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2. Incense clock - Wikipedia

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   Different powdered incense clocks used different formulations of incense, depending on how the clock was laid out. [15] The length of the trail of incense, directly related to the size of the seal, was the primary factor in determining how long the clock would last; all burned for long periods of time, ranging between 12 hours and a month.

3. History of timekeeping devices - Wikipedia

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   Incense seal clocks had a disk etched with one or more grooves, into which incense was placed. [56] The length of the trail of incense, directly related to the size of the seal, was the primary factor in determining how long the clock would last; to burn 12 hours an incense path of around 20 metres (66 ft) has been estimated. [57]

4. Incense in China - Wikipedia

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   Along with the introduction of Buddhism in China came calibrated incense sticks and incense clocks (xiangzhong 香鐘 "incense clock" or xiangyin 香印 "incense seal"). [7] The poet Yu Jianwu (庾肩吾, 487–551) first recorded them: "By burning incense we know the o'clock of the night, With graduated candles we confirm the tally of the ...

5. Incense clocks - Wikipedia

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   Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Incense_clocks&oldid=220765422"This page was last edited on 21 June 2008, at 13:43 (UTC). (UTC).

6. Traditional Chinese timekeeping - Wikipedia

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   This first shí traditionally occurred from 23:00 to 01:00 on the 24-hour clock, but was changed during the Song dynasty so that it fell from 00:00 to 02:00, with midnight at the beginning. [ 2 ] Starting from the end of the Tang dynasty into the Song dynasty, each shí was divided in half, with the first half called the initial hour ( 初 ...

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8. Hill censer - Wikipedia

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   The hill censer or boshanlu (博山爐 "universal mountain censer" or boshan xianglu 博山香爐) is a type of Chinese censer used for burning incense. Hill censers first start appearing in tombs dating to the Western Han (202 BCE – 23 CE). [1] Fashioned with a conical lid, the censers were designed to look like miniature mountains.

9. List of Chinese inventions - Wikipedia

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   The Chinese astronomer Geng Shouchang of the Han dynasty (202 BC – 220 AD) invented it separately in China in 52 BC, and the Han dynasty polymath Zhang Heng (78–139 AD) was the first to apply motive power using a set of complex gears rotated by a waterwheel which was powered by the constant pressure head of an inflow clepsydra clock, the ...