Aromatherapy burners are also called essential oil burners, fragrance burners, aromatherapy burners, incense burners, etc. They are one of the ways to add fragrance to the room. Suitable for offices, bedrooms and other places, it makes people relax.
Introduction to aromatherapy burners
The aromatherapy burner has a perfect shape. It is not only an aromatherapy product, but also a handicraft. Aromatherapy burners include traditional candlelight aromatherapy burners and plug-in aromatherapy burners.
Historical origins
Before the Han Dynasty, it was the mainstream era of bronze ware. Therefore, the aromatherapy burners in the Han Dynasty were represented by bronze aromatherapy burners, which were mostly used by the royal family and nobles. At the same time, the Warring States and Han Dynasties were the end of the pottery era in my country, and a large number of pottery aromatherapy burners were still popular. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, China entered the porcelain era. During this period, a large number of porcelain aromatherapy burners were refreshing. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, incense activities became more popular. The aromatherapy burners of various materials in the previous generations were inherited and developed in the Tang Dynasty, and there were innovations. Especially when the Tang Dynasty entered the gold and silver era, a large number of gold and silver aromatherapy burners began to be used in the royal palace and nobles, and even given or granted to monks for use.
The Song Dynasty was the first peak in the history of Chinese porcelain development, and it was also the culmination of the innovation of the shape and structure of the aromatherapy furnace. After that, there was no epoch-making innovation in the aromatherapy furnace of successive dynasties. In the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the incense culture had completely entered the homes of ordinary people, and the aromatherapy furnace entered the "general" stage. Of course, there are many fine products in the Ming Xuande furnace and the Qing imperial furnace, but the aromatherapy furnaces of these two generations have gradually lost the simple and thick pattern of the previous generation and entered the complicated and delicate small pattern. And the furnaces that imitated the previous dynasty during this period were even more imitating their shape and not their spirit.
These era styles of aromatherapy furnaces are not unrelated to the aesthetic orientation and economic power of the users. Because most spices are luxury goods, those who participated in the incense burning activities before the Song Dynasty had to be "small literati" and "small local tyrants" with the lowest social status. After the Song Dynasty, the incense burning activities gradually became popular in the homes of ordinary people, so there are many ordinary aromatherapy furnaces in existence. The craftsmanship of incense burners in the Ming and Qing dynasties is remarkable: on the one hand, they repeatedly imitated previous generations and made innovations; on the other hand, in addition to porcelain and copper, a large number of precious stones were also used to make burners, and even fire-fearing materials such as bamboo, wood, ivory and horns were used to make incense burners.