A wisp of fragrance can make people feel relaxed, happy and forget their worries; a volume of books can soak in the wind and dust and travel through thousands of years; Cao Xueqin's "Dream of the Red Chamber" can be described as fragrant, let us go to a cultural journey of the Red Chamber.
The Cao family once served as a weaver in Jiangnan, and the power and wealth were at their peak for a while, and the scene of incense depicted in "Dream of the Red Chamber" is the epitome of the incense used by the nobles of the Qing Dynasty. Incense culture is quietly infiltrated in the words and lines of "Dream of the Red Chamber", which not only vividly reproduces ancient life, but also the story of incense, the meaning of incense, and the taste of incense fill the words in the long scroll of the Red Chamber.
Throughout the "Dream of the Red Chamber", ancient people used incense to the world and widely embodied in it, and the incense was also a wide variety of incense: "Agarwood Crutches", "Red Musk Beads", "Sachets", "Incense Bags", "Incense Pendants", "Red Incense Pillows", "Wrist Incense Beads", "Sandalwood Little Protective Buddha" These incense objects are not only necessary at home, but also used by court rewards, such as Yingchun Incense" Only see two upper palace fans, two strings of red musk beads, and two ends of the phoenix tail. It can also be given as a gift between friends.
The ancients loved to wear sachets and sachets, using natural spice aromas to achieve a sobering and refreshing effect, and also showed the high cleanliness of the literati and scholars. After the introduction of exotic incense, the use of incense is more extensive, "the incense of the ding burning lily, the bottle inserted in the spring of the rui", the use of this incense in the "Dream of the Red Chamber" scene is many.
The fifth time: "But smell a wisp of incense, and I don't know what to burn." Bao Yu couldn't help but ask, and the police sneered, "There is nothing in this incense dust world, how can you know!" This incense is made of the essence of the nascent alien trees in the territory of the famous mountains and the oils of various Baolin pearl trees, and is called "Qunfang Essence". A good stove with good incense, the aroma of the incense rises from the exquisite smoker, in such an artistic mood, people not only soothe the body and mind, but also can temporarily forget the world, to pursue the figurative world outside the figurative world.
The Yuan Dynasty astronomer Guo Shoujing once made an exquisite "screen incense leak", which was timed by the corresponding scale of the incense burning time. In the joint sentence of "Mid-Autumn Festival Night Grand View Garden Scene", Dai Yu and Xiang Yun have the opposite sentence of "incense seal pins jinding, fat ice greasy jade basin". This describes a variety of incense, the incense. According to Hong Jiao's "Incense Spectrum", "Incense seal, skeleton wood thinks of it, fan incense dust." For seals, burned in front of drinking mats or Buddha statues, there are often two or three feet in diameter. "Seal incense, also known as hundreds of carved incense, divides a day and night into one hundred scales, and is often used as a timer in monasteries.
"Dream of the Red Chamber" also uses incense to treat diseases, such as the seventh time, when Baochao described the drug compatibility of "cold incense pills", in addition to the medicine of four hours and the water of four hours, it is also specially stated that the monk gave a package of "abnormal aroma" "myrrh" as a guide, referring to a certain aromatic medicine that has the effect of suppressing cough and phlegm. The ninety-seventh time, Bao Yu unveiled the bride's hijab at the wedding and found that it was not Sister Lin who was thinking about it, and suddenly the old disease recurred and fainted. The family rushed to "light up benzoin all over the house and fix his soul." Benzoin, published in the Tang Dynasty's "New Cultivation Materia Medica", is a resin secreted after injury to the trunk of the benzoin plant Qingshan Benzoin or White Leaf Benzoin, which has the function of opening up impurities and invigorating qi and blood, and is commonly used to treat sudden coma, abdominal pain and other diseases.
Burning incense is also a method for the ancients to suppress mold and exorcise filth. Lin Daiyu often burned incense when writing the scriptures, and in the eighty-eighth time of the Dream of the Red Chamber, when Dai Yu was writing the scriptures, She Picked up a son to hide the incense and said, "This is called writing when writing." In the eighty-ninth time, Dai Yu got up early in the morning, and after dressing up, he ordered YaHuan Zi juan to light a Tibetan incense to write the scriptures. The Tibetan incense used in Cao Province was made by a craftsman named Wang Jingluo, and the incense originated in Lhasa, and its formula was included in the Qing Dynasty medical scientist Zhao Xuemin's "Compendium of Materia Medica".
Tibetan incense is also a sanitary and epidemic prevention product in the home life of the Qing people. Shen Shuyuan's poem "Tibetan Incense Reward Yuan Chunpu Fangbo" says: "Ward off evil and ward off cold, but be dirty but miasma." Zhao Xuemin's "Compendium of Materia Medica" said that the Tibetan incense recipe made by the Cao family has the effect of "killing evil and curing evil", and after its incense is smoked, it can make people not have acne and give birth to bright eyes.
The common use of incense by the ancients can also be felt in the cost of silver in the monthly incense case. In "Dream of the Red Chamber", the Jia family sacrifices and festivals must also burn incense to return the wish. In the eighteenth time, Yuan Chun Province's relatives, the Lantern Night's Grand View Garden is full of fragrant flowers: "Gold and silver are colorful, jewelry is in contention, the incense of the lilies is burned, and the bottle is inserted into the spring of the rui... There is also a gold stove burning incense... I saw the smoke in the garden and the flowers... But I saw that the court was burning empty, and the incense chips were spread on the ground. "The ancients loved incense in festivals because the aroma of cigarettes can create a mysterious and elegant atmosphere, and people can use ethereal cigarettes to communicate with the gods to achieve the purpose of purifying the soul."
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