Wanxiang tea Remove the incense tablets and wash them clean.
Put in the health pot.
Add purified water.
Serve after boiling for 45 minutes. Courtesy of Shangzheng Hall
The fragrance is overflowing. Nandu reporter Han Chengliang correspondent Dongguan City Cultural Center photo
Wanxiang
Intangible Cultural Heritage Encyclopedia
Wanxiang production technology National Intangible Cultural Heritage
Guanxiang is an agarwood treasure produced in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, and named after the locality, and is known as the "diamond in the plant". The Guangdong Xinyu records: "When Guanxiang was in full bloom, it sold more than tens of thousands of gold every year. "The superior Wanxiang, hard as iron, smooth as fat, color as gold, heavy as jade, can sink water without dissolving, the Yuan Dynasty has been equivalent to silver, and the Ming Dynasty has been a good product for tribute."
Agarwood on the product of the strange world
Wanxiang was born of strangeness. Incense trees are susceptible to environmental influences, will absorb the smell of the surrounding air, soil and water, and become the original smell in the trunk, so the difference between agarwood is obvious everywhere. If the incense tree is planted north of Wuling, it is just an ordinary wood without fragrance; if it is planted in the area south of Wuling, it can bear incense, especially if it is planted in Dongguan.
Dongguan has a subtropical climate and excellent ecological conditions, and most areas meet the growth conditions of Guanxiang trees, which is suitable for large-scale promotion and planting. The incense trees here not only absorb the salty wind smell blowing from the sea, but also affected by the light wind blowing from the Pearl River estuary, and the salty and light wind blends together, and the quality of the incense produced is excellent, which is the best of the agarwood.
The name "Hong Kong" may be derived from Wanxiang
According to historical records, the Guanxiang tree was imported from abroad during the Tang Dynasty, and began to be widely planted throughout Guangdong during the Song Dynasty, mainly in Dongguan. In the Ming Dynasty, many villages in Dongguan used incense planting, incense making, and selling incense as the main source of economy. Wanxiang gradually formed a scale, and the products were sold to many cities in China and Southeast Asia. By the Qing Dynasty, Guanxiang had become an important economic pillar of Dongguan.
It is said that at the time of the prosperity of Wanxiang, ShipaiWan was a distribution port for the transfer of spices in southern Guangdong, and Wanxiang was stacked on the docks, wafting incense near and far, so it was named "Hong Kong", which means "fragrant harbor", and the nearby small village was called "Hong Kong Village". "Hong Kong" is derived from this. Zhongshan City was formerly known as Xiangshan, and it is rumored that it is also related to Wanxiang, coupled with the many immortal flowers in the land, it is a fragrant mountain.
However, during the Yongzheng period, Wanxiang began to gradually decline. Because the incense collector went south to Dongguan to collect different kinds of incense, Shannon would be punished with a staff if he could not complete the quota task, so he had to cut down the incense wood and flee with his family to avoid disaster, and Guanxiang gradually disappeared.
Wanxiang does not support open flames and has multiple effects
Wanxiang does not bear the open flame, slowly burns carbonization and turns black, and the aroma of white smoke emitted is overflowing, which has a variety of effects such as anti-mosquito and moisture-proof. Wanxiang is used very widely, in addition to being used as a spice, there is also a high medicinal value, in addition, Wanxiang tree bark paper, white and delicate, leaves, flowers, branches, dried and other tea, often drink can clear the spirit, yisi, beauty and beauty.
Guanxiang has always been one of Dongguan's cultural business cards, closely linked to the cultural context of the city. Wanxiang has waded through the long river of thousands of years of history, and there have been booms and busts. Nowadays, Wanxiang, which has been silent for many years, is in full swing, and more and more people who know incense, good incense and happy incense are paying attention to the inheritance and development of Wanxiang, and Wanxiang is showing the world with a strong momentum of charming charm and brilliance.
Inheritance
Enlightenment, Wanxiang life
Huang Ou: Continuing wanxiang millennium "incense"
Huang Ou, the national representative inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage project Wanxiang making technology, won the honorary title of "Energetic Intangible Cultural Heritage 2013 Tribute Figure" issued by the Department of Culture of Guangdong Province and other units. Huang Ou combined the use of modern science and technology, so that the Wanxiang production skills can be inherited.
Guanxiang is one of Dongguan's prestigious specialties, which has gone through vicissitudes in its thousand-year history and was once endangered. Huang Ou, the inheritor of Wanxiang, walked out of the modern road of Wanxiang in the exploration of tradition and innovation.
