The Chinese have long applied the extensive and profound fragrance culture to their daily lives. One stick of incense and two cups of tea. When friends get together, they can smell the incense, drink tea, play the piano, or paint. They should burn incense before the table to add to the fun. It is even customary to apply incense when taking a bath. By the Tang Dynasty, the incense ceremony had become very popular. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, it was also known as the "Four Elegances" of the Chinese people along with the tea ceremony, flower arrangement, and hanging paintings.

In the history of the Chinese nation, the use of incense has covered almost all aspects of human life, belonging to both spiritual and material categories. From the living environment of human clothing, food, housing and transportation back to the lives of ancient ancestors, from folk worship and sacrifices to the relationship between various social groups and incense, the incense cultural system can be positioned at the coordinate of China's incense road. The scent path is the crystallization of the wisdom of the harmony between the Chinese nation and nature. It shows the inheritance history of the beauty of nature and humanized fragrance, and retains the surprise, joy, love and dreams of our ancestors.

Incense Tao occupies a very important component in the ranks of excellent traditional Chinese culture. The reason why incense has become Tao is that the aromatic substances of nature have acted on people's spiritual and material lives for thousands of years and have not died out due to dynasties and political changes; it condenses national emotions, links public consciousness, and shows social regeneration. Vitality and the life characteristics of inheriting history and culture are the broad and profound aspects of Tao. From the beginning of Chinese civilization to the present, what has shaped the soul and temperament of the Chinese nation is also the cultural history of harmony between man and nature. Its theoretical framework is unparalleled by people all over the world.

Tracing back the history of Tao culture, the founder of Chinese humanities created the Tai Chi model. A black dot and a white circle represent constancy, and a white fish and a black fish embracing each other represent constant motion. The ever-moving yin-yang fish carries the constant black and white fish eyes, forming an endless yin-yang movement pattern of white within black and black within white. This movement model flatly, concisely and simply reveals the movement laws of the universe and nature. The unified view of opposites of relative and absolute is the view of nature and philosophy of Tao culture. So we say that the Yin-Yang Taiji Diagram is the Tao. It created a huge river for Chinese traditional culture and accommodated all phenomena of nature. The incense Tao system formed by China's incense culture in all things nature is the product of what Laozi said in "Tao Te Ching": "Man follows the earth, the earth follows the sky, the sky follows the Tao, and the Tao follows nature."

Chinese incense is an ancient but brand-new concept. It originates from the medical culture of Qihuang's hometown, so Qingyang in eastern Gansu is the birthplace of Chinese incense. China's incense culture is extensive and profound. It has been sublimated into a complete cultural system, and a reason has been found to incorporate it into the category of "Tao", which has aroused widespread attention from the whole society and debate in the academic community. As the hometown of Qihuang, we It is our duty to take up the responsibility of exploring, researching and discovering it. This sense of responsibility prompted us to read a large amount of information and study all aspects of original materials, so we were inspired by the successful holding of the six consecutive Dragon Boat Festival Xiangbao Folk Culture Festival in Qingyang City. The cultural resources of "fragrance" provided us with innumerable With little useful experience, we have found an entry point and a starting point for the compilation of this book, which allows us to see the broad road and brilliant prospects of incense culture.

The above is the answer I reposted from "Xiang Zhizun".