When it comes to incense culture, it is estimated that nine times out of ten it is unknown, or it is related to Buddha worship. In fact, Xiangdao is the ancient label of China, just like the tea ceremony, but it will soon be registered as their cultural heritage in Japan. In ancient China, tasting incense, fighting tea, arranging flowers and hanging pictures were called the "four gossip" in the elegant life of the upper class. But now, the tea ceremony and flower arrangement have become the quintessence of Japan next door, and Xiangdao, an extremely pure and elegant China art, has almost been registered as its own cultural heritage in Japan and completely disappeared. The ancients said: "Burning incense and looking at paintings are thousands of miles away, and the clouds and trees are graceful, and it is effortless to swim mountains and rivers." It is said that if you live between rooms, light a pot of incense and hang a pair of beautiful mountain and river paintings, you will wander around the world one day without any effort. China people began to use incense in the Qin and Han Dynasties, when it was very common to use Radix Aucklandiae, clean body and wash hands in the daily life of the upper class aristocrats. In the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties, Taoism prevailed and incense culture prevailed, resulting in articles such as hand-covered sachets. Then in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, incense was already very common. At this time, Zhen and the eminent monk traveled eastward, which not only spread Buddhism to Japan, but also brought incense culture closely related to Buddhism. In the Song Dynasty, due to the high standards and strict requirements of the literati for material life, as well as their vigorous advocacy and promotion of material life from the spiritual level, they laid the cornerstone of the traditional culture of China, such as piano, chess, books, paintings, food, wine and tea, showing a broad and vigorous trend. Incense has also become an art, and dignitaries and literati often get together to smell the incense and do the initial ceremony. When people in China talk about incense today, the first thing that comes to mind is that Buddhist temples are already deformed. As a foreign religion, Buddhism undoubtedly inherited the incense of the Han, Wei and Jin Dynasties in disguise, but its essence has long lost that kind of cultural precipitation and essence.