What is the traditional incense making process?

Making incense, is a variety of incense materials processed into incense products, linear, disk-shaped, tower and so on. Incense production is divided into the smell, fumigation room, clothing and for the "wish incense" that is, ritual Buddha, God of use. The incense is made by powdering the raw materials and adding natural binders. With incense material is also different, good incense and incense, is to better (not the best) of the incense powdered with a small amount of "Nanzai powder" as a binder (the ancients are to honey, hyacinth, etc.) made. Sandalwood powder is more than incense powder incense. Just in recent years, incense, sandalwood resources less and less, the raw materials used in the production of incense, sandalwood, but to the ordinary wood flour plus flavorings and become. Add twenty percent of incense, sandalwood powder, that is, the number of "Hainan incense", "Kinan incense", "old mountain sandalwood".

In the production of incense into the product, in order to take its synthetic flavor, incense masters in the mixture of incense, sandalwood at the same time, in order to increase the fragrance of the "cool air", often with ice that is the lobster brain incense, in order to make the aroma long-lasting, incense, but also to join the fixed incense, aroma enhancers -- musk and ambergris. -Musk and ambergris, the two animal body "into a miraculous thing".

Musk. Musk family animal male genitals before, after the navel there is a scent sac, which stores the musk gland secretions, its microbial and physiological absorption of "chemical" and has a peculiar aroma. Musk in the system not only can make the fragrance lasting, but also greatly enhance the fragrance of the incense (modern high-level perfume must use musk).

Ambergris is the ocean sperm whale's stomach secretions into fish bones and spit out the filth, the sea by the sun essence of the pottery, the sea rinsing, become a unique aroma of spices. This material fixed incense, extend the performance of incense is excellent, so traditionally for the production of works of smell incense must be used.

Making incense to the smell and health care for the system (where the aroma of good, natural materials made of products, the human body are beneficial, and can even cure diseases), the process, the materials are very careful. Historically, many literati are good at this, such as the Song Dynasty poet Huang Tingjian, Su Dongpo and many literati in the Ming Dynasty are good at making incense, and there are secret recipes passed down. In recent years, Japan has made a lot of different from the western perfume use incense and smell incense, such as "Tianren Xiang", "Yunlong Xiang", "Garo Xiang" and so on. They are incense, sandalwood, cloves and other incense materials, processed into small square chips, adding lobster brain and a small amount of ambergris, musk (in the system of incense, sandalwood, ambergris and musk solution to soak), made of superb lavender, burned with the production of incense incense products.