Throughout the ages, thousands of years of Chinese incense culture has witnessed the ups and downs of the Chinese nation for thousands of years, running through the entire development of traditional Chinese culture, in the long history of this incense, there is no shortage of emperors and generals, literati and inkers, great virtue monks, and true people, who love incense, use incense, and cast incense classics. It has left valuable incense knowledge for my generation. Incense is not only incense, he can carry too much, can pin elegant, can reduce depression, can add elegance, can relax the mind. Chinese perfumery is more about the expression of artistic conception and thought.
The peak period of the development of agarwood is the two Song Dynasties, the Song is the peak period of the development of incense culture, and the Song people have also established a relatively comprehensive and systematic standard of incense evaluation based on Hainan agarwood in this period, and the spring of single agarwood is also at this time. Many classic incense tasting methods and realm ideas also laid the foundation for the two Song Dynasties and are still used today.
Song Dynasty Yajitu
Today's incense circle citation classic is a lot of senior incense friends like to do things, today we take out a few points in the classic to do a discussion hope to be able to help the new entry of the incense friends.
1. Is Chenla Cambodia? Champa is Vietnam?
"Agarwood is not one. The One with The True Wax is the top, the Champa City is second, and the Bohai Mud is the lowest. It is a sentence often quoted by many merchants in the process of bonding with agarwood, so is the zhenla in this sentence Cambodia? By Chenla, you are not just referring to Cambodia today. Guchenla has a wider geographical area, which also includes the central and southern regions of Thailand, the current southern region of Vietnam, and the central and southern regions of Laos, are these production areas still high-end by the current standards? In the "Lingwai Answer" Volume VII "Agarwood Cloud" strip cloud:
"Agarwood comes from all the kingdoms, with Zhenla being the first, and Champa being the second. There are many types of zhenla, and the incense produced by the climbing eyebrows is rich in smell, which is better than the various flowers. If it is produced by srivijaya and other countries, it is a downshore incense. Take the Borneo incense as a bad victory. The scent of the lower shore is strong, not very valuable, sinking, but can be put into medicinal bait. “
In this passage we can see that there are many types of zhenla, and the incense produced by the climbing eyebrows is rich in smell, which is better than all the fans. Therefore, the so-called Chenla supremacy also includes the area around today's Thailand. Most of the ancient countries in the Chao Phraya River Basin in the Song Dynasty were vassal states of Chenla. Dengliumei agarwood landed in China during the Southern Song Dynasty, and was also popular for more than 200 years after the early Northern Song Dynasty. It also once had a status comparable to that of Cliff Xiang in this period of history.
Hainan agarwood
There is another level of analysis here, which is the scarcity of cliff incense, and more people may not have excellent cliff incense. Even the top-level chenla will not flow into the folk spice market, but it will always flow into the market more than the cliff incense. Therefore, it has a reputation that can be comparable to cliff incense. So Chenla in this period was not just Cambodia as we know it today.
Cambodian old incense
Where is Champa followed by Champa?
Champa refers to the ancient country of the Indochina Peninsula, its scope includes the current Vietnam Quang Nam, Guangyi, Phu An, Khanh Hoa, Ninh Soon, Binh Shun area, including the Champasak area that now borders Laos, corresponding to the Phu Sen production area of Quang Nam Province, the Nha Trang production area of Gyeong Hoa Province, of course, Champa is not bad, the Han and Tang Dynasties entered China has been obscurity to witness the prevalence of cliff incense to scarcity, witnessed the prevalence of Dengliu mei to scarcity, and finally in the Ming Dynasty Champa Agarwood on the stage to shine. No matter how rich the products are, they cannot resist the large consumption of my big country.
Vietnamese old agarwood
Here is a point that everyone can think about, in the Ming Dynasty, champa Qinan was worth more silver, although it was not as good as Yaxiang. But it is enough to prove its scarcity, on the contrary, today, the number of Nha Trang Qinan is even more than the agarwood in Nha Trang, which is worth thinking about.
Vietnam's many production areas are still high-end in today's incense circle, Fusen laterite, Nha Trang agarwood is also a fragrance is difficult to find, the real old Chenla on the market, Dengliumei is difficult to trace. The price of Hainan agarwood is often thousands of thousands. I would like to advise all new incense friends not to covet cheap and spend a small amount of money to buy high-end.
The above sharing is only a simple sharing, if there is no place, I hope that the incense friends will correct it more. The top cliff fragrance is lonely and proud, but the top climbing eyebrows and the top Champa can also surpass most of the ordinary cliff incense. Even today's playing with incense my point of view is not to discriminate against any place of origin and be in awe of every piece of agarwood. Tasting incense is not only to taste what his taste is, but also to sublimate the mind. That is, the so-called "nose view" nose view is an extension of smell plus thinking, nose smell can be expressed, and view is with a certain mysterious feeling, which can only be understood ineffable.