What are the Ten Virtues of Incense?
What are the Ten Virtues of Incense?
It cleanses the mind and body.
It removes defilements, and it makes you sleep.
Be a friend in the quiet, a friend in the dust.
Many is not enough, but few is enough.
It will last for a long time and be used without hindrance.
The Ten Virtues of Fragrance is a highly summarized summary of the intrinsic qualities of incense by Huang Tingjian, a great literary figure of the Song Dynasty, which has had a profound impact on the study of incense culture in the later generations. Huang Tingjian was not only a great calligrapher, painter and writer, but also a great master of incense. He was fond of incense, used incense, and incense, and his “Ten Virtues of Incense” and “Poems on Incense” and other literary works have made comprehensive and profound analysis and evaluation of the connotation of incense.
The Ten Virtues of Incense begins with the special attributes of incense and explains its role in the relationship between man and heaven. In the study of the ancients, incense is “the gathering of pure yang gas of heaven and earth and those who are born”, with the nature of pure yang, on the sense of heaven, so there is a “sense of the ghosts and gods” of the work; the next can support the right but evil, through the channels and open the orifices, clean body and mind, get rid of dirt, so that the evil does not invade, to achieve the effect of health care and health care. The next can support the right but the evil, through the channels, clean the body and mind, get rid of impurities, so that the evil will not invade, to achieve health effects. Fragrance “can realize sleep” may be a topic that is confusing to listen to. Causes of poor sleep for many reasons, but fundamentally, most of the day’s labor, so that the yang energy loss is too much, yin over yang, yin and yang can not be balanced. At night, the natural yin qi exuberant, and the yin qi in the human body, the old yin qi tandem to take advantage of the situation, in the human body everywhere, so that leads to the God can not be peaceful, poor quality of sleep. A good stove incense, Yang Qi full, both can help correct evil, but also to cultivate the energy of the sun, sleep why disturbed?
Incense and is a pleasant God and sex things, incense overflowing furnace warm, curling colorful smoke, both pleasant state of mind, such as good friends, but also dust in the leisure. Incense is not like medicine, the real and lawful incense not only will not have side effects on the human body, and a real incense can also be dark incense room. Because people tasting incense is not only the mouth and nose breathing, more importantly, through the body’s hair orifices into the body, the body is full of stop. Therefore, even if the whole day stove incense constantly will not hurt people’s physical and mental health. Therefore, for thousands of years, the good incense are regarded as life in the second thing, four times commonly used, home standing.
