Ding Yuehu is a small literati who sells fish bay, and he has been dancing and writing all his life, but in the end he is not even a showman. Selling fish bay is also a small projectile land, dozens of kilometers north of Wolf Mountain in Nantong Prefecture, but it is a bit famous. Seven hundred years ago, in order to avoid the pursuit of the Yuan soldiers, Prime Minister Wen Cheng went to the sea from here and returned to the south by way, which gave the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty another three years of breath. Later generations built the "Wenshan Temple" here, and also built the "Wenshan Academy", just to leave the deepest memories for this land and raise the wisp of Haoran Qi. I don't know if Haoran has cultivated it, but his literary spirit is quite abundant. In the Qing Dynasty, there were several non-famous poets such as Chen Shicun, Chen Nairen, Zhou Lufang, etc., Huang Shoushi, Xu Bangdian, and Cao Xinggu lingered here again, and the ten-foot building, listening to the fishing house, resting in the foothouse, the poetry city wine country, was lively for a while. Especially in the twelfth year of Jiaqing (1807), Zhao Huaiyu, a scholar from Wujin University, came to the main academy, and he spoke for five years, and even the trees around the academy were particularly green. At that time, as long as the fish bay was mentioned, the literati couldn't stop nodding.
In the ninth year of Daoguang (1829), Ding Yuehu was born in this place, also known as Shizhu. 's ordinary life has made many gaps in his life records, and he only knows that "he is a double ding, and he learns to explore two units", ranking sixth. "Sitting with a clear heart is more than happy, and Yang Fen knows that it is a good person. The heavy curtain is just right to leave good guests, and Yan Sleep is also suitable for reading different books. From this poem by Zhang Yuankai, a martial artist, we can see that the conditions of the Ding family are not bad, and we can even use the word elegant. It can be inferred that Ding Yuehu "loves ancient articles, next to Zhang Cao, Miao Seal, Danqing, and Yinlu, all of which are extremely wonderful, and the Song of Songs throws pots, and is very polite", if there is no strength at home, where can he stand so chic, and he "sings and roars, and does not seek to hear", looking very lazy. He is refreshing, and his writing is not bad, the name Ding Peng gradually spread in the local area, some celebrities and gentlemen from time to time and eyebrows with him, whenever there is an elegant banquet, he often goes to do one or two poems, write a few words - someone calls him Mr. Ding to his face.
Later, he went to the curtain. When he was young, he always thought about "visiting the famous mountains and rivers in the sea, making friends with famous people in the world, being high-spirited, and looking at everything", but he had no choice but to "go against the form, and the body was more entangled". Where has he been? There are clear written records, there is a trip to Shanghai and Huaiyin. Everywhere he went, he participated in the literary society, the poetry city was promoted, the wine country brewed flowers, and the spring breeze was full of love. Later, he returned to his hometown and changed the name of the study from "calligraphy and painting" to "Aiwulu". Occasionally, friends come from afar, drink some wine, comment on a few pages of poems, and draw a picture of "Fish Bay Yaji Map". Youth is like an arrow off the string, rushing forward along the side of the ship of time, Ding Yuehu watched but was helpless. After a long time, nearly half a hundred years old, it's time to take care of it.
thought that he would spend his life in the dim light like this, but Ding Yuehu never dreamed that his life would be broken by a young man named Shi Yunsheng. Once, he chatted with this little fellow who was twenty years younger than him, Shi Yunsheng casually said that the current incense burner "is crude and cannot be appreciated, and the thoughts are unique", this sentence is like magic, so that Ding Yuehu sat in a daze for an afternoon, and from time to time he painted his clothes with his fingers, muttering in his mouth, and his expression was very trance. Shi Yunsheng was a little worried, but early the next morning, Ding Yuehu brought him a piece of paper, which turned out to be his newly designed incense burner pattern, which was really different from the old one. On the third day, Ding Yuehu brought a picture, and on the fourth day, he brought a piece of paper. Since then, he has continued to take out his new drawings, and it is "more and more strange", which dazzles Xiao Shi.
