"The french incense fangzi is newly searched, try to take the goose pear to inject water sinking", the fruit used by the ancients for perfume is in addition to lychees, and there are fragrant and fragrant goose pears. The taste of goose pear is not good, but its aroma is far better than other pear fruits, and it is deeply appreciated by the ancients.
Song Ren Dong Yi's "Idle Yan Often Talk": "Heshuo is very clear, and it accounts for eight points for the goose pear" This shows the status of the goose pear. Fan Chengda once described the smell of Hainan agarwood with the fragrance of lotus flowers and goose pears, and Fan Chengda's "Guihai Yu Hengzhi Zhixiang": "The incense of Hainan is very clear, such as lotus, meiying, goose pear, honey spleen and the like."
The preparation of fresh and lively incense products using pear juice and pear meat as fragrant materials began in the Southern Tang Dynasty. The famous fruity fragrance of the Southern Tang Dynasty is made of goose pear and agarwood incense, and there is a first palace word in Shi Menglan's "Quanshi GongZi" that describes the scene of making incense in the Southern Tang Palace:
The night beads hang straight to the depths, and the wind curtain does not roll the begonia yin. Fa Xiang Fang Zi newly searched, try to take the goose pear injection sink.
The sentence "Try to take the goose pear into the water sinking" describes the production of fruity aroma in the tent, which is probably to soak the goose pear juice into the agarwood, or to put the agarwood powder into the goose pear that removes the pear core and steam it.
The incense in the tent with the fruity aroma of the goose pear is a proud work in the Southern Tang Palace, and the Southern Tang "Palace Words" often describe this incense: "The glans of the small hall is to Xiao Zhang, and the bottom of the goose and pear tent is fragrant." Search qi is thinner Than Jiangnan production, yesterday the deep palace feast inside the incense."
The first two sentences of the palace describe the palace pavilion where Emperor Yuanzong Li Jing handled official business, and the last two sentences describe a "PinXiang Ya Collection" held in the palace, which is recorded in detail in the "Spring and Autumn of the Ten Kingdoms and the Records of the Yuanzong of the Southern Tang Dynasty":
In the seventh year of Bao Da, he summoned the ministers and clansmen to the inner incense feast. Where Chinese, foreign names fragrant and even, and combined with decoction. There are ninety-two kinds of powder sacs to wear, all of which are not found in Jiangnan.
The goose pear tent incense is famous for the southern Tang Dynasty Li Lord's delight, and later generations of literati named it "Jiangnan Li Main Account Zhongxiang", which was included in the incense books of various dynasties. Zhou Jiahui's "Xiangsheng" of the Ming Dynasty contains four recipes of "Jiangnan Li Main Account In The Incense", two of which are made of goose pear steamed agarwood and sandalwood:
One or two pieces of agarwood powder, one dollar of sandalwood, ten pears, the right goose pear carved to remove the core, such as an urn, into the incense powder, still the pear top sign, steamed three slips, peeled pear, research and order even, long can be stewed.
Dig out the kernel of the goose pear, use it as a container for spices, add the minced agarwood and sandalwood, seal it, steam it in water, peel the pear, stir it well, and make incense cakes and incense balls to burn it.
The fruity notes of goose pear are combined with agarwood and sandalwood to add a lively fruity flavor to the fragrance. The volatile components of agarwood and sandalwood have the function of calming the gods and relieving depression, and they are suitable for burning incense in the tent when meditating and resting. Huang Tingjian's poem "Six Words of The Incense Bearer in the Tent of Huijiang South" mentions the incense ginseng zen in the burning tent:
The incense snail sinks into the water, and the treasure is nearly out of Jiangnan.
A few yellow clouds around, deep Zen want to be the same ginseng.
The Southern Tang court was very fascinated by the use of goose pears to mix incense, and there is also a song in the "Chen Family Incense Spectrum" "Jiangnan Li Main Fried Agarwood", which is also mainly made of agarwood and goose pears, and its perfume method is roughly the same as that of the incense in the account:
Agarwood Tsui (mashed or filed), Suhe sesame oil is not limited to how much, one or two per right agarwood, ten pieces of goose pear, carefully studied to get the juice, silver stone ware into the steaming several times, to dilute the degree. Or cut the agarwood as crumbs, half an inch long, sharp on one end, in the thick of prickly pears, when cooking a meal, the pear is ripe.
