Why is incense sought after by so many people?

In recent years, with the improvement of people's living standards, the rise of the collection of hot, "retro" has become a kind of fashion, the culture of incense gradually sought after by people, the traditional use of incense in this environment gradually into people's vision. Incense culture since ancient times has been loved by the literati, the Ming Dynasty Wen Zhenheng "long things" describes the incense burning situation: "in the day sitting on a few, set the bonobo table a few square big one, on the stove, the incense combined with a big one, set the raw and cooked incense; small two, set incense, incense cakes and so on; the art of bottle one.

So incense what? Why is it sought after by so many people? So, first understand the formation of incense. Incense strings are formed in the tropical rainforest areas of Southeast Asia in the Ruixiang incense genus of tree-type incense varieties of trees, mainly formed in the epidermis of the tree or in the roots, branches and trunks. Incense is the Ruixiang family of "wind tree" in the wind and thunder, insects and ants or man-made cut "injury" will be self-protection secretion of oil, will be in the beginning of the wound to form a "seed", and may be Will "spread", these oil and wood mixture, is what we call incense.

Already incense part or the whole incense tree by external forces or natural withered to form the inverted frame, if then by the fungal decomposition, coupled with hundreds of years of mellowing, the formation of the dead sink; incense tree is still alive after the incense tree, incense part of the chopped down is the live sink; and then after the ants and other bites of the formation of incense is the worm leakage. And the wild incense, to qinan for the best, also known as yangnan, galangal, the flavor is strange and rich layered, but also incense in the most precious.

The resources of the incense pendant are becoming more and more scarce, and there are not many places of origin. Incense according to the production area categorized as Huian Xiang and Xingzhou Xiang: Huian Department of incense to Vietnam produced incense-based, now Vietnam, China, Hainan, Cambodia, Laos and other places produced by incense collectively referred to as Huian Xiang; Xingzhou Department of incense produced in Malaysia, Indonesia-based, now southern Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and other places produced by incense collectively referred to as Xingzhou Xiang. High-quality incense to China's Hainan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and other major, followed by Malaysia and Indonesia.

From the formation of incense and the distribution of origin can be seen, the formation cycle of incense is long and not easy, the resources are becoming less and less, especially based on the expensive felling of incense is also more and more people. This is also the reason why most people compete to collect incense. It is rare and formed in the natural environment takes hundreds of years, its long culture and unique flavor attracted countless people, but also affects generations.