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Incense in China is traditionally used in a wide range of Chinese cultural activities including religious ceremonies, ancestor veneration, traditional...

Look up incense in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Incense is an aromatic biotic material that releases fragrant smoke when burnt. The term is used for...

The incense clock (simplified Chinese: 香钟; traditional Chinese: 香鐘; pinyin: xiāngzhōng; Wade–Giles: hsiang-chung; lit. 'fragrance clock') is a timekeeping...

A censer, incense burner, perfume burner or pastille burner is a vessel made for burning incense or perfume in some solid form. They vary greatly in size...

BCE) and later by the Babylonians, the Greeks and the Chinese. Incense clocks were being used in China by the 6th century. In the medieval period, Islamic...

Calocedrus, the incense cedar (alternatively spelled incense-cedar), is a genus of coniferous trees in the cypress family Cupressaceae first described...

and the Philippines. Incense holds an invaluable role in East Asian Buddhist ceremonies and rites as well as in those of Chinese Taoist and Japanese Shinto...

of the current incense companies have been in existence for more than 300 years. The word incense (kō) in Japan is written in the Chinese Kangxi radical...

Calocedrus macrolepis, commonly known as Chinese incense-cedar; is a species of conifer native to southwest China (Guangdong west to Yunnan), northern Vietnam...

blended types of Japanese incense, Indian incense, Chinese incense (known as Anxi xiang; 安息香), and Papier d'Arménie as well as incense sticks. There are two...

India is the world's main incense producing country, and is also a major exporter to other countries. In India, incense sticks are called Agarbatti (Agar:...

statue draped in cloth, including candles, jasmine, lotus flowers and Chinese incense sticks. Haesindang Park Brockman 2011, p. 93. Guelden 1995, p. 75....

Incense is a 2003 Chinese indie/underground film written and directed by Ning Hao, then a Beijing Film Academy film major, on a ¥9000 budget. The film...

The incense trade route was an ancient network of major land and sea trading routes linking the Mediterranean world with eastern and southern sources...

Frankincense, also known as olibanum (/oʊˈlɪbənəm/), is an aromatic resin used in incense and perfumes, obtained from trees of the genus Boswellia in the family...

sticks, incense papers and food offerings to the ancestors. According to Chinese custom and tradition, people worshipping ancestors at Chinese cemeteries...

appreciating Japanese incense, and involves using incense within a structure of codified conduct. Kōdō includes all aspects of the incense process, from the...

kind of incense, are burned inside and outside of the temple. Jingxiang Taoist temple Confucian temple Chinese ritual mastery traditions Chinese folk religion...

A mosquito coil is a mosquito-repelling incense, usually made into a spiral, and typically made using dried paste of pyrethrum powder. The coil is usually...

(traditional Chinese: 三合會; simplified Chinese: 三合会; Jyutping: saam1 hap6 wui6; Cantonese Yale: sāam hahp wúi; pinyin: sān hé huì) is a Chinese transnational...