Xi Peilan wrote a sentence "Green clothes hold inkstones to urge the question paper, red sleeves add fragrance to accompany reading", which evolved into "red sleeves add fragrance to night reading", which is regarded as the most elegant thing for readers. The ancients with high living standards often smoked incense in the house, which can expel mosquitoes, flies and turbidity, so as to achieve the effect of removing moisture and dampness, refreshing the mind and strengthening the body. "Red sleeves add fragrance" is a great beauty to do an extremely elegant thing, beautiful and beautiful, beautiful!

In ancient times, "adding incense" is very different from what we are common to now. Nowadays, there are common spiral coils, rolled out by large machines, a few dollars a box, usually use this kind of incense, and people's "red sleeves" ignore you!

Slightly better, it is the kind of delicately packaged fine incense stick, called incense sticks. When the incense is lit, smoke rises from the stick. However, "red sleeves to add incense" is not as simple as taking a stick of incense and inserting it into the smoker. If you look at the smokers in ancient paintings, you can hardly see how many incense sticks are inserted in the smokers. People who use incense sticks are generally not worthy of "red sleeves".

The incense that "red sleeves" add to the smoker is incense pills, incense balls, incense cakes, or powdered spices that are hot on the day. On some short video sites, some beauties scrape sandalwood or agarwood into powder with a special tool, and then roll it into strips or spirals in a smoker with a special tool. The utensils are exquisite and elegant, the jade hands are delicate and lubricated, and then the incense powder is gently lit, and I want to learn "red sleeves to add fragrance", but I still can't learn it after all.

Ignite the spices directly, the fragrance bursts out at once, it is inevitable that there will be fireworks, and then the strong fragrance is pungent, although the house is full of incense after the smoke is extinguished, the fragrance is getting weaker and weaker, and it cannot be balanced and lasting.

"Red sleeves add fragrance" is not as simple as putting incense balls, incense cakes, and incense powder into the smoker. It is not possible to ignite incense pills, incense cakes, and incense powder directly. "Red Sleeves" pursues the realm of incense, which is to minimize the smoke and fire, so that the fragrance is balanced and light, and the aftertaste is long.

Then you need to use good bamboo charcoal and charcoal, and the charcoal fire in the smoker should burn as slowly as possible, and the fire should be as small as possible and not extinguished. Therefore, it is necessary to prepare for the charcoal fire before "adding fragrance to the red sleeves".

The special small pieces of charcoal are burned thoroughly, placed in the incense burner, and then buried with fine incense ash. Then poke some air holes on the incense ash, so that the small pieces of charcoal buried under the incense ash can have limited contact with the air, which is the first step. Then put the "fire insulation board" on the incense ash, there are many types of fire insulation boards, including ceramics, gold and silver, ores, etc., all of which are hard and high-temperature resistant flakes. In the last step, put the incense balls, incense cakes, and incense powder on this fire insulation board, and bake them with a charcoal fire buried under the incense ashes, and slowly bake the fragrance out.

However, this is not the end, once the incense is put into the incense burner, the "red sleeves" should observe the fire from time to time, in case the fire is hot, it is necessary to add incense ash to block some ventilation holes, if the fire is weak, poke a few more ventilation holes on the incense ash, so that the aroma of the slow roasting is not only not fireworks and the fragrance is uniform and lasting.

The charcoal is buried in the ashes and cannot be seen, so you need to put your hand on top of the incense burner and judge the fire by your hand. Therefore, in addition to "adding incense" in ancient poems, they also like to describe the scene of beautiful women trying incense with slender jade hands. As the saying goes, "I tried the fragrance several times and warmed my hands, and I tasted the wine and lips." ”

The "red sleeves" who stay in front of the incense burner are not only beautiful in appearance, they all love piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, happy to poetry, hops and tea, quick thinking, elegant taste, never have to worry about their livelihood, all their minds are to wait for a successful or successful man. Although there will be the pain of parting, the pain of disappointment, and the sadness of heartache, they are still the most beautiful "red sleeves".

The next sentence of Xiangling's poem "Hearing the Flute in Autumn on the Green Ridge River" is "The head of the red-sleeved building leans on the railing at night", and I don't know how many red-sleeved beauties wander on the platform, tiredly leaning on the railing and in a daze. Xiangling's poems have the thoughts of the wanderer, the sorrow of the lady, the words are rigorous, and the battle is neat, which is better than that of Yan Zhai.

"The red sleeves of the abuse are scarred, and the infatuation holds hatred for a long time." This is probably the greatest understanding and affirmation of the man she waited for who failed to succeed in reality!

