Qu Yuan wrote in the "Chu Ci Jiu Ge Yun Zhongjun": "Yu lan tang Xi Mu Fang, Hua Cai yi Xi Ruoying".
The history of Chinese incense can be traced back to more than 6,000 years ago, and in the sacrifice, the incense plant burnt wood was used to raise smoke and offer sacrifices to the ghosts and gods of heaven and earth, called "burning sacrifice". In the past 4,000-5,000 years, various types of smokers have appeared, and in addition to being ritual vessels for sacrifice, they are also used as incense for life. "Why China", collected in the Palace Museum, the Eastern Han Dynasty "Lux Boshan Furnace" and the Yuan Dynasty "Filigree Enamel Tangled Lotus Pattern Ball Incense" are representative works of skilled craftsmen to create a fairyland for the emperor.
"Boshan" is the Han Dynasty people's collective name for the Sea Immortal Mountain, when the spices in the Boshan furnace are lit, a wisp of green smoke during the period, more like a fairy mountain. In later generations, there were a variety of dazzling and exquisite equipment such as incense balls, incense burners, hand stoves, and foot stoves. Copper Lux Riding Beast Boshan Furnace, height 23.9cm, width 10.1cm. The furnace lid is carved into the shape of a mountain, and the figures, animals and animals are adorned on it, and the sacred birds that stand on the summit are full of vitality. There are holes between the peaks, and after the incense is lit, smoke comes out of the holes, like a cloud surrounded by mist, like a fairyland.
The shape of the stove handle is the most ingenious, carving a naked lux with only a waistband of shorts, riding on the back of the sacred beast on his knees, pressing the neck of the beast with his left hand, and the furnace body towering on Tochi Peak on his right hand. Lux is large and stout, mighty and powerful. The thick and tightly closed lips, well-developed pectoralis major muscles, and bulging abdomen are all very much in line with the principles of artistic anatomy, and there are just the right amount of artistic exaggerations.
Filigree enamel tangled lotus pattern ball incense, caliber 14 cm, strange and exquisite structural design, with high process value. The smoke is spherical, the lid and the utensil are hemispherical, and the middle is opened and closed by a rotary buckle mechanism. The furnace has three layers of concentric rings connected by live axes, each ring shaft and the furnace trunnion into a staggered cross shape, no matter how the outer sphere rolls, the furnace body suspended in the center of the three rings will always remain horizontal, no inclination drawbacks, so this device is also known as "suspension furnace". The smoked exterior is made of sky blue enamel glaze, decorated with a total of twelve lotuses of various colors, with delicate filigree, full glaze filling, stable color and smooth ornamentation. There are copper-gilt coin-style perforations at the top of the lid, the bottom of the furnace and the edge of the mouth to diffuse the aroma.
Chinese's pursuit and wisdom of incense is concentrated on these two incense sticks.