Traditional incense culture

"Sweet is the meaning of heaven and earth. ? 」

Incense can enlighten the mind, it can awaken the mind, strong fragrance can make people happy, and light fragrance can calm the mind ... fragrance can fascinate people and calm people. Man's love for incense is innate.

To practice incense is to practice China traditional culture;

Keep healthy with incense and show a healthy attitude towards life;

Cultivate your sexual desire with fragrance and have a comfortable and leisurely lifestyle;

Cultivate virtue with fragrance, enlighten wisdom with pleasure, and open an elegant life.

Aroma is a gift from nature to the sense of smell, and it is a virtuous thing to keep fit. However, human beings like incense for more than these reasons.

Pepper is sweet and fragrant, so it nourishes the nose and helps Qiu Lan, so it is a spiritual feast in the traditional culture of China. From incense to Taoism, incense has also laid a foundation in our cultural blood. As the saying goes, incense lasts forever, and incense culture is gradually waking up in modern society. Fragrance has become an indispensable part of life such as elegance, meditation, decompression, health preservation and beauty.

I know China's fragrant culture well.

Explore incense and life, incense and religion, incense and medicine.

He is good at blending incense into modern people's life.

Let the world smell the fragrance and enter the country, and the years are agarwood.

The popularization and inheritance of Xiangxue requires not only the spread and promotion of Xiangxue culture and Xiangdao etiquette. We also need to pay attention to the rational use of spices in our daily life. Smelling incense is the origin of blending and making incense, and making incense is to complete the research and development and taste of incense. Making good use of incense is the profound inheritance of incense culture and the sublimation of physical and mental cultivation.

Taoism is used to control the ancient method, and the incense method of calming the nerves and nourishing the heart and nourishing the nature is spread in the manual incense making, so that the taste and use of incense can really help your study, work, health preservation and practice.

Preliminary study on incense

Know the origin of incense and its origin.

To enter the Tao with incense and learn incense is also to learn the profound traditional cultural connotation behind it. In this first class, Happy Xiangfu will hold an introductory ceremony for the students, and they have been attached to Xiangfu since then.

Xiang culture originated in ancient times. With the rise and fall of the Chinese nation for thousands of years, it has different development characteristics in different periods. Understand the essence of China incense culture systematically.

The first knowledge of aromatic materials

Identify spices and know their fragrance.

The first task of learning incense is to be familiar with all kinds of natural spices. Xiang Jing has prepared all kinds of common spices for everyone. You can intuitively understand their characteristics and learn the basic aroma of various spices by seeing, smelling and touching them.

The formation and origin of agarwood

"The painting hall embroiders beads and Hu, and the jade furnace removes agarwood." Aquilaria sinensis, both in quality and quantity, can be said to be the first place to use incense in ancient and modern times, and it is also the most popular incense in poetry. Aquilaria sinensis is known as the first fragrance, the diamond in plants and the relic of wood, which combines fragrance, medicine and hiding. Why is it so attractive?

The topic of agarwood explains the generation process of agarwood, its classification, its origin, its identification and how to collect a piece of its own fragrance.

Combination of incense and physical examination

Leave incense on your hand and make it yourself.

As early as the pre-Qin period, there was a history of incense; The Silk Road was opened in the Han Dynasty, and western spices were introduced, which enriched the use of incense. In the Tang dynasty, the fragrance was luxurious, and the nobles showed their identity with the fragrance; Burning incense became an elegant way of life in the Song Dynasty. Literati in Ming Dynasty took burning incense as their daily homework, and they could not live without incense for a day. ......

From the concept of fragrance formula, fragrance can be divided into two systems: single fragrance and combined fragrance. Single incense can directly smoke and burn raw materials, and can also be made into finished incense, thread incense and so on. , commonly used are agarwood, sandalwood and Dalbergia odorifera; Flavoring is to grind all kinds of spices into fine powder, mix them according to the proportion of spices, and make them into pill, powder, thread and so on.

Compared with a single fragrance, the combined fragrance has high creativity and diverse smells, which won the favor of ancient literati. Like Ding Wei, Su Shi, and Huang Tingjian in Song Dynasty, they all have fragrant prescriptions that represent their own aesthetic tastes.

In fact, the combination of fragrant products is the key link of the whole fragrant culture and the embodiment of nature and human wisdom. Through the compatibility of various spices, it is the first step to make your own xiang zhu, incense brand and line incense.

Is it sweet? Medicine? Same? source

Fragrance into life, wonderful daily life.

The ancients believed that health preservation must start from two aspects: "sex" and "fate", and incense has the function of "nourishing". Therefore, Chinese medicine regards incense as a "medicine" for health preservation, forming a tradition of "homology of incense and medicine". Spices belong to aromatic medicinal materials, and most herbal books often classify them as drugs such as aromatization, dampness elimination, blood circulation and qi circulation, and resuscitation. How to make the health care effect of incense play to the extreme? Listen to the story of Xiang Fu one by one.

Smoke from the fire?

Song-style elegance reappears today.

Reading and painting, drinking tea and playing the piano, burning incense and ordering tea, and traveling with flowers are all spices that run through the life of Song people. The Song Dynasty is the heyday of China's incense culture, and people can't live without incense for a moment. Elegant and solemn ceremony, full of artistic incense, each process has its profound humanistic accumulation. From loosening ash, burning charcoal, adding charcoal, spreading ash and pressing ash, to stringing, opening windows, cutting incense, adding incense and tasting incense, all links have standardized methods. Being in it will make people feel a solemn sense of sacredness, which makes this moment different from other moments. This is the unique life experience brought by the sense of ceremony.