Xiang Cheng, Volume 12: Incense Matters I · Xun Ling's Lingering Fragrance
Xun Ling's Lingering Fragrance—original text (compiled and edited) with vernacular translation and annotations.
Volume 12 · Incense Matters I · Xun Ling's Lingering Fragrance
Original Text (Compiled and Edited)
"Xiangyang Ji": When Lord Xun visited others' homes, the place where he sat remained fragrant for three days. It is said he loved burning incense, and the places where he rested retained the fragrance for a long time without dispersing.
Vernacular Translation
Xun Yu (Lord Xun) loved incense; when he visited others' homes, his seat remained fragrant for three days. Later, "Lord Xun's fragrant garments" came to symbolize noble elegance and a refined love of burning incense.
Annotations
- Lord Xun: Xun Yu
- For a long time: did not fade after the time passed
- Where he rested: the place where he sat
Collation Notes · Version and Editing Description
Version basis:The extant transmission of Xiang Cheng takes the Ming Chongzhen-era printed edition as its ancestor; today we see the Wenyuan Ge Siku Quanshu edition, the Siku Huiyao edition, and various Qing manuscript copies. This compilation uses the commonly circulated collated edition as its base and consults the Siku edition for collation.
Collation for this volume:Records the allusion of Xun Yu (Lord Xun) leaving fragrance and poems and prose intoning incense; the source matter comes from the Xiangyang Ji and others, and the cited poems are seen in the Yiwen Leiju.
Photocopy comparison:The "original text" on this page is a collated compilation (punctuated and divided into paragraphs according to modern conventions), not a photocopy of the original book; if character-by-character comparison is needed, please consult authoritative public-domain editions:Full text of Xiang Cheng (twenty-eight volumes) in the Siku Quanshu edition at Wikisource、Photocopy scans of Xiang Cheng at Wikimedia Commons (PDFs such as the National Library of China copy). This site does not fabricate ancient book layouts, so it substitutes authoritative public-domain photocopy external links.