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As one of the biggest acreage country in the world, China
has many different climates from the north to the very south.
This causes a great deal of various types of woods.
Some rare woods were
over-lopped during the past century, and many of them become
less and less till looseness, such as Zitan and HuangHuaLi.
Zitan spend 70 years to be a big tree and a mature huanghuali
tree with beautiful grain costs much more than a house in
San Francisco. Not only nowadays their value is at this range
of amount, but also the same during the ancient period. One
Zitan dinning table in rich people's house costs equally for
middle-class to get along for 30 years. Can you imagine that?
There are almost
10-15 kinds of well-known woods in China, here we listed them
as the following table contents in the light of their ranks/names/values:
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Yang-mu |
Poplar(Aspen) |
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Huai-mu |
Locust |
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Zhang-mu |
Camphor |
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Bai-mu |
Cypress |
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Li-mu |
Pear |
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Song-mu |
Pine |
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You-mu |
Teak |
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Nan-mu |
Cedar |
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Ji-chi-mu |
Chicken
Wing Wood |
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Long-yan-mu |
Dragon
Eye wood |
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Wu-mu |
Ebony |
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Ju-mu |
Elm |
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Hong-mu |
Mahogany |
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Zi-tan |
Red
Sandalwood |
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Hua-li-mu |
Rosewood |
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Huang-hua-li |
Yellow
Rose wood |
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