"Fragrant dyeing of guest clothes, such as Lan Gui's whiskers." It is said that the top of the agarwood - Qinan. Qinan, called agar in ancient times, is softer than agarwood, usually in a large piece of high-quality agarwood spices, may only be a very small part of the Qinan, can be described as 'a piece of gold'.
In the sixth year of the Qianlong Dynasty, Yang Weizhan carved the Nine Elders of Qinan Wood Fragrant Mountain
Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
In this life, I smell the incense of Qi Nan, and the third generation cultivates good cause and effect. "Qinan" is a sanskrit translation of the word, often written in the Tang Dynasty Buddhist scriptures as "Dogara", and later "Garan", "Ganan", "Qinan" and other names. Since the Han Dynasty, the royal family has sacrificed heaven, prayed for blessings, worshipped Buddha, worshiped gods, and incense in the room, and Qinan was the most important incense material. During the Song Dynasty, Champa (present-day Vietnam) Qinan was already 'a piece of gold', "the chief forbidden the people to take it, and the offender cut off his hand." "To this day, most of the best Chinan is still produced in Vietnam.
The fragrance of Qinan, mellow and warm, with a hint of sweetness, penetrates the lungs, and has not dissipated for a long time. Its amount of oil is generally higher than that of agarwood, because the resinization process takes a long time, and the oil density is high, the ointment appears black, the shell is shiny, the crack weathering pattern is particularly obvious, and the aroma is more sweet and rich. Most agarwood has almost no fragrance when it is not lit, but Qinan is different, and when it is not burning, it can also emit a cool and sweet smell. In "Dream of the Red Chamber", when the noble concubine Jia Yuanchun was ordered to return to the Rong Kingdom, the gift given to Jia Mu included an agarwood pillar and a string of Canaan rosary beads, which showed its preciousness.
lot 738
Qing Qinan agarwood 108 Buddha beads with tin box
The diameter of the box is 15.5 cm and the height is 5.1 cm
Domain Book 2021 Autumn Auction
This time, Yu Jian Qiu photographed this Qing Qinan agarwood 108 Buddha beads, full of rules, the aroma is striking, the texture is solid and oily, the pulp is thick and moist, and it is well preserved. A thousand years of a tree, cultivated a tree, Qinan is already a rare treasure, there is a chance to get a piece of bead material, can cut out a string of Buddha strings of the same specifications, it is really valuable. Qing Dynasty Zha Shenxing "Learning to Talk with Chen Zhangpu Xin" poem: "The mountain rents and loses the sea shell, and the city is cheap and canonical." "It is not an exaggeration to regard it as a solitary product.
Smell elegant, sweet and transparent, worn on the wrist or neck, gently floating, fragrant, as if in the earthly Buddhist temple, listening to the twilight drum and morning bell echoing in the deep mountains, let people refreshed, happy mood.
Agarwood itself is a class of organic matter, and the smell will gradually disappear over time, so there are high requirements for the packaging and storage of agarwood. Judging from the archival records, the agarwood of the Qing Palace was generally placed in the tin box, such as "On the eleventh day, Prince Yi chose to store a piece of first-class Canaan incense in this library, weighing two pounds and eleven two, a piece of second-class Canaan incense, weighing four pounds of three-two second-class Canaan incense, weighing four pounds and six twos, and was ordered to be well-equipped with a tin box to install a cover, not to make breathable, and to collect qin. Another example is "On the twenty-second day, according to the Yuanmingyuan Lai Ti Nei, on the nineteenth day of this month, the eunuch Zhang Yuzhu handed over five incense boxes in Nanmu Xili, each containing two pounds of agarwood and nine hundred and twenty-two coins, two silver boxes, a total of thirty-three hundred and twenty-five dollars, and each box contained eight hundred and twenty-one dollars of evergreen incense.
The tin box has good sealing, and it is used to store agarwood, which can not only isolate the influence of external odors on agarwood, but also maintain the original state of agarwood to the greatest extent, so that the moisture in the oil is not easy to lose, which is very important for the soft silk texture of agarwood and Qinan, and keep the "incense soul" always present. This string of Qinan agarwood Buddha beads is stored in a tin box, the box is round, divided into three layers, strict silk seam, the weight is not bad, the cover surface is engraved with shou character pattern, the shape is regular, and it is tailor-made for agarwood.
"Whatever is precious in the world will be precious." The birth of both is "expensive and difficult". In recent years, agarwood as a consumable resource, because its amount is getting less and less, and the collection of enthusiasts is increasing day by day, the market price continues to rise, one or two sink one or two gold, not to mention the agarwood of the extreme Qi Nan? Luckily, thankfully! Welcome the majority of Tibetan friends to come to the domain to enjoy the autumn auction, and return with the best products!