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What is China Xiangdao Culture?

During the prosperous Tang Dynasty in China, food culture, wine culture and tea culture developed one after another. At that time, social culture was unprecedentedly prosperous. At the same time, incense culture gradually developed into a part of people's lives and became a kind of culture and art. At that time, incense was a symbol of identity and status. China's dignitaries and wealthy families often get together and compete for incense, which makes incense a unique art. With the development of society and the continuous progress of science and technology, monks from Jian Zhen traveled eastward, introducing not only Buddhism to Japan, but also incense culture to Japan, spreading incense art and incense culture to all parts of the world, and carrying forward the profound Chinese incense culture. In the development of Japan, after heian period, spices began to break away from religion and were used for "beauty". In the Japanese classic Tale of Genji, a kind of incense party was mentioned many times, that is to say, Japanese nobles began to learn the appearance of "Tang people" and often held incense parties called "incense parties" or "incense competitions". In this way, the incense culture has been continuously developed and expanded under the impetus of the "gentle wind" in Japan until today's "incense culture" in Japan. Hunan culture was originally a traditional culture in China, but it was influenced by many factors in modern times.