Friends who are familiar with history know that japan itself does not have a long history and civilization, according to the existing data, the "Japanese nation" is a mixture of ancient Central Plains people, Wuyue people in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, trace Malays and other people, and gradually migrated to Japan to live, before it multiplied.
Although the history is not long enough, they have a place worth learning from all countries in the world, that is, "eager to learn", take the "tang envoys" that everyone is familiar with as an example, in order to learn China's advanced culture and system, Japan has sent 19 tang envoys to China, which lasted for more than 260 years.
The Japanese envoys who came to China at that time all carried small books with them, copied down everything they saw, whether it was poetry and songs, customs and habits, or even the technique of striking iron and farming, they all wrote them down, and then brought them back to China to study. This is an important reason why there are so many Chinese in Japanese characters, as well as many Japanese habits, which are very similar to ours.
The "wood" we want to talk about today is exactly what the Sui Emperor gave them when Japan came to pay tribute to our country, but I did not expect it to be enshrined by the Japanese as a national treasure, and it is the Lan luxury that Japan called "the first incense in the world".
Lan Luxury Waiting (らんじゃたい), which means idle waiting, is the name given by the Emperor of Japan himself, and the whole piece of Orchid Waiting is 156cm long and weighs 11.6kg, making it the largest fragrant wood in Japan. Compared with the somewhat elusive name of Lan Luxury, calling it "Huang Cooked Fragrance" must be more familiar to everyone.
The so-called yellow ripe incense, that is, buried in the soil for a very long time of cooked incense, because it has been cooked thoroughly, so soft as soil, shattered when touched, only the honeycomb-like incense gland tissue remains, and then after a long time wrapped in soil, mature crystallization in the soil, loose wood fiber structure decomposes yellow rot, leaving a solid incense part, this part, is yellow cooked incense.
"Compendium of Materia Medica" on the book: The heart of the wood is sinking when the water is placed, so it is called sinking water, also known as water sinking. The semi-sinking one is the stack incense, and the unsinkable one is the yellow ripe incense.
Water sinking and stack incense can be drugged, put into warm wine, boiled and served, can cure the heat and cold, breath reversal, shortness of breath, large intestine weakness. But the yellow ripe incense can not be, because its resin content is too low, can only be incinerated.
Before seeing Lan Hao, the Japanese had never seen a piece of wood that could emit such a fragrance, so when they first saw it, they shouted "The holy relics of Emperor Shenmu have returned to the world" (Emperor Shenmu is the legendary first emperor of Japan), so the Japanese envoys immediately and carefully brought it back to Japan and dedicated it to the emperor, and after the emperor saw it, he also loved it, and since then he has collected it as a treasure in the imperial palace.
It is also because of the emergence of Lan luxury, Japan set off a trend of "Douxiang", according to the "Tale of Genji" record, that year Japan held a "jingxiang meeting", those princes and nobles, will bring their own treasures of incense, to test the advantages and disadvantages, at that time, this is a game that nobles can play, a small piece of incense, enough for ordinary people to eat most of their lives.
In order to show his generosity, the emperor would also reward the meritorious people with incense, and those courtiers who contributed very much had the opportunity to receive a small piece of orchid luxury, according to Japanese historical records, Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Oda Nobunaga, and Meiji Emperor 3 people, once received orchid luxury as a reward.
In order to swear authority, they cut it and left a small note at the incision to write their name, such as "Oda Nobunaga, Tenshō 2nd year and March, one inch and eight cut off." Therefore, the weight of the orchid that is currently preserved in Todaiji Temple in Japan has changed from 13 kg to 11.6 kg today. But now it has become a national treasure of Japan, and even the emperor cannot touch it in the slightest.
It is reported that this piece of orchid luxury has a total of 5 flavors, and to this day it is still mellow, sweet and warm, interested friends can personally go to the meeting!