The ancients burned incense as a daily lesson, the study can not be a day without incense. "Burning incense to study quiet" is the ancient way of life to settle the mind and cultivate the body. 

      In ancient literati books on health, incense is mentioned in conjunction with meditation, especially when meditating and breathing, a stove of incense is burned around.

      Huang Tingjian was relegated to Yizhou in his later years, and was forced to live in a noisy marketplace, where his neighbors were cattle butchers. In such a bad environment, Huang Tingjian relies on burning incense to practice quiet to collect his mind and seek inner peace. Huang Tingjian's "Collection of Yu Zhang Mr. Huang":

       He arrived in Yizhou in the following summer and settled here for only six months before the authorities ordered him to be expelled from the city gate again and ordered to move to Zicheng.He then "set up a couch, burned incense and sat down", so that he could keep his mind quiet despite the noise and bustle of the cattle slaughtering workshop in his western neighborhood all day long.

      The sound of the hustle and bustle of the marketplace and the smell of rotten meat, all kinds of troublesome mundane intrusions, just burn a stick of incense can be "Purifies the mind", external worries, distracting things in the aroma of the cleansing, dissipated into nothing.

      The ancients paid more attention to burning incense and meditation when recuperating from illness.

    The scent of cypress seeds is clear and its calming and clearing effect can stabilize the patient's mood. The method of making cypress incense is simple and the spices used are relatively simple and approachable.

     Picking with green, unbroken fresh cypress seeds collected at random , blanching with boiling water, then immersed in wine, sealed for seven days, and then removed, put in a cool place to dry slowly, that is, cypress fragrance.

     In addition to spiritual nourishment, incense was also a sanitary and epidemic prevention item in the life of the ancients.

    The odor emitted by burning incense can immunize and ward off evil spirits, sterilize and disinfect, and awaken the spirit and educate the mind. The health function of incense was valued by the ancients, and they often took "Anti-plague medicine" to remove dampness and ward off evil spirits when they went out.

     From the perspective of Chinese medicine, burning incense is one of the external treatment methods of "odor therapy".

    The raw materials used in the production of incense, the four medicinal properties and five different flavors(the four different medicinal properties of cold, hot, warm and cool; the five tastes refer to the five different medicinal tastes of sour, bitter, sweet, pungent and salty.), incense also has a different nature of the function or detoxification of insects, or spleen and analgesic.

    The incense monograph "Incense Multiplication" has recorded "Clear the mind and damp incense" to cure head wind and "Nan Ban Ambergris" to cure heart and abdominal pain.

     The ancients burned incense for spiritual enjoyment as well as for physical and mental well-being.

     A wide variety of spices, a wide range of uses, a variety of uses, can be cooked, can be burned, can be hidden, can be coated, the daily diet, housing, beauty, reading, and even cure, spices are useful, it has a close relationship with various areas of social life, such as clothing, food, housing and transport.