Chen Jing: Incense Scholar
Chen Jing (Song Dynasty), one of the key figures in the history of Chinese Incense Culture(香学).
Chen Jing · Song
Identity:Incense Scholar
Representative Incense Works / Incense Matters:Chen's Incense Manual
Chen Jing's four-volume Chen's Incense Manual expanded upon Hong Chu's Incense Manual with additional incense formulas and allusions, with more detailed categorization, making it another representative Song Dynasty incense manual. The book includes numerous blended incense formulas (such as Xiaolan Incense and Han Weigong's Nongmei Incense), in the same lineage as Xiang Cheng, and is an important source for modern people compiling ancient formulas.
And Chinese Incense Culture(香学)
Seen through Chen Jing, Chinese Incense Culture(香学) is not an isolated craft, but a process in which generations of literati and artisans continuously documented, systematized, and spiritualized olfactory experience. Only by understanding these sages can one understand the weight of the wisp of incense in hand today.
Representative Incense Formulas · Incense Poems · Incense Discourses
Incense DiscourseChen Family Incense Manual
Chen Jing (courtesy name Haosou)Chen Family Incense ManualIn four volumes, it synthesizes the manuals of Shen Li, Hong Chu, and others, listing incense grades, incense marvels, incense lore, and incense formulas; it is the culminating work of Song dynasty incense manuals.
Incense Formulas ·Four-Harmony Incense
Equal parts agarwood, sandalwood, borneol, and musk, blended with refined white honey and sealed for seven days. Four-Harmony Incense is a classic of literati blended incense; see details inXiang Cheng Annotated Translation · Volume 21。