Influenced by enlightened politics, developed economy, splendid cultural atmosphere and healthy aesthetic consciousness at that time, Sui and Tang incense products showed the characteristics of "rich aroma, luxury and elegance, warmth and durability". In the Tang Dynasty, there appeared an exquisite incense method-fire incense. Special incense charcoal is not burned directly, but burned red and buried in incense ashes. On the grey surface, heat insulation materials (such as mica, silver leaf, small porcelain, etc. ), and then put the incense on it, so that the incense is slowly smoked out by charcoal fire, and the heat emits fragrance.

"Fire-proof" incense appeared in the Tang Dynasty and became more popular after the Song Dynasty, winning the favor of literati. Although "smoked" incense is not as simple as "burned" incense, its aroma is more mellow and pleasant, and it can add more interest, so many people have always liked it.

Here is an introduction. Interested friends can refer to it. The following pictures and notes are for everyone to better understand the steps of fragrance.

Preparation of incense: incense should be made of high quality incense made of natural spices, which can be mixed incense or original incense. Its volume should not be too large, and the incense is divided into thin slices, small pieces, powder and other shapes.

Put a piece of incense charcoal on the charcoal rack with a incense stick, and let the charcoal burn at 360 degrees with a special igniter. The fire should burn charcoal in parallel, not perpendicular to the charcoal rack. Generally, from top to middle to bottom, when the charcoal is white, it will be put down a little, and the temperature will be tested by hand to make sure that the charcoal has been burned before the next step.

Take the incense burner, pour the incense ashes into the incense burner, stir clockwise with the incense stick and loosen it, so that the incense ashes are filled with air, which is beneficial to the burning of incense charcoal;

Draw a circle from the arranged ashes with incense sticks, and open a charcoal hole clockwise, just big enough to put a circular charcoal. Don't drive to the end, leave some ashes for insulation to avoid burning your hands; The depth of incense charcoal is 1.5cm-2.0cm from the surface of incense ash.

Burying the burnt carbon without peculiar smell into the perforated carbon hole; Gently comb the incense ashes upward to cover the charcoal fire.

Hold the furnace in your left hand, hold the ash in your right hand, press the ash, rotate the incense burner counterclockwise, press and rotate, and press the ash into a cone shape of about 30 degrees; Don't press it too tightly, and don't press it too tightly, so as not to burn the incense carbon fully because of too little air.

Gently sweep the place around the incense burner with feather dust to avoid touching the incense ashes on your hands when tasting incense.

Put incense on the ashes.

Light the window on the tip of the cone with a stick until it smells good.

The size of the fire window hole is directly related to the heating speed of carbon clusters. Large, the temperature rises fast, small and slow. It can be determined according to the characteristics and needs of fragrant materials. Note: If the temperature of charcoal is high, it can be buried shallower, otherwise it can be buried deeper. Generally, the distance between incense charcoal and incense ash surface is about 1 cm.

After burying incense charcoal for three or five minutes, the charcoal heat will basically drive away the moisture in the furnace ash and put on a thin gasket (mica, silver foil, metal sheet, etc.). ) use silver tweezers to clamp on the fire window, and gently press mica sheet in the middle to fix it;

Try charcoal fire with palm down, and put incense sticks on the partition when the temperature reaches. If you smoke, you can wait for a while, and then start tasting incense when you are smokeless; Or cover the incense ash thicker to reduce the smoke. If the incense sticks smoke, it means that the temperature is too high, and it is necessary to increase the thickness of incense ash on the incense carbon.

Arrange the position of silver leaves or mica sheets and smell them. After confirming the fragrance, start to taste the fragrance. The thumb of the left hand buckles the upper edge of the incense burner, the four fingers hold the base of the incense burner, and the right hand is in the shape of a tiger's mouth; When tasting incense, relax your shoulders, raise your arms, hold the stove in front of your nose, breathe softly and smell the incense; When taking a breath, turn your head to the left to breathe and exhale quickly into the furnace. Slowly observe the changes of color, shape and fragrance of fragrant materials with time.

(1) Relax. Only by keeping the body and mind relaxed, comfortable, quiet and natural can we meet with incense, utensils and space, achieve the perfect combination of things and relax our limbs. The best way is to take a breath of the present and feel the changes in your body through your income.

(2) Relieve emotions. Through the deep connection between fragrance and body and emotion, the body will gradually relax in the environment of fragrance and feel the pain and emotional pressure of the body. At this time, you can release stress, repair your body, let your emotions flow freely and heal your tired body and mind through effective perfume.