What is the meaning of the ancient Chinese incense fighting?

Douxiang, is the Tang and Song dynasties literati elegant gathering, tasting incense, play incense, and cut and incense, incense tasting skills of a kind of elegant meeting.

Dou Xiang's content is generally based on the content of the incense, incense, incense, incense, smoke, the gathering and dispersal of the change, incense, the shape of the main. There will also be a defense of medicine, and incense, incense, impromptu poems and lyrics, calligraphy and painting, and many other items to discuss and explore. According to records, the Tang, Zhongzong, Zong Chukai brothers, remember the Nei, Wu Sansi and Empress Wei's relatives, powerful ministers, often organized elegant meeting: "each with a famous incense, than the test of excellence, known as the fight incense".

In order to fight incense when the first place, the fight incense family always try to get some rare and exotic materials, or use a special way of combining incense. Coupled with the fact that there are many types of spices in China, the ancient often said "sink sandalwood dragon musk", refers to sandalwood, incense, long nao or ambergris, musk, so produce a lot of historically famous combining incense recipes for incense fighting and daily use, such as the four combined incense, Shouyang Princess Plum Blossom Incense, and so on.

And then there are literati with their collections, hold elegant events, poetry for the text, further expanding the field of incense and incense appreciation, and the application of the form of incense incense.