This kind of tree in the mountain can not smell or touch the juice, but it can not rot for a thousand years. Some people make a fortune by selling sap.

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As the saying goes, "rely on the mountain to eat the mountain, rely on the water to draw water". The precious trees in the mountains and the fish, shrimp and shellfish in the water have brought a lot of income for farmers. In the mountainous areas of the north and south of our country, there is a kind of tree with high economic value. What makes it special is that its sap is valuable. Generally speaking, the most valuable thing for trees is wood, but the wood of this kind of tree is useless, and its juice is a rare natural paint. In the wood wares of ancient China, after being coated with the sap of this kind of tree, it can keep for a thousand years.

But this kind of tree has a big disadvantage, that is, it is very easy to cause human allergies, some allergic people not only can not touch it, even smell it will be covered with rash, so what kind of tree is it?

Farmers in mountainous areas should be no stranger to this kind of tree, especially many farmers in the mountainous areas of southern Fujian, who make a living by cutting its sap. This kind of tree is called lacquer tree, and its juice is commonly known as "lacquer", also known as "raw lacquer". It is a kind of primitive paint, which forms a layer of paint film after it is applied to the surface of the object, which has very good water resistance, moisture resistance, corrosion resistance and durability.

The coffins and lacquer wares of the Western Han Dynasty unearthed in Mawangdui, Hunan Province have a history of more than 2000 years. Not only are they not rotten, but the colors of the lacquer ware are also very bright and complete, which fully shows that raw lacquer can survive for thousands of years. It is precisely due to the quality of raw lacquer, China's lacquer products can be famous all over the world and become a traditional export commodity.

From April to August every year, lacquer trees grow most vigorously, especially in dog days, when there is more sunshine and less rain, which can make the water in raw lacquer evaporate quickly, and the quality of raw lacquer produced by lacquer trees is the best. In the past, farmers cut lacquer bark with clam shell, then cut it into the shape of a triangular arrow, and then inserted the clam shell under the arrow to facilitate the collection of raw lacquer.

The raw lacquer that has just flowed from the lacquer tree is milky white. After air oxidation, it will gradually turn reddish brown and finally turn black. "White snow, red as blood, black as iron" is the change process of raw lacquer. The pitch black that people often say now is also related to lacquer cutting in ancient times.

Raw lacquer, as a kind of natural plant paint, has high economic value. It is understood that the price of raw lacquer per jin is about 180 yuan, while raw lacquer produced in Enshi, Chongqing, Bijie, Guizhou and other places because of high quality, the price is higher, the price can exceed 200 yuan per jin. Therefore, many peasant friends will go up to the mountain to cut paint when they are free to subsidize their families.

However, raw lacquer is not easy to come by, and there is a saying in the folk that "a thousand dollars a jin of paint", so the work of cutting lacquer is still very hard. Some intelligent peasant friends contracted mountain forests to plant lacquer trees, used more advanced tools to cut lacquer, and made a fortune by selling the sap of lacquer trees.

In rural areas, old people in the village will tell children not to touch lacquer trees. the consequences of lacquer tree allergies are no joke. Most of the skin of the body will be red, swollen, itchy, itchy and painful, although it will heal itself in the end. but the process is very painful. So many rural people know that lacquer trees can't be smelled or touched. Readers, have you ever seen lacquer trees?

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