{"id":11208,"date":"2021-08-18T08:02:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/?p=11208"},"modified":"2021-10-01T22:21:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T14:21:47","slug":"why-burn-incense-at-a-chinese-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/beijing-travel\/travel-tips\/why-burn-incense-at-a-chinese-temple","title":{"rendered":"Why Burn Incense at a Chinese Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Plan your Beijing tour<\/a>? Visiting a buddhist temple in Beijing or other parts of China helps you understand the Chinese traditional culture and religion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check ou my another article How to Visit Lama Temple<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buddhist temples to Chinese are akin to churches to the western people. Very often around a temple there are plentiful street front stores selling incenses. Some itinerant incense hawks are trying to pester you into buying incense sticks. So why burn incenses?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A foreign Buddhist at Lama Temple in Beijing<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The reasons behind the burning of incenses are manifold. One factor is that Buddha would appear in the smoke produced by burning incenses. In other words, the smoke is a soul link between worshippers and the Buddha. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yonghe Hall ( Hall of Harmony and Peace ) is the main palace in the temple<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Incense burning reminds people to burn themselves, to give, and to sacrifice though many people still burn for money, for love, for health and the list could be much longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a Chinese saying that goes like this: \u547d\u7531\u5df1\u9020\uff0c\u798f\u7531\u5df1\u6c42 which literally means \u201cOur fate and happiness are made by ourselves, not given by the Buddha or somebody else\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A huge incense burner is vertically placed with incense sticks burnt by worshippers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A huge incense burner<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Giving<\/a>
Giving or requesting<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Burning<\/a>
Burning incenses for good scores<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"People<\/a>
People have their own reasons for incense stick burning.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Add on<\/strong>
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Any questions, just drop a line.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Plan your Beijing tour? Visiting a buddhist temple in Beijing or other parts of China helps you understand the Chinese traditional culture and religion. Check ou my another article How to Visit Lama Temple for more information. Buddhist temples to Chinese are akin to churches to the western people. Very often around a temple there…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3282],"tags":[2185],"class_list":["post-11208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-tips","tag-burning-incense-at-a-temple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11208"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27958,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11208\/revisions\/27958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}