Learn about Chinese Antique Furniture - Elm

John Rogers: Hi I’m John. YuQing Zhao: I’m YuQing. John Rogers: And we here today in our continuing series of videos about Chinese furniture and today we are going to be talking about the woods that we are going to use. We need to kind of think about Chinese history just a little bit in considering the woods. The main era which is long, long time ago use to predominant woods for a good furniture, usually known as Chinese classical furniture and that can be found today in museums throughout the world. Those two woods are Zetang which is a very dark colored wood almost the same color as a dark walnut and a Wang Wally which is a naturally a much blonder colored wood about the color of American maple but the furniture which is now prohibited appropriately from export by the Chinese government was never use by the everyday Chinese people. Those people who use furniture made from different wood and YuQing is here to tell us about the clients of woods that are most frequently found in the countryside or is we might call it in Chinese country or binocular furniture. YuQing Zhao: Yes, now you know what we can find from the ordinary Chinese house host in the countryside are the woods that are elm and poplar these are piece of furniture that we can find in Northern China basically and elm is use most often is like 70% of people are use elm wood or elm combination. This is a very tip called piece of furniture that made up of elm wood, let’s take a close look at this one. And this is elm wood when we take first look at it we already know because this is very clear wood green, this elm wood looks similar to American folk but nicer one I would say a similar instruments in the jar let see some more about seeing in the detail how to tell this is elm. John Rogers: Depending upon how this wood is playing at the top you’re going to be able to see what look like a series of mountain top just impose on each other. That is a very classical way of identifying elm. If you look at the side piece the grain steel is very predominant but is much greater along just depends on how that wood has been cut but you can still see the individual strands of grain as you look through. YuQing Zhao: Still takes longer you need to see more of them one piece to get to know or what elm look or elm wood looks like. John Rogers: Yes, okay so now we spend a fair amount of time in elm and on our next videos we are going to talk about the other woods that you’re going to find most frequently in Chinese country furniture. Thanks so much for watching. YuQing Zhao: Thank you.