Chapter 182: The Twelve Grades of Heavenly Fragrance
Geng Baochang was rarely happy, he actually opened the cabinet, picked up the Ru kiln incense burner with his own hands, and showed it to Wen Yiming: "This is the Fenghua model, the most common Ru kiln style." ”
The so-called Fenghua is the side hall of the Deshou Palace in the Southern Song Dynasty, and it is the place where Liu Guifei, the favorite concubine of Zhao Gou of Gaozong of the Song Dynasty, lives. ”
"Liu Guifei was originally the daughter of a restaurant and was born from a humble background, but she was beautiful and graceful, and she had the appearance of captivating the country and the city. Huizong is very fond of the Liu family and is inseparable from her. It is recorded in the history books that Liu's talent is bright, good at meeting Huizong, and she is a little talented, can paint, she has two chapters, one large and one small, engraved with the word "Fenghua", in a famous painting that has been collected by Liu Guifei. ”
"Looking at the Fenghua word of Ru porcelain, the engraving of its font is like the hand of a person, and it is also engraved by the court workers, so scholars believe that Fenghua Ru porcelain is the personal use of the emperor to reward Liu Guifei. In addition to the Ru kiln, the bottom of the Ding kiln and the Jun kiln has also been found engraved with the word Fenghua. ”
Geng Baochang put down the incense burner, picked up another plate and said: "Another style on Ru porcelain is the Cai character model, many Ru kilns in the Forbidden City are Cai character models, such as this Ru kiln plate, Cai characters are generally coated with purple and brown tire protection glaze, and the color is deep. ”
"Ru porcelain must be exclusive to the court, so you can only rely on the emperor's reward to have Ru porcelain. In the Song Dynasty, there may be only two Cai people who can collect Ru kiln porcelain, one is Cai Jing, the prime minister of Huizong, and the Beijing official is to Sikong, worshipping the Taishi, ranking above 10,000 people under one person, and the chance of receiving the emperor's reward is greater than ordinary people. ”
Moreover, Cai Jing had engraved the surname Cai as a memorial note, and the other person was his son Cai Xuan, who was the concubine of Huizong, who had visited his mansion seven times and bestowed countless treasures. ”
"This is the incense box of the brother kiln...... Geng Baochang took out another incense prop and said with a smile: "The new official model, the brother kiln tires are purple and black, iron black, and yellow-brown. The glaze is covered with a layer of crisp light, and fried beige and gray green are more common. ”
"The kiln has iron feet, the glaze is smooth and broken, and the style characteristics are similar to the official kilns of the Southern Song Dynasty. Ge kiln ware is famous for its patterns, most of which are black and yellow, commonly known as gold wire and iron wire......"
Wen Yiming stared at the incense props, and said secretly: "When will I be able to get together a set of Ruyao incense props!"
"Yes, there is also Xuande furnace, a treasure of Xuande for three years, from one word to six words, all of them are collected!"
"It's best to have one set of each of the five famous kilns, and that feels ......"
The heart is hot, the fighting spirit is high, for the incense master, incense props and incense recipes are the artifacts of a lifelong pursuit. There is an incense burner in front of you, I don't know what it's like to make incense with it?
It's exciting to think about!
Wen Yiming calmed down, it was impossible for him to use first-class cultural relics to make incense, let alone Geng Baochang, even the curator did not have this right. Therefore, we can only think in our hearts that the revolution has not yet succeeded, and the comrades still need to work hard.
"Since you are so interested in agarwood, let's go and see the treasure left by Cixi Lafayette?"
Geng Baochang was in a good mood today, and left the porcelain area with the two of them and continued to visit the miscellaneous area. The three of them came to the showcase, smelled a slight movement of their noses, and bursts of fragrance came.
"The Forbidden City has countless treasures of the Qing Palace, but there are only 29 strings of Qi Nan bracelets and only one string of court beads, of which these two strings were used by Cixi during her lifetime. ”
Wen Yiming looked at the bracelet in front of him, eighteen sons, eighteen black Qi Nan wood beads, two Buddha heads and a Buddha head pagoda in the middle, drooping yellow silk, tied with a Gannan wood back cloud, two falling corners and four groups of rice beads. The Buddha's head is embedded with the word of gold longevity, the Buddha's head tower is inlaid with gold bats, and the back clouds and falling horns are made of bats holding together to form a life, symbolizing the meaning of longevity.
Originally a tool for counting the number of recitations during the recitation of the Buddha, the bracelet later evolved into an ornament or treasure, and the Qing court concubines often hung the bracelet on the button on the chest placket as a decoration. Usually the bracelet is made of eighteen beads, also known as eighteen sons, but there are also less or more than that.
The other string is a bracelet, which is made of 12 pieces of Qi Nan and two pink tourmaline Buddha heads with a golden silk rope. Under the tourmaline Buddha head pagoda, the emerald green lotus pattern jade ornament is tied with a silk rope, and the tourmaline pendant is worn. Cixi liked jadeite and tourmaline the most, and she brought a lot of tourmaline treasures with her funeral back then, the most famous being the pair of tourmaline watermelons.
The three of them walked around for more than an hour, and the two old men were tired and rested, Wen Yiming took out the meditation incense and began to make incense. After the end, Old Man Geng was shocked, and finally knew why Ling Junsheng valued this young man so much.
After receiving the meditation incense sent by Wen Yiming, Geng Lao said helplessly: "Hey, I will never accept it if I change it to another old man, but this incense ......."
Ling Junsheng laughed and said: "You can accept it with peace of mind, this is a greeting gift for the younger generation to honor you, and in the future, our little life will depend on Mr. Wen!"
Wen Yiming hurriedly said a few polite words, the more capable people are, the more peaceful and modest their personalities are, Ling Junsheng is like this, Geng Baochang is even more so, this is everyone's demeanor.
Geng Baochang suddenly remembered something, stood up and said: "No merit is not worth it, the old man can't accept Mr.'s meeting gift in vain, please wait a moment." ”
Then turned around and left, Wen Yiming looked at Ling Junsheng curiously, the other party smiled and said nothing, and after a while, Geng Lao came back, still holding a stack of materials in his hand?
"This is the Qianlong note I stumbled upon, which recorded some things about the incense road, it seems that there are a few incense recipes, which could not be brought out originally, this is a photocopy, please don't be surprised. ”
Wen Yiming hurriedly took it with both hands, looked at it and looked at it with great joy: "Is this ......?"
"Twelve Heavenly Fragrance Pins!"
Seeing the confused expressions of the two elders, Wen Yiming said excitedly: "This is really a priceless treasure! It not only contains Qianlong's experience in tasting incense, but also records twelve traditional incense recipes, known as the twelve products of Tianxiang." ”
Wen Yiming looked at the incense recipe obsessively, extremely excited, this is the biggest harvest today. I didn't expect to get Emperor Qianlong's notes on tasting incense, which contained many palace secrets and anecdotes, which were like a tiger to him.
Not to mention the twelve incense prescriptions that were respected by Emperor Qianlong as Tianxiang, I was excited when I thought about it, this is simply the supreme secret book, and now Wen Yiming seems to be Zhang Wuji who got the Jiuyang Divine Skill, Ling Hu Chong practiced Dugu Nine Swords, and Wei Xiaobao married seven wives, one word.
Refreshing!