Pear is one of the ancient fruit trees in China, and for a long time people have eaten its fruit and watched its flowers.
The pear blossoms are white and beautiful, with a slight fragrance. When flowering, there are green leaves to support, which shows its pure and elegant. It often makes people think of elegance and elegance, which greatly enriches the spiritual life of the ancients.
Qing Ming pear blossom viewing is a literati's leisurely and elegant affair, Wen Tingjun has a poem: "Pear blossom snow pressing branches, warbler willow like silk", Meng Yuanlao wrote in the "Tokyo Dream Record" when depicting the capital city tour spring: "Slow into the capital gate, oblique yang royal willow, drunken return to the courtyard, bright moon pear blossom".
The literati praised the purity and elegance of the pear blossom, and even compared it to this flower. The poet Wang Wei and his friend Qiu Wei sang and sang the poem "Zuo Ye Pear Blossom" to each other, and Qiu Wei wrote a poem:
Cold and full of bullying snow, the afterscent into the clothes.
The spring wind is uncertain, blowing towards the jade steps.
Wang Weiyinghe:
Sprinkle the grass on the edges of the steps, lightly following the outside wind of the foil.
The yellow warbler was insufficient and entered the Weiyang Palace.
These two songs and poems are compared to the character of Pear Blossom.
Pear fruit occupies an important position in the life of ancient Chinese, and Xu Guangqi's famous book "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration" in the Ming Dynasty says: "The upper can pay tribute to the year, and the lower can be worshiped in Panzhen", which was once called "the sect of hundred fruits".
The Tang Dynasty people liked to steam pears and eat them, and Guan Xiu had a poem "Tian Jia Zuo" that said: "The old man of the Tian family has nothing to do, and the steamed pears are fragrant and indifferent during the day."
The connoisseurs who eat pears are very clear about the deliciousness of different varieties of pears, and Shao Yong of the Song Dynasty is one of the experts in eating pears, he wrote in "Eating Pears":
May the king love the golden pear, and may the king love the red pear.
Golden flower red dissipates two flavors, and the general color is like rouge.
The sweetness of red consumption is like a carrot, and the golden flower eats the eyebrows.
The beauty and difference of the taste and difference of pears are extremely mentioned in the poems, and only those who truly love pears can taste and write such poems.
▲ The song Dynasty Shao Yong's more admired red pear
Pears, not only are the fruits that the ancients loved to eat, but also very suitable for combined medicine, especially goose pears. Su Shi's "Four Songs with Ouyang Zhi Obscure" mentions the use of goose pear combined medicine: "The combination of medicine must be goose pear, there is nothing outside the ridge, but those who have good pear tips can also be used."
The smell of goose pears is fragrant and delicate
It is also a material commonly used by incense makers to make incense
The small dragon saliva, Jiangnan Li main fried agarwood, laughing plum incense, Xiao Zongxiang, Xianzhu (萸) incense recorded in incense books all use goose pears.
Xianmu (茰) incense: chamomile 1 or 2, sandalwood 1 or 2, Lingling incense 1 or 2, Bai Zhi 1 or 2, brain, musk each a little milk bowl research, the right is the end, with pear juice and agent twisting as a cake to dry.
Little dragon saliva: agarwood one or two dragon brain half a dollar. On the right, it is finely minced and simmered with goose pear juice as a cake.
Wang Xun of the Qing Dynasty commented on Xiaolong Saliva in the "Green Smoke Record": "The most pure person in this sketch. Compare it with the Tang Dynasty Song Qingsan evenly fried. Reduce the musk navel and use the pear juice, which is thoughtful. ”
Sanyun frying, is the Tang Dynasty capital Chang'an pharmaceutical merchants mixed incense, with dragon brain, musk, agarwood and the production of incense pills named "three even frying", burning this pill incense has the meaning of wealth and purity.
The goose pear, which was often used by the ancients to combine incense, is likely to belong to the duck pear variety in the area of present-day Hebei, and the Song Dynasty did not have a duck pear, but was famous for the goose pear.
The Song Dynasty Dong Yi's "Idle Yan Talk" records that "Heshuo is very clear, accounting for eight points for the goose pear." "It can be seen that the status of the pear in Hebei is important and famous.
Nowadays, in some places in Hebei, a variety of duck pears is also called "goose head pear".
Goose pears were highly respected by the Song people in the Song Dynasty, and Zhou Zizhi's "Taicang Rice Collection" of the Song Dynasty has: "Since no one in North County has arrived, I have not seen the goose pears for a few years", describing the nostalgia for this good fruit; and another famous bureaucrat Hong Shi also has a poem: "The new goose borrows color, sweet and sweet taste".
