Xiang Cheng Volume 08: Extraordinary Incenses
A volume-by-volume interpretation of Zhou Jiazhou's Xiang Cheng Volume 08 "Extraordinary Incenses."
Volume 08 · Extraordinary Incenses
A collection of wondrous incense lore: legendary and supernatural incenses such as returning-soul incense, thousand-step incense, tuwu incense, and cold-repelling incense, preserving the vein of imagination and strange tales within incense culture.
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 anecdotes 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 "texts—allusions—techniques."