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Chapter 182 Tianxiang Twelve Grades

Geng Baochang was rarely happy, so he actually built a cabinet, picked up the Ru kiln incense burner with his own hands, and showed it to Wen Yiming and said, "This is Fenghua style, the most common Ru kiln style."

"The so-called Fenghua is the side hall of the Deshou Palace in the Southern Song Dynasty. It is the place where Concubine Liu, the favorite concubine of Emperor Gaozong of Song Dynasty, lives. Many Ru kilns written in Fenghua are used by Concubine Liu herself."

"Concubine Liu was originally a daughter of a restaurant. She was born in a humble family, but she was beautiful and charming, and had a beautiful appearance. Huizong favored Liu and was inseparable from her. Historical books record that Liu was talented and good at flattering Huizong, and was also a little talented and capable of painting. She herself had two chapters, one big and one small, with the two words "Fenghua" engraved, and was in a famous painting that was once collected by Concubine Liu."

"Looking at the two characters Fenghua, which were passed down from generation to generation, the engraving method of the font is like a person's hand and was engraved by the court workers. Therefore, scholars believe that the Fenghua Ru porcelain was a personal item awarded by the emperor to Concubine Liu. In addition to Ru kiln, the two characters Fenghua were also found to be engraved on the bottom of the Ding kiln and Jun kiln."

Geng Baochang put down the incense burner, picked up another plate and said, "The other style on Ru porcelain is the Cai style. Many Ru kilns in the Forbidden City are the Cai style. For example, this Ru kiln plate, the Cai style is usually coated with purple-brown body protection glaze, and the color is deep."

"Ru porcelain is definitely for the court, so if you can own Ru porcelain, you can only rely on the emperor's reward. In the Song Dynasty, there may be only two Cai family who were able to collect Ru kiln porcelain. One of them was the prime minister of Huizong. He was the prime minister of the capital, and he became the Sikong and was appointed as the Grand Tutor. He was below one person and above ten thousand people. His chances of receiving the emperor's reward were greater than that of ordinary people."

"And Cai Jing once engraved the name Cai to make Rongji. The other person was his son Cai Lingyu. He was the son-in-law of Huizong. Huizong had visited his mansion seven times and gave countless treasures."

"This is the incense box of Ge Kiln..." Geng Baochang took out another incense prop and smiled: "The new official model, Ge Kiln's body is mostly purple-black, iron-black, and yellow-brown. The glaze is covered with a layer of crispy light, which is more common with fried beige and gray-blue."

"Ge kiln iron feet, with lustrous glaze on the surface and many broken patterns, and its style characteristics are similar to those of the Southern Song Dynasty official kilns. Ge kilns are known for their pattern pieces, most of which are black and yellow intersecting, commonly known as gold wire iron wire..."

Wen Yiming stared at the incense props and said to himself: "When will I get a set of Ru Kiln incense props!"

"Yes, there are also the treasures of Xuande Furnace from the three years of Xuande, which are collected from one-character to six-character models!"

"It's better that the five famous kilns each have one set, that's the feeling..."

My heart was hot and my fighting spirit was very high. For the incense master, incense props and incense scores were the magical artifacts that I pursued throughout my life. There was a Ru kiln incense burner in front of me. I wonder what it would feel like to use it to make incense?

I was excited to think about it!

Wen Yiming calmed down and could not use first-class cultural relics to make incense. Not to mention Geng Baochang, even the director did not have such rights. So he could only think about it in his mind that the revolution had not yet succeeded and comrades still needed to work hard.

"Since you are so interested in agarwood, let's go and see the treasures left by Empress Dowager Cixi back then?"

Geng Baochang was in a good mood today and took the two of them out of the porcelain area and continued to visit the miscellaneous area. The three of them came to the display cabinet and smelled the whirl of their noses and bursts of fragrance came.

"The Forbidden City has countless treasures of Qing Palace, but there are only 29 strings of Qinan bracelets and only one string of court beads, and these two strings were used by Cixi during her lifetime."

Wen Yiming looked at the bracelet in front of him, eighteen black nanmu beads, eighteen black nanmu beads, and there were two Buddha heads in the middle, one Buddha head pagoda, with a drooping yellow ribbon, and a Gannan wood back cloud, two pendant horns and four groups of rice beads. The Buddha head was embedded with the word "Golden bats" and the back clouds were embedded with the pendant horns. The pendant horns were used to form a bat group for longevity, symbolizing the meaning of blessings and longevity.

Bracelets were originally tools for calculating the number of times they read when chanting Buddha's name, but later evolved into ornaments or treasures. The imperial concubines in the Qing Dynasty often hung bracelets on the buttons on the lace of their chests as decoration. Usually bracelets were made of eighteen beads, also known as eighteen sequins, but there were also those who were less than or more than this number.

The other string is a bracelet, made of golden silk ropes to connect twelve Qinan and two pink tourmaline Buddha heads. Under the tourmaline Buddha head tower, a silk rope is tied with emerald green lotus pattern jade ornaments, and tourmaline pendant horns are included. Cixi likes jade and tourmaline the most. She brought a lot of tourmaline treasures when she was buried. The most famous pair of tourmaline watermelons.

The three of them walked around for more than an hour. The two old men were tired and rested. Wen Yiming took out the incense of Jingxin and started to show the incense. After the end, Mr. Geng was shocked and finally knew why Ling Junsheng valued this young man so much.

After taking the Jingxin incense from Wen Yiming, Mr. Geng said helplessly: "Hey, I will never accept it if it was another old man, but this fragrance..."

Ling Junsheng laughed and said, "You are so kind to accept it. This is a meeting gift for me to respect you. Our lives will depend on Mr. Wen in the future!"

Wen Yiming quickly said a few polite words, the more capable a person is, the more peaceful and humble a person is. This is the case with Ling Junsheng and Geng Baochang. This is the style of everyone.

Geng Baochang suddenly remembered something and stood up and said, "I will not receive any reward without merit. The old man cannot accept the Mr.'s meeting gift for vain. Please wait a moment later."

Then he turned around and left. Wen Yiming looked at Ling Junsheng curiously. The other party smiled but didn't say anything. After a while, Mr. Geng came back and was holding a stack of information in his hand.

"This is the Qianlong note I discovered by chance. It records some things about incense. It seems that there are still several incense recipes that cannot be brought out at first. This is a photocopy version. Please don't be surprised."

Wen Yiming quickly took it with both hands, looked at it and said happily: "Is this..."

"Twelve grades of Tianxiang!"

Seeing the confused expressions of the two old people, Wen Yiming said excitedly: "This is really a priceless treasure! Not only does Qianlong's experience in scenting taste, but also records twelve traditional incense recipes, known as the twelve incense flavours."

Wen Yiming looked at Xiang Fang obsessedly, and was extremely excited. This was the biggest gain today. Unexpectedly, he could get the notes of Emperor Qianlong's fragrant taste. There were many palace secret techniques and strange stories, which were like a tiger's wings for him.

Not to mention the twelve incense recipes that were respected by Emperor Qianlong as Tianxiang. They were excited to think about it. This was simply the supreme secret book. Now Wen Yiming seems to be Zhang Wuji obtaining the Nine Yang Divine Art, Linghu Chong practiced Dugu Nine Swords, and Wei Xiaobao married seven wives, one word.
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