Although there are "Funeral Flowers" before and chrysanthemum poems in the back, I think that the most able to show Daiyu's talent in "Dream of the Red Chamber" is when the Begonia Poetry Society is singing white begonias.
On that day, Yingchun lit a "dream sweet incense" and limited it to poetry. Everyone was thinking hard, but Daiyu "or caressed the sycamore, or looked at the autumn colors, or laughed at the beards", and did not care at all. When it came, when everyone had already handed in the question, she only took the pen and waved it and threw it at everyone - "it is really the same heart than others" The chic style is one of the solutions to Lin Sister's talent, but what is more rare is the natural flow of talent.
Looking back, the "dream sweet incense" also burned well, Lu You said: "Sit alone and idle, burn incense to give small poems." Poor night rain, and this kind of flowering time. ”
Listen to the rain, admire the flowers, burn incense, compose poems - the elegant person has his own elegant impression.
What is this "sweet dream"?
It is interesting to say that Cao Gong's writing of human narratives is always a combination of peak loops, explicit pens and hidden pens: the customs of people in large places are more in line with the times, and the plot is hidden in small places.
This "dream sweet fragrance" and its objects should be the pleasant incense that people light up when the poetry is flourishing, and the name of "dream sweet incense" is the same as "Thousand Red Cave (crying)" and "Wan Yan Tong Cup (Sorrow)", which is a hidden pen.
The meaning of the metaphor is too deep, and we will leave it to talk about it, only to say that it is a branch in the bright place: I guess it should be a kind of incense incense, which is made of a variety of spices, because the material composite is not easy to describe, so I simply take a name to lay down the meaning. It's just that in this incense, there should be a main ingredient that is slightly certain - agarwood.
In addition to the Begonia Poetry Society, the subsequent Peach Blossom Poetry Society also mentioned a little "dream sweet incense" time-limited poetry, which can be seen that its objects are the literati incense dedicated to the companion collection and poetry xing. This attribute has to be reminiscent of the various past events of the Song Dynasty scholars and agarwood in the center of Ya culture...
▲ Southern Song Dynasty Liu Songnian's "Autumn Window Reading Easy Map" Partial Appreciation of the quiet and clear, nothing more than a furnace of incense, a book, a full window of water and sky
Lu Fangweng must be a lover of incense, not only to burn incense to do a sense of ritual when giving poetry and cutting the violin, but also to incense when he is cured of illness and repairing a house, which is said to be "washing the urn and idle wine, burning incense and quietly cutting the piano", "opening the year is suddenly sixty, the illness is idle and fragrant", "Heng Mao lives in seclusion with his strength, sweeping the floor and burning incense is more than enough."
Why burn incense every day? It is to nourish the heart with incense. Cao Xun said, "You don't need to understand the three passes, you have a clear heart and an incense"; Li Liuqian said: "The world is burning incense, and the Zen heart is hidden for a few days"; Cai Jie said: "Burning incense to read Zhou Yi, suddenly feeling that this body is light"; Han Kun said: "Yi Shen to nourish life, more Zhaolin Palace incense";
There are also many people who take incense as "just needed", such as "incense warm incense cold homework, window light and dark time" and "painting in the mountain and river screen, always in the seal of incense" Fan Chengda. "Old age is like sick wine in spring, only the tea Ou incense seal small curtain" of the Xin abandonment disease.
——Among them, whether it is to nourish the body and mind to be pleasant, or to forget worries and troubles to relieve nostalgia, it is also each of them. In short, incense is a kind of dependence and a channel, so that the literati can transcend reality and go to a more ideal realm and a wider situation.
▲Southern Song Dynasty Liu Songnian "Song Yin Mingqin Diagram"
Because of this, the literati used incense as the heaviest "shangge". Especially when doing elegant things, agarwood is the first choice. As Zhao Xihu wrote in his "Dongtian Qinglu Guqin Discernment":
If the incense is clear and the smoke is small, if the smoke is thick and the smoke is strong, it is a great defeat, and when the water sinks and Penglai is used, it is forbidden to use dragon saliva and du to those who are children.
What kind of fragrance does this completely childless, textual agarwood have? Fan Chengda, a poet who accompanied the incense for a good day, knew its magic best, and he elaborated on its taste in the "Zhixiang" chapter of his "Guihai Yu Hengzhi", but also described the invisible aroma as sensible and touchable:
Hainan incense, the qi is clear, such as lotus, meiying, goose pear, honey spleen and the like, burning a Bo toss, atmosphere and mi room, turning the four sides of the incense, to the embers, the gas is not scorched, this Hainan incense discernment is also.
Careful examination of agarwood: it is not actually a specific tree species or wood, but a kind of "accidental gain" formed by the old wood and the years.
After the injury of the old tree, a certain fungus invades, and a series of chemical changes occur in the starch and other substances stored in the cells of the thin-walled tissue, and finally form a balsam material, which is what we call agarwood. Its incense process is very long, usually in more than ten years to decades, according to the place of origin, year, texture is dense, sinking or not, and divided into different grades.
