Xiang Cheng Volume 02: Incense Categories II · Sandalwood, Musk, and Borneol
A volume-by-volume interpretation of Zhou Jiazhou's Xiang Cheng, Volume 02, "Incense Categories II · Sandalwood, Musk, and Borneol."
Volume 02 · Incense Categories II · Sandalwood, Musk, and Borneol
Records the famous incenses sandalwood (white sandalwood, red sandalwood), musk, borneol, and ambergris, distinguishing authenticity, origins, and grades, and establishing the basic framework of the four great famous incenses: "agarwood, sandalwood, musk, and borneol."
Its Place in Xiang Cheng
The twenty-eight volumes of Xiang Cheng are divided into six major sections: appraisal of incense materials (volumes 1–5), religious and court incense use (volumes 6–7), incense lore and allusions (volumes 8–16), incense prose and poetry (volumes 17–20), incense formulas (volumes 21–25), and literati pure offerings and blended floral incenses (volumes 26–28). This volume is one link in that chain, connecting the complete incense culture(香学) genealogy of "literature—lore—techniques."