Incense master Wu Jiang: a vein of fragrance to warm the Chinese New Year

A furnace of incense, a pot of tea;

An ancient zither, a few flowers.

Smell the incense and sip the tea, listen to the qin and enjoy the flowers.

A few clumps of bamboo, countless elegant.

This is the first time I've ever seen a woman in the world. He is 80 years later, with the typical literary temperament of this generation of students, deep and calm, calm and introverted.

? He likes photography, outdoor, archery, reading, writing poetry, calligraphy and tea tasting.

? Is it romantic feelings, calm temperament to have these hobbies? Or are the many hobbies shaping a person's mood and temperament? When the elegant life into the incense, interpretation will be what kind of scenery? Wu Jiang, the 80-year-old literary youth, with his obsession with traditional culture, especially incense culture and focus on the most vivid interpretation.

? Wu Jiang is Guangxi people, went to college in Hebei, studying electrical engineering and automation, after graduating from college in 2007, it is logical to enter a large steel enterprises, became an electrical engineer. The whole day with the steel plant, automated production lines, and his "do what you like" dream is far away. In 2010, he came to Yichang to start a new job. In 2010, he came to Yichang to start a new job, and by chance, he met the third generation of a century-old incense-making family in Taiwan through a friend. In the following years, he slowly immersed himself in the world of incense. In particular, he was fascinated by the traditional Chinese incense mats. The whole process of the incense mat is not too slow, not too fast, not too easy, not too self-conscious, and not too comfortable. The incense maker's hands and feet are quiet and elegant, calm but not too distant. In a slightly performative program, adhering to a pleasing and disciplined order, the wholehearted appreciation and sensation of the precious spices was accomplished through the eyes, hands, and nose, bringing those seated in the room into a wonderful and incomparable silence and stability. Contact with the real incense ceremony, Wu Jiang was y attracted. Closing his eyes in reverie, he felt as if he were a gentleman on the ancient Chu River, burning incense and composing poems, drinking wine and waving a brush. Countless have read about the fragrance of the poems jumped out of his mind, Li Bai's "Lanling wine tulip, jade bowl to amber light"; Li Shangyin deep in love when people moved "spring heart Mo *** flowers compete hair, an inch of acacia an inch of gray"; Xin Qiji due to the matter of On his way to Dongyang, Xin Qiqi said, "The dust on the face is far away from the road, and the fragrant bonfires feel the water sinking"; Nalan Seide said, "How many hates are there in two desolate places, and how many hates are paid to the smoke of the medicine stove". ....... Ancient people wrote poems and lyrics, playing the zither and enjoying the flowers, banquets and meetings with friends, living alone and sitting silently, desk and pillow, under the moonlight, smoked clothes and smoked quilt, it can be said that the shadow of the incense follows, everywhere. The pursuit of the realm of incense burning, is not the most enthusiastic expression of the ultimate love of life? This also corresponds to Wu Jiang's deep desire for a free and elegant life. The dream buried in his heart of "doing what he loves" was ignited. If his dream was abstract and unclear in the past, at this moment, in the dense aroma, the dream began to be a little more concrete.

The pace of modern life is accelerated, the people are impatient, steal half a day of leisure, incense, tea, playing the qin, may be a "luxury" thing. But everyone from the dust must return to the dust, can live well is happiness; live with taste and quality, is the ultimate happiness. With incense to comfort this easy to hurt the red dust, with incense to warm the hard life, "incense" of their own, but also "incense" of others. This is not exactly the essence of incense culture?

? Let yourself as Taiwan incense teacher, to be an incense master, the inheritance of China's excellent incense culture, "cultivate the three destiny, Fangqinan incense", so that their life from now on and incense bond, meditation, slow living, seeking traditional cultural confidence and depth of the reversion of the bar Wu Jiang's dream journey is unfolded.

