There is a kind of wood that can be said to be "water and fire will not invade", almost no water is needed for growth, and it will be safe when the fire comes. This is African black wood. Black wood carvings made of black wood are arguably the most distinctive handicrafts in Africa, and are the favorite of tourists from all over the world. You can go to the website to check related news.

Almost no water is needed to survive


Black wood, also known as ebony and ebony, is a semi-deciduous plant, and most leaves fall during the dry season. It has a very strong survivability and can adapt to a variety of climatic environments. Even in the case of a fire that burns grass and other plants, they can be safe and sound. Blackwood is widely distributed in Africa, from northern Ethiopia to Angola in southern Africa, from Senegal along the Atlantic Ocean to Tanzania on the Indian Ocean, and can be seen in blackwood. From arid and rocky areas at sea level to 1200 meters above sea level, there are traces of black wood.


Blackwood hardly needs water to survive. In fact, once black wood has a perfect root system, it requires little or no rain to make it into wood. The bark of the log is dark gray, the endothelium is yellow-white, and the core material is divided into four types: black, dark brown, purple, and light brown with stripes. They grow extremely slowly, growing annually every five years. A tree with a diameter of about 10 centimeters needs to grow for more than 100 years. It is a very precious tree species.

Black woodcarving is valuable


When you go to the handicraft market in many countries in Africa, you will find black wood carving crafts. Lifelike animals, characters with different expressions, and black wood have been processed by African craftsmen and become the favorite of tourists around the world. Not to mention that black wood is almost everywhere in Africa, but it is one of the rarest and most expensive wood in the world, and the most expensive can be sold for 25,000 US dollars per cubic meter. The reporter recently saw a pair of black wooden figures with a height of 1.7 meters in Johannesburg, which cost up to $ 2,500.


In Africa, people prefer to carve black wood into various tools, utensils, traditional carvings, even the supporting structure of houses and indoor furniture, etc., which can be used as furniture materials. In Tanzania and Mozambique where the Maconde people live, the locals regard black wood as a sacred, living plant. The Makongde people are famous for their creative black wood carvings. Wood carvings can be roughly divided into several categories, including canes, jewelry, tables, cabinets, bowls, and other utensils, as well as cloud-shaped carvings, group carvings, and elven statues. Among them, the use of black wood carving elves and gods requires extremely high talents. It is the essence of Makongde's sculpture art and is also the most admirable skill of artists and collectors in the world. The Makongde used black wood carving to express their love, hate and belief. It can be said that the black wood carving contained their culture.


The Malians in Africa admire black. They think that the black of black wood is not deep enough. Therefore, each black wood carving is painted with a black paint. It adheres firmly in the dry state, but it is soluble in water. Therefore, black wood carving cannot Scrub with wet hands or a damp cloth.

Kuroki boiled water to bathe the newborn


Although not many people have actually seen Kuroki on other continents, many people must have heard the sound of Kuroki musical instruments. The black wood material is excellent, wear-resistant, not decayed, and not rot, so it is very suitable for complicated carving utensils. When it is made into a woodwind instrument, Kuroki's speciality in vocalization is more obvious. Therefore, high-quality clarinet, bagpipe, piccolo, Scottish bagpipe, etc. are mostly made from Kuroki. It can be said that Kuroki made the best woodwind instrument in the world.

In addition, black wood has many uses. Different parts of the tree can be used to treat various diseases. The bark and leaves can be used as animal feed. Africans believe that black boiled water can bring human strength, so black boiled water is often used to bathe newborns.


The particularity of Kuroki brings good luck to people and brings misfortune to themselves. It is estimated that 7,000 trees are cut down every year for woodwind instruments alone. Due to excessive logging, black wood in Kenya, southern Ethiopia and northern Tanzania has declined sharply in the past 30 years.

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