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The making of incense has been a very complicated and lengthy affair since ancient times. In ancient times, the process of making incense not only paid attention to the time and place, when the ingredients, when to grind the powder, when to make incense have strict attention. For example, "Lingxue Incense" needs to be accompanied by incense on The Day of the First Son, the incense is combined on the Day of the Propylene, the Powder is ground on the Day of the Ding Zi, and the Incense is only started on the Day of the Gengzi. After the incense is made, it needs to be stored in the kiln for one week to three months, and the long three-year cellar is stored. Nowadays, people make incense, due to the lack of perception of everything in the universe, more is a short answer combination of incense materials. Mo said that when he conformed to the sky, many of the links of cellaring were omitted.
From the point of view of ingredients, the incense is divided into incense and single-product incense. Hexiang is more than one of the ingredients of incense. When the ancients made incense, the incense recipe and the medicinal recipe had a lot in common, and also followed the principle of Junchen Sasuke, the large incense party was one Jun, five ministers, nine zuo eighteen auxiliaries, and the small one was generally one Jun, three ministers, five zuo, and nine auxiliaries. In most of the incense parties, the position of the jun is played by agarwood (Tang Dynasty cypress tree as the king, not explained here, another day to describe). Agarwood is the old man in the incense, just like the licorice in Chinese medicine, it is to unite the nature of the incense, unify the medicinal properties of all the incense, obey the leadership, and unify the management.
Zhipu Xiangtang's single product Agarwood: Agar Heavenly Fragrance
The single incense is mostly agarwood, which is generally named according to the production area, such as Hainan agarwood, Nha Trang agarwood, Indonesian agarwood and so on. The method is to add natural nan wood sticky powder to the agarwood spices of the same appellation, and the fragrance is also combined between the same series of incense materials at most.
Whether it is incense or a single piece of agarwood, from incense to incense, this is not only a change in form, but also the creation and upgrading of fragrance, but this process is not overnight, and it takes a certain amount of time to run in and accumulate. In addition, the incense material is basically pure masculine, and the freshly made incense will have a restless atmosphere whether it is a combination of incense or a single piece of incense, and it takes time to smooth it out. The incense of Shihpu Xiangtang is made of the yin water of the Cold Source Cave, and even the freshly made incense does not have obvious irritability.
A cold source cave where Zhipu Xiangtang Zhipu takes water
Therefore, the ancients made incense, and cellaring was an indispensable link.
Regarding the method and environment of cellaring, there is an authoritative record in the "New Incense Recipe", and in order to facilitate reading, I translated it: the incense is not one, the wet incense is easy to reconcile, the dry incense is difficult to reconcile, the light and soft incense burns quickly, the heavy incense burns slowly, and the incense is refined by fire, and the aroma is discharged. Therefore, it must be clean containers, must be wiped particularly dry, sealed storage cellars, digging cellar containers, then the aroma is roughly the same, will not be separated. New and incense must be stored, and it is very rare for the dry and wet incense to be suitable. According to the amount of incense, stored in the porcelain that is not wet, sealed the mouth of the vessel with wax paper, dug the ground in the ashram, the pit is three or five inches deep, and it is taken out in the past month, and its fragrance is particularly rich.
To summarize simply, the cellar of incense needs to have constant temperature, light avoidance, no odor, and slight ventilation. Zhipu Xiangtang is stored in clay pots, which are thicker in mud and have many tiny pores inside, which are conducive to absorbing moisture and water. In the process of kiln storage, the odor molecules between different spices will fuse and collide, so that the medicinal properties and fragrance of the fragrance will be softer. After long-term storage, the aroma will be more pure, peaceful, no irritability, and the fragrance will be more warm and lasting.
Does hexiang need to be cellared, but does a single piece of agarwood need to be cellared? Although the single agarwood does not have the problem of flavor fusion, it can still improve its fragrance quality through hiding. Usually the newly made agarwood incense stick incense, in the natural agarwood powder also added to the natural agarwood powder. Agarwood incense because of the addition of sticky powder, just made of agarwood line fragrance is not so pure, and after three months of cellaring, the smell of this natural raw wood powder will gradually disappear in about two months, the charm of agarwood incense no longer has an impact, but also to reduce the dryness of the incense. The longer the cellar, the more time there is a sense of precipitation, the aroma is elegant, mellow, rich, and more peaceful.
Zhipu Xiangtang is committed to reviving ancient incense culture and promoting natural incense, and is a project for the protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage in China.
Based on our philosophy:
Zhipu Xiangtang
Never use any non-plant ingredients in incense making
Never add any chemical flavors or accelerants
Never use city tap water
Every stick of Chi Pu incense
All are derived from nature, made according to the ancient method, the taste is natural, the fragrance is long, it is not only a good product for offering, but also a wonderful thing for health and wisdom.