Yangju incense matter
Shangguan True Snow Autumn Wind Unknown Spring Pavilion 2021-01-04
Burning incense has a Zen meaning, the wind and rain are not alarming, and the Chinese incense culture is extremely romantic. The ancients paid great attention to charm, burning incense and tea, drumming and singing are all interesting and elegant things. During the Song Dynasty, incense culture developed to its peak, and incense burning was regarded as the first of the four idle things of the literati, and huang Tingjian, Su Shi and other literati also left many poems about incense.
Unfortunately, with the collapse of the Southern Song Dynasty, the once-flourishing incense culture began to gradually decline in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. But even so, incense can be seen everywhere in Ming and Qing novels.
There are a large number of incense elements in the dream of the Red Chamber, taking the Ning and Rong provinces as an example, the use of incense in life to increase the style and supplement internal cultivation, the use of incense for sacrifice to convey the remembrance and respect for ancestors, and the Taoist temple and temple to use incense as an offering to worship the gods and convey the wishes of the heart to seek protection.
As the sun sets, Yangju Temple falls into a state of tranquility, and see what Chang Zhen is doing under the lamp? It seems that this is not incense burning, it was originally made of agarwood as a long-lost accessory, and it was made of agarwood powder with sandalwood, ambergris and musk and other materials.
This is an ancient secret recipe Oh, I take this bracelet sent to me by the Changzheng Master, smell hard, the specific recipe I can't smell, the surface remains part of the cinnabar, the taste is sour and sweet, not thick but good smell, it is said that not only can be used as incense, but also into medicine.
Since seeing the Beijing collector's "Qing Palace Agarwood Hollow Eighteen Sons" bracelet, Master Chang Zheng insisted on developing agarwood powder to press incense beads, after nearly a year, finally groped out a set of satisfactory agarwood selection materials, concoction, gluing with pure natural substances, and then through the method of opening molds, pressing, etc., using this method to obtain incense beads, stringed into hand strings, both can smell the incense and play and can be collected for a long time, hard and beautiful incense, no big trouble in water, so far finally realized a dream.
Agarwood is extremely expensive, and the beads made of a string of agarwood are as few as tens of thousands, and as many as hundreds of thousands, which ordinary players can't reach. The beads made of agarwood powder and rhino horn powder together have a peculiar fragrance and can be used to make incense and experience the aroma. This kind of hand string health, elegant play effect is excellent, but can not be dipped in water, sweat, once dipped in water will affect the effect of playing, but the incense beads will never scatter in the water, water washing will not be scattered.
If you want to see the effect of the pulp, you have to start all over again. Homemade agarwood powder bracelet, after polishing and wearing for a week, the shell is getting better and better, the aroma is consistent, the fragrance is refreshing, it is said that after the late Qing Dynasty, this incense recipe was lost.
Plain tablets and beads pressed with agarwood powder by the often mage.
Some people collect this antique bracelet that has been handed down for a hundred years, there is still an aroma, can also be worn, calm the mind, refresh the mind, adjust the qi, not only has the effect of health care, and its aroma is enduring, a hundred years of non-corruption. Now the Master of The Common Testament has reproduced this lost craft and may even be able to apply for cultural heritage.
Since ancient times, agarwood has been used by dignitaries, rich merchants and even the royal court. The bracelet of incense beads pressed by agarwood powder is a relatively special accessory made in the Shanxi Manufacturing Office in the Qing Dynasty, which is made of agarwood powder and materials such as sandalwood, ambergris and musk. Its taste is as its name suggests, it can calm the gods, as one of the necessary ornaments for relatives and nobles to go out in the Qing Dynasty, grinding can be eaten and cured.
At that time, Jin merchants went out to do business, as short as a few months, as long as several years, and often wore such beads or medicine plates for self-defense, in case there was a small illness or something, this kind of treasure could be grated and swallowed directly, used for healing. When you are not sick, wearing and smelling the aroma can also refresh your mind.
The Qing Dynasty's agarwood powder bracelet, which can survive to this day, is still perfect in appearance, which shows the maturity of the previous generation's technique of pressing the agarwood powder bracelet. The old agarwood powder bracelet, but also admired is the retention and continuation of the corner residue of agarwood, it is the agarwood powder pressed into a bracelet, plain brand so that the rare agarwood residue can still be treasured for hundreds of years, otherwise it has long become ashes.
In the Qing Dynasty, hand strings were used as ritual Tools and ornaments for Buddhas, and there were many kinds of gold and jade gemstones, bamboo and wood rhino horns. Agarwood is a precious incense wood, made of agarwood hand strings, rarely seen. It is even rarer to use agarwood powder mixed with precious Chinese medicinal herbs to make hand strings.
Some people once hid the agarwood powder tuan shou bat pattern bracelet in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the beads were pressed with agarwood powder, and the beads were hand-carved with tuanshou and bat patterns, which symbolized the blessing of longevity and longevity. Eighteen beads with yellow agate Buddha head beads, septum beads, dots of emerald inlaid malachite back cloud, red agate fall horn, interspersed with five-color silk thread, placed in the original carved tin box, to prevent the aroma from escaping. After years, this bracelet still emits a strong medicinal fragrance, and the spirit is invigorated by smelling it.
According to the "Guihai Xiangzhi", "The incense beads come out of the toes, and the incense mud is kneaded into croton-shaped glass beads, and the colored silk is interspersed with colored silk." The number of people who do the Tao is beaded. Eighteen seed bracelet, just a little halo in the old moonlight, today, as long as you pay attention to a few eyes, you can see the beauty of the wrists of young boys and girls everywhere, which is also a nostalgic fashion.
At night, Yangju Temple is smoked and entered as you please. The agarwood baptism of wind objects leads us into the Zen schools and philosophies. The song finally disperses, and the aroma is endless. This oriental classical incense, bit by bit, weaves the clothes of the spirit outside of time. To find incense is to return to a civilization, but also to bathe in a kind of nostalgia. In the incense burner of a thousand years, in the moonlight of a thousand years, take refuge in the heart...
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