It turned out that when the Nuwa clan was refining stones to make up for the sky, [Jiaxu side criticism: make up the sky and help the world, don't be serious, use common sayings. "Mending the heavens and helping the world" is the ideal of many scholars in ancient times, and we will say in detail later, in the Great Wilderness Mountain [Jiaxu side batch: absurd also. ] Nonsensical Cliff [Jiaxu side batch: Nonsensical also. ] Practiced into a high meridian of 12 zhang, [Jiaxu side batch: should always be 12 hairpins. ] Fang Jing twenty-four zhang [Jiaxu side batch: according to the deputy twelve hairpins. Thirty-six thousand five hundred and one stones. The myth of Nuwa mending the sky is recorded in many ancient books, and the author of "Dream of Red Mansions" recreated on the basis of the myth of Nuwa mending the sky, adding the size and number of stones, which is very meaningful. The stone is 12 zhang high, which is equivalent to 40 meters, and the big stone, why is it so high as 12 zhang? Because "twelve" is a very special and very important number, the ancients found that the twelve full moons are a year, and "twelve" was regarded by the ancients as the "great number of heaven" to convey the will of heaven. The year is divided into 12 months, and in these 12 months, it is divided into 24 solar terms, and the critic said that "twelve" should be the twelve hairpins, that is, the fifth episode of "Dream of Red Mansions" Jia Baoyu looked at the twelve ladies in the Jinling twelve hairpins, and the twenty-four zhang were just twice as many as twelve, taking care of the twenty-four women in the sub-book and the sub-book of the twelve hairpins in Jinling, and these twenty-four women either played a role in setting off and rendering the twelve hairpins, or they were the insinuations of the image and fate of the twelve hairpins. Many readers feel a strong sense of "Qing is the shadow of Daiyu, and the attack is the deputy of the hairpin", Qingwen is the shadow of Lin Daiyu, and the attack is the stand-in of Xue Baochai. There are also Xiangling like Qin Keqing, Shi Xiangyun like Jia Baoyu, Wang Xifeng has the shadow of Jia's mother, Lin Hongyu has the shadow of Wang Xifeng, etc., we will talk about it later.

The myths of Nuwa mending the sky, such as "Historical Records", "Huainanzi", and "On Heng", are not exactly the same, probably a god called "Gonggong" fought with other gods, and Gonggong hit the pillar between heaven and earth with his head-—— Buzhou Mountain, causing the sky to collapse a hole, and Nuwa took remedial measures to avoid a catastrophe. There are even more records about Nuwa and other legends of Nuwa, such as "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", "Liezi", "Chu Ci", "The Book of Rites" and other ancient books.

With the evolution of matrilineal clan society to patrilineal clan society, and later the transition from slave society to feudal society, Nuwa's deified status changed. Many friends have heard the legend of Nuwa creating people, theoretically Nuwa should be the ancestor of the Chinese nation, but now people often say that the Chinese nation is the descendants of Yan and Huang, the descendants of the dragon, the Yan Emperor and the Yellow Emperor are men, and the dragon also represents men, and Nuwa is no longer so closely connected, Nuwa's name is Feng Lixi, if you affirm the supremacy of Nuwa, it can be said that we are the descendants of Feng. The development and improvement of the feudal system has continuously strengthened the patriarchy, husband's and men's rights, which has become the main reason for suppressing the development of Nuwa's myth and leading to the decline of Nuwa's status. The author uses the myth and legend of Nuwa mending the sky at the beginning, and I think there are three purposes. 1. I just said the absurdity of this book, and I immediately used myths and legends to prove this "absurdity". 2. Nuwa mends the sky because the sky has fallen, and the strengthening of patriarchy, husband's power, and male power has led to the strengthening of monarchy. Between the monarch and the minister, the monarch and the emperor are the sky. Between the government and the people, the common people call the officials in charge of their hometowns "parent officials" or "the big man of the blue sky", and the officials are the sky. In the family, the father is the sky, and the husband between the husband and wife is the sky, you see that the Chinese character "husband" is higher than "heaven", between men and women, the man is the sky. The sky fell, Nuwa came to make up for it, the men couldn't, and the women showed their great strength. 3. When everything is running normally, Nuwa's role is not obvious, just like if Jia Daishan died early in Jiafu, then Jia Mu would not have become the person with the highest status. If Jia's mother was not alive, Jia Min's daughter Lin Daiyu would not have been able to enter Jia's mansion, and Jia Baoyu might have gone another way under the direct management of Jia Zheng. In addition, Jia Yuanchun's status is very high, her father Jia Zheng and her grandmother Jia mother have to kneel down to her and salute, the reason is that Jia Yuanchun married a man with the most special identity in the country, and the imperial power has greatly enhanced Jia Yuanchun's status, and Jia Yuanchun has the opportunity to send the young Jia Baoyu into the Grand View Garden to live with those girls. However, we have to see that when everything is running normally, Jia Yuanchun's role in Jiafu is not obvious, and the king is like a tiger, after all, Jia Yuanchun failed to survive until the emperor died, she left first, and Jiafu accelerated its decline. The author's use of "Nuwa to make up for the sky" also shows that in the social system and real environment at that time, the role played by women was limited!

