Xiang Cheng Volume 26: Self-Attained Wondrous Incense
A volume-by-volume interpretation of Zhou Jiazhou's Xiang Cheng, Volume 26, "Self-Attained Wondrous Incense."
Volume 26 · Self-Attained Wondrous Incense
Dedicated to seal incense (hundred-mark incense timekeeping), tent incense, clothes-fumigating incense, incense beads, incense plaques, and other incense for literati self-enjoyment, reflecting the Ming literati taste of "incense as pure offering."
Its Place in Xiang Cheng
The twenty-eight volumes of Xiang Cheng are divided into six major sections: incense material appraisal (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 incense (Volumes 26–28). This volume is one link in that chain, connecting the complete incense culture(香学) genealogy of "documents—allusions—techniques."