Research The Performance Of Ceramic In Incense Appliance

The incense have been used over thousands of years in our country, however, theusage of incense had not got a period of great prosperity until Tang and Song dynasty. Inthis period, different incense such as Chinese eaglewood, sandalwood and so on becamepopular and fashion among upper-class. Later spread to Japan, furthermore, it collocated withlyre-playing, chess, calligraphy and furthermore, it collocated with lyre-playing, chess,calligraphy and painting perfectly, developed special incense culture---incense lore.With the development of incense lore, appliance became an essential part ofincense lore. However, the appliances that most insiders of incense use at present areimported from Japan, while the incense culture of Japan was just spread from ChineseTang dynasty, finally carry forward in Japan. Because of the exquisite workmanship andthe elegant pattern, Japanese incense appliance are very expensive. Turn to observe themarket of Chinese incense appliance, almost no company manufacture incenseappliance on a large scale. And just single type, not to mention customize incenseappliance. While China has richly resources of ceramic material and the millenniuminherited ceramic handicrafts, therefore, the market of ceramic incense appliancebecame an emerging and a huge potential market in China.This paper expounds thousands of years’ history of incense appliance and currentsituation of domestic and overseas market. Through the comparison analyzing severalkinds of incense appliance materials, summarize the advantages of ceramic incenseappliance. And learn the experience from Chinese past dynasties and foreign countries.Use traditional Chinese patterns as the main element for incense appliance, to makeceramics, incense appliance and rich traditional Chinese patterns mix together. And todesign a series of authentic Chinese style incense appliance.