The Aesthetic Study Of Incense Burner In Song Dynasty

Incense burners are born with incense,which is an important part of Chinese incense culture.The change of dynasties over thousands of years has enriched the types of its utensils and left the aesthetic mark of The Times on it.During the Song Dynasty,the culture of incense burning reached its peak.Incense burning was enjoyed by both the ruling class and the common people,and incense burners of different forms could be seen everywhere in social life.People in the Song Dynasty engraved aesthetic taste on the incense burner,the spirit of The Times and cultural fashion of the Song Dynasty can also be seen from this.Looking back at the history of incense burner for thousands of years,with the development of incense use,incense burner has derived a variety of types and formed a certain system.Taking hundreds of censers excavated from archaeological sites and handed down from ancient times as the specific research object,the artistic characteristics of censers in the shape and decoration of censers from the Middle and Song Dynasties are presented.In the context of time and space in the Song Dynasty,this paper explores the role of incense burners in ancestral temples,bazaars,study rooms and other functional fields,reveals the psychological expectation of song people on incense burners from the choice of instrument types,and their pursuit of beauty in life from the incense burning activities.For people in the Song Dynasty,incense burner was not only a simple incense burner,but also the condensation product of aesthetic intention and spiritual concept of people in the Song Dynasty.Nature and ethics were hidden on it and regulated the behavior of people in the Song Dynasty.Incense burning is not simply leisure,it shows the pursuit of artistic life in the Song Dynasty.