The Evil King's Favorite Concubine: Genius Perfumer

Chapter 85 Boshan Furnace

So far, under the double suppression of Ji Bingyun and Master Qiao... oh, no, under the double teaching, Gan Tiantian has already mastered the basic knowledge of fragrant medicine.

As a young apprentice who has just been exposed to the fragrance medicine business, she knows a lot.

But knowledge of fragrance medicine and fragrance is still far from becoming a qualified perfumer.As for fragrant medicine, it is not only enough to understand the pharmacology and fragrance, but also to cover a wide range of content.

For example, Gan Tiantian was dazzled by the incense utensils in the market, and thought they were all beautiful, but he couldn't explain why.

Incense set is a general term for incense making, incense mixing and incense tools.

Elegant and exquisite incense sets can not only make the incense products fully evaporate their aroma, but also add interest and decorate the living room. Many incense sets themselves are rare works of art.

However, the incense utensils displayed for sale generally do not include those belongings for making incense, which are all prepared by the incense workshops and perfumers.

A wide variety of incense utensils were neatly and orderly displayed on the stalls. Gan Tiantian looked at them and asked Aunt Chen for advice, and learned a lot of new knowledge.

After getting along with each other a few days ago, especially after spending breakfast happily together, Gan Tiantian felt a little closer to Aunt Chen.

Although out of caution and precaution, she couldn't trust Aunt Chen as wholeheartedly as she did her master.But compared to Guanshi Wei and Aunt Xu... she would rather treat Aunt Chen as "one of her own".

Aunt Chen's expression didn't fluctuate, but she answered Gan Tiantian's naive questions.There are not many people at the moment, they can stroll around slowly, so Aunt Chen is also in a good mood.

She is a bit of a clean freak, and doesn't like to walk around in the crowd, which is why she took Gan Tiantian out to visit the incense market early.

"Well, there are many famous shops, but they haven't come out to set up stalls yet... We really came early."

Aunt Chen said casually.

She visits every year, and the stalls of many shops are almost fixed. Although the masters and associates change, they can't all be changed, and the incense and incense products on the stalls also have their own styles.Stores with good quality incense and famous shops are often not in a hurry to open their stalls early.

"Auntie, do you want to buy an incense burner?"

Seeing that Aunt Chen was looking at the incense burners in front of several stalls, it was not surprising that Gan Tiantian asked this question.

"Ah."

Aunt Chen concentrated on appreciating the incense burner in her hand.

There are many kinds of incense utensils, such as incense tubes, incense balls, incense cages, incense sticks, incense trays, incense boxes, incense spoons, incense chopsticks, fire chopsticks, fire spoons, incense bottles, sachets... But the most important and most complicated incense utensils, Always the incense burner.

From ancient times to today, the styles and types of incense burners have been extremely rich.

According to the overall style, it can be divided into imitation ritual vessels, that is, tripods, gilts, beans, etc., which imitate the ritual vessels of ancient times. This kind of incense burner is often not small in size.

As for animals and plants, those imitating spirit birds, auspicious animals, and auspicious flowers are common types in life, such as dragons, unicorns, cranes, ducks, begonias, lotuses...

For the pseudo-landscape category, the most famous ones are of course the "Boshan Furnace" and the "Buddhist Pagoda Furnace".

In addition to the overall style, the incense burner can also be divided according to the partial style - abdomen, ears, decorations, mouth, feet, buttons, seats, plates, chains, handles... Each twig has countless branches. I can't finish teaching in a month.

Aunt Chen just briefly told her about the incense burner, now Gan Tiantian only stared wide-eyed and waited for Aunt Chen to choose the incense burner, and could vaguely recognize that what she held in her hand was a Boshan burner shaped like a fairy mountain.

The incense burner such as Boshan furnace is not commonly used in today's Da Xiao, and it belongs to the popularity of ancient times.But even Gan Tiantian, a rookie, can recognize this style of incense burner at a glance, which proves that although Boshan stove has gradually been eliminated, its reputation is still loud.

Many perfumers and perfumers will collect one or two Boshan furnaces. Although they are not used, they can also show their own taste.

This Boshan furnace appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and was popular in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. It is closely related to people's hobby of "seeking immortals" at that time.Although it is a popular style in ancient times, the production process is more complicated and cumbersome than many incense burners later.

Before the appearance of Boshan furnace, people often burn incense in incense tripods and bean-style furnaces, and the smoke is very strong.After the appearance of the Boshan furnace, the way of baking incense cakes on top and charcoal fire on the bottom made people start to burn incense more elegantly, and the strong fragrance and smoke became much lighter.

The Boshan stove, which imitates the production of Xianshan Penglai, also has a different kind of simple beauty amidst the lingering light smoke.

A really good Boshan furnace is ancient and elegant, with extraordinary craftsmanship, and is often worth a thousand gold.

Although Aunt Chen earns a lot of money, her budget is not enough if she really wants to buy good things.She didn't intend to buy those outrageously expensive incense burners in famous shops, but wanted to shop around in small stalls to see if she could choose a cheaper, beautiful and simple Boshan burner.

The most critical test for the examination of the perfumer of the government-level incense workshop is the fragrance created by the craftsman himself.And if an incense product is to be used to the extreme, it must be equipped with a suitable incense burner in order to satisfy the selected masters.

For example, it is best to choose an osmanthus stove for sweet-scented osmanthus, a lotus stove for lotus fragrance, a beast-shaped stove for strong fragrance, and a bamboo stove for light fragrance... these are all combinations.

After years of painstaking research, Aunt Chen concocted a new fragrance recipe. The characteristic of this fragrance recipe is that it is "retro", returning to the basics.

Therefore, she really needs to buy a matching Boshan stove, which will be of great use when she takes the perfumer test.

"Auntie, you have a good eye!"

The two masters at the stall were about the same age as Aunt Chen, both in their 30s, and they sang and talked about the benefits of their own goods.

"Look at this Boshan stove in my house. It's as tall as a mountain. The spirit beasts and immortals are carved vividly. The vent holes are secret and clever. The smoke is absolutely good! The pure copper stove, isn't it particularly thick and round when you try it?"

"Yes, this Boshan furnace is an old antique bought by my shopkeeper from overseas. It is said that it is the best in the palace given to foreigners by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty! Take a look, we can try burning incense for you and keep the 'Zhu Huoqing' Smoke', beautiful!"

The two of them were also fast, and they were about to test burning incense for this Boshan stove, which was more active than the ones they had seen before.

"Well... I'll take another look."

Aunt Chen loves this Boshan furnace very much, but is worried that the price is too high.

Judging from the workmanship and style, the price of this exquisite Boshan furnace will not be less than 500 taels of silver... Far beyond her budget.As for what the Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty bestowed on foreign affairs, she pretended not to hear it.

"Hehe, I haven't visited Xiangshi for a long time, why is their counterfeiting skills worse than before?"

Gan Tiantian was bored, when suddenly Ji Bingyun's chuckle came from next to his ear.

She subconsciously repeated: "Fake?"

As soon as the words came out, she hurriedly covered her mouth, but realized that it was too late.

The two stall operators and Aunt Chen all looked at her, but their expressions were very different.

It's over, overheard!

(End of this chapter)