The allusions and meanings of tea flavoring,

Ancient literati dreamed of being guests, but it was tea that added fragrance to night reading. A candle on the wrist, red beans like a lamp, a wisp of dark fragrance, if there is something, it flows and drifts, making people want to get drunk. Blurred, read how many prosperous vicissitudes, into plumes of smoke. Adding fragrance to tea is a meaningful image of classical China. Our uneducated generation only knows how to insert a thin thread into the incense burner to add fragrance to themselves.

Burning incense has a long history. For example, in the Song Dynasty's "Northern Bantu", there is a picture of a waiter holding a incense box and burning incense in the furnace. The incense burned by the ancients was mostly sweet cakes, that is, various fragrant pills made of "combined incense". In the fortieth episode of Jin Ping Mei, Pan Jinlian "looked at a copper wire stove baking inkstone tiles on the table next to him, held it in his hand and called,' Sister Li, bring some cookies from the tooth box over there.' In A Dream of Red Mansions, Baoyu smelled a delicate fragrance in Daiyu's sleeve and said, "This fragrance smells strange, not those sweet cake, balls and sachets." Explain the way of burning incense at that time from the side.

Adding fragrance to tea is not as simple as burning fragrant pills directly in an incense burner. When the ancients burned incense, they would set up a stove in a deep room. The table was very low and knee-high. First, the special small pieces of charcoal are burned thoroughly, put into the incense burner, and then buried with fine incense ashes. Poke some holes in the incense ashes, and then put "fire-proof" incense made of porcelain, silver leaves, money or mica. Cookie, a small fragrant pill, slowly exudes fragrance through this charcoal fire. Incense is not as good as fire, it is soothing and smokeless, but it lasts for a long time. Once the fragrant pill is burned, it must be protected. If the smoke is very thick, the fragrance will spread and disappear in an instant. Therefore, it is necessary to test the internal heat by hand from time to time. "A few times trying to warm your hands and tasting wine is a portrayal of this matter." If the fragrance is too strong, be sure to bring fire. Add ash and then burn; After a long time, the fragrance is gone and needs to be perfumed. "A pair of ten-fingered jade is fine, but it's not an affair that doesn't come." Gently twist a small fragrant pill with your index finger and thumb, which is like a buttonwood tree, like a projectile, like a chicken's head rice, and put it into the incense burner, which naturally makes people think. If a woman is "sad and lonely in the boudoir, the jade stove is faint", it will inevitably be disappointing.

There is also a spherical incense burner, which can be placed under the quilt. It is dark and fragrant when sleeping, making it more charming. Among the artifacts unearthed in the underground palace of Famen Temple, there is a ball painted with gold and silver thread. The shell is hollow, and the sphere is internally provided with two concentric rings, and a round bowl connected with the rings through bearings is arranged in the rings. There are charcoal and fragrant pills in it. No matter how you roll them, the round bowl is always horizontal and will not tip over. It is really original.

The process of burning incense is trivial, just like tasting tea, which is regarded as pure enjoyment by scholars. Li Yu even thought that "this is not a servant's business, and the master must do it himself." Of course, the average scholar still hopes to have a confidante to burn incense at midnight when the case collapses. It's just "repair the moth's slow face, don't talk, make up the mountain." The cicada's temples are low and blue, and Luo's clothes are light yellow. Bored in the deep courtyard, strolling around. Gently adjust the hand, jade furnace incense. "