Just visit the Palace Museum. Is the Forbidden City the most luxurious wooden structure complex in China? You think there are beams, rafters, doors and windows made of rosewood? Screen inserts, indoor furnishings and other things are made of rosewood and should be classified as handicrafts rather than building components. )
Since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, rosewood has been precious, and it is not easy to find the veneer needed to make round-backed chairs. After the mid-Qing dynasty, there was a shortage and other relatively cheap mahogany was used. Such as rosewood. At this time, some small handicrafts made of red sandalwood appeared, such as pen container and other study rooms. This kind of monitor is available in Shoubo, Guo Bo and Shangbo.
There is no Forbidden City. Can people have it? Luxury enough to use rosewood as door panels and house beams? Ten thousand steps back, even if there is, can it be preserved until now? Take another ten thousand steps. If it is preserved now, can it be scattered among the people? Another 80 thousand steps and you'll be homeless. Can you take it out and take it down? Can be broken down into several parts? What a naive person to believe in the saying "demolishing old materials".
Occasionally, fragments of old mahogany furniture are sold in the market, but the quantity is very small. Most rosewood actually comes from the logging industry in India in the past twenty years. But the wood in recent years is obviously not as good as that in Ming and Qing Dynasties. The main reason is that the growth period is not long enough and the materials are not big enough. Generally, one material is less than twenty or thirty kilograms.
Now bigger and older materials are harder and harder to find. Finding it is also sky-high price. But twenty or thirty kilograms of materials are enough to make beads and palm-sized sculptures and sell them on Taobao. There will be no shortage in the last ten years. . . Big things are hard to say.