? In Song Dynasty, Ding Wei was destined for incense all his life. In his early years, he was interviewed by Fujian Road, and was a transshipment ambassador in Fujian, responsible for supervising the famous Beiyuan tribute tea. Adding fragrance to tea is one of the characteristics of Beiyuan tribute tea. As a supervisor, Ding Weisong must know the fragrant medicine.
He stayed in the Forbidden City for a long time, knowing the incense used in the palace, and was deeply loved by the emperor to give incense medicine. He has been exposed to a large number of top-grade spices, so he should say that he has a deep understanding of all kinds of spices. Renzong was demoted to Hainan, which was a great misfortune for him personally, but it was a great blessing for the development of Xiangxue. The combination of rich knowledge of aromatherapy and the practice of incense producing area made him a famous master of aromatherapy.
Tianxiang Zhuan discusses the history of using and producing incense from the aspects of Confucian ritual system, Taoist classics and Buddhist classics. The Quality of Fragrant Wood is the first document to evaluate and taste the quality of agarwood in ancient China. In the place where the author experienced, in the midst of anxiety, he said to himself, "The interest of incense in the stove also increases his diligence." I can also visit myself and ask, "There are so many scents in the sea that I started to rush into the city of Yu Chuang. It's all fake." These are beyond the power of most music writers.
Ding Weisong pointed out that overseas fragrance production mainly comes from Zhancheng, with Dashi and Panyu as the main distribution centers. He said in Tian Xiang Wu Yu: "The stack produced by occupying the city will sink at most, move on the other side, or enter Panyu or eat alone."
Zhancheng is an ancient country in south-central Vietnam. The Han Dynasty was once incorporated into Chinese territory and was called Lin Yi. People collect incense for a living, while bulk food is traded by sea ships. They pay attention to fragrant medicine, especially agarwood, which is very expensive. Ding Wei Song Dynasty cloud: "Big food is expensive, and incense is as expensive as gold."
Tianxiang Zhuan initiated the research style of China's incense based on Hainan incense (cliff incense), and took Hainan incense as the best evaluation. Later, all previous generations of incense critics took Hainan incense as authentic. The smoke is high, the smell is mellow, the fragrance is lasting, and the sea sinks to the south.
Its evaluation method of clear taste, moist smoke and long breath has become the standard for evaluating fragrance in later generations and has been widely followed by later generations. Later, Huang Tingjian combined incense, involving agarwood used only in Hainan; Fan Chengda carefully identified agarwood, which is not as good as that sold by Guangbo, especially from Lidong, Hainan.
"Tianxiangzhuan" classified Hainan Aquilaria sinensis for the first time. He divided Hainan agarwood into "four twelve shapes", "name" is the classification of agarwood, and four refers to four different grades, followed by agarwood, stacked incense, yellow ripe and raw knot. "Shape" is divided into twelve shapes from the appearance of incense.
Ding Wei put forward the issues of "fragrance" and "ripeness" in Song Dynasty, which is the first time to describe the formation of agarwood in history. There are two kinds of agarwood: natural shedding into incense or raw wood for incense.
? Ding Wei in Song Dynasty was the first person to establish a biography of Aquilaria sinensis in history. His unique life experience and familiarity with court incense enabled him to classify incense and put forward the standard of odor evaluation, which had a far-reaching impact on the development of incense studies in China.
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