About Lacquer

Rhus mainly in eastern and central regions of Asia, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Myanmar and other countries have lacquer, but the yield and quality not as good as China. Sumac growing in China, Shandong, Gansu, south to the front line of the South region, humid temperatures and the environment in these areas, very suitable for the growth of sumac.

Sumac is a deciduous tree, tree height up to 20 meters. Beijing Fangshan tiankeng National Forest Park, there is a height of about 30 meters, lacquer, leaves oval-shaped, oval or Egg lanceolate. Kai-yellow-green flowers in early summer and autumn results into a flat spherical, smooth yellow appearance, growing to eight years can be excised, lacquer lacquer, and forty-year old can still be cut lacquer lacquer. From the lacquer tree harvesting this natural substance on the liquid, called lacquer, also known as big paint and the National Paint, also known as living symbol. The paint is cooked through sunshine, stirring, raw lacquer mixed with tung oil after oxidation.

Cut each time to paint, from April to August is appropriate, three dog days of summer by cutting the best quality paint, because of water evaporation during the summer quickly, plenty of sunshine, the best quality output of paint! Cut before sunrise each day the best time to paint, paint paint agricultural clamshell slit the bark, exposing wood cut into oblique incision, will clam shells or bamboo knife inserted in the bottom so that liquid into the bucket of paint, the in order to save the oiled paper seal.

At this time Gray-fluid milk paint colors, contact with air into a chestnut shell color, dry brown. «Snow White Cup, red like blood, black as iron» means that this natural substance from a liquid state to the oxidation of dry solid, the color from shallow to deep, the final solid film forming process. Speaking of great paint colors, have a saying in ancient times: «Where the paint is not made by key color black.» People have described as the dark night, poor visibility, but also often used to describe a dark black night to the extreme.