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Xiang (pinyin: xiāng) is a first-class standardized Chinese character. This word was first seen in Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty. The upper part of its ancient shape is like many grains scattered after the maturity of millet, and the lower part is like a vessel for holding grains. Together, it means that the crops are fragrant when they are ripe. The original meaning of aroma refers to the smell emitted by grains, generally referring to aroma.

Then it is extended to a noun, which refers to something with fragrance. In ancient times, it also referred to things related to women. Incense is comfortable, so fragrance means comfort or taste. Incense is loved by people, so incense also means being loved and welcomed by people.

Xiangzi is based on the sweetness of five grains, and most of them are delicious, so Xiangzi means delicious. Such as "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals": "The rice is thin and the chaff is easy to eat." It is human nature that fragrance and delicacy are the objects that people like. By extension, people call the object they like fragrant, and fragrant becomes a kind of praise, just as people call the object they hate smelly.

Some things with the characteristics of fragrance are referred to as "fragrance". Because it has fragrance, it can also be used to refer to articles that emit fragrance. These items are called spices and incense, or incense for short. An important feature of flowers is their fragrance. People often use "fragrance" instead of "flower". For example, Tang Juyuan Yang's Poems with Jong Li Literati: "Fragrant than dew, swaying like a pan-empty." Sweet and wet means that the flowers are wet.

Another example is Li He's "Golden Tongxian Ci Han Song": "The painted osmanthus tree hangs autumn fragrance, and the thirty-six palaces are beautiful." Wang Song Anshi's Melody Song: "If you fold a stick of incense in your hand, there will be no such thing on earth." The "fragrance" in these examples refers to flowers. This was originally just a metonymy and a rhetorical phenomenon, but with the passage of time, it was fixed as a pictographic meaning.