In ancient China, tasting incense, together with tea ceremony, hanging pictures and arranging flowers, was called the "four chores" of dignitaries, and was deeply loved by court nobles and literati. Later, it spread to Japan and developed into today's "fragrant road". In the past two years, with the upsurge of traditional culture in China, this kind of health and leisure way, which was almost lost in China, has quietly emerged, and there has also been a fragrance culture training studio specially designed for learning fragrance in Wuxi.

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China people have a long history of using incense, and the civilization of using incense in China can be summarized as follows: it started in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, grew up in the Qin and Han Dynasties, completed in the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties, and flourished in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Before the Han Dynasty, Tang Muxiang and Li Xiang were the main products, Taoism prevailed in the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties, and Boshan incense culture prevailed. The Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties not only flourished with incense, but also enriched various methods of incense because of the integration of eastern and western civilizations. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, tasting incense, fighting tea, arranging flowers and hanging pictures were called the "four gossip" in the life of literati.

In the Ming Dynasty, incense, Neo-Confucianism and Buddhism were combined into "sitting incense" and "teaching incense", which became a course of meditation and inspection in the jungle. It has become fashionable for Buddhists and literati to build fragrant houses, quiet rooms and collect Xuande furnaces. In the heyday of Qing dynasty, incense went deeper into daily life, and three-piece sets of stoves, bottles and boxes, as well as incense tables and incense sticks became typical furnishings in the study.

Later, with the decay of the Manchu dynasty and the Kuomintang government, the warlord regime was in frequent wars, and the invasion of western culture led to the decline of the country. People's spiritual life tends to be rambling, and the ceremony of the fragrant banquet culture gradually declines, just like pure art forms such as poetry, music and dance. At this point, the incense gradually faded out of the vision of the general public. ...