The mysterious golden nanmu
At 3:00pm on Sept. 27th, the lecture of “Mysterious golden nanmu——the gold buried under the ground for millennium” was held in Beijing China Conference. The lecture was held by Zanhua Arts House，given by the Wang Mingliang, director of Beijing Oriental Shenmu Cultural Exchange Center, curator of ebony gold nanmu collection. The lecture was one of the series of activities of the forum for praising the Chinese nation, on that day there were about over 40 scholars, collectors etc. of people present, who were paying close attention to gold nanmu culture. The gold nanmu is of the highest grade among the Machilus tree varieties, since ancient times, it has been the royal dedicated wood, at present, the golden nanmu is the tree species protected by the state. With the enhancement of people’s material and cultural living standards as well as the regression of Chinese traditional culture, the gold nanmu furniture only used by the royal household formerly starts to get popular in the classical furniture market, in recent years, the price has been soaring all the way, at the same time the statements of various kinds of different versions have increased the market confusion, with an urgent need for clarification. For this lecture, Director Wang Mingliang gave the profound lecture in simple terms by means of explanation of the term , a comparison of the characteristics of golden nanmu and ebony golden nanmu, the identification of various kinds of wood, precious scarcity of ebony golden nanmu, market situation at present of the five aspects, giving a vivid cultural lesson about the golden nanmu for the participants.
Pictures for the on-the-spot lecture contents:
I. Ebony, golden nanmu and ebony golden nanmu
II. Golden nanmu board and ebony golden nanmu board
III. Pictures of other nanmu timber
III. Appreciation of Mr. Wang Mingliang’s collection
Brief introduction of Wang Mingliang ：
Director Wang Mingliang was once engaged in auction work for a long term, was one of the domestic authoritative experts setting foot in golden nanmu at the earliest. In recent years, the market for golen nanmu is like a mess, in order to render a true golden nanmu to the collectors and consumers，only BTV has made the feature programs for the curator Wang Mingliang in the form of interviews for successively five times. What have been observed only by the reporter are：The man of “Nanmu”, The battle for ebony, Breaking the code of golden nanmu, Bright life hiding gold in the wood. Especially at the eve of “315” of 2012, Beijing Consumer Association specially invited Wang Mingliang to be the guest at Beijing Satellite Television, letting director Wang Mingliang tell the audiences what the real golden nanmu is, then giving the hint in the name of consumer association: it must be cautious to purchase golden nanmu furniture.
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