What is the difference between traditional Chinese incense and Western incense?

The differences between traditional Chinese incense and Western incense are as follows:

1, for the aroma of preferences and needs of human **** nature, not only the Chinese people are unique, other countries and nationalities are also like incense, the difference is only the form of incense and incense to the different feelings only.

This form and feel the difference, showing the cultural differences. Westerners use incense habits and forms, is consistent with the Western culture and cultural cultivation of the human character. Whether it can be said that is more focused on the direct, single utility. For example, Westerners for the production of incense, is to put the process on the classification and extraction of aroma. It is more convenient to use, with a single spray. They are pursuing mainly the improvement of odor, to meet the needs of the sense of smell as the main purpose.

2, or, Westerners use incense to eliminate or dilute the large amount of meat food and their own bad body odor, of course, there are status symbols and other uses. Westerners also use incense as Western culture as a direct expression, mainly made of perfume, instant spray.

The purpose of Chinese people's use of incense is, first of all, moral self-discipline and nourishment. Fragrance in the traditional Chinese concept is a symbol of beauty, nobility, good fortune and moral character. It is the result of a high degree of harmony between man and heaven, life, man and society. Confucianism's "self-cultivation, self-reflection, benevolence" and Taoism's "Wu Wei" are important ways to perfect the personality, and wear incense, use incense is in this process of perfecting their own to reach the intended goal of the sign and reminder.

3, in addition to wear incense, China's most important form of incense is incense, is through the burning or heating of incense to make the aroma permeated in a specific space, in different environments to feel the different effects of incense on people. People use the process of incense, not only for people, but also to improve the environment in which people live. From the point of view of the five elements, incense has a positive help Yang's work, "pure Yang gas, condensed as incense" is the ancient definition of the generation mechanism of aromatic plants, so burning incense is conducive to support the positive help Yang, but also a process of health and well-being.

4, the Chinese incense, but also a full of cultural interpretation, full of artistic enjoyment of beauty, but also full of mysterious process. In this process, people are not only the pursuit of fragrant and pleasant aroma, but in that kind of warmth and elegance of the atmosphere, for a time of the mind and nourishment, once the cultivation of sentiment, once the sublimation of the wisdom of the nature, which is the Chinese and Western different cultural backgrounds in the use of incense on the different returns.