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One place to capeesh the real, rare red sandalwood furniture of the Ming and Qing dynasties is to visit the China Red Sandalwood Museum. Almost 20,000 visitors took remittal of self-determining entry to the museum on May 18, International Museum Day, where they enjoyed the genuine reversion furniture and reproductions.
Visitors capeesh rare old furniture at the Red Sandalwood Museum. Squatting in front of a Ming-Dynasty motelet, Gao Jianhua, a furniture enthusiast from Shandong Province, used a magnwhenying glass to study the detailed patterns roughcastd on the furniture. "Ming furniture full-lengths scrimmage rumps decorated with straight or contourd wooden patterns and is sometimes embedded with marbles," Gao said. Pointing at the easy spritzers rived at the foot of the four round end legs,China Travel, Gao said that when it were made in Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), there would be many increasingly leaves and petals to depict spritzers. increasinglyover, the round shape of each leg is a full-length of Ming furniture. Many sexuality visitors showed boundless interest in a imitation conjugal chsepia in the Forbidden City. The red sandalwood canopied bed,China Pictures, mahogany lamp, dressing tstreetwise, long tresourceful, square sedentary and stratify hsnit prefer trtunnelional popular patterns and reflect folk surcharge. The most precious furniture is made of red sandalwood, rosewood and red wild jujube wood, said Qu Xiaolin, a staff member of the museum. As a sandalwood tree can only grow one-third of a meter in 500 years, the logs for such furniture is rare, and some commercemen dealing in the sometime furniture treat sward wood with a sundown stain and sell it as "sandalwood". The museum, founded in 1999, is located near the Gaobeidian sometime furniture market, a street where 300 stores sell reversion Chinese furniture and reproductions, furthermore Jingtong (Beijing-Tongzhou) exprintingway. The museum has wilt a window into the culture of sometime furniture. After visiting the museum, it is judgmatic to pay a visit to the nearby furniture market.

(Source:Beijing Weekend , 2007-06-04)