在数千年的历史进程中，香炉的型制、釉色及作用随着当时经济、文化、审美情趣的变化而演绎变化。香炉是敬佛礼佛或是拜祭祖先的器具，同时也成为文人雅士的心爱之物。“日照香炉生紫烟”，唐代大诗人李白的《望庐山瀑布》千古流传，作品描写庐山香炉峰上，初日映照，紫烟氤氲，瀑布高挂，飞流奔腾。想像新奇，气魄宏大，展示了盛唐气象和时人对香炉的偏爱之情。
In the course of thousands of years'history, the shape, glaze color and function of incense burner changed with the changes of economy, culture and aesthetic taste at that time. The incense burner is a device for worshiping Buddha or ancestors, and it has also become the favorite thing of literati and refined scholars. "Sunshine incense burner produces purple smoke." The Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai's Wanglu Mountain Falls has been circulating for thousands of years. His works describe the peak of incense burner in Lushan Mountain, reflecting on the first day, with purple smoke, high waterfalls and galloping. The imagination is novel and magnificent, showing the weather of the flourishing Tang Dynasty and people's preference for incense burners.
人们将香炉置于厅堂或摆于书房案头，读书时点上一炷清香，便有了“红袖添香夜读书”的美妙意境；抚琴弹簧时袅袅烟香与琴音相伴，绕梁不去，沁人心脾。香炉营造的幽雅氛围赋予人们更多的灵性，人们追随它穿越时光隧道，追逐并领略博大深远的历史文化。
People put incense burners in the hall or on the desk of their study, and when they read, they light a light fragrance, which gives them a wonderful mood of "red sleeves add incense to night reading"; when the spring of playing the piano, cigarette smoke accompanies with the sound of the piano, which makes it not go around the beam and refreshing. The elegant atmosphere created by incense burner gives people more spirituality. People follow it through the time tunnel and pursue and appreciate the broad and far-reaching history and culture.