Chicken Tongue Fragrance
2020-02-04
There is also a story about this valuable chicken tongue from the Three Cao’s Collection of Wei Wu Di’s Wenzheng. It says that during the Three Kingdoms period after the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao, the kingpin of the generation, once carefully packaged the chicken tongue incense and wrote a letter saying, “I am presenting five catties of chicken tongue incense as a token of my appreciation.” He immediately sent an envoy to deliver the incense to Kong Ming’s army, thousands of miles away. –What do you mean? Cai Qi (East Han Dynasty literati Cai Yong’s uncle) wrote the “Han official rituals”, recorded an elegant court etiquette at the time, the Shangshulang to “contain chicken tongue incense ambush play things. This shows that the mouth with chicken tongue incense has become a court etiquette system, and later developed into a symbol of the official in the court, face the king to discuss politics.