Huang Ou's Wanxiang life began with his deep relationship with his grandmother. In 1994, my grandmother passed away, leaving the large and small Wanxiang trees unattended, And Huang Ou could not bear to give up and decided to take care of them himself.
At the end of the 20th century, due to the influence of the construction of factories, many Wanxiang trees were cut down and discarded. Huang Ou did not want to see the Wanxiang culture destroyed by this, and in a few years relocated to protect hundreds of Wanxiang mother trees. In 1999, he contracted 200 acres of mountain land to plant Wanxiang trees in Baihua Cave, Dalingshan Town, one of the original four royal incense gardens.
Planting incense takes a long time and benefits slowly, and good incense takes decades or even hundreds of years of precipitation to come out. For quick economic gain, many fragrance producers use chemical methods to incense. But Huang Ou is down-to-earth and always adheres to the traditional Wanxiang production technique. He believes that the incense that is planted, picked and knotted in ancient methods can be gifted by nature and become a good product in agarwood. His unremitting perseverance made him eventually a leader in the Wanxiang industry.
In 2006, after the production of Wanxiang stabilized, HuangOu adhered to the living inheritance of Wanxiang production skills and committed to the development of Wanxiang industry and culture. Today, his popular science plantation has grown and developed, and it has been promoted to Wanxiang Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Garden. The protection park uses big data to establish an "identity file" for Wanxiang products, so that each piece of Wanxiang can be traced back to its source, and check its number to understand the growth process of this piece of incense in your hand. In addition, he also established the Wanxiang Culture Museum, the Wanxiang Non-Genetic Inheritance Base, the Agarwood Research Institute, etc., which made significant contributions to the revitalization of Wanxiang culture. In order to meet the needs of modern life, the team has also developed a variety of Wanxiang products such as facial cleanser, hydrating spray, disinfectant, Wanxiang essential oil, etc., to fully explore the economic value of Wanxiang.
Huang Ou believes that the agarwood industry must be strictly self-disciplined, integrity should be put in the first place, he hopes that every piece of wanxiang can make consumers satisfied. Huang Ou's road to Wanxiang continues, and he will write a new chapter of Wanxiang in the future.
Tang Jinhua: It is better to give a daughter incense
Tang Jinhua, representative inheritor of Guangdong Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage of Guanxiang Making Technique, President of Dalingshan Bonsai Association.
Tang Jinhua was born in the Guanxiang family in Jiyingling Village, Dongguan, and has been engaged in Guanxiang-related work since graduating from high school. He has a deep affection for his hometown, and has conducted in-depth research and practice on the cultivation, incense and carving of wanxiang for decades, gradually inheriting the wanxiang production techniques of Jiyingling Village, and summarizing a variety of practical methods such as three-dimensional planting method and incense opening method. He constantly improved his carving skills and strived to improve the quality of Wanxiang.
Guanxiang trees are particularly fond of a soil that dongguan people call "Qiqi", and Jiyingling Village has the rich resources of this soil, which is easy to produce good quality Guanxiang, which is often called "daughter incense". There is a saying in Jiyingling Village, "It is better to buy a car and send a suite than to give a daughter incense", and villagers often buy a dowry of "daughter incense" when they marry their daughters.
As the inheritor of the daughter incense of Jiling Wing Village, Tang Jinhua has participated in the Wanxiang Development Forum, the International Agarwood Expo and the "Intangible Cultural Heritage into the Campus" activities for many times, vigorously promoting the culture of Wanxiang, so that the younger generation has a strong interest and understanding of Wanxiang. He also founded the "Gong Xiangju Daughter Incense Cultivation Base" to help the revitalization and dissemination of intangible cultural heritage with tourism.
In order to facilitate the residents of the building to cultivate Wanxiang, Tang Jinhua specially studied and cultivated the Wanxiang tree bonsai. He shared and passed on his rich experience and unique insights to other Shannon farmers in the village, driving the development of the Wanxiang industry in his hometown. His son Tang Junwei was carefully taught by him and also inherited the craftsmanship of making Wanxiang in Chicken Wing Ridge Village.
For thousands of years, Guanxiang has always been like a silent spring rain to nourish our hearts, Guanxiang production process contains the concept of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, reflects the cultural accumulation with Dongguan characteristics, and is a rich stroke in the history of Chinese incense culture. Nowadays, Wanxiang is full of vitality, and many inheritors are shouldering the mission of going farther and farther on the road of Wanxiang's integration into modern life.
Written by: Nandu reporter Zhou Peiwen Correspondent Wen Mu