What is the traditional incense culture in China?

To sum up, the composition of China's traditional incense culture is: tasting spices, making incense and producing incense, giving gifts at incense seats, driving away epidemics and avoiding filth, and participating in incense and understanding.

China's fragrant culture began with Shennong tasting a hundred herbs. Fragrant culture refers to the Chinese nation's use of different spices on different occasions in the long historical process in politics, economy, military affairs, culture, religion, diplomacy, home life, personal feelings and so on, thus deducing China's unique fragrant culture system, that is, from cultural phenomena to cultural concepts, accompanied by China people's unique religious views, cultural views and outlook on life.

The rituals cultivated by these incense cultural activities are the main purpose of the ancients to achieve unified thinking. Obviously, burning incense played an important symbolic role in the sacred and solemn political life of the ancient court in China, that is, burning incense marked the king's adherence to the Oracle, which meant the wisdom and dignity running through heaven and man.

In China's traditional incense culture of offering sacrifices to heaven and ancestors, the ritual mechanism is to guide people's thoughts and behavior norms through the interpretation of incense seats and rituals, from the behavior of head, hands and body to the thinking of heart and brain, to alert people to always be grateful, awe and merciful, and to observe people's daily words and deeds with "courtesy, righteousness and shame" so that people can have a moral standard and order that they can abide by.