Talcum powder

Author: Ximen
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: 30-episode TV series "The Fragrance Family," broadcasted by China Central Television during the summer vacation prime time in August 2005. Lianyi once stood for a long time before the open, carved window of the bamboo and wood cottage. At that time, she seemed like a goddess, immersing her beautiful face in the cool moonlight, making the unique moon in the world appear as a pair in her eyes. When she closed her eyes alone, she would gently converse with them in her heart, but she didn’t know whether she used the cold light to freeze or warm the vows once made. Until now, I still remember the way the light yellow silk robe fluttered lazily in the breeze, and the ripples traced on her soft body by the moonlight. I guess that a woman who can sing "Farewell on the Path" to the point of pain would surely have an unparalleled sorrow in her eyes when she thinks of me.
From countless kalpas of cultivation, I have attained the divine power of smelling, and have smelled all the infinite beings in the ten directions, knowing the fragrances of virtue and evil, fine and subtle, fire, water, noon, worldly, and Daoist fragrances. Even the fragrances of the Bodhisattva sitting under the tree king, the fragrance of precepts, concentration, wisdom, liberation, liberation of wisdom, teaching all beings with boundless compassion, the fragrance of pity for all beings, the fragrance of joyous and gentle expressions, the fragrance of letting go in all directions, the fragrance of distinguishing the subtle dust, the fragrance of distant illumination, the fragrance of gathering the crowd in harmony, the fragrance of the five aggregates in purity, the fragrance of holding without arising, the fragrance of stopping and eliminating all impurities, the fragrance of hearing precepts and practicing charity, the fragrance of shame and humility, the fragrance of supernatural methods of immortals, the fragrance of effortless teaching, the fragrance of Sheli Han’s noon, the fragrance of sealing the Buddha’s treasury, and the fragrance of endless seven treasures. —From "The Bodhisattva Descending from the Dharma Heaven"
The novel tells a tragic and melancholic love story from the perspective of a ghost who has been lurking in the Qinhuai River for two hundred years, waiting for rebirth, in the form of a diary. During the Hongwu era of the Ming Dynasty, Lin Yiruo, the young master of the Fragrance Family’s Juxia Studio, brought the art of perfumery to its pinnacle in a beautiful way. He was ethereal and transcendent, unrestrained and whimsical, wandering between the palace and the private chambers, where countless beauties lost themselves in the mists of the Qilin fragrance he exuded. Perhaps by fate, Lin Yiruo fell in love with the beautiful and sorrowful woman Lianyi. Lianyi disliked all fragrances and did not believe in true love in the world. Thus, a love story that transcends life and death and is as strange as it is extraordinary unfolded.
Later, there was a perfume made from withered flowers on graves, tears of blood from eyes, and the deepest love in the heart—the fragrance of Lianyi. Its scent drifted along the banks of the Qinhuai River, and anyone who smelled it could not help but feel sorrow.