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I remember that "Dream of the Red Chamber" wrote 40 times, Jia Mu went to the Garden of 蘅芜元 for the first time, and she felt that it was like a snow cave, clear and cold. Although the courtyard is fragrant, it is planted with vines and grasses that are colder and greener.
A large garden, everywhere is permeated with a cold fragrance, without going close it seems to be able to guess that here lives a warm-hearted and cold-faced woman like Xue Baochao.
There are thousands of aromas in the world, and there is no conclusion about good or bad. Some people think that the aroma is good, some people take the preciousness of spices as the standard, and some people are more concerned about whether they can be healthy...
The fragrance of the clouds, the smell of the nose, fluttering in the invisible, likes and dislikes vary from person to person, but some of the innermost temperament, but never deceive people.
I can't help but think of the word "smell the incense and recognize people", perhaps: what kind of person you are, you will like what kind of incense.
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【 Su Shi 】
Free rebellion, smile at the red dust
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Su Shi loves poetry and eating, in fact, he also loves incense.
During the Song Dynasty, he was a Hanlin scholar, so he was revered as "Sunehan". He concocted a "Sunehan Poor YaXiang", which is very representative of personality.
At that time, in formal occasions such as the imperial palace, temples, and yamen, it was often necessary to use "ya incense" according to the rules. And the incense on the market is almost all based on agarwood, which shows the majesty and wealth of the official family, dignified and calm.
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But Su Shi didn't want such a shelf. He decided to improve it himself, not using agarwood, the first of all incense, but mainly sandalwood, supplemented by frankincense, ginseng, musk, etc., and the material became more streamlined and simple.
When he lit the incense again, he only felt that among the wisps of aroma, there was the clear and warm sweetness of sandalwood and frankincense combined, so that the office of the official office was no longer so cold; there was also a trace of literati who was clear and bitter and did not change his mind; there was even more musky incense, straight from the mortal dust to the immortal que, which was the freewheeling and indulgent song of "letting go of the nine dusts".
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Su Shi's abandonment of Shen Xuan Tan is not to say that sandalwood and other spices are cheap spices, but the rebellious spirit that is stirred up in his heart from time to time, and he borrows one of the incense to express it vividly.
The poverty of "poor incense" lies in this artistic conception and spirit.
People who like this fragrance may like that unbridled and unrestrained. Don't ask about riches when you are on the road, and don't move your temperament when you are poor and lowly, aren't you happy!
【 Li Yu 】
Read all the bustling, simple is the most wonderful
We only know that Li Yu is the king of the subjugated country, but in fact, he is also a hidden perfumed holy hand. The "goose and pear tent incense" that has been passed down to this day is said to have come from his hand.
The incense of the court has always been extremely extravagant, and when the three thousand prosperous things are exhausted, in the face of all kinds of precious spices that are handy, Li Yu seems to be uninterested.
One day the maid sent a plate of goose-yellow pears, and he suddenly had a sudden thought: although this pear fruit is the most common thing, the fragrance is fresh and soft, I don't know if I can try it?
Later, there was a first palace word, which described the scene of making this incense in the Southern Tang Palace: "The night beads hang straight to the depths, and the wind curtain does not roll the begonia yin." Fa Xiang Fang Zi newly searched, try to take the goose pear injection sink. ”
Perhaps Li Yu had not been so focused on one thing for a long time, even if it was cold in the middle of the night, he also tried and tried the xiangfang with great interest, and adjusted it again and again.
In the end, he reduced the incense material to the extreme, discarded many complicated materials, only took the agarwood flavor, filled it with hollowed out goose pears and steamed it, and got this sweet and warm fragrance.
The soft sweetness of the goose pear, the tranquility of the silk wrapped in agarwood, is no longer a lonely rich, but a carefully cooked human side dish.
"How much sorrow can you have?" It is like a river of spring water flowing eastward. Li Yu may not really love luxury, otherwise how could he recite such a mournful but atmospheric word after the national destruction?
Just like this incense, the prosperity is exhausted, and the real taste is revealed. Perhaps this is also the reason why "the incense in the goose and pear tent" is still loved today.
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【 Li Qingzhao 】
It was cold and twilight, and my heart was firm
Li Qingzhao, a girl, also loves incense. She has smoked agarwood and musk in the jade duck incense burner, but she has always loved Rui Brain incense deeply.
Rui brain incense is today's dragon brain incense, ice chips, with a high and cool aroma, but also revealed a stoic breath.
Some people say that Li Qingzhao is like a woman with ice chips, why is this temperament not a portrayal of her heart?
When cardamom was young, she liked this fragrance - "Rui Brain Incense dispels the soul of the dream, and breaks the cold gold bun and pine." ”
At that time, where did she understand what "soul dream breaks", this wisp of clarity and sadness, but it reflected the sensitivity of precocious puberty early on.
When she first became a woman, she also liked this fragrance - "The mist is thick and the clouds are sad forever, and the brain is a golden beast." ”
Soon after the new marriage, Zhao Mingcheng wanted to leave home to go to Taixue to continue his studies. It was another year of heavy sunshine, the mist was thick, and the thoughts were even thicker.
So she took out the foxy beast-shaped incense burner and lit the bitter incense, and she didn't know when the incense would burn out. However, even if people are thinner than Huanghua, they still firmly support their husbands in their hearts to study in order to make him report to the country.
In the sunset years, she prefers this fragrance - "The wine is more like the bitterness of the tea, and the dream is more like the incense of the brain." ”
At that time, the country was also broken, the family was dead, and it was floating alone in the south. Fortunately, there is the bitterness of that cup of tea, and the coolness of that pot of rui brain incense, which reminds her all the time: although it is late in the world, when looking north to the Central Plains, the ambition is unforgettable.
Perhaps only such a person can appreciate the beauty of Rui Naoxiang: no matter what kind of situation I encounter, no matter how much loneliness I face, my heart is constant.
As Tu Long of the Ming Dynasty said, "He who is incense, and his nature is also; taste incense, taste self-nature also." "Chinese's attitude toward incense, in the final analysis, is related to his own personality.
Or as Su Shihao let loose, or as Li Yu qianqian passed, or as Li Qingzhao insisted, they smoked a furnace of incense, but what they saw was a vivid and vivid soul, and after thousands of years, it would still sway and move.
Today, we may not necessarily make incense, but we will also choose incense and taste incense for ourselves in life. In addition to the familiar Western perfumes and fragrances, you may wish to try the oldest incense in China.
Ordinary people like us will also have their own temperament. Some people are sober and transparent, they will like cold incense; some people are enthusiastic and tend to sweet incense; some people are gentle and quiet, and they are more likely to be attracted by the fragrance.
Have you ever thought about what kind of person you are unique in the world, and what kind of incense you want to choose for yourself the most? Share it with us.
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Resources:
"Mountain Pomegranate Flower Red Road, Only Remember the King before today' - The Spirit of the Eastern Slope in the Qingying" Incense, Kowloon Agarwood Museum
"Strange Flowers Blooming Butterflies Flying - Jiangnan Lee Main Account In The Incense", Kowloon Agarwood Museum
Yi An Xiang Xue - Li Qingzhao's Life and Her Chinese Incense, by Zhou Rongqiao
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