The Wa Huang clan only used 36,500 yuan, [Jiaxu side batch: the number of Zhou Tian. The earth revolves around the sun, which is a week, which is what we often call a year, a year is 365 days, and a hundred years is 36,500. People often say: "Rich is not more than three generations", one generation is 30 years, three generations is 90 years, generally speaking, a family has been prosperous for 90 years, if there is a lack of faith, there is no strict offspring training plan and the pursuit of progress and self-reform measures, then it is difficult to continue to prosper. This is true of the family, and it is also the same with a country and a political party. Entrepreneurship, development, and keeping the business to the point of not keeping the business will take about 100 years, and the other 100 years is also the limit of human lifespan.

Nuwa used 36,500 yuan to count Zhou Tian to point out that in 100 years, Jia Yuan, Jia Daishan, and Jia Zheng were just three generations in Jiafu. Jia Yuan, through the drunken scolding at the end of the seventh episode of "Dream of Red Mansions", we know that Jia Yuan was born as a military general, has experienced life and death, and is a generation of entrepreneurs, and it is fortunate to be able to survive in the shadow of the sword and sword, this generation's material pursuit of extravagant life will not be too big, the country is in ruins, all are poor, and it is not easy to be extravagant.

Jia Daishan, who has reached the generation of generations, because he was born in his father's entrepreneurial period, knows that his father has been difficult to start a business all his life, and he is deeply influenced by his father's generation, leading the family to transform from entrepreneurship to shoucheng, and the development of the family follows the development of the country, so he is still more able to restrain his desires.

and then to Jia Zheng, who is a literary generation, since he is a "literary" generation, it shows that his father wants his generation to prosper the family with "literature". It also shows that the country has completed the transformation, and that it is impossible to rule the world immediately after fighting the world, and that all dynasties and dynasties have all "come out of the barrel of a gun", and after gaining power, they have also implemented "civil governance" to develop and consolidate this regime. After two generations of hard work, a family with military merits has grown larger and has a larger population, but it spends more and more on food and clothing, weddings and funerals, and family gifts. However, in "Dream of Red Mansions", the third generation of "Wen" characters in Jiafu is basically abolished, and they can't restrain their desires, and they don't care about their family and country. Jia Jing in Ningguo's Mansion cultivated and alchemy all day long, and he didn't enter the house. Only Jia Zheng is still struggling to support.

Jiafu has reached the fourth generation of the jade generation, exactly 100 years ago, the generation of the jade generation was born with a golden soup spoon, and the suffering of the ancestors is far away from them, and it is a generation of pleasure. Because Jia Jing mixed with Taoist priests every day, he had already passed on all the military titles to Jia Zhen, and Jia Zhen in Ningguo's Mansion was undisciplined, so he could do whatever he wanted. Jia Lian, the son of Jia Yu in Rongguo Mansion, is unlearned, covetous, and has no future. Jia Baoyu's brother Jia Zhu was pinned on by Jia Zheng, but unfortunately he died early, and we will focus on Jia Zhu's death in the future. Rejuvenating the family with "literature" could not be achieved in Jia Zhu, so Jia Zheng took another path, that is, political attachment and power climbing, educating Jia Baoyu's sister Jia Yuanchun well, hoping to have a good relationship with the emperor and then consolidate his family. Later, Mrs. Wang gave birth to Jia Baoyu again, and Jia Zheng saw the hope of rejuvenating the family with "literature", so he wanted to educate Jia Baoyu well. There are concubines in the palace and talented people in the family, this is a double insurance for the revitalization of the family, and Jia Baoyu, who has no choice but to be given high hopes, is just like what is written in the book.

The fifth generation of grass characters, represented by Jia Rong and Jia Lan, now we use simplified Chinese characters, and the orchid of orchids in traditional Chinese characters has a grass prefix. There are also Jia Qiang, Jia Yun, and Jia Yan in the book, all of whom are people with "grass prefixes". In "Mencius", there is a saying that "the gentleman's ze, five generations and beheaded", which means that the character and family style left by the ancestors when they started the business ceased to exist after five generations, and the family wealth accumulated by the ancestors was lost after five generations. If Jia Rong and Jia Lan were born in a rich and noble family, although they broke the saying "rich can not be three generations", they could not escape the holy saying of "five generations and beheaded"! Nuwa spent 36,500 yuan to point out that 100 years is a process of entrepreneurship, success, profligacy, decline, and destruction, that is, to tell readers to learn the lesson of "being rich in the third or fifth generation", and if you want to maintain prosperity, you must establish a correct view of the overall situation, you must constantly self-purify, self-innovation, guard against arrogance and rashness, work hard, and continue to work hard, otherwise you will be eliminated after all. "Looking at Kyushu, the land of the predecessors and the descendants will reap it. The descendants will rejoice in the harvest, and there will be those who will receive it behind. "Meng's side criticism: count the feet, leave me alone." can't be selected" sentence reveals the heart. 】

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