Who used incense?

For more than two thousand years, China’s upper class, literati and monks have always taken incense as a companion and held it in high esteem. Incense was not only used for rituals, but also widely used in daily life.

 

Appreciating incense, tasting tea, flower arrangement, hanging paintings are known as “four leisurely activities”, which shows the elegant and pleasant life of the ancients.

How to burn incense?

In the incense ceremony, the “incense seal” and “incense smoking”, which originated in the Song Dynasty, are incense burning activities done with incense tools such as “incense holder, incense box, and vial” and “incense spoon, incense shovel, ash pressure, side ash pressure, incense chopsticks, incense sweep, incense clip”.

 

Why incense is used?

These two kinds of incense, can be operated by a single person, to achieve the purpose of inner dialogue with their own, but also in a gathering of three or five friends together, to achieve the harmony and beauty of joint fun.

Why incense is good?

Besides, such incense is also very easy to regulate the mood of the practitioner, because in the process of operation, the incense user will quickly forget the surrounding, but only focus on the tool in hand, with “light as heavy” technique, relaxed mind and posture to complete the incense activity.

 

This is the aesthetics of life in Chinese incense Taoism: to perceive the beauty of life, to communicate and dialogue with the body and the heart, and to greatly improve the quality of life.