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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 ...
Frankincense Boswellia carteri tree that produces frankincense, growing inside Biosphere 2. Frankincense, also known as olibanum (/ oʊ ˈ l ɪ b ə n ə m /), [1] is an aromatic resin used in incense and perfumes, obtained from trees of the genus Boswellia in the family Burseraceae. The word is from Old French franc encens ('high-quality ...
A teahouse in the Nanjing Presidential Palace garden, China. This is a list of teahouses. A teahouse is an establishment which primarily serves tea and other light refreshments. Sometimes the meal is also called "tea". Although its function varies widely depending on the culture, teahouses often serve as centers of social interaction, like ...
Both species are native to parts of Northeast Africa (Somalia, frankincense; Somalia and Ethiopia, myrrh) and Arabia (Oman and Yemen, frankincense), but their distribution and use have been extended beyond these regions to India and China. [19] The best frankincense is grown in Oman and the incense is widely used in worship in India. [19]
Incense burning may occasionally take place within the tea ceremony, just like calligraphy, ikebana, and scroll arrangement. Kōdō (香道), the art of incense appreciation, is generally practiced as a separate art form from the tea ceremony, and usually within a tea room of traditional Zen design.
A tea house in Shanghai, China. The concept of tea culture is referred to in Chinese as chayi ("the art of drinking tea"), or cha wenhua ("tea culture"). The word cha denotes the beverage that is derived from Camellia sinensis, the tea plant.
Tea ceremony is a ritualized practice of making and serving tea (茶 cha) in East Asia practiced in the Sinosphere. [1] The original term from China (Chinese: 茶道 or 茶禮 or 茶艺), literally translated as either "way of tea", [2] "etiquette for tea or tea rite", [3] or "art of tea" [4] among the languages in the Sinosphere, is a cultural activity involving the ceremonial preparation and ...
Chagee is a Chinese milk tea chain. It was founded in Yunnan in 2017 by Zhang Junjie. [2] Its Chinese name (霸王茶姬; Bà Wáng chájī) is based on the traditional Chinese opera Farewell My Concubine (pinyin: Bà Wáng Bié Jī), with the logo based on a huadan opera actor.