The Research On The Design Of Incense Vessels In The Period Of Han Dynasty And Tang Dynasty

There is a long history about the custom of incense in china. In Zhanguo period, people had made use of herbs to keep out mosquitoes, dye clothes, and keep air of room purged.Because opening foreign trade policy in Han and Tang period, high-grade flavor from western countries are delivered in middle area of china by sea and land. As a result, it became popular to use incense in the age. Incense played a important part in the life of the nobles and literators. Many elaborate artifacts had appeared since the mid-Western Han, for example the boshanlu, the insence with the handle, etc.Chinese feudalist society system is in the period of rising rapidly developing from Han Dynasty to Tang Dynasty, and the ideology and the culture are also free expansion. The fairy idea is very popular in the period of Han Dynasty. During the reign of Han Wudi, the Confucianism combined the policy. The culture of Buddhism had been rapidly developed since the Southern and Northern Dynasty. It was connected with the change of the times and the environment for the action of incense. In the process of design of incense vessel, many shapes that fitted all kinds of culture appeared in order that they satisfied different utility and use, and different styles came into being in different area. The paper firstly classified the shapes of incense vessels and decor in detail to find the whole visage of incense vessels in that period, then analyze the influence of different culture factor on the design of incense vessels, and further clarify the relation of design and culture, region and age for incense vessels.