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嘉慶二十四年（1819）《新安縣志》卷之三 輿地二「物產」門「木」類「香樹」條全文（人手核讀：第 73 頁上半塊左半，版心「新安縣志 卷之三 物產」、頁次「九」；條末「敬」字單行欄之後即「竹」門標目）：「香樹，邑內多植之。東路出于瀝源、沙螺灣等處為佳，西路出于燕村、李松蓢等處為佳。葉似黃楊，凌寒不落；子如連翹而黑，落地則生；經手摘則否。香氣積久而愈盛。正幹為白木香，出土尺許為香頭，必經十餘載始鑿，如馬牙形，俗呼為牙香。凡種香家婦女潛取佳者藏之，名女兒香，歲時供神以此為敬。」要點：① 一八一九年新安嘅香樹已經係「邑內多植之」——人工種植，唔止上山採野生；② 產地分東西兩路：東路係瀝源（今日沙田）同沙螺灣（今日大嶼山西部），西路係燕村同李松蓢；③ 結香部位寫得清楚——「正幹為白木香」，即主幹，唔係葉、果或根；④ 開鑿有時序——「出土尺許為香頭，必經十餘載始鑿」，種落十幾年先開採，鑿出嚟嘅香塊「如馬牙形」，所以俗稱「牙香」；⑤ 「凡種香家婦女潛取佳者藏之，名女兒香」——種香人家嘅婦女私下收起最好嘅香，叫「女兒香」，歲時攞嚟供神，即香既係外銷商品，亦係祭祀用品；⑥ 「葉似黃楊，凌寒不落」同「子如連翹而黑，落地則生；經手摘則否」係形態同繁殖方式嘅一手描述——種子落地會生，人手摘落就唔會；「香氣積久而愈盛」係另一句，唔可以同「經手摘則否」併成一句。呢條係由公共領域掃描本人手核讀出嚟嘅內容事實，同志錄並排對照：《香港志·總述 大事記》頁 38 記明代「此地區大量出產屬於莞香品種的香木，這種香木亦稱女兒香……而沙田瀝源與大嶼山西部沙螺灣，則是優質香木的產地」（EV-undated-879），《香港志·自然》建置與地區概況（人口）頁 234 亦記莞香「以沙田瀝源、大嶼山沙螺灣為主要產地」（EV-13680000-03）——地名同「女兒香」呢個名逐項對得上，但兩者時代唔同（志錄講明代，縣志講 1819 年嘅情況），所以本站並列而唔當同一件事，亦唔把縣志當成志錄嘅第二來源。如實列出未核／待定部分：①「李松蓢」三字以 1,400 px 窄段圖讀定（蓢＝艹＋朗），未再放大，亦未查今地名對應，唔靠估寫係今日邊條村；②「燕村」二字逐字核到，同第 70 頁西瓜條「邑燕村所產最佳」係同一個村名，但今屬何地仍未核，唔寫；③ 句讀（逗號、分號）係本站所加，木刻原文無標點；④ 香樹條之後嘅「竹」門（第 73 頁上半塊末起）、第 73 頁下半塊（頁次「十」）同第 74 頁以下未讀，本條唔涉及；⑤ 全條冇年份、冇人物，唔作年代推算，亦唔把「十餘載」當統計數字。
English
The incense-tree entry in juan 3 (“Radiations of the Earth”, part 2), section “Products”, of the Jiaqing 24 (1819) Xin’an County Gazetteer, read by hand in full from the left half of the upper block of page 73 (centre column: “Xin’an County Gazetteer, juan 3, Products”, folio nine; after the closing single-character column “reverence” comes the heading of the bamboo section): “The incense tree is much planted within the county. On the eastern route those of Lek Yuen and Sha Lo Wan and other places are the best; on the western route those of Yuen Village and Lei Chung Leng and other places are the best. Its leaves resemble the box; it does not fall in freezing weather. Its seeds are like those of the forsythia but black, and falling to the ground they grow; picked by hand, they do not. The fragrance gathers with time and grows stronger. The main trunk is white agarwood; the part a foot or so above the ground is the incense head, which must be cut only after a dozen years or more, in horse-tooth shapes, and is commonly called tooth incense. In every incense-growing household the women secretly take the best pieces and hide them, calling them daughter incense, and at the festivals they offer them to the gods in this way as their reverence.” Points: (1) by 1819 the tree was already “much planted within the county” — cultivation, not merely gathering wild trees; (2) production is split between an eastern route (Lek Yuen, today’s Sha Tin, and Sha Lo Wan on western Lantau) and a western route (Yuen Village and Lei Chung Leng); (3) the aromatic part is named precisely — “the main trunk is white agarwood”, not leaf, fruit or root; (4) harvesting has its own timetable — the head a foot above ground “must be cut only after a dozen years or more”, in horse-tooth shapes, hence “tooth incense”; (5) in incense-growing households “the women secretly take the best pieces and hide them, calling them daughter incense”, offered to the gods at the festivals — so incense was both an export commodity and an