether the agarwood can sink into water.

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

The more grease, the more fragrant and heavy it is, so the top agarwood often cannot float on the surface of the water, and it will sink to the bottom of the water if thrown into the water.

Therefore, if you want to distinguish the quality of agarwood, a very important factor is to see whether this agarwood can sink into the water.

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

Although Jin Muchen had not personally touched the agarwood bracelet before, he had been in contact with Fang Bo for a long time, and he still knew some of the basic elements of identifying the agarwood bracelet.

For example, at first glance, these agarwood bracelets are basically black and brown, mixed with some dark blue and yellow, and when you get to the nose and smell it, you can almost smell the fragrance of traditional Chinese medicine on these bracelets that can make people feel refreshed.

The next thing is to experience the feel, this agarwood bracelet is made of scabbing of tree oil, so it looks oily and shiny, and it feels greasy.

But as soon as you get started, you can't feel the oiliness you imagined at all, and the slight coolness of the hand can make people's original impetuous emotions calm down unconsciously.

Jin Muchen was also an eye-opener today, he had always heard Uncle Fang mention the benefits of this agarwood bracelet before, and he thought that Uncle Fang was bragging, but when he got started today, he finally understood the mystery of this agarwood.

It's no wonder that those rich people like to play this thing so much.

This feel, coupled with this wonderful medicinal effect, is destined to make this agarwood bracelet certainly not an ordinary baby.

Several bracelets are heavy in his hands, although he can't do a submersion test in front of Su Dongge now, but just with this heavy feel, he can be sure that these bracelets must be the kind of top-level agarwood that can't float on the water.

These bracelets have different shapes, some are round prayer beads in series, and some are relatively small diameter prayer beads in series.

And if he tastes it carefully, he can also detect the subtle differences between these bracelets, but if he asks him to talk about the differences between these bracelets, he can't summarize the mystery for a while.

So at this time, he could only put down these agarwood bracelets and shift his gaze to Su Dongge's body, and the old man smiled slightly when he saw Jin Muchen's turned gaze.

"Mr. Jin, can these agarwood bracelets still be in your eyes?"

"In the eyes, in the eyes, of course in the eyes, but Mr. Su, although the younger generation is also in the antique entertainment business, but this piece of agarwood is really not much contact. And you are an expert in this area, I wonder if your old man would like to explain it to me? ”

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

"Well, you're welcome, the most popular agarwood on the market right now is produced in Kalimantan, you should know this, right?"

Jin Muchen nodded, and then the old man continued.

"This agarwood from Kalimantan has now been listed as a national treasure in Indonesia. However, the agarwood on Kalimantan Island is also different from each other. First of all, let me tell you what is the difference between this Kalimantan agarwood and agarwood from other regions. This difference is mainly reflected in the change of the fragrance of agarwood, and the agarwood in Kalimantan can be said to be the most changed agarwood at present. The characteristic is the first sweetness, the kind of sweetness that can make people calm down, this sweet fragrance will drill into your nose, no matter who asks, you can feel a shock. ”

As soon as the old man opened his mouth, Jin Muchen knew that people's decades of immersion were really not given for nothing.

If he hadn't explained, he would have been stupid and couldn't tell the difference between this Kalimantan agarwood and other agarwood.

"Kalimantan is divided into four provinces, and the agarwood produced in each province will taste slightly different. Among them, the agarwood fragrance produced in the eastern provinces and the southern provinces is similar, and they are all relatively strong medicinal flavors. The taste of agarwood in West Kalimantan and East Kalimantan is relatively similar, both are mainly cold, and then you will taste a slightly fragrant herbal flavor, which has a refreshing coolness. North Kalimantan Province is close to Tarakan Island, and part of the agarwood tastes very good, and the agarwood here has a part of the fragrance that is very close to the milky fragrance, and the fragrance is very good. In general, the fragrance of agarwood in East and South Kalimantan provinces is slightly worse than that in the north and west. As for those that are not produced in the four provinces of Kalimantan, the fragrance of agarwood in Kalimantan in a broad sense is even more secondary. (To be continued......)