Traditional incense-making techniques are intangible cultural heritage items
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First of all, let's understand what is agarwood?
Agarwood is a substance that is neither woody nor resinous after a tree of the Family Ofariaceae is injured and secreted after being injured by a fungus.
Agarwood is simply divided into two categories, the Hui'an system and the Sin Chau system.
Hoi An is a small town in Haicheng in Vietnam, where agarwood from the surrounding area is transported to Hoi An Port via inland rivers, where it is transshipped to Southeast Asia and the world. Therefore, the agarwood of various production areas transported from The port of Hoi An is generally referred to as "Hoi An" agarwood. Hoi An areas include: Hainan, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, India, etc., Vietnam (Nha Trang, Hoi An, Phu Sen).
Sin Chew is actually the Singapore of the past, and it is also a port for maritime transportation. In the past, the agarwood of Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and other real estate was shipped to all over the world, which was first concentrated in Singapore, and then transferred from here, and people collectively referred to the agarwood produced in these places as the "Sin Chew system" agarwood. The Sin Chew region includes: Malaysia (East Malaysia, West Malaysia), Indonesia (Darakan, Maniliu, Kalimantan, Maraok, Ambon, Illion), Brunei, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and other countries.
To identify agarwood bracelets, there are mainly the following 3 steps:
1, smell: the true agarwood fragrance is natural, there is no strong pungent taste, the incense of the Hoi An system is honey sweet, melon sweet; the agarwood aroma of the Sin Chew system is more intense.
2, color viewing: the grease line on the surface of the real agarwood will not be very regular, the form is natural and clear, too perfect may be false agarwood. Agarwood is produced by the trauma secretion of the agarwood tree body, whether it is oil black or wood white, the black oil in the wood fiber is the true color of agarwood, the hand string is all black is impossible, the formation of agarwood determines that it is a mixture of resin and wood fiber, the more the oil content of agarwood, the more precious, the black to the extreme that is the best in agarwood, very rare, circulation on the market is less, more in the hands of collectors. Few people like this kind of agarwood are willing to use it to make a bracelet, the reason is very simple: this agarwood has changed from "wood with oil" to "oil with wood" is very soft, even if it is made into a bracelet, it is not very suitable for wearing.
3, get started: the real agarwood will have a little greasy feeling when touched by hand, the darker the color, the heavier the grease, and the better the pressure feel. The real agarwood, in addition to the Qinan class of the best will be heavier, most of them are relatively light, compared to other wooden bracelets are lighter. Because the incense tree of agarwood is originally a cork, there are many wood fibers and many gaps. Artificial fake agarwood, such as oil soaking oil, is high pressure, the paste-like chemicals are pressed into the wood fibers, not only the color will become black, and the density after injection is greatly increased, often held in the hand has a heavy feeling. The skewers that can sink in agarwood are very expensive, but now many human-made agarwood bracelets can also sink into water, so it cannot be completely judged by this.
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