offering; (6) “leaves like the box, not falling in freezing weather” and “seeds like the forsythia but black, falling to the ground they grow; picked by hand, they do not” are first-hand notes on form and propagation — fallen seed germinates, hand-picked seed does not; “the fragrance gathers with time and grows stronger” is a separate clause and must not be joined to “picked by hand, they do not”. This entry records content read by hand from the public-domain scan, set side by side with the gazetteer register: the Hong Kong Chronicles chronology (General Description, Chronology, p. 38) records for the Ming that “this region produced large quantities of agarwood of the Guanxiang variety, also known as daughter incense … and Sha Tin’s Lek Yuen and Sha Lo Wan in western Lantau were sources of quality agarwood” (EV-undated-879), and the Chronicles volume on the territory’s physical setting (p. 234) likewise gives Lek Yuen and Sha Lo Wan as the main producing areas (EV-13680000-03). The place names and the name “daughter incense” match item by item, but the periods differ — the register speaks of the Ming, the gazetteer of conditions in 1819 — so the site sets them side by side rather than treating them as one event, and does not use the gazetteer as a second source for the register. Gaps stated honestly: (1) the three characters of Lei Chung Leng were read from a 1,400 px narrow detail (leng being grass radical over lang) without further enlargement, and no attempt has been made to identify the modern village. (2) Yuen Village was read character by character and is the same village name as in the watermelon entry on page 70 (“the Yuen Village of the county produces the best”), but where it lay is still unchecked and therefore unstated. (3) The punctuation is the site’s; the woodblock has none. (4) The bamboo section that follows (from the end of the upper block of page 73), the lower block of page 73 (folio ten) and pages 74 onwards have not been read; this entry does not touch them. (5) The entry gives no year and no person, so no chronology is inferred, and “a dozen years or more” is not treated as a statistic.
出處：掃描本：《廣州大典》第三十五輯·史部方志類·第六十三冊，嘉慶《新安縣志》卷之三 輿地二「物產」門——「木」類「香樹」條，喺第 73 頁上半塊左半（接「木棉」條末「大如酒杯」之後），條末「歲時供神以此為敬」之下係單字欄「敬」，再落就係「竹」門標目。版心逐字實測「新安縣志 卷之三 物產」、頁次「九」。Commons sha1 ad357f97…。掃描本冇可用文字層，內容一律人手核讀：1,100 px 分段圖（V73UL-73.png）＋1,000 px 窄段圖（W73ULr-73.png）逐欄覆核。見 scripts/ocr-pd-gazetteer-scans.swift。Provenance: Scan: Guangzhou Dadian, series 35 (local gazetteers), volume 63 — the Jiaqing Xin’an County Gazetteer, juan 3, “Radiations of the Earth” part 2, section “Products”: the incense-tree entry in the left half of the upper block of page 73, following the end of the kapok entry (“big as a wine cup”) and followed by the single-character column “reverence” and then the heading of the bamboo section. Centre column read directly as “Xin’an County Gazetteer, juan 3, Products”, folio nine. Commons sha1 ad357f97…. The scan has no usable text layer, so the content was read by hand from a 1,100 px segment image (V73UL-73.png) and a 1,000 px narrow detail (W73ULr-73.png), column by column. See scripts/ocr-pd-gazetteer-scans.swift.