Sensory World

About This Novel

It was an era of fragrance, and there was always a hint of intoxicating fragrance floating in the air. Those men and women of the upper class seem to have been surrounded by incense from birth. Their hair is fragrant, sachets are hung on their clothes, the bathtubs in which they bathe are mixed with spices, and when they read, they also have a cigarette cage or a long-handled incense burner at hand. In this country with an ancient tradition of burning incense, burning incense was once seen as upholding the will from heaven. In the sacred and solemn political life of the court, the emperor burned incense and accepted divine metaphors, which symbolized a living and supernatural wisdom that penetrated the relationship between heaven and man. When this refreshing fragrance spread with the wind into the secular life of the gentry class in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and became a social trend, permeating all spaces from meditation halls to brothel singing houses. It is not surprising that spices - this kind of luxury item made from agarwood as the main ingredient, and refined with frankincense, sandalwood, clove, musk and nail incense - is regarded as a magical item that can give life an otherworldly meaning. People of that era generally believed that it could sublimate and purify a dirty life and maximize the beauty that a person can enjoy through his senses. If you lived in that era, don't be surprised if you see someone's nose twitching on the street, because it is very likely that he is trying to identify the ghostly wisps of fragrance wandering in the air.

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