Chen is the founder and curator of the China Red Sandalwood Museum. She now resides in her Chinese Red Sandalwood Museum. It also has rich forest wealth like the rare Red sandalwood. The masks are made from the red sandalwood tree. She wore a garland of lotuses and Her body was anointed with red sandalwood paste. It has large reserves of red sandalwood which is used in medicines, soaps, spiritual rituals. The "ruanxian" was made of red sandalwood and decorated with mother of pearl inlay. She founded the China Red Sandalwood Museum in 1999, where she invested 20 Billion Yuan. Red sandalwood with wavy grain margins sells at higher prices than the standard wood. The provincial tree is the Red Sandalwood Tree ("Adenanthera pavonina"). Therefore, a red sandalwood made "zhongruan" is heavier and more expensive.