Making incense for yourself at leisure, Chinese crash

Rural Chinese style incense making is detailed and ritual simple but lurking with respect and faith, typically done during festivals or special occasions such as Chinese Sanctuary Day, Chinese New Year, Chien Meng, or Gods Birthday, etc., with incense playing an important role in communicating with sacred things, ancestral spirits, and gods.

Rural Chinese Incense Making Steps

1. Prepare the material to make incense (if made by yourself)

In some ancient villages incense may still be made themselves, with the main materials consisting of:

• Fragrant wood powder such as sandalwood

• Scented herbal powders such as cloves, cinnamon

• Fragrance oil

• Natural adhesives such as wood rubber

• Incense core: usually using small bamboo

But nowadays, it is more common to buy incense that is done in salons.

2. Set up a table to pay respect to you

• Use a wooden table or a simple table

• Pave clean cloth, drop the censen

• Place the incense burner in the middle.

3. Chao offering

Depending on each god or ancestor. Generally, there are:

• Fruit (must be odd, such as 3 or 5 kinds)

• Savory foods such as duck, chicken, boiled or J.

• Chinese desserts such as candle desserts, sweets

• Tea or Chinese liqueur

• Silver paper, gold paper (burned after pay respect)

4. Incense lighting formalities

• Light a number of incense according to belief, such as 3 (worship of heaven-earth-ancestors), 5, or 9.

• 3 times and then paste the incense into a pot.

Some areas believe that the incense is not tilted or broken because it is ominous.

5. Prayer

Say your name, last name, address, wish or gratitude, e.g.

"My name is... in the number of houses... I want to offer a gift to Jensen, and I wish my family health to make a trade..."

6. Wait for the incense to run out.

• While waiting, you can sit and wait quietly or follow another ceremony such as burning silver-gold paper.

• When the incense is running out, Jensen can be stored (some will continue to eat or distribute)

Knowledge

• Avoid profanity during the ceremony

• Do not mimic the sacred

• If it's a Chinese god, such as Chai Xing or Guanyin, you need a dedicated gift.

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