With the improvement of people's living standards, people also have a higher pursuit, women in the pursuit of beauty on the road is also going farther and farther in addition to clothing decorations, there are many different choices in terms of taste, a variety of perfumes and balms to choose.
Its practical incense has been very popular in ancient times, what incense did the Han Dynasty use? How to use it? There is a lot of attention, and it is no worse than modern people.
The development of incense
Chinese's pursuit of taste is very high, and spices have appeared many years ago. In the Spring and Autumn Period, when the incense culture has been derived, most of them use flowers and plants to make spices, and many boudoir women will use this as a leisure pastime, and the process of making incense is very cumbersome, which is also a way of self-cultivation for boudoir women.
After the unification of the Six Kingdoms by the Qin, the territory was vast, and the exchanges between the north and the south became more and more frequent, and at this time, various flowers and plants in the south gradually entered the Central Plains, and spices also began to be popular throughout the country. In the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty set up a capital in the Western Regions.
Many spices from the western region have also entered the Central Plains, people have more and more spices to choose from every day, and China's incense culture has gradually become systematic.
The Han Dynasty used incense
Before the Han Dynasty, spices were very rare and expensive, most of the time only popular in the princes and nobles, most of the occasions used were some sacrifices or wedding festivals, ordinary people can rarely contact the incense culture. This situation only improved after the Han Dynasty, and many related funerary items can be found from the excavated Han Dynasty tomb groups.
Among them, there are more than ten pieces of utensils specially used to hold spices, which are placed with different spices, and there are many incense utensils: sachets, incense pillows, smokers, etc. Placed in different utensils also have different functions. For example, incense pillows are embroidered.
Most of the spices placed in it are Peran, which has the effect of calming the spirit and helping sleep; the lacquer containing spices contains some strong laughter, eventful peppercorns or grass and wood things; the sachets that people carry with them have a more outstanding taste and a beautiful and exquisite appearance.
Most of the prevention inside are peppercorns, lemongrass and xinyi; the incense burner placed in the house will burn some of the spices that the owner prefers, which are filled with galangal, lemongrass and xinyi; in ancient times, there was a special utensil called the smoker, which was specially placed in the women's wardrobe.
By burning spices, the women's clothing is also stained with fragrance. This was also the exclusive enjoyment of the upper class during the Han Dynasty. Compared with modern people with a bottle of perfume to go around the world, the ancients' way of using incense can be called a variety of tricks.
What incense did the Han Dynasty use
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty liked the culture of the countryside, and he would also go to Hexiang himself, such as the lily incense and Dumu incense that had been widely spread by posterity, which were all made by him. He also found many materials in his search for elixirs, which later became spices. There are many herbs in our country that can be used to make incense.
The incense making technology of the Han Dynasty has been relatively systematic, and it will use plants and some Western spices, and combine them with medicinal materials to increase its taste on the one hand, and on the other hand, it will also achieve the effect of health care. This is historically known as the compatibility of incense.
Some foods that we later see, peppercorns, cinnamon, and ginger can be turned into spices at that time. What incense did the Han Dynasty use? Depending on the way the fragrance is emitted, the spices used are also different. In general, most of these spices are achieved by burning, smoking or naturally emitting these three forms.
A lot of herbs, rich in fragrance, these are mostly vanilla flowers, they will be put into the smoking basket or sachet, so that its natural fragrance, the material can be flowers, can also be fragrant fruits, such as roses, cloves, osmanthus flowers.
Some spices contain oils and fats, which need to be burned to emit fragrance, most of this spice will be burned through the form of incense burners, such as incense, coil incense or incense made of incense powder, most of them are taken from the roots of some oily plants, such as sweet pine, wood incense, sandalwood, etc.; in addition, there are agarwood, dragon brain, frankincense, benzoin.
These are spices extracted from the branches, and in order to make them emit fragrance, most of them are placed on charcoal blocks for smoking, or these spices are blended into incense containing sesame oil to make them emit fragrance. In addition to these botanical fragrances.
With the development of foreign trade, there are more and more foreign spices in China, such as rosemary, Aina and Duliangxiang from the countries in the western region, which have also been integrated into the original spices in the Central Plains, and many new spices have been developed.
epilogue
After entering the Han Dynasty, China's incense culture began to develop rapidly, and there were not many types of spices at this time, most of which were domestic native spices and a small number of foreign spices. In the spices contain the ancients' pursuit of the quality of life, as well as the yearning for unknown things, the hazy and chic fragrance also has its own unique charm, in line with the ancients' pursuit of the immortal world.
Spices have been valued since ancient times because of their refreshing taste, and the ancients used incense in a variety of ways during the Han Dynasty, and the use of spices is huge, not to mention more than modern people.