The furnace type designed by Ding Yuehu lies in the seal mold of incense, which has hollow seal characters or auspicious patterns, whether it is text or pattern, all of them are continuous and continuous, and run through. When using, lay the rue spice on it, lightly compact, scrape off the excess, when the seal mold is lifted, it is the "incense seal" with its own smoke. When incense is burned, the heart is moving, and the aroma is flowing. The most amazing thing is that the incense ash after burning out turned out to be a painting or a word.
Burning incense and sipping tea, people's taste. The local Xi of tasting incense has a long history, and in Rugao City, not far from Selling Fish Bay, Mao Bijiang and Dong Xiaowan are fanatical enthusiasts, often "sitting quietly in the incense pavilion and tasting famous incense". Mao Bijiang is a famous connoisseur of incense burners, and his "Song of Xuanlu" is a famous article in the furnace, but he uses a Xuande furnace, not a smoked cage-type incense burner. For a lover of incense, the sophistication of tools is the same as that of a person who is proficient in the tea ceremony, how can he use those crude and vulgar products. Shi Yunsheng's unintentional words made Ding Yuehu, who had not opened his robe all his life, finally find a breakthrough in this life, and in just two years, he sent all his enthusiasm and knowledge, and designed more than 100 patterns of incense burners. He seemed to walk into a world full of wind and smoke, and lit up the flowers in his dreams one by one with his fingers. "The heart is mowing the grass, the hand deletes the thorns; Fortune with heaven, fake with manpower, illusion of heart flowers, flying dreams of butterflies", he described his good intentions in the design of the incense burner, those words and pictures, carefully arranged, all show his elegant taste and indulgence and penchant for details.
Ding Yuehu found a local coppersmith and showed them the furnace he had designed, and asked them to make it. Those craftsmen do not care about the cost, "pottery smelts, vertebrae chisels". As a result, the patterns have become works of art, becoming elegant objects on the desks of literati, and becoming rare objects in everyone's eyes. Until the Republic of China a few decades later, Wang Donglin and others were constantly copying. The lingering fragrance awakens the poetry that has been sealed in the hearts of many people for a long time.
In the winter moon of the fourth year of Guangxu (1878), Shi Yunsheng suggested that these maps be engraved into a book. While asking for a preface from a friend, he asked Sun Yueqing from Yangzhou to engrave it. Bao Zhaotang, Pan Yindong, Zhang Yuankai, Wang Dingxiang and others sent prefaces and inscriptions, in fact, the preface of Zhu Yu, the ambassador of Shigangchang, was prepared two years ago, and even Liu Ruifen, who was the political envoy who patrolled Susong Taidao in Jiangnan, also sent a long article of six or seven hundred words, saying that it was "to make the world know the king." There is also a friend who asked Hangzhou Xu Qi to write a preface, although the future squire of the military department has been studying in Zhangcha for a long time, and is obviously not familiar with Ding Yuehu, but he still carefully made a gorgeous prose. The enthusiastic blessing of his friends made Ding Yuehu very happy, he personally signed the book, and kept adding new works to the collection, although it was not finalized, but the book was printed one after another. However, just when the merit was about to be consummated, the designer of the incense burner passed away at the age of 50, in September of the fifth year of Guangxu. Everything in the world is often like this, and it will always catch you off guard when you are at your most beautiful, leaving you with big or small regrets. It's like the moment when a flower blooms to its brightest and fullest, it is not far from decadence. That Shi Yunsheng is really interesting, he and Ding Yuehu's son Ding Caolou printed this "Printing Fragrance Manuscript". In 1905, Shi Yunsheng also founded Shigang No. 1 Primary School with his colleagues, and his name is as immortal as Ding Yuehu. When the incense is burned, there is always smoke curling.
Ding Yuehu did not live in a fragrant era, but he used exquisite utensils to convey his emotions and interests, creating a small world for a wisp of fragrance, which is not only a "fragrant mound", but also the carrier of his life betting. He was lonely in his lifetime, but behind him was radiant, the former carving insect skills have now become a prominent science, Guan Jincheng, Yang Zhishui, Ai Junchuan and other famous scholars have written articles to study. In the fifties of the last century, the Dutch diplomat Gao Luope also made a maze diagram with the help of a printed incense map in his famous work "The Labyrinth Case", which opened up many people's desire to peep.
"Sitting under the bonlight under the reading window, a roll of incense. "Perhaps, in the quiet of the night, there is a wisp of incense from Selling Fish Bay that accompanies you and the words.