What is the function of putting incense burners at home?
Incense burner is an indispensable instrument for "fragrance", and it is also an indispensable instrument for folk customs, religions and sacrificial activities in China. It can also be used for many purposes, such as smoking clothes, furniture, or offering worship to Buddha. Generally square or round, the square incense burner generally has four feet; A circular censer has three legs, one in the front and the other in the back.
The incense burners used in the past dynasties include Boshan furnace, incense bucket, hand furnace, lying furnace, incense cone and other incense burners with different shapes, as well as auxiliary appliances such as smoked balls, incense boxes, incense clips, incense sticks, incense trays, incense spoons, incense shovels, incense cones and sachets. The main materials used are copper, ceramics, bamboo and wood products, gold and silver, enamel, jade and so on.
The history of incense burner culture in China can be traced back to Ding in Shang and Zhou Dynasties. The imperial incense burner in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty was made of jade and was very thin. You can shine a flashlight on the light source outside.
Another feature of this incense burner is that the hair color of blue and white glaze is relatively pure. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, from the early years of Jiajing, green materials were transported back and forth from the western regions, and Jiangxi Shi Ziqing was used as the pigment of blue and white. If the proportion of recycled materials is slightly higher, the blue and white color will be bright and quiet; If Shi Ziqing uses too much, the color will be grayish blue. Because rejuvenation materials are expensive, Shi Ziqing is often used to describe decorative patterns from the end of Wanli to the year of Apocalypse. The blue and white flowers on this stove are bright and fresh, which should be artifacts from the middle and early Wanli period.