( Update: 20/08/2014 )
The custom of burning incense (incense) has long been one of the distinctive culture of the spiritual life of the people of Vietnam, especially in the New Year.
Among many ethnic groups in Lao Cai province, just Giay, H'Mong and some other nations retain traditional incense.
Now, incense is not merely the product of a spirit that it has become a commodity, bringing considerable income for the household retains tradition, especially in the New Year in the spring.
Usually each group, every ethnic sector in Lao Cai have devised a special kind of incense own and they almost exclusively use the incense stick by their own ethnic make, especially fragrances are manually elderly made and passed down.
The Tay in Van Ban cinnamon bark powder for a brown flavor, rich aroma and sweet taste. The Di Pa in Muong Khuong to invent a light green flavor, made from the pungent smelling herb leaves and floral characteristics.
The Hmong in Bac Ha to collect bark to make a fragrance vermilion, with an acrid smell. Native ethnic Giay Bat Xat has a distinct aroma of northwestern mountains, light and aromatic but subtle sound very long.
Giay people as well as many other peoples belongings mindset rise ancestors meant to be pure. Cedars of Giay people like cedars of Business, but larger cards, golden brown crust flavor and bright red color of rolled incense. Incense stick about 40cm in length. Rolled incense made from bamboo or apricot trees, remove the kidneys and intestines, then take a small split, the sun to dry, no place better prepared also choose bamboo trees align the long, straight months below pond dipping, then picked up dried and chopped small. So good incense sticks will burn and not burn incense off halfway through the ceremony - what the fellow is taboo.
Also from the notion that the ethnic intolerance incense alike a flavor when chopped shallots to distinguish where the top part, where is the base to avoid burn incense when upside down. To distinguish it, dyed it red around third base with incense sticks, the latter two thirds remaining flour to make perfume.
Ms. Hoang Thi Sin, Drug Sanh village, Coc San (Bat Xat district), the fragrance materials include a resource bark of the tree's bark, a plant they grow on vines, wild jungle, both aromatic, both adhesive mix.
After removing the bark forest of exposing it dry, smooth pounding with a mortar and stones are carefully screened by sieve sieve. Now that this stage has much less hard because people just give away material instead of crushing machine by hand pounding as hard as before. Finally, they mix the two flours together in a ratio of 1: 3, which is a part of wild vines, which acts as an adhesive, Khao trees also have the effect of three fire and powder fragrant when burned.
Hardest stages are rolling incense incense powder is aimed for. When rolling incense, incense rolled Giay people use embedded into the bucket of water, then bring out rolling over rolling over ready-mix powder, then quickly dipped into a bucket of water brought forth rolling, keep doing so until the an incense wand is nearly as big as is.
After finishing rolling incense, they bring exposure again to give flavor to dry. Ms Sin said: "The smell of burning incense aroma pleasant, when the flame goes out there enjoying the beautiful spiral due to substance when choosing plants native card decision. Many people do taste for business interests that mixed sawdust and other chemical components in health will affect homeowners and acne remnants of burning incense, lighted even halfway through, is not the concept of spiritual good. "
Perfume by Giay people do not only for domestic use but also for sale, the market is very popular. Once sold, they are usually about 50 incense stick bundle into a bundle, two bundles of 100 compression shorts on. When sold, incense is placed in pack (baskets), they just hang up 1-2 bundle pack mouth and fired a compressed samples to customers about the quality of his countrymen.
With Si Ma Cai Hmong (Lao Cai), serving as a flavor though he spent a long time but still retain the distinctive character of the nation to the other, even with even the Northern District of Mongolia Ha. Is the flavor of Si Ma Cai Mongolia has a bright yellow color and fragrance ingredients so cool and different mixing ratio.
Her family Sung Thi Chi (San Chai Commune, Si Ma Cai districts) have been making incense for over 10 years. She said: "First bamboo splitting into small bars with a length of about 50cm, dried, take two types of colon and leaves the cage cages seng name (in the vernacular) as whites tree is sticky with resin so , but there seng cage tree fragrance, it brings both dried leaves, crushed into powder. then use a small split bamboo sticks were dipped in water to wet them and sprinkle powdered whites in 2 / 3 sticks, then just tapped in combination with rotating circular dough sticking to them. Continuing soaked cage and sprinkle powdered seng up, this powder works to make incense sticks and beautiful yellow color when burning smell bland., the last step is to dry or drying upstairs. "
Career as incense but is not highly valuable economically, but also contribute to the income of the household. Especially significant is important to reflect manufacturing labor skills, enrich traditional crafts as well as the spiritual life of ethnic groups in the province of Lao Cai. /.
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