Traditional combination and new skills get (2) Manual combination of "Offering public incense in Zhaoqing"

2. Explain:

Zhao Bian (1008- 1084), an native of Quzhou, was a famous official in the Northern Song Dynasty. He is an official who gives advice to doctors and participates in political affairs. In the second year of Yuanfeng, he became an official with a young prince. Yuan Feng died in seven years at the age of 77 and was posthumously given to Prince Shao Shi and posthumous title.

When Zhao Bian impeached North Korea, he did not shy away from power, calling himself a "just empire". I usually follow Qin Yihe, and I am honest and honest, and I do whatever I do every day. I will put on my clothes and show my fragrance at night to tell the sky that I have the book Gong Xian Ji of Zhaoqing.

In Tianxiang Tale, Zhao Qing offered sacrifices to burn incense, especially lavender. After living, the fragrance will last for several months.

3, with incense: Scrophularia, sandalwood, frankincense.

4. Production method: four liang of white sandalwood (chopped), half liang of frankincense (finely ground) and six liang of Scrophularia (washed with warm soup, boiled with slow fire until soft and rotten, sliced and baked). Mix the right roll fine powder with cooked honey, put it in a new magnetic tank and seal it for 10 day, as usual.

Screening of aromatic materials:

1) sandalwood:

Sandalwood is the dry core material of evergreen trees of Santalaceae. The roots, stems, branches and fruits of sandalwood all contain oil, but the closer to the core and roots, the higher the oil content.

There are about 10 species of sandalwood, but because of its poor growth conditions, it is only distributed in hot and humid areas such as eastern India, Malaysia and Australia. "Laoshan Sandalwood" produced in India is a superior product, usually white and yellow in color, rich in oil, smooth and dense in wood surface and mellow in fragrance, and it is also the mainstream fragrance of Sandalwood in the current fragrance formula.

Sandalwood produced in Australia is usually called "new sandalwood", which is different from "old sandalwood" in India in texture, color and fragrance.

Sandalwood has the function of "attracting perfume to a very high degree", so in the traditional harmony, sandalwood will be used in large quantities to enhance the overall aroma of spices and make the aroma of spices soft and long.

2) Shen Yuan:

Also known as Scrophularia, Black Ginseng and Scrophularia. In Compendium of Materia Medica, Scrophularia. Xu Antai, Chongtai, Deer Intestine, Mazheng, Ma Zhu, Cao Fu, Wild Sesame and Guicang are the roots of Scrophulariaceae perennial herb Scrophulariaceae. (Figure 3), looks like ginseng, with dark roots and slight fragrance.

Mix all kinds of incense, especially wild ones.

Scrophularia has appeared many times in the fragrant prescription, and its processing methods are as many as 1 1, which can be divided into water-fire attack, fire attack, soaking and processing with other spices. Different processing methods have different flavors.

3) Frankincense:

Frankincense, also known as incense, equisetum incense and nipple incense, is the resin of frankincense in olive plants or trees of the same genus. It is called frankincense because it is milky white when it is just secreted and hung on a tree, and its shape is like dripping milk. The main producing areas of frankincense are Somalia, Yemen, Zufar and Hadramao in Oman.

At present, it is generally believed that Omani frankincense is superior and the first choice for incense. Produced in Zufar, Oman, the color is light yellow to milky white, and the fragrance is delicate and fresh citrus sweet fragrance. And the highest level is called royal? Green light green frankincense, with the change of time, light green will become light yellow, and the aroma will be softer.

Aromatic processing:

1) The general purpose of sandalwood processing is to remove dryness and smell. The enumeration method in Xiangcheng is nothing more than that. In the process of making incense by hand, you can directly buy the old sandalwood powder produced in Mysore, India. After the high temperature of the pulverizer, the old sandalwood has almost no dryness, and its fragrance is milky and mellow.