The earliest written record of agarwood can be traced back to the Eastern Han Dynasty's "Jiaozhou Foreign Object Chronicle", which is said to be produced in Vietnam: "Honey incense, want to take its roots first, after years, the skin is rotten, the center and the knots are black, the water is heavy, it is said to be agarwood, and the second is not sinking in the water and the water surface is flat, the name is incense, the smallest coarse, the name is lime incense." ”
▲Guanfu Culture self-produced [Purple Fragrance Series Agarwood Line Incense]." According to the different places of origin, there are two kinds: "Ying Sleeve" from Hainan and "Qingluan" from Vietnam
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The agarwood used by the Song people, as Fan Chengda said, was mostly taken from Hainan, and although the origin of agarwood in Vietnam was different, it belonged to the same sect.
The Lingwai Dai'an, written by Zhou Qifei, who was written slightly later than the Guihai Yu Hengzhi, has a volume of "Xiangmen", which is roughly the same as "Zhixiang" and is more detailed:
Penglai incense, also out of Hainan, that is, the sinking incense knot has not yet been formed. Many pieces are like small kasa and large fungus, there are one or two feet in diameter, extremely solid, the color is like agarwood, but when it enters the water, it floats, and removes its backwood, and it is also much submerged. Partridge spots are also found in Hainan Shenshui, Penglai and excellent notes. The teeth are relaxed, the color is brown and black and there are white spots like the hair on the partridge's belly, and the breath is especially clear and graceful like a lotus. The incense comes out of Hainan, the incense is like a hedgehog skin chestnut and a fishing stalk, and the carving and labor-intensive carving during the repair of the cover, the incense leaves the wood, and the thorns are senran. The essence of incense, the bell is in the thorn, and the fang qi is very different from the incense in other places.
The name is determined, and the name is from the ya person - a thing, which is loved by the world, and often knows one or two from its name:
Penglai Xiang, it sounds like a fairy qi is vague, making people itch to find, just as Zhao Fan's poem said: "The rain dwells in the mountains and lan is more depressed, and the sick man is afraid of Cen Cen in the morning." You may beg me to be penglai shuo, and I will send my clothes to be moist and inviolable. ”
As for the partridge spots, it corresponds exactly to the "partridge eyes" in the Duanyan famous products, the so-called "washing the partridge eyes, burning incense is still picking partridge spots", "Several Bricks Han Partridge Eyes, Ancient Incense Partridge Spots", which describes the elegant use of this elegant thing.
▲ Southern Song Dynasty Ma Yuan's "Bamboo Stream Incense Burning Map" "Sir burned incense for a long time, what was he thinking?" ——The great doubts of the little boy servant behind him.
I think that Cao Gong was originally a gentleman of the wind, and the incense he lit for the Qunfang Poetry Club should have been agarwood, right?
Song Shifeng Yashi also made incense when he was incensed. Among them, there are many exquisite: if accompanied by white sandalwood and descending incense, it can constitute a harmonious main aroma; together with sweet pine, cloves, and herbs, the fragrance can be properly harmonized; and the addition of Aina, A fragrance, dragon brain, frankincense, benzoin, ambergris, ambergris, helps to incense and gather incense.
According to historical records, the original since the Song Dynasty has been "precious incense, the same price as gold", the gold and noble incense, to the Qing Dynasty is even rarer, the Dream of the Red Chamber Jia Fu is the "Bell Ming Ding Food Home, poetry book Miao clan", the Prince Baoyu held in the palm of the hand by the Hefu is only agarwood in the pocket of the only one dollar; when Jia Mu's birthday, you can get the "agarwood crutch" given by the Yuan Concubine, which is enough to see its treasures.
And Cao Gong sees that "daughter" is more important than everything, and it is more important to use it in the concentration of zhongya, presumably the "dream sweet incense" used is the incense line incense with agarwood as the bone and exquisite blend. As for what kind of material it is, it is even more important to think about it: ambergris, frankincense and the like are afraid of not being suitable, white sandalwood, sweet pine, benzoin or in it...
▲ Qing Chen Mei "Moon Man QingYou Tu" in November "Irori Bogu" is also a collection of daughters, incense, indispensable.
When it comes to the Red Chamber, I also make fun of "Suo Yin": if you divide the twelve pieces with incense, Dai Yu is the partridge spotted incense. Dai Yu has a fragrant fragrance on her body, which emanates from its sleeves, "smelling intoxicating and crispy bones", Bao Yu asked where the incense came from, Dai Yu laughed and said that it must be the smell of incense cakes and sachets of smoked clothes, Bao Yu did not believe it, but it was not those vulgar incense. Baoyu already respects women, but it is Daiyu, so the so-called "drunken soul crispy bone" fragrance is by no means a stream of fragrant and puffy, and its rhyme must be elegant and absolute - some people think that it is the original immortal grass aroma of the Daizhu fairy. When Shouyi Hongqunfang opened the night feast, everyone rose to occupy the name of the flower, Dai Yu's signature was a hibiscus, inscribed with the four words of "Wind Dew Light Sorrow", and an old poem on the back: "Mo complains about the East Wind when it is self-mourning", which can't help but remind people of the agarwood that "qi is particularly clear and gentle like a lotus" mentioned above - partridge spots. "This is superb. No one but him is worthy to be a hibiscus"—this is the daiyu in the eyes of everyone. Presumably, that excellent agarwood must be such a quiet and exquisite product in the eyes of the literati...
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Text: Guan Fu Cai Qin Ren
Reference: Yang Zhishui", "The Agarwood of the Song People"
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