What Is Elm Lumber?

Elm is an elm family, genus Ulmus, mainly producing temperate, deciduous trees, and tall trees that can be found throughout the north, especially the Yellow River Basin.

The elm wood is tough, the texture is straight, rough and bold, and the rustic natural color is consistent with the philosophy of life respected by the ancients. Therefore, elm has been popular from ancient times to the present. People's first choice for making furniture

Ulmus is distributed in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Ningxia, Gansu and Xinjiang. It is also cultivated in various provinces in the lower reaches of Tibet and northern Sichuan; it is also distributed in North Korea, Russia, and Mongolia

"The Book of Songs · Fu Ruizhi": "Lang Xie Fei has elm, different roots, and they are four feet and nine inches apart." "Wei Shu · Emperor Ji": "The emperor once died, and the vomiting place still has elm. Participate There is no elm in the earth, so the world is different. "Ming and Song Ying Xing," Heavenly Open Objects · Boat Car ":" Beams and cymbals use nanmu, alder, camphor, elm, and locust. "

The elm tree has won the love of the Chinese people very early, and has become the object of chanting hymns by writers of all ages.

Elm is described in China's earliest anthology of poetry. For example, "The Book of Songs · Tang Feng" has the sentence: "Mountain has a hub, there is an elm", and "Chen Feng · East Gate's Ambition" also has a sentence of "Dongmen's Ambition". Poems of Yuan Dynasty in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, "Returning to the Pastoral Residence", have the sentence "behind the eaves of the elm willow, in front of the Taoist Temple," which is a beautiful image of the pastoral living environment. The King of the Tang Dynasty "Fetching the Elm Fire" praised Elm's selfless dedication "to love the size of one person and turn it into daily use for the people". Tang Seng Jiaoran's "Xing Xing" poem has the sentence "The white elm in the sky, the white elm straight up to the roots of the sky; the high branches do not know tens of thousands of feet, the world looks up to the climber", it is a description of the magical characteristics of the elm. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Su Shi's "Yu Shi Tai Yu", "Who speaks frost and snow, business is inadequate; waiting for the spring breeze to reach, Feiying covers the empty house" is a poem by Yu Yu to show and portray his desire for freedom. But the ancient poets chanted Yu Yu poems most. Bei Zhou Yuxin's "Yangexing": "The peach blossom is as good as horse, and the elm pod is newly opened like money", praising the elm pod is as delicate as money; therefore people often call elm pods elm money. Tangpi Day Break "Peach Blossom Fu": "Near Yuqian Xixian Zhuangcui, Reflecting Yang Liuxi Xuanxian frown", praise the beauty of Yuqian; Song Ouyang Xiu "Heheyishushi": "Cup-and-plate soup porridge with spring breeze, Chiguan Yuqian "Yuyuxin", called Yuqian's moving scene. "Nanzhibeizhi spring breaks, Yuqian can send Liudairou. It must be Shen Lang's poetry is thin, should not spring can give birth to worry." (Song Huang Tingjian's "Two Poems on the Poetry"), springing in the memory, a series of The elm money touched the green rhyme of branches, gently weaving long love silk, so that old elm tree also became soft. "At first glance, Yu Qianfei s film, wet fireworks, tears no one sees. Jiang Shuitian will be more full of sorrow, and the sky will be long and long." (Qing Qu Dajun "Kan Ta Zhi") The spring breeze is intoxicating, Yu Qian is the passionate seed They drifted down quietly, and quietly seemed to hear the sound of the landing. Yuqian kissed the fragrant lips of the land with her scorching love, so the earth germinated the spring, and gave birth to a new life for the elm tree. "Willow elm pods come from Fang Fei, regardless of Tao Piao and Li Fei; Tao Li can be reissued next year, who do you know next year? (Cao Xueqin's" A Dream of Red Mansions and Funeral Flowers ")" Yu Qian drifted on the edge of dreams and waking, through the clouds of time Cold into the mud. ^[3]