2) Processing of Radix Scrophulariae, four steps are given in Xiangfang: washing warm soup, simmering until soft and rotten, slicing and baking.

First: Wash with warm water to remove impurities inside.

2. Take it out, put it in a clay pot, add clean warm water, cook it slowly with low fire until Scrophularia becomes soft, poke it with bamboo chopsticks to restore elasticity, and then take it out to control moisture.

Third: thin and cut into pieces. The ancients had definite restrictions on the processing tools of Scrophularia. On the one hand, "Mei Ruixiang" in "Xiangcheng" mentioned that "no iron will be made during the processing of Scrophularia", and at the same time, "no copper will be made when it is used" in "On the Processing of Leigong". Generally, raw copper and pig iron should be avoided when mixing and filling incense, and silverware should be used more. One is afraid that the medicinal properties will be affected, and the other is afraid that the fragrance of spices will be damaged. Xiangcheng said, "Raw copper should not be used, lest it collapse."

Therefore, when processing incense materials that need fire treatment and fire and water treatment, pottery, porcelain or ceramics are mostly used today.

Slice the cooked Radix Scrophulariae horizontally with a ceramic knife, with uniform size and thickness, which is convenient for fire roasting.

Fourth: Bake with low fire. Among several processing methods of Radix Scrophulariae, only the last step is very different in the choice of heat. For example, in "Gong Rui Xiang of Yan 'an County", it is "Wash the dust, cook it in silverware until it is cooked, cut it into pieces, and fry it with slow fire until it is slightly smoky"; "Little Lan Xiang" is "stir-fried in the fire, giving off a slight smoke". The innocent fragrance is washed, cut and slightly roasted. "

The difference is that "roasting" is a small fire or a slight fire, and the requirement of roasting is that the slices of Scrophularia are crisp and not burnt; "Slow frying" means that the temperature of the fire is slightly higher than that of "roasting" and it needs to be "until it smokes"; The fire temperature of "frying" is higher, which is also "slightly smoking".

Scrophularia has three flavors: bitter, sour and sweet. With the increase of frying temperature, the sweetness of Radix Scrophulariae will become more and more obvious, the bitterness will increase and the acidity will weaken.

However, the formula of this incense is "baking". After this processing method, the sour gas becomes particularly obvious, and the bitterness and sweetness are weakened, which is also the key to the unique flavor of shelia.

In the same way, Lan Xiang's processing requirements are the highest, so he focuses on the sweetness of Scrophularia and weakens the sourness. Among the fragrant formulas of fragrance in Xiangcheng and Ning He, Scrophularia is mostly used to extract its sweetness and neutralize other fragrant materials, so it is often "slightly smoky".

However, in Yan' an county, Ruixiang is the owner, but it is "slow fire to make micro-smoke". Compared with "small fire roasting" and "large fire frying", the temperature is moderate at this time, but the requirement for Scrophularia is the highest, which is "moderate sweet and sour".

Scrophularia becomes brittle after baking, which can be crushed with fingers and put into a stone mortar for dozens of times to complete the processing.

Regarding the processing of any spice, it has to be said that this is a very critical step. Whether the processing is proper or not directly affects the fragrance of the whole fragrant product, such as frying and cooking time and other factors must be controlled. If the temperature is too high, aromatic materials will carbonize and paste off; Over time, the flavor of spices will be lost too much.

3) Frankincense, which belongs to resin, is mostly soft and sticky at room temperature, and it is not easy to become powder in a stone mortar. When the ancients made frankincense, "paper was wrapped in the gap between the walls, ground for a long time, and broken several times"; Or "wrap the paper on the fire and bake it a little."

In fact, putting it in a crack in the wall and using the low temperature at night to make its texture brittle is similar to what we put it in the frozen layer of the refrigerator for two hours and then take it out and smash it into fine powder.

4) refining honey into pills:

Honey refining is the processing of unprocessed raw honey.

