Tang Mu - High-grade furniture

The term "Tangmu" is almost impossible to find in the works written by the Chinese people. This is the general term used by experts and timber scientists who study the history of ancient Chinese civilization in Japan for the use of some precious wood or handicrafts originating in China. A kind of wood.

Japanese wood scientist Sudo Akira believes Tang Mu: There is a saying of Tang Mu fine woodworking. Because the wood has a beautiful appreciation value and can be made of high-quality furniture, joinery and other crafts, the name is taken with the wood. Including rosewood, ebony, iron knife wood, etc., Including incense, Gala, Mei Tan and other incense wood.

The name of Tang Mu is due to the fact that timber was imported by the Chinese at that time, and Chinese crafts were named after Chinese Tang Mu or because of Chinese crafts. From today's perspective, the so-called precious wood is a decorative material. However, the name "Tangmu" is used in addition to wood as described above, and the valuable wood in other areas does not have the name "(Sato Akira, "Nanyang Wood", p. 215). In the book "Southern Wood", it can be called the main wood of Tangmu. Originated from the color and pattern of wood in leguminous and persimmon families, such as the sandalwood rosewood of the Leguminosae (which is the rosewood used in Ming and Qing furniture) and the rosewood produced in South and Southeast Asia; Barry Dalbergia, Dalbergia japonica, Cambodian Dalbergia, Knife-like Dalbergia, Broad-leaved Dalbergia (also known as Indian rosewood or Mumbai blackwood), Dalbergia japonica, Burma's O. dantea (also known as Dalbergia japonica, flowering branch) (Or rosewood) and Indian Dalbergia. The wood of the genus Dalbergia is divided into red rosewood and black rosewood in our country, and some people call it "new redwood." In addition to the Tangmu category, some of the wood species in the persimmon family are known by the Japanese as ebony and are also classified as Tangmu, such as ebony (known in Japan as "this ebony") and striped ebony (known in Japan as Striped ebony) and ebony (heartwood black, filled with green material in the catheter and Colored stripes, such as velvet persimmon, green wood persimmon, and ebony ebony (black and gray stripes, it is also known as marble wood and striped wood, zebra wood, such as marbled persimmon, Indian persimmon, both Wood is different from marble wood produced in South America and zebra wood in Africa. In addition, wood of fragrant wood is not listed here.



In the Qing Dynasty, Wang Shizhen's “Let's Talk about Chibei” called Xi Xi in the Ministry of Rites, see the four translators tribute to the confession, or that China is a Han Chinese, or Sui Tang people. It is said that the Tang people, such as the Dutch Siam Kingdom. Cover from the Tang Dynasty to China, so along the Yuner.” Like the concept of Tangren and Tangzhuang, Tangmu is also a collective name for precious and rare wood that originated in China but may not be native to China.