Hanging paintings, burning incense, ordering tea, arranging flowers
In the Song Dynasty, hanging paintings, burning incense, ordering tea, and arranging flowers were collectively known as the Four Arts. The tea-ordering method was a popular way of drinking tea in the Song Dynasty. First, the tea cake was ground into a bowl, and then a small amount of boiling water was used to make a paste. Then, the teapot was used to add some water into the teacup and quickly stir the tea with the teapot to make the soup appear. This was different from the tea-brewing method in the Tang Dynasty. It was the way of fighting tea and daily drinking tea at that time. China had a long history of incense burning. The incense culture of the Song Dynasty was more perfect. The literati not only tasted incense but also studied the production of incense."Burning incense across the fire" was a popular method at that time. Its fragrance was low and long, lasting for a long time. The art of flower arrangement originated from ancient flowers and hairpins. It had a history of nearly 2000 years. It was greatly developed and popularized among the people because of the love of scholars in the Song Dynasty. Hanging paintings was also a part of the pursuit of elegant life by scholars in the Song Dynasty. These four artistic activities tasted daily life through smell, taste, touch, and vision, raising daily life to the artistic realm, enriching inner self-restraint and cultivation. While waiting for the TV series, you can also click on the link below to read the classic original work of "Dafeng Nightwatchman"!
Burning incense and tasting tea
Burning incense and tasting tea were elegant things in traditional China culture. Burning incense had the meaning of 'burning incense and sitting in silence, deep self-examination, forgetting everything. The realm of being empty in body and mind, clean in thought, and free from corruption. Tea tasting had the meaning of "the friendship between gentlemen is as light as water, and the friendship between tea people is as pure as tea". Tasting tea in one's own tea room, the fragrance of tea and incense would collide and fuse, producing an indescribable taste. The two complemented each other, and it was a suitable way for one to move, relax, and relieve stress. " Yun Anlu's Body Sacrifice " is equally exciting. Everyone is welcome to read it!
Helplessly burning flowers as incense
This sentence could literally be understood as saying that everything in the world could not be forced. Although the blood-red spider lilies were beautiful, they had no choice but to wither like flames and turn into incense dust. It could also be extended to the fact that Walnut had used the secret method of calming the mind to burn the special wooden box of the Rebirth Hall to ashes. From the perspective of Walnut's Life Seat, the corresponding Life Seat could increase the level of the secret method of calming the mind by 3 levels (up to 15 levels at most). It could also be understood that the set of words used to describe Walnut could be understood as Walnut's state or behavior in some situations (such as when he used a calming secret technique), which reflected Walnut's style as the Hall Master of the Rebirth Hall. The novel,"The Morality of the Past", is equally exciting. Everyone is welcome to click and read it!
Helplessly burning flowers to make incense
the butterfly in the dark can leave behind a wisp of fragrance. The novel,"The Morality of the Past", is equally exciting. Everyone is welcome to click and read it!
Incense burning process
1. Choose incense, choose incense that is suitable for burning, such as agarwood, sandalwood, wormwood, etc. 2. Clean your body and mind. You can bring a bottle of pure water with you. Wash your hands, rinse your mouth, correct your appearance, and calm your body and mind before offering incense. Follow the principle of first clean your heart, then clean your mouth, and then clean your body. When you clean your heart, recite the mantra of cleansing your heart. 3. After lighting the incense stick, he held the foot between his index and middle fingers, and held the tail of the foot with his thumbs. The incense stick head is flat, and the Buddha statue is worshiped at the same height as the eyebrows, and the Buddha Bodhisattva is visualized (if the incense stick is burned in the temple). 4. The first incense stick was inserted in the middle, the second incense stick was inserted on the right, and the third incense stick was inserted on the left. "Yun Anlu's Body Sacrifice" is equally exciting. Everyone is welcome to read it!
