Ye Tinggui: Scholar
Ye Tinggui (Song Dynasty), one of the key figures in the history of Chinese Incense Culture(香学).
Ye Tinggui · Song
Identity:Scholar
Representative incense works / incense matters:Mingxiang Pu, Hailu Suishi
Ye Tinggui's "Mingxiang Pu" and "Hailu Suishi · Incense Section" extensively record the names of overseas aromatic materials and foreign incense (such as incense from Champa, Chenla, Srivijaya and other countries), reflecting the great circulation of aromatics brought by the Maritime Silk Road in the Song Dynasty, and are valuable historical materials for studying the Sino-foreign incense trade.
and Chinese Incense Culture(香学)
Seen through Ye Tinggui, 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 truly understand the weight of the wisp of incense in one's hand today.
Representative Incense Formulas · Incense Poems · Incense Discourses
On Incense"Record of Famous Incenses""Record of Southern and Foreign Incenses"
Written by Ye Tinggui (courtesy name Sizhong) of the Song Dynasty"Record of Famous Incenses""Record of Southern and Foreign Incenses", devoted to recording overseas incenses: agarwood, sandalwood, borneol, and frankincense produced in Champa, Chenla, Borneo, and Siam; it is a precious record of the maritime incense and medicinal trade in the Song Dynasty.