In 2015, Wu Jiang began the first step of the perfect combination of hobby and career: he set up a studio in the Yichang Youth Cultural and Creative Industry Park. The decoration of the studio was almost done by him alone, from the floor, ceiling, walls, doors, even the hundreds of bamboo on the walls were cut and transported back from the mountains by him personally. According to him, the reason for doing it himself is to save on the cost of renovation and to make his own specialties. The ceiling is made of bamboo mats, and the walls are covered with hundreds of bamboos, which seem so simple and natural, clean and elegant. The name "Chuxi Elegant House" is very elegant. He once said in a media interview, "Chu", from the "Chu Shi", referring to the originator of the incense - Qu Yuan; "Stream", from the "Xiangxi ", referring to the vanilla beauty - Wang Zhaojun; Chu is the source, stream is the flow. Chuxi, implying that the Chinese incense culture is profound and has a long history. It also represents his wish for this business, "spreading the fragrance for thousands of miles". Chuxi elegant house was established a few months, through his promotion, around the knowledge of incense, incense more and more people. People once thought that incense is only Buddhist supplies or offerings and sacrifices will be used. Do not know, religious incense is only the application of spices, "the tip of the iceberg", more in life, learning, work, health and sex in the application. When it comes to the benefits and application of incense, he seems to have endless topics. He often said a sentence is - real incense through the three worlds, fake incense into the ghost door. If you don't know anything about incense, it's really confusing. Slowly, through his introduction, many people realize that incense also has a true and false points. I listened to his introduction, I saw him say very confident, and behind the confidence, and there seems to be a trace of unspeakable helplessness. His incense from Taiwan's century-old incense-making family, all the incense have been tested and certified by international professional organizations. He said that now the market, the network on the proliferation of fake incense, or substandard accounted for the vast majority. Fake incense, i.e. chemical incense, is profiteering with low cost and high profit. "Insist on making real incense, good incense, is my unchanging original intention!" For the chaos in the market, he said his attitude. Only the real natural incense can play a repellent to remove insects, purify the air, improve the body's immunity, people peace of mind, meditation, to achieve the effect of health care, while chemically synthesized incense is not only unhelpful, but also harmful to physical and mental health. Stick to the all-natural, this is their own commitment, but also to the love of incense people's commitment. As long as people have the desire to understand, he will patiently from a professional point of view on how to identify natural spices. Identification of incense in many ways, and directly smell the aroma is the most direct and more reliable method of identification. He said: "people like incense, such as the butterfly's love of flowers, wood to the sun, nature," even if people do not know incense, relying on their own physiological instincts, you can make a preliminary judgment. Natural incense generally have the following characteristics: fresh, refreshing, long time will not have a feeling of dizziness; brain refreshment, a sense of pleasure, mellow fragrance, moderate intensity, deep breathing does not feel pungent; fragrance even if rich, but also do not feel the gas fatigue, even if the quiet, the fragrance is also clearly distinguishable.

? For the studio he founded, he also encountered an entrepreneur and a start-up business will encounter difficulties. Product packaging, publicity, marketing, and the development of new products, as well as the pressure of capital, and so on, all of these come one after another. He said that "unlike other businesses, incense is good karma, if the pursuit of high profits, high returns, is not good, as long as a relatively reasonable profit!" Although more and more people know and use incense, but for a business, but still can not maintain the ideal profit income. This process, perhaps it will take a year, two years, or longer. "Either I don't do it, or I do it for real incense, and when it really comes to the point where I can't do it anymore, I'll make money through other means to keep the studio running. I've been involved with incense all my life." Starting a business in the incense industry is both an interest and a judgment of the future market. He said that the most difficult thing is the financial pressure and business model at the beginning of the business. For the business model, only through personal experience and gradual exploration, in order to figure out and break out a road. "Feedback and suggestions from customers and incense lovers have also helped me a lot. I often give back to them with a grateful smile. It's because while I'm doing good karma, I'm also invariably influencing them to do good karma." In order to broaden wider sales channels, he also opened a Taobao store and a WeChat public number. As he said, these subtle influence, like a wisp of fragrance, slowly influence and drive more and more people around him to begin to love incense and use incense. Through the centuries-old store + handmade + Internet, so that more people know incense, incense, tasting incense dream began to gradually realize. Every day after work, in the moonlight and clear night sitting in the rain closed window, in the warmth of the furnace, green smoke and fog, through the circle of friends to introduce the knowledge of incense has also become his daily essential content of life. Insist on doing what you like, live your favorite exquisite slow life, his dream is gradually realized.

