Lao Xu said incense. The first article of the opening article.
Xu Haohao, this name was changed later. It was 1993, a very famous master in China said that I had a serious shortage of water in the five elements, so I chose the word "Hao Hao", I couldn't understand it at the time, but I thought it was better than the original name and out of respect for the master, so I called it away.
It was also in this year that my grandmother passed away, and she gave so much to me and was the most important person in my life! At the funeral, my brother was chanting with his lay friends, and I smelled pure sandalwood for the first time, and in the picture, my grandmother smiled and waved goodbye to me.
From then on, I fell in love with sandalwood, and then came into contact with agarwood. In 2003, after I converted to Buddhism and became a layman, I learned that this is called "good fortune". Because the starting point of using incense is very high, I have never used incense with added essence. With the contact with the monks and laymen, as more and more monasteries are passed, the incense made by adding inferior essences without control becomes more and more disgusted, because the harmful substances produced after burning exceed the standard, which will endanger people's health, but it has not attracted enough attention from people, or has not found a way to solve it.
After reading a lot of Buddhist scriptures, I realized that incense is not burned as much as possible, and different practice methods should burn different incense, and even gave formulas, but there are no specific quantitative indicators. Later, I realized that it was the Buddha's compassion, which should vary from person to person.
In 2007, I came into contact with "Hexiang" for the first time, and I was very happy, and at the same time, my sense of mission increased dramatically, so I embarked on the road of "looking for fragrance". Gradually, the "Hexiang cultural system" was sorted out, including the issue of the principle of the group; Gradually, many doubts were solved, including the problem of my "lack of water in my life"; Gradually, many products were developed, including soaps and shower gels, ......
"Waterfall Flowing Incense" is my proud work, she is a combination of fragrance and beauty, the name is God-given after the successful design, this layer of "window paper" is too thin, so in 2012 only obtained a design patent, but it is enough to make me proud, because many people are imitating, and even become the main product of many factories. It's a pity that they actually use the name of "inverted incense" or even "indecent incense", and the poetic and picturesque meaning is gone, probably because they are afraid that I will defend my rights!
For more than ten years, I have obtained more than 20 patents of various kinds, including two inventions, from incense products to incense utensils to incense making tools, and I have been looking for opportunities to systematically introduce them to you. Today, I will share my own views here every week, answer the questions raised by everyone, and work together to make progress together.
A synopsis of my opinion.
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Shennong tasted a hundred herbs" discovered traditional Chinese medicine, which laid the foundation for Chinese civilization. Through years of practice, later generations have summarized and sorted out the traditional Chinese medicine system such as aromatic opening, dampness, surface relief, and qi, that is, incense, although the use method is different from that of traditional Chinese medicine, but the same method is in yin and yang, and in accordance with the five elements. The process of burning incense is the need to organically link man and nature and achieve the realm of "unity between man and nature". This is the purpose of Hexiang culture - incense follows the way of heaven.
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Understand the purpose of the ancients' incense, master the principles of the ancients' incense, but do not plagiarize or imitate. The concept of contemporary Hexiang culture has been formed - the ancient is not muddy.
Three
Due to the complexity and inefficiency of the traditional way of making incense, few people are enthusiastic about it now. However, the "scientificity" of incense is still unachievable by modern mechanized incense-making technology. Advocate personalized handmade incense.
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The process of understanding incense medicine is the process of dialogue with nature, not only to know the personality of incense, but also to know the relationship between many incense medicines, and between incense and people, so as to conform to nature and live in harmony. It is not advisable to verify the "incense way" by understanding individual incense medicines.
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Chinese incense is the expression and effective carrier of traditional Chinese culture, and it is an important channel for people to learn and apply traditional culture to improve their comprehensive literacy.
Six
Although fragrant soup bathing, incense medicine fumigation, aroma moxibustion health, essential oil care ......The way of using incense has been widely entered into the life of contemporary people, but it is necessary to give the connotation of modern science, rational analysis and application, in order to be widely accepted by the public and benefit from it.
The above is my basic understanding of Chinese incense culture, please correct!