As for why we burn three incense sticks when we worship God. When I was a child, I thought three sticks of incense looked good. You see, there is always too little incense, three incense is just right, and four incense is too much, so I chose three incense. But that's just our children's opinion. In fact, there is a lot of research in it.

After all, China's culture is profound. Laozi's Tao Te Ching has 5,000 words, which many people can't recite, but there is a sentence that many people still know very clearly, that is, "one life is two, two lives are three." Everything is born. "This sentence comes from the cosmology in Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching.

Here, "one, two, three" refers to the number of one, two, three, and is not taken as the specific quantity of one, two, three. Among them, "three" refers to the third party produced by two contradictory aspects, which in turn produces everything.

Also, "three" was a special word in ancient times. Just like "there are three lights in the sky": the sun, the moon and the stars. And at night, it is called: three times. Late at night is called "the third watch". There are four seasons in a year, each season has three months, and each month is divided into upper, middle and late stages. These are all natural laws left over from ancient times. There are "Three Springs", "Sanqiu", "Three Summers" and "Three Winters".

"Three" is also related to the religious and folk beliefs at that time. First of all, Buddhism says that these three sticks of incense represent Buddha, Dharma and Monk. Then Taoism says that these three incense sticks represent Sanqing. Include Qing Yu, supernatant and Taiqing. The belief of the Ming Dynasty is that these three incense sticks represent heaven, earth and people. After the baptism of history, these statements have stood down.

In short, there are many sayings including Sanxiang. Although we think it is very common and nothing, it has been passed down through historical washing.