? As the saying goes, plant in spring and harvest in fall. For Wu Jiang, who has just started his business, the road of incense is long and far from harvest time, but the results are still very remarkable. A few months time, before and after the organization of a number of incense-themed activities, elegant collection, these have also become a period of good memories. For example, the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar this year, organized by the Flower Festival, the incense, guqin, tea ceremony, Chinese dress, paper-cutting and so on with the traditional festival of the Flower Festival to worship the God of Flowers into one, which is the first time in Yichang, worthy of admiration. After that, there are all kinds of incense tasting, qin and qin elegant meeting, tea and qin elegant meeting, September 18th National Shame Day incense meeting, the Mid-Autumn Festival to worship the moon incense and qin elegant meeting, and many times invited to participate in the activities of the teahouse, the community, to show China's incense ceremony. "This is very welcome, not only I am publicizing the introduction, but also people began to take the initiative to understand the incense, but also began to people in the study, bedroom, car, hotels, teahouses, yoga studios, clubs and so on places to use the incense, some of them use wire incense, disc incense, but also electric smoked incense, incense capsules, incense oil and so on." He added, "natural incense is not as unattainable as the social rumors, such as a box of incense, 100 dollars can be used for three months, this everyone can afford to spend." Ancient literati love incense, also love incense, according to the festival, the occasion to make seasonal incense to cheer, the real incense master is able to personally adjust the development of incense incense. "Fragrance culture is profound, the sages have left us a lot of precious incense canon, enough for our generation to organize and inheritance, such as the "incense multiplier", "Chen's incense genealogy", and so on, and even all the medical books and sages of the book will have the introduction of incense, such as the "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine", "I Ching", "the Analects of Confucius" "Incredible liberation of the scripture" "Lunyanshenjing", and so on. " Whenever it was late at night and people in the entire park had gone home from work, only the lights of Chuxi Yasha were still on. In the stillness of the night, he would be alone with a room of fresh incense, meticulously studying the incense formulae contained in the writings and canonical books, and following the cultural guidelines within the scope of the system with a rigorous attitude to learn and pass on. After mastering the essence of incense, he began to practice, experimenting with thematic incense production, making unique scent memories for his friends and himself.

"To harmonize with incense is to harmonize with one's nature; to taste incense is to taste one's own nature. When the self-nature is established, the life is safe; when the life is harmonized, the wisdom is born; when the wisdom is born, the nine quarters of the dust are free." The fun of incense development is difficult to understand by people who are not in the same boat. Incense culture, is elegant life, slow life culture, but also a kind of love culture, "play" is not to have much money to play, but emphasize a kind of character, a kind of freedom, is with themselves, and friends of the silent exchanges. Do not need too many words, a specially formulated exclusive incense, the moment the fragrance evaporates, has been enough to tell the full of love and warmth. With the incense, because of the incense gathering fate, Wu Jiang in the continuous practice of incense, incense, interpretation of the process of incense, hope that in this flashy dust, leaving every beautiful memory of incense, for the return of the traditional Chinese elegant life to seek more peers, the same way.

Lonely years, a stove, a column of incense, sitting quietly, eyes closed, let the incense curl face, slowly circling, a thousand flavors, ten thousand images such as listening to the sound of the zither, the afterglow lingers on. The ancient quiet and skillful daily scenery is slowly coming to us .......