The origin of Hongxiu Tianxiang’s reading at night?

1. Red sleeves add fragrance: It used to mean that a scholar was accompanied by a beautiful young woman when he was studying.

Wording: clear. Chapter 31 of Wei Zian's "Flower Moon Traces": From now on, the green temples look at the grass, the red sleeves add fragrance, the family members are suspicious of immortals, and the article is about China.

2. "Red sleeves add fragrance" are common in ancient poetry and prose, and are vaguely related to Pu Songling's ghost story.

3. "Green clothes hold inkstones to answer questions, and red sleeves add fragrance to accompany reading." This phrase comes from "Shou" in the third volume of "Changzhen Pavilion Collection" attached to "Changzhen Pavilion Collection" by Xi Peilan, a female poet of the Qing Dynasty. "Mr. Jian Zhai" poem, "Reading at Night with Red Sleeves Adding Fragrance" is probably derived from this, but there is no Xi Peilan in "Qing Shi Bie Cai". Huan Yun, who named himself Peilan because he likes to paint orchids, was born in Zhaowen (now Changshu) of the Qing Dynasty.

4. Couplet: The blue gauze awaits the full moon and the spring tunes, and the red sleeves add fragrance, reading at night

The ancients regarded "reading at night as red sleeves add fragrance" as a blessing. This means that a beautiful woman has been added to the family to celebrate the wedding. Red sleeves originally refer to women's gorgeous clothes, and refer to women with colorful makeup and beauties. For example: "From now on, the red sleeves are fragrant, so why is it so happy!"

5. Li Yang.

New buildings as companions

People are in high spirits during happy events, and clusters of yellow flowers are in full bloom. Drunkly leaning on the new building to welcome the bright moon, in my dream the beauty is dancing in colorful clothes.

Reading at night with red sleeves and fragrant fragrance, you are so happy that I am so horny. Hand in hand, we look at each other's wandering places, and our close friends wander together.

Li Yang, female, was born in August 1977. She graduated from the Management Engineering Department of Chongqing Institute of Industrial Management and the postgraduate course of the Chinese Department of Sichuan Normal University. He has been passionate about literature since childhood and is good at public speaking. He has published many articles in publications at all levels and has won many awards in various domestic literary competitions.

Red sleeves add fragrance

"Red sleeves add fragrance" is a very meaningful image in Chinese classical culture, and it is undeniably a very beautiful image. It's just that people today probably don't understand how "Red Sleeves" "added fragrance" back then. The familiar way of "burning incense" is to light incense sticks. Thin incense sticks that are packed in paper tubes and look like dried noodles. Put one in the incense burner, light the incense head, and cigarettes will curl up from the incense sticks. However, "adding fragrance to red sleeves" is by no means as simple as taking a stick of incense and inserting it into the incense burner.

In fact, if you look at the incense burners shown in ancient paintings, you can hardly see the incense sticks inserted into the burners. The history of the appearance of incense sticks is relatively recent. In ancient life, the "incense" used for burning incense was various kinds of incense pills, balls, cakes, or powder made through the "combining incense" method. The famous plot of "Yingying burns night incense" is reflected in the work "Eternal Beauty" by an unknown painter of the Ming Dynasty. In the picture, Cui Yingying is standing in front of a high incense table. On the table are two of the "Three Stoves and Bottles" necessary for burning incense - an incense bottle with an incense spoon and chopsticks, and a small incense burner. But there was no trace of incense sticks in the incense burner or in Cui Yingying's hands. This shows that she is holding the incense box in her right hand, and she has just taken out a small incense pill from the incense box in her left hand and is about to put it into the incense burner. The scene of ancient women "adding fragrance" is shown before our eyes.

However, "adding incense to red sleeves" is far more than just twisting a piece of incense and putting it in the incense burner.

"Burning incense" does not mean directly burning the fragrant pills and fragrant cakes; to make the fragrant pills and fragrant cakes fragrant, you need to use the power of charcoal fire. The ancients pursued the state of burning incense, which was to reduce the smoke as much as possible and make the fragrance low and long-lasting. Therefore, the charcoal fire in the incense burner should be burned as slowly as possible, so that the fire is low and does not go out for a long time. For this reason, people invented a complicated method of burning incense. The general procedure is: burn the special small pieces of charcoal thoroughly, place them in the incense burner, and then fill the charcoal with special fine incense ash. Then poke some holes in the incense ash so that the charcoal can come into contact with oxygen and prevent it from being extinguished due to lack of oxygen. Thin and hard "fire barriers" such as porcelain, mica, money, silver leaves, and sand flakes are placed on the incense ashes. Small incense pills and cakes are placed on the fire barrier, and the charcoal is mixed under the ashes. Roasted over low heat, the fragrance is slowly brought out. When the ancients talked about the method of burning incense, they always used the words "burn", "burn" and "stick". However, in fact, they did not burn the incense directly, but placed the incense on a small fire-proof piece. , slowly roasting the aroma.

Obviously, the process of burning incense is quite cumbersome. However, this is not the end. Once the incense "burns", it needs to be observed continuously. Otherwise, "if the cigarette is strong, the fragrance will be diffuse and disappear in an instant."

However, if the charcoal or fragrant cake is buried in ashes and cannot be seen, how can we judge its situation? The correct method is to put your hand above the ash surface and judge by feel whether the fire of the fragrant cake under the ash is too strong or too weak. Therefore, in addition to "adding fragrance", Tang poetry also likes to describe the scene of women "testing fragrance" and how women "test the intensity of fire with their hands". For example, He Ning's "Shanhuazi" describes a woman: "Several times Trying the incense will warm your hands, and tasting the wine will make your lips glow. "Whether it's adding incense or trying the incense, burning incense seems to be always associated with the image of idle women in the writings of male literati. The women standing in front of the incense burner, whether they are the frustrated concubines in the palace poems or the geishas in "The Collection of Flowers", never have to worry about their livelihood. All their thoughts are waiting for a certain man, or missing him with resentment. Painful for his betrayal.