This incense can be classified into the system of incense in the account from the production method and materials, and the clear and sweet fragrance of the goose pear juice is immersed in the agarwood, and the resulting mixed fragrance lingers in the night tent, which makes people care and nostalgic. Southern Tang Dynasty "Palace Words": "There is no method of keeping dependents in the account, and the goose pear is taken from the ear of the ear."
Li main account incense was very popular in the Song Dynasty, the literati often made this incense to give people, the Song dynasty Wang Zhuo has a poem "Zhang Yuanju Hui Jiangnan Li Wang Account Incense", describing the Li main account incense given by a friend: "Things have moved two hundred years, and there are old mountains and rivers in Jinling. This incense is given to the king's hand, and the magic trick is passed down at that time."
The southern Tang court's practice of blending goose pears also influenced the Song people, and many of the incense recipes developed by the Song people were made of goose pears as incense materials, like the Lan Rui incense recorded in Chen Jing's "Chen Family Fragrance Spectrum", which was mixed with goose pear juice to make incense cakes:
Three dollars for sticker incense, three dollars for sandalwood, two dollars for frankincense, thirty pieces of cloves, five points of musk, the end of the right, steamed goose pear juice and made into cakes, dried, burned as usual.
Wood rhinoceros incense is first impregnated with goose pear juice to lower the real incense, so that the real incense is contaminated with the fruity aroma of goose pear, and then combined with sandalwood and incense:
Drop the true one or two, sandalwood one dollar (another for the end of the entanglement) half of the tea (broken), the right to the yarn sac to hold the real incense in the magnet, with the new purifier to hold the goose pear juice soaked in the second stay, and tea soaking, waiting for soft to remove the tea without use, mix sandalwood burnt.
Orchid and wood rhinoceros are incense that mimic the floral scent. The addition of goose pear juice to the incense can add the sweet smell of the fragrance, and the fragrance is closer to the quiet charm of the flowers.
In addition to the goose pear, sand pear and sydney pear also have records of perfume, Zhou Jiahui's "Xiang Cheng" in the Luling incense "with ten slices of sand pear grinding juice, soaked in rosewood", Neifu ambergris uses Sydney paste as a shaping agent to blend incense to make incense cakes:
Agarwood, sandalwood, frankincense, cloves, sweet pine, lingxiang, clove peel, baizhi are divided into equal parts, dragon brain, musk each a little, the right is finely chopped, hot soup snow pear paste, and make small cakes to remove flowers, burn as usual.
In addition to taking pear juice and incense, pear and pear peel are also incense-making materials, and the "Four Harmony Incense" strips of the Chen Xiang Spectrum contain: "Fragrant orange peel, lychee shell, olive core, pear or sugarcane, equally divided into the end, the name Xiao Sihe", the Yuanren "Mo'e Xiaolu" also has a similar incense recipe - "four discarded cakes and incense":
Lychee shell, pine nut shell, pear peel, sugarcane hawthorn, right aliquots, for fine mince, pear juice and, pills chicken head large, twisted into cakes, or rubbed such as coarse lamp grass large, yin dry, burned, wonderful. Add and lower the real crumbs, sandalwood and crush, especially good.
This kind of incense made of low-cost materials such as fruit peels and fruit cores was jokingly called "poor four and incense" and "mountain forest four and incense" by the literati, and Lu You's "Idle Quite Self-Adapted Drama Book Show": "Cooking Wild Eight Treasures invites fathers and elders, burns poor four and accompanies children", which refers to the "poor four and incense" made of materials such as lychee shells and pear peels.
Although the materials used in shanlin sihe incense are inconspicuous, the literati have a high evaluation of them, and Chen Yu said in "Hidden Words": "Incense has four harmonies of wealth and wealth, but it is not as good as the four harmonies of Taige." Tai Ge Si and Bu Ruo Shan Lin Si He", Fang Yizhi's "Physical Knowledge" also has a poem describing the literati's attitude towards such incense:
Poor Six and Xiangyi Tsuchiya, tile oven tea cake day and night full.
The wood root wildfire is exposed to three volts, and the mountain people do not envy the dragon saliva blessing.
The poem "Poor Six and Incense" is to add two flavor ingredients on the basis of the mountain forest four and incense: "Lychee shell, sugarcane, dried cypress leaves, yellow lianhe and burning, and add pine balls, jujube cores, pear cores are all wonderful", so it is simply named "Poor Six and Incense".
"Mountain people do not envy the dragon saliva fu" For the literati who love nature, the clear rhyme of "poor six and incense" is better than the ambergris made of precious spices, and its own mountain forest temperament is in line with the heart of the literati who cherish the mountain forest, which can best highlight the beauty of nature.