The steps of burning incense
1. Cleanse the body and mind: Believers can bring their own pure water, wash their hands, rinse their mouth, correct their appearance, and calm their body and mind before offering incense. Follow the principle of first cleansing the heart, then cleansing the mouth, and then cleansing the body. When cleansing the heart, they can recite the mantra of cleansing the heart. 2. [Lighting incense: The specific method was not mentioned.] 3. The position of holding the incense stick: use the index finger and middle finger of the left and right hands to clamp the incense stick, and the thumbs of the left and right hands to support the tail of the incense stick. 4. Worship incense (if you burn incense in front of the Buddha statue in the temple): The incense head is flat and the Buddha statue is worshiped at the same level as the eyebrows. 5. The order of placing incense sticks (if you were in a temple and offering incense to a Buddha statue): the first incense stick would be placed in the middle, the second incense stick would be placed on the right, and the third incense stick would be placed on the left. In addition, the steps for incense were as follows: 1. After burning the charcoal in the incense burner and turning it into hot ashes, he buried the charcoal (cylindrical fuel made of charcoal powder) into the hot ashes. 2. He poked some small holes in the hot ash so that the charcoal could come into contact with oxygen under the ash and not extinguish it. Then, he slowly waited for the charcoal to heat up. 3. He placed a fire barrier on the incense burner (the fire barrier was made of porcelain, mica, money, silver leaves, sand, etc.). 4. The incense pills were placed over a fire and roasted with charcoal to emit fragrance. During this process, one had to constantly observe the temperature with their hands (test the fragrance). According to the situation, adjust the temperature of the charcoal fire or add incense to control the fragrance. "Yun Anlu's Body Sacrifice" is equally exciting. Everyone is welcome to read it!
What is burning incense?
Burning incense had many meanings. From the perspective of cultural tradition, incense was a necessary procedure for the ancients to control their emotions. In ancient times, incense was made into incense pills, incense balls, incense cakes, or incense powder through the method of "incense". The raw materials included honey, jujube paste, bletille water, wax (soft incense), etc. Burning incense required the power of charcoal fire, and it was necessary to constantly add ingredients to ensure the quality of the fragrance. It pursued the realm of reducing smoke and making the fragrance low and long. The ancients also often burned incense to worship and calm their hearts. There was also the method of "burning incense timing". In modern times, incense could also refer to the lighting of incense sticks and other incense products. Incense sticks first appeared in the Song Dynasty in the shape of chopsticks, and in the Ming Dynasty, they developed into incense sticks. It could be used to create an atmosphere, cultivate one's body, and so on. Incense sticks made of different materials had different functions and effects, such as calming one's heart and calming one's mind, and some could eliminate dampness and turbid. In addition, Xiao Ding's fantasy novels had a righteous sect named 'Incense' and Yun Chuanzong's ancient fantasy series named 'Incense.' "Yun Anlu's Body Sacrifice" is equally exciting. Everyone is welcome to read it!
Incense Burning Scene
There were many scenarios for burning incense: - In fantasy novels, such as Xiao Ding's novels, incense was the place where one of the three magnates of the righteous path lived. The incense here was a regional concept. It was located in a narrow and long passage between the Central Plains and the Hundred Thousand Mountains in the southern border. The people here were good at using flames. - In religious scenes, when offering incense, there would be the act of burning incense. After lighting the incense, the forefinger and middle finger of the left and right hands would be used to clamp the incense foot, and the thumbs of the left and right hands would support the end of the incense foot. The incense head would be flat and the Buddha statue would be worshiped. Then, the Buddha and Bodhisattva would be visualized. Then, the first incense stick would be inserted in the middle, the second incense stick would be inserted on the right, and the third incense stick would be inserted on the left. - In the lives of ancient scholars, incense and tea ceremony were often combined. In the Song Dynasty, where tea-ordering methods were popular in ancient China, scholars would light a pot of incense when tasting tea, allowing the tea fragrance and fragrance to blend together. In his later years, Su Dongpo and his disciples used agarwood as a companion and burned incense all day long to write Fu. In folk daily life sketches, women and children could also be seen setting incense burner and other items on the table, reflecting the integration of incense burning and tea ceremony into daily life. In the Japanese tea ceremony, the incense ceremony and the tea ceremony were closely connected. The host would bury incense pills under the wet ashes in the furnace, and when the guests arrived, the fragrance would overflow. The incense used in the tea mat was divided into furnace incense and wind furnace incense according to the season. - In daily life, whether it was literati or ordinary people, almost every household would burn incense in the past. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, the incense culture declined. However, some traditional hand-made incense sticks were still used, such as the fragrance of the dew of the willow branch, which could calm one's heart when sleeping, meditating, or reading at night, and the fragrance of the grass, which could dissolve dampness and disperse turbid water when it rained in summer. " Yun Anlu's Body Sacrifice " is equally exciting. Everyone is welcome to read it!
