The invention of the mosquito coil incense

The invention of the mosquito-repellent incense may also related to the custom of the ancient incense sacrifice.China began the custom of burning incense sacrifice early, the earliest record of this custom is "poetry, filialness, d qing" : "d made qing xian, Wen Wangzhi standard, zhao Yin."Which means some weeks people by burning firewood smoke to worship, called "Yin" or "Yin sacrifices". The rites, the spring officer, commodities "" keep a bulk of" include: "to Yin si si heaven god, science to real wood si stars, with vol.133 meteor in the 2nd division, department of life, wind, rain."Which records the burning also not later, just some straw and textiles.The rites cheongwan "have" sacrifice, total Xiao Mao ", here, "xiao" is a kind of herbs. The han dynasty began to have real incense, because there was a censer in han dynasty.Han dynasty, in addition, the history books recorded had by burning incense "and" to "off".Incense from "to communicate with the gods" to "off", along with the change of material, function also is expanding, and on this basis, lead to "drive midge" for the purpose of "mosquito repellent incense" is understandable.