There is a poem in Luo Yin in the Five Dynasties: "When you sink into the water, you can eat Bai Zhen, and the Boshan furnace warms the jade building. Pity for a gentleman is also a matter for no reason. He is greedy for incense and forgets himself. " In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, incense was very common. In the Song Dynasty, due to the high standard of material life, the literati advocated and promoted it from the spiritual level, and the traditional culture of China, such as piano, chess, calligraphy, food, wine and tea, laid the foundation stone, showing a broad and vigorous trend. Incense has also become an art, and dignitaries and literati often get together to smell incense and hold the initial ceremony.

In Chinese mainland, the birthplace of incense culture, during the period of 1000 years after the Tang and Song Dynasties, due to frequent wars, the spiritual life of the literati tended to be lax, and the ceremony of incense seats, like pure art forms such as poetry, ci, music, dance and chess, declined gradually. This incense spread all the way to the end of the Qing Dynasty, and finally burned out in stormy weather.