Modern era · Decline and revival
Once dormant incense practices are reviving with the return of culture—today's online incense culture(香学) museum is one page of this trend.
Decline
Since modern times, with dramatic social change and altered rhythms of life, traditional incense practices once receded to the margins; incense manuals and formulas were largely shelved, and incense-making and incense-using techniques faced a break in transmission.
Revival
In recent decades, as traditional culture returns, the agarwood industry has recovered; incense ceremony (香道), blended incense, and incense-making training have restarted, and incense culture(香学) texts are being reorganized and translated with annotations (such as this channel's annotated translation ofthe annotated translation of the Xiang Cheng) , and online incense culture(香学) dissemination has risen.
Present Meaning
Revival is not a return to the past, but reconnecting the wisdom of "nourishing body and mind through incense" to contemporary life: home incense aromatherapy, literati gatherings, and incense culture(香学) study proceed in parallel. This site's "Chinese incense culture(香学)" channel is precisely an attempt in this revival to "recompile the incense culture(香学) scattered over a thousand years into a browsable online incense culture(香学) museum."