关于沉香,民间有这样的传闻:古人发现一种高大的树木,树死之后,大部分树体都朽烂了,但却有一些树体经久不腐,并且将其投入火中焚烧后异香扑鼻,于是拿来作为香料。更令人吃惊的是,这种香料居然入水即沉底,实在是奇妙得很,因而得名“沉香”。当然,这只是关于沉香来源的一种坊间闲语,沉香定名确切的时间和原因已无从考证。有关沉香的文字记载最早可追溯至东汉,东汉杨孚所著《南裔异物志》中曾 On incense, the folk have such rumors: the ancients found a tall tree, after the tree died, most of the trees are decayed, but there are some trees do not rot, and put it into the fire after the incense smell fragrant, So used as a spice. Even more surprising is that this spice actually sink into the water that is really wonderful, hence the name “incense ”. Of course, this is just a source of informal incense on the toilet, incense named the exact time and reason no longer verified. The records of incense can be traced back to the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Eastern Han Yang Fu, “South Asian foreign body” had