White lion's head
1, white lion's head is a kind of grafted walnut, belongs to the lion's head varieties, I think it is so far grafted the best feel of the play walnut.
2, produced in the village of Huge Village, Lotus County, Hebei Province.
3, the reason why called white lion, is due to the local walnut farmers in the picking of walnuts, open the green skin, see the walnut skin color white, only know the variety is obviously a lion's head, in order to make a difference, specially named "white lion's head".
4, the main features: pile short, thick side, hard cortex, large and flat base slightly concave, consistent and dense grain and deep beautiful, most of the shape of the circumference, very small tip and tip similar to the South General Stone four and a half mouth. Shrinkage is relatively small (more than 40 shrink 1 to 2 mm).
5, shortcomings: the two sides on the base slightly yellow ribbed.
Pinggu Si Zulou
Lion's head walnut of - "Pinggu Si Zulou" walnut
Obviously, this is a variety of walnuts named after a place.
But the specific name of the place is wrong,, just close to the four-seat building, and not again four-seat building. But it has been agreed.
People familiar with this variety, they call him "four buildings" walnut.
The origin of the name is the precipitation of culture, the error is wrong.
Walnut characteristics (in which the top as an example):
1, pile short
2, side thick
3, circumference
4, pattern is very good, really very good
5, oversized flat base, the bottom of the radiating question road obvious.
6, the tip is very small, so small that the new walnut on the hands of a disk, it breaks.
The overall feeling is very dominant, but also not lose the circumference (the old tree south will be dominant, circumference is too difficult).
The production is very, very low, so low that there are not many pairs.
Ma Laoshi
Lion's head walnut of - "Ma Laoshi" walnut
"Ma Laoshi", naturally, is a walnut named after a person. varieties, Beijing players basically call him lion's head walnuts, some people in Tianjin called it tiger head.
Place of origin Tianjin Jixian (some say Hebei Jixian, is due to excessive lack of geographical knowledge).
It is the original wild tree, which is now a very, very large walnut tree, and the tree has been transplanted.
The owner of the tree, naturally, is named Ma.
Walnut characteristics:
1, circumference!
2, side wide, thick
3, tip small, nearly flat top (in recent years, especially in 07, yellow tip is becoming more and more common, may be the result of artificial fertilization)
4, lion's head base is obviously flat
4, the leather is very good, very good leather.
One of the rare short pile (also just a little bit relatively short), is a very good lion's head walnut.
South General Stone
Lion's head walnut of the - "South General Stone" walnut
South General Stone lion's head with its appearance of solid full, grain rough and regular, hard and delicate wood and respected by the majority of players, especially the In recent years, due to the production of less, especially the outstanding character is more rare, so the price all the way up, even
To the phenomenon of copying. It can be said that in the market furnace under the baking, South General stone lion head has reached the degree of hot, with the recent popular saying is: handsome, cool, super nuclear life, dream South General stone.
At present, the characterization of the Nanjung stone lion head is roughly divided into two factions: one faction is to advocate its origin and name, referred to as the name of the school; the other faction is to advocate its shape and name, referred to as the shape of the school. Then these two schools in the end which school is correct? This is also from the South will be the origin of the stone lion head.
"South will stone lion's head" belongs to the cultural lion's head walnut class, is a branch of the many varieties of lion's head, with no record of the legend to prove that the end of the Qing Dynasty called "Ma Dun", the Republic of China was called "hemp Ke", because of its scarcity of production. ", because of its scarce production, play recognized is not strong, so the early years is not mainstream high-grade varieties, belong to the second-rate stuff. Recently, in hebei south will stone village found to produce this variety of walnut, so we will default him called south will stone lion head. And because of its hard texture, sizing, hanging porcelain after playing the sound crisp, as if two stones collide with each other sound, so the name of the South will spread. Therefore, this has become the main basis for the school of geographical names!
After the seller's continuous efforts to find and develop, Beijing around Hebei other places such as deer and other places also found this elephant walnut, and because of the profit motive, many rural areas are also grafted or planted this variety of walnut trees. So now look, not only the village of the South Stone produced this variety of walnuts. Since the place of origin is no longer only Namjungshi village, and is not fixed, then there is only one shape that is recognized as the closest to the standard of judging in the heart as the standard of Namjungshi lion's head, which becomes the main basis of the shape school. Most walnuts are also based on the shape to determine the variety!
Knife
Lion's head walnuts - "knife" walnut
This walnut originated in Hebei,
Characteristics are: pile short, very full stomach, slightly square, very wide and thin sides, deep grain. Rich in change, less circumscribed.
Some people call it "horseshoe" lion's head,
Tree farmers call it "knife"
Because of less circumference, the side is wide and thin, so the craft is good after the repair, after playing, can become a very good lion's head walnut. .
Lion's head walnut introduction of - Mentougou boring tip lion's head (apple orchard)
Origin of the mountainous area west of Beijing, Mentougou area, Wangping village,
Characteristics:
1, short
2, round (full)
3, the leather is super hard, sound Super crispy, color quickly
4, the grain is very good, even the top of the stomach, the tip of the two sides have grain, other walnuts of this place is the least grain place.
5, the shape of the valve (umbilicus) is similar to the bottom of the northwest lantern walnut.
6, the green fruit has a characteristic - "thin skin, large filling": look at how big the green fruit, wrapped in open skin, walnuts are almost not much smaller.
Belonging to the old varieties of classic lion's head, because it is very full and round, square with round, round in the square, shaped like
apple round
apple, known as "apple round,"
The tree age is very old, it is said that there are 800 years of age (no way to prove it), so the head of the tree is dead. A few years ago, the results are very little, each walnut, almost all have wormholes, I have seen, after drying hands almost all below 38.
Now, the tree is indeed dead, the branches have been taken away to go back to grafting, fruit, but they all turned into high stakes, big pointed contraptions.
The lion's head walnut - old lion's head walnut
Emphasize that it is the "old" lion's head "walnut," not the so-called "old model", "Old type" lion's head.
Place of origin: the mountains around Beijing, specific trees, unknown, production, in recent years have not seen.
Characteristics:
1, short
2, round (full)
3, flat-topped, boring tip
4, deep and exquisite lines, even if it is played for decades, can not hide the deep and exquisite lines.
5, circumference
6, base atmosphere
7, color
8, pulp
9, the number of few and far between