Since ancient times, honey pills have used refined honey as a binder, but in the process of flavoring, the role of honey is far more than just a "binder". By mixing it with different fragrant materials, at the same time, various independent and different fragrances are fused together to form a whole.

Because the processing and preservation of ancient food is different from today, the white honey used refers to the white honey brewed with flowers, which is light in color, and the unprocessed raw honey contains a lot of water and impurities. Therefore, the function of refining honey is to make honey "steamed out and unchanged for several years."

The difficulty of honey extraction lies in the control of temperature and extraction time. The refining time is not enough, and the steam is not exhausted. The fragrance will be moldy and hairy during storage. If refined, it will be burnt, which will ruin the overall fragrance.

In order to mix honey and powder evenly, honey needs to be refined and concentrated into beads or drops, but not too thick. Too strong and too fragrant will make it uneven.

The key to honey refining is to simmer slowly. When the honey boils several times and the color is dark amber, stir it with a bamboo stick and lift it. If honey can form a thread with the bamboo stick, it means that honey refining is successful. Put out the fire and wait until the temperature is a little cooler before using it.

Wild flower honey is mostly used to make incense, and some incense will specify "jujube honey" and so on.

Honey has a strong smell, which sometimes takes away the harmonious taste. Therefore, the ancients specifically suggested that honey gas should be removed when making fragrant pills, and it is best to add two ounces of storax oil per catty, or add less nitrate, which is particularly good for honey gas removal. However, the special aroma of honey fragrance itself is also the attractive sweetness of fragrant pills when they are just formed. This part can be selected according to personal preference.

Compatibility combination of Benxiang recipe:

1), refined, a few nectars have cooled slightly;

2) Weigh 6 grams of Radix Scrophulariae fine powder, 0.5 grams of Omani frankincense and 4 grams of Indian sandalwood powder, put them into a stone mortar in turn, and fully stir them evenly;

"Description": In the original fragrance formula, the unit of measurement is "two". In ancient times, the weight was 16, that is, 1 kg = 16, but from the Han Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, the grams converted from 1 kg changed, and there was no fixed value. Moreover, ancient incense is produced in large quantities, so we only need to try a knife and reduce it according to the original incense.

The ancients were very strict about the process of pounding incense. In the Tang Dynasty, Sun Simiao's incense formula in "Thousand Daughters Wings" emphasized the part of pounding incense, demanding that "the incense should be fine, dry and wet, and the honey should be commensurate with the incense."

Yan bowen devoted himself to "Dao Xiang" in "Xiang Shi", saying that "Xiang does not need to be measured, but it needs to be thin and thick to make it uniform. It's too detailed to finish. If it is too thick, it is not harmonious. If it is a water musk deer, it is necessary to study it with other tools. "

The "pour" before adding honey and the "pour" after adding honey are nothing more than evenly mixing the fragrant powder, fully combining the honey and the fragrant powder, and making the fragrant pills dry and wet.

3), add honey, honey needs to be added bit by bit, as shown in the figure, add a little, stir, add again, stir again until all the powder and honey are integrated, and pound it with a stone mortar stick for one hundred times.

In Xiangcheng, we can't find the words "smash another 10,000 pestles", "more than 100 stepped into the mortar" and "1,000 stepped into the mortar" anywhere. Although "hundred", "thousand" and "ten thousand" are all general words, they fully illustrate the importance of smashing incense. If a treasure is lost, it will be harmonious if it is broken. Tan Jian is very dry, which makes him very tired. "

4) Finally, put the mashed fragrant mud in your hand and knead it repeatedly until the fragrant mud has no cracks and does not stick to your hands. At this time, you can knead it into your favorite shape, or fragrant pills (preferably 0.4 g-0.5 g), sweet cakes, or demould it to form tiny flowers, leaves and hearts.

5) After it is slightly dried, it can be put into a porcelain bottle sprinkled with the original fragrant powder and sealed in a cool, dry and dark place.