The description of burning incense
There were many descriptions of incense burning in ancient literature. Such as the poem of Gao Lian,"The cypress orchid shoots are burning on the ground." the smoke from the pine window spreads a clear fragrance. I faintly hear the broken furnace in my dreams. Through the purple mist, the blue clouds. A curtain of flowers swaying on the Xiang-pattern "vividly showed the leisurely scene of burning incense in Yan's residence. The cypress sprouts were burning on the table, the smoke under the pine window was wafting with fragrance, the broken furnace could still be faintly smelled in the dream, the smoke was filled with purple mist, the blue clouds were rising, and the shadows of flowers swayed on the curtain. Gu Qing described in the poem "Burning Incense in the Winter Night","The night is not cold in the small pavilion with the curtain hanging down, and the sky is full of green clouds." Fragrant and beautiful like plum breeze thin, ethereal should pity crane dream alone. The name of the heavy water Shen urged to take, fire micro Mica self-added to see. He wrote the scene of burning incense in the attic at night. The green smoke drifted away like the fragrance of plum blossoms, illusory like a lone yellow crane. The officials of the Ming Dynasty burned incense and their bodies were filled with fragrance. Mao Yuanchun said," Burning incense in the morning, the clear smoke will float, and the dust will dissipate and the spirit will be opened." It means that burning incense can calm people's minds and disperse the dust. It is one of the sources of taste and pleasure in the study. Its fragrance can drive away the filth in the study and it has the effect of waking up the mind, which is beneficial to reading and writing. In addition, there was also a description of the incense itself when burning incense. For example, the Western Jin Dynasty green glaze hollowed-out incense, the incense body was spherical, the upper part was carved with three layers of triangular ventilation holes, and the fragrance was slowly emitted from the carved holes. The lower part was an oval furnace door, and the top was a bird-shaped button. The bird raised its head and spread its wings, making people think of the comfort of the curling cigarette. " Yun Anlu's Body Sacrifice " is equally exciting. Everyone is welcome to read it!
The meaning of burning incense
Burning incense to the heavens had many meanings. On the one hand, it was a way to purify one's soul, as shown in the allusion of Zhao Yuedao burning incense to pray to heaven in the Song Dynasty. It was a kind of examination and cultivation of one's own moral character by the scholar-bureaucrats. On the other hand, it reflected a kind of reverence. For example, Zhao Yunfan of the Northern Song Dynasty must first put on his clothes and hat, burn incense and pray to the sky the night before. Those who dare not do so will not do it. They dare not do evil deeds that violate the law and discipline, or even ugly acts that deceive the world. This reflects the attitude of respecting Heaven, fearing people's words, keeping the bottom line and maintaining moral conduct. There were also people like Siyuan who burned incense to pray to the heavens. It was an expression of one's own achievements, hoping to reach the celestial heavens and gain recognition. In addition, from the perspective of divination, burning incense to pray to the heavens expressed a sincere heart. People believed that by praying in this way, they could receive the blessing of the gods and an effective response. " Yun Anlu's Body Sacrifice " is equally exciting. Everyone is welcome to read it!
Story of Burning Incense
" The Story of Incense " told the story of Wang Kui, a scholar who failed his examinations, falling ill in the snow. Gui Guiying, a woman from a brothel, saved Wang Kui on her way to the Sea God Temple to offer incense. She gave everything she had to treat Wang Kui and married him. The next year, Wang Kui went to the capital to take the examination. Before the examination, the two people went to the Sea God Temple to swear that they would not betray each other. However, a year later, what Guiying received was a letter of divorce sent by Wang Kui, the top scorer of the high school. There were different versions of the story. In the story of Burning Incense, it was basically the story of Jin Lei stealing the fake divorce letter and ending with a happy ending. However, the adaptation of local dramas mostly used Wang Kui's betrayal as the theme, and one of them was quite touching. " Yun Anlu's Body Sacrifice " is equally exciting. Everyone is welcome to read it!