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2. Incense in China - Wikipedia

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   Incense in China is traditionally used in a wide range of Chinese cultural activities including religious ceremonies, ancestor veneration, traditional medicine, and in daily life. Known as xiang ( Chinese : 香 ; pinyin : xiāng ; Wade–Giles : hsiang ; lit. 'fragrance'), incense was used by the Chinese cultures starting from Neolithic times ...

3. Incense - Wikipedia

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   Incense was used by Chinese cultures from Neolithic times and became more widespread in the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties. [18] The earliest documented use of incense comes from the ancient Chinese, who employed incense composed of herbs and plant products (such as cassia , cinnamon , styrax , and sandalwood ) as a component of numerous ...

4. Religious use of incense - Wikipedia

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   Incense smoke wafts from huge burners in Lhasa, Tibet.. The first recorded use of incense was by the Indians in the Indus Valley Civilisation in 3600 BC. Egyptians during the Fifth Dynasty, 2345-2494 BC were the first in the non-Asian world to discover the use of incense, which was used by Hindus for centuries by the time of the 5th Dynasty.

5. Bdellium - Wikipedia

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   In China, bdellium, known as ānxī xiāng (Chinese: 安息香) or "Arsacid aromatic," was among the varieties of incense that reached China either along the Silk Route from Central Asia, or by sea. Later ānxī xiāng was applied to an East Indian substitute, gum benzoin from Sumatra. [8]

6. Incense clock - Wikipedia

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   Different powdered incense clocks used different formulations of incense, depending on how the clock was laid out. [15] The length of the trail of incense, directly related to the size of the seal, was the primary factor in determining how long the clock would last; all burned for long periods of time, ranging between 12 hours and a month.

7. Jingxiang - Wikipedia

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   Woman kindling the incense sticks for jingxiang at a temple in China.. Jìngxiāng (敬香 "offering incense with respect"), shàngxiāng (上香 "offering incense"), bàishén (拜神 "worshipping the Gods"), is a ritual of offering incense accompanied by tea and or fruits in Chinese traditional religion.