Description: Fragrant name, similar to seal script. Also refers to the smoke when burning incense. Because of its twists and turns like seal script, it is called Xiang seal script. In modern times, a special mold for burning incense powder is called incense brick.
Quote: Xiang Pu Xiang Zhuan in Song Dynasty: Xiang Zhuan, with Fan as the seal, often has a diameter of two or three feet before drinking seats or Buddha statues.
The significance of Xiang seal in ancient times
In the Tang and Song Dynasties, spices were made into the shape of seal script, one end was lit, and the time was calculated according to the seal script mark on the incense. According to Xuanzhou stone carving records, Xining is ugly, and Ermeixi began to seal a hundred times to make it faint, and it was fragrant at night, also known as Baikexiang.
It divides a day and night into 100 scales, which is used as a timer and has mosquito repellent function. Widely circulated among the people. Qin Guan's Broken Magnolia: Broken incense burner and sealed incense. In the Song Dynasty, Li Qingzhao wrote a sentence in "Full of Fang Ting": When the incense is burned out, the sun shadows fall on the curtain hook. Song and Qin Guan's "The Old Hate of Yulan Tianya": If you want to see the ileum, you will lose the golden incense.