How much does it cost to make a coffin with a wooden core of sunken wood?

Many tomb-robbing novels like to write about the gloomy wood. . .

Dark wood is just a kind of precious wood. It is called dark wood because it is hard and heavy and can sink into water.

Coffin boards made of sunken wood may be found in ancient tombs, which is a reflection of the financial resources of the tomb owner. Of course it is also a valuable antique.

Ancient ebony, also known as "gloomy wood", is a tree that has been buried in the mud due to natural disasters such as nanmu, red toon, and hemp willow. Formed by the carbonization process. But it cannot be carbonized for too long, otherwise it will become coal.

Due to different tree species, the market value is different. Golden nanmu is the most expensive, reaching 80,000 to 150,000 yuan per cubic meter. The older the tree is, the better it is preserved, and the higher the price.

Early excavated ebony (gloomy wood) was mainly distributed in the four major rivers and their tributaries in Sichuan. Now due to the construction of major projects and drought, large-scale ebony wood has been excavated in many places. There are many excavations in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, etc., and they are generally large in scale and huge in size, and cannot be moved without mechanical hoisting. In recent years, many traces of sunken trees have been found along the river in Anqing, Anhui.

Ebony (gloomy wood) is more peculiar than ordinary wood. Generally, wood (sunken wood, too, except for special cases) burns white ash, while gloomy wood burns yellow ash. Its color deepens when exposed to water and returns to its original color after drying; when applied with a little vegetable oil, it becomes black and shiny and does not fade. When most of the gloomy wood is unearthed, the core of the tree has decayed, leaving only the tree head and the middle layer of the trunk. The severely carbonized surface cannot be used as a general material. Generally, the outer layer needs to be planed off, leaving the core of the wood for use.

In ancient times, sunken wood was extremely valuable. One of the reasons was that there was a lack of large-scale excavation and hoisting equipment, sand dredgers, etc. in ancient times, so there were relatively few sunken trees that could be found and transported back; secondly, the sunken wood formed Its characteristics also dictate that it has been difficult to find large-scale finished products in the past. When it leaves the environment where it was formed, the temperature and humidity will change greatly. If it is not properly maintained, it is prone to cracking and other conditions, which affects the utilization rate, so it is also precious;

Finally, traditional culture believes that it has been buried underground for thousands of years without decay. It is believed that it has spirituality and can ward off evil spirits and bring good fortune, etc., which makes it even more precious. But at the same time, in the eyes of Feng Shui masters, the real gloomy wood also absorbs the yin and cold air.