Interpretation of tortoise shell incense

Explanation of tortoise shell incense. Taiping Yu Lan (Volume 983) quoted Liang of the Southern Dynasties as saying: "Tortoise shell incense is Gui Xiang's clip, one purple woody, one golden woody and one fragrant. Out of the boundary of Cangwu Guilin County, now there is clover in Wuzhong that is blue and very fragrant. " The fifteenth volume of Shuoba quoted the unknown Tang Dynasty incense spectrum and exogenous incense: "Tortoise shell incense is the goodness of Gui Xiang."

Word decomposition

Explanation of Tortoise (Tortoise) A family of reptiles with a hard armor on the abdomen and back, in which the head, tail and feet can be retracted. Hunger and thirst, long life: turtle. Tortoise shell (tortoise shell) can be used as medicine, and the ancients also used it for divination and currency. Also known as "tortoise shell"). Turtle is the same as the "turtle" whose shell smells sweet, explaining the round cover of the conch shell mouth. It can be used as medicine or as a raw material for incense. New Tang Book Geography VII: Nanhai County, Guangzhou, Central Governor's Office. Earth tribute: silver, rattan, bamboo mat, litchi peel ... agarwood, Jiaxiang, Zhantangxiang. " Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica Explained Two Conchs in Ming Dynasty.