The most famous of the incense made with goose pears
It is Jiangnan Li main account in the incense
A few years ago, an Lingrong in the hit drama "The Biography of Zhen Huan" was the best at "account incense" made of pears, which originated from Jiangnan Li's main account in the incense.
Jiangnan Li main account incense: agarwood one or two fine shaving, add ten goose pears cut and grind juice, right with silver steaming three times, pear juice can be dried to burn.
The other party,
One or two pieces of agarwood, one dollar of sandalwood, and ten pieces of goose pear. On the right, the goose pear is carved to remove the core, such as an urn, into the incense powder, still the pear top is covered, steamed three slips. Peel the pear, grind and make even, long and can be stewed.
The goose pears containing the sandalwood shavings are steamed in a sealer, so that the incense sticks and sandalwood are stained with the fruity aromas of the goose pears, and the complex aromas with fruity aromas are interwoven with each other.
After steaming the sandalwood and pear juice, it can neutralize the dryness of the tail smoke when the sandalwood is burned. Wang Chen, the author of the "Green Smoke Record", said in the "Incense Method in the Tent" that he had steamed it with flower dew or pear juice, pinnacle (apple) juice, hazel juice and sandalwood, and the aroma was clear and pleasant when it was burned.
In the Song Dynasty, there were many varieties of pears, and Meng Yuanlao's "Tokyo Dream Record" recorded that the diet fruits on the market in Bieliang were Hebei goose pear, Xijing sydney pear, Fu pear, Gantang pear, Fengqi pear, and wet pear.
In addition to the goose pear ancients also used sand pear incense, in the "Chen Family Incense Spectrum" there is a party "Luling incense" that uses sand pear.
Luling incense: rosewood 72 baht (three two, crumbs, steamed one or two halves), zhan xiang twelve baht (half two), agarwood six baht (one point), musk three baht (one dollar and one word), Su He xiang five baht (two dollars and two cents, do not use it), a fragrant two baht (one dollar, made), one baht at the end of Xuan ginseng (half a dollar)
On the right, grind ten slices of sand pear and take the juice. Twenty Qingzhou dates, two bowls of thick decoction in water, soaked in rosewood overnight, simmered over a slight fire. Into the honey and flame of salt in half of each, with the incense and the incense, the moon is burned.
Pears belong to a large population series of pear varieties, mostly planted in warm and rainy areas, mainly in the Yangtze River Basin central, eastern and southwestern provinces.
Most varieties of pear have nearly spherical fruits with brown or pale yellow skins.
Nowadays, people like Zhejiang Yiwu Mountain Pear, Yanzhou Sydney Pear, Fujian Zhenghe Large Sydney Pear, Guangxi Guanyang Sydney Pear, Sichuan Cangxi Pear, Yunnan Chenggong Baozhu Pear, Guizhou Xianning Large Sydney Pear, all belong to the varieties of the sand pear system.
In addition to pear juice and pulp, the ancients who used their best also used pear pomace to make "small four and incense" with other peels and fruit juices, echoing the "four incense" made by Shen Tan Dragon Musk.
Xiao Si He Xiang: Orange peel, lychee shell, sugar cane and any of the hawthorn kernels or pears, divided into equal parts, as the end, mixed into pills.
This incense made of simple natural materials was also called "mountain forest four and incense" by the literati.
In the Song Dynasty Chen Yu's "Hidden Words", it is recorded that "incense has four harmonies of wealth and wealth, but it is not as good as the four harmonies of the Tai Pavilion, and the four harmonies of the Tai Pavilion and the four harmonies of the mountains and forests." It can be seen that the literati still prefer to make it with the natural fragrance of the peel core, with the atmosphere of the mountain forest.
In the Qing Dynasty, on the first day of the Lunar New Year in the imperial palace, the incense burner of the Taihe Hall also burned a kind of "four discarded incense" made of pear and apple peels, and Zhou Yi, a Qing dynasty, commented in the "Meilu Cong Dialect" that this incense was "clear and distant, very special and common".
When eating fruit, do not throw away the remaining peels and cores as garbage. Save it to make a small four and incense, although the taste is not as good as the precious sandalwood, but it also has a taste.
Everything has "incense"
Just like it was said in "The Little Window"
Take the roots and leaves of the old pine cypress, pound it together, study the wind and make peace, and burn every pill, which is enough to help clear the suffering.
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