Incense, smart and noble and plain, mysterious and profound and approachable. It has accompanied the Chinese nation's past generations of elites through five thousand years of vicissitudes of life, out of the brilliant course of Chinese civilization glorious world. It enlightens the inspiration of great talents and virtues, nourishes the body and mind of people with lofty ideals, builds a golden bridge of human and heaven wisdom, and promotes the nurturing of Chinese humanistic spirit and the formation of philosophical thoughts.
Human's preference for fragrance is innate, just like butterfly's love for flowers and wood's sunshine.
Fragrance mobilizes the intelligence of the mind in the fragrance and pleasure. It can breathe, open the nose, open the orifice, and reconcile the body and mind between the tangible and the invisible. It is precisely because of the profound understanding of this principle that the emperors and generals, literati and poets of all dynasties all competed to cherish fragrance as gold and love fragrance as a hobby.
Fragrance can not only relax with the study room, but also be dimly seen in the temple altar; it can not only observe in the quiet room, but also be happy during the meal; it can not only calm the mind and enlighten the mind, but also practically cure illness; it is both an elite culture and a popular culture. In fact, it originated from nature without a fixed label, but only from nature.
The good fragrance of human nature, but people began to use the exact time of fragrance has been difficult to verify. From the existing historical data, the history of Chinese fragrance can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period. In the Han Dynasty, incense stoves were widely used. The upper class was popular with incense and lavender, and the technology of blending various spices appeared. The incense culture began to take shape slightly. In the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the literati class began to use incense more often. In the Tang Dynasty, incense made great progress in many aspects. In the Song Dynasty, the incense culture reached its peak and fully integrated into people's daily life. Later, it was maintained and steadily developed in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.
