Chun-lin dai, the Ming dynasty yangzhou people, generation of traditional Chinese medicine family, for the grandson at home, grandfather is deep love, his grandfather's court physician, and the famous calligrapher, painter dong qichang as colleagues, so the first year of Ming chongzhen, in 1628, when chun-lin dai in yangzhou forget street started the earth's first production of powder, sweet shop, It was Dong Qichang, a famous contemporary calligrapher, who inscribed Dai Chunlin's signboard. On the opening day, many relatives and friends came to congratulate the royal family, dignitaries. In the local political, economic and cultural circles at that time, it can be said to be extremely popular.
And what bring Dai Chunlin into the palace truly is Chongzhen Emperor at that time love Fei Tian GUI Fei -- Tian Xiuying, be born in an alley of east Pass street of Yangzhou city. In order to commemorate this talented girl, Yangzhou folk named the alley where she was born "Tianjia Alley". It is said that Tian Xiuying was versatile since her childhood, with both the arts and the martial arts. She was excellent in playing music, chess, painting and calligraphy, and was omnipowerful in Cuju riding and shooting. It was especially mentioned that she was born beautiful, loved plain face to the sky, and had a strange fragrance, also known as "fragrant concubine". Owe it all to chun-lin dai, have been the mother of the piano xiu-ying tian, sweet home with mother all love that cargo chun-lin dai, made after the princess, chun-lin dai for its special egg powder block, in order to carry, so there is the "the world's first piece of powdery cake, goose egg powder" (why call goose egg, because at that time, women face as beauty by oval). The description of Tian Xiuying recorded in historical materials that "her clothes, makeup and hair accessories were all popular at the beginning, which were copied from the palace and then spread to the market. Hometown Dai Chunlin incense powder was called to the palace, become "tribute powder". Tian Xiuying is because of the use of Dai Chunlin's fragrance fragrance, so that the body with its own fragrance, powder used to uniform natural look like makeup.
Since then, Dai Chunlin incense pieces, incense powder in the Ming and Qing dynasties were identified as the imperial palace tribute, so there are "palace powder", "tribute powder", "Yangzhou incense powder" reputation, noise north and south, Fang cover the capital. Yangzhou Dai Chunlin fragrant powder store, with Suzhou Sun Chunyang, Jiashan Wu Dingsheng, Beijing Wang Mazi, Hangzhou Zhang Xiaoquan, as the national famous big store and recorded in the Ming and Qing dynasties historical materials.
Qing dynasty · Sun Zhao 溎 "piece of yushan room fancy stationery record" : "chun-lin dai powder spread to generation since the Ming before, its to already a long time, the goods also." Dai CHUNLIN FRAGRANCE POWDER SHOP originated from the Ming DYNASTY, so the products are still very good after so LONG. When I write this sentence, Dai Chunlin has already become a century-old shop.
History: During Kangxi's 6 Southern Tours (1684-1707) and Qianlong's 6 Southern Tours (1751-1784), the local officials of Yangzhou often paid tribute with Chunlin incense powder and incense pieces. After the attendants brought the Chunlin incense products into the palace, they were very popular among the concubines in the palace.
Many classical novels in the Qing Dynasty have described and recorded Dai Chunlin fragrant goods. 1784 book "a dream of red mansions", cao xueqin vividly describes chun-lin dai sweet goods many times: "this is purple jasmine kind of ground on the spice", also borrowed flat son mouth boasting chun-lin dai powder "ping son fell on the palm, if the light pink, white, red, fragrant four nice, pat on face also easy even, moist, not like other powder acerbity sluggish." "North Jing king wrist 18 grains such as lotus incense beads", "Bao Chai jade shirted incense string", "attack people in the purse of two plum cake son", even when the hairpins face is used Dai Chunlin secret goose egg powder...... , qing jiaqing years, 22 of the "fill a dream of red mansions" a book back in clear wrote: "playboy xue trail of yangzhou on this time and get to forget street Dai Chun lins bought a lot of sweet goods back for the away..." .
When the Dream of Red Mansions was written, Dai Chunlin was already a century-old shop. It was the leading beauty industry at that time, and there was no comparable brand in the same industry before and after 100 years.