In Taoist temples and temples, the practical significance of incense burners is greater than symbolic significance.
Although some people may think that this kind of religious occasion, incense burner symbolizes faith and religious atmosphere.
In fact, it is the materialization of faith, with incense as the external expression of faith.
In individual families, the symbolic meaning of incense burner is also greater than the actual meaning.
Because individual families cannot have a large-scale religious atmosphere.
The meaning, symbol and function of incense burner
Ancient literati listed burning incense, making tea, arranging flowers and hanging pictures as four arts, which became their important life contents.
We put a incense in the incense burner used by our ancestors, and think about how many ancestors have lit incense and prayed in front of this burner.
It brings comfort to people's hearts, and its significance is naturally extraordinary.
Incense burner, for China people, is not only a Buddhist ceremony in Buddhist temples, but also a necessary offering in China's family.
China's national culture developed very early. In ancient times, people often smoked rooms with incense to deodorize them. Therefore, the ancients read and played the piano, and liked to burn a furnace of incense first, so that they could clear up their distractions and concentrate themselves.
Paying attention to the pursuit of water and source is the virtue of China people.
In Buddhism, incense burners with different shapes are used in different positions, so different incense must be burned.
For example, we often see the big incense burner in the center or outside the hall of the Great Hero, which is mostly made of copper, iron and other metals by casting or carving.
The furnace body is engraved with the name of the temple for the believers to insert incense.
The incense burner on the table in the main hall is copper, stone or porcelain, which is used to burn sandalwood.
There is a rectangular furnace tray in the main hall of the Buddhist temple, on which there is a delicate small incense burner burning sandalwood. Embroidery furnace is hung in front of the plate, which is very solemn and beautiful, and is dedicated to the abbot and monk. After the Buddhist ceremony in the main hall is completed, if you want to worship Buddha in other attached halls, the waiter will take the stove first, and the monk will go to the attached hall to burn incense.
Lying incense burners are more suitable for Buddhist temples of believers at home, and there are also two kinds of bronze and porcelain. Cut off a bamboo branch below the incense line and burn it flat in the incense burner, so that the ash burner will not fly and pollute the altar.
A small wooden incense burner carved with the shape of lotus has a long handle. Only one incense can be inserted, in the hands of monks and vegetarians during Buddhist ceremonies. It's called a hand stove.
And we often see round incense burners in temples. This incense burner has three feet, the front foot one and the back foot two, which are placed as follows; It is often used as a metaphor for the three treasures in Buddhism, both of which are indispensable.