One morning, I saw a blazing incense in a dimly lit corner. The incense starts from the roots and grows upwards. Sometimes it is like a crane rushing straight into the sky in a straight line, sometimes it is like a reed wind blowing by the stream and spreading out obliquely and regrouping, sometimes it is like a path in an ancient painting hovering towards the top of the mountain, and sometimes like the fairy island of Penglai transforming into a fog...
In his later years, Huang Tingjian was demoted to Guangxi, and in Yizhou, he lived in the market with the peddlers and pawns, and "the noise of the market was noisy, and people thought that they were overwhelmed." But as long as he burns incense and sits, he can "hide a few incense sticks, and the spiritual platform is clear and clear." What is the magic of incense, which makes people "lingtai zhankong"? In just a few minutes of that morning, I suddenly understood that just by looking at the clouds of smoke, everything in the world had been emptied. Not to mention her fragrance, her rhyme.
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Since then, the matter of "being an incense stick that is worthy of this smoke" has taken root in my heart. This incense stick, she wants to be like a stream where cranes gather, to have the reeds fiddling with the wind without bending, to have the literary tone of the ancient paintings holding the staff into the mountain, to have the rich imagination of Penglai like a mist cloud - don't say it, it sounds very difficult.
What kind of materials and shapes can be close to the ideal state?
A few years later, when we stumbled upon a bamboo knot from the market, we suddenly got a clue: it was better to carve a bamboo with green jade. Her knots are like the wind and bones of the literati, indomitable; her green is like the lake of the mountains, clear and calm; coupled with the natural pattern of green jade, is not Penglai like a misty cloud?
After three months, she finally took shape. With green jade as the base and green bamboo as the environment, it is used for incense cuttings. The warmth of jade, the elegance of bamboo, and the purity of incense all belong in one thing.
When the first bamboo stick is washed and removed from the water, we have already imagined in our minds that she will calmly become the "cloud root" of the smoke in the dim corner; she will emit the fragrance of birds and finches on the window sill in the morning. One person drank alone, two people talked, three people said, she was all there.
The next two, plump and lean, were different in shape, but once she was there, there was always a coolness and tenacity hidden inside. Her emerald and moistened everything around her is coated with a soft light; her bamboo knots and edges and corners add personality and bone.
The way of incense is of course incense, but when you have not tasted it, a wisp of green smoke in an incense stick is enough to appreciate it for half a day. This half day is the "floating life" of "stealing".
It is said that tea can purify the heart. In fact, incense can also purify the heart, bamboo can also purify the heart, and the jade color can also purify the heart.
As long as you love, you can purify your heart.
I hope that this green jade bamboo incense can also clear your heart.