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Burning incense is part of Vietnamese culture and
beliefs. No one knows how long ever incense stick
has been deeply rooted in Vietnamese people's
minds as traditional culture
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It is believed that when burning up, incense
smoke will be a fanciful link between the two
visible and invisible worlds, between real and
spiritual life. Villages making traditional
incense still continue their sacred work,
contributing to preserving that cultural beauty
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The incense making profession is present
throughout the North, Central and South regions.
However, each village has its own unique,
different beauty and is a destination that
attracts many tourists and photographers
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Collecting dried incense sticks at a courtyard in
Quang Phu Cau village
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A woman collects incense sticks in a courtyard in
Quang Phu Cau Village
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Quang Phu Cau village on the outskirts of Hanoi
is one of the famous, long-lasting incense-making
places with "age" over a century. Not entirely
creating finished products, the village here
specialize in making incense sticks. After that,
incense sticks will be moved to other places to
make a complete incense stick
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Amidst the modern life, despite the flow of time,
the capital still has a very quiet, peaceful,
traditional corner. At this point, you will see
the red lotus petals of the incense sticks
wrapped into bundles covering the whole village.
Looking from above, the yard is covered with
incense sticks like a red flower garden in
beautiful sunshine
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The ancient craft is a great source of pride and
many in Quang Phu Cau village on the outskirts of
Hanoi
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People in the village have a job of making
incense for a long time. According to the elders
in the village, the villages incense making
career originated from a Chinese tradition from
the 13th century and developed to this day
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Quang Phu Cau has over 300 households engaged in
the trade passed down through generations. In the
run up to Tet, the Lunar New Year holiday,
Vietnams biggest and most important festival,
the village is at its busiest as nearly the
entire population lights incense at home and
pagodas
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Village products are consumed not only in Vietnam
but also in India, China, Malaysia, and other
countries
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Located 7km from Hue city to the South West, Thuy
Xuan village is known for making incense for
hundreds of years. It is not only the infamous
traditional craft village of the central province
but also a tourism hotspot for tourists
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Thuy Xuan is a typical suburb of incense making
in Hue. If the village of Hanoi is outstanding
with the deep red color flooding the courtyard,
then come to Hue, visitors will admire the
brilliant world with different colors such as
bright red, brick, banana green, dark green,
yellow, purple ... very eye-catching
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In order to produce satisfied products, bring the
typical flavor of Hue, the incense stick must go
through many strenuous stages and the worker's
skill
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Thuy Xuan village is also known as one of the
places with a long tradition of making incense
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The ingredients for making incense are not simple
but complex with the five spices of herbs such as
cinnamon, cardamom, pine buds, cloves, star
anise, accompanied by grapefruit pods, dried
grapefruit flowers, cinnamon, eucalyptus ... to
create different fragrances
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Indeed, making incense is very hard, so it takes
many stages to make incense sticks. Everybody in
the family must work hard with the assignment of
each person, from small to large, from one job,
from the simplest to the most complex. Older
people and children often take on uncomplicated
tasks such as drying and collecting and packing
finished products
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Every year, Quan Huong Village produces nearly
1,000 tons of incense for domestic consumption
and export to Laos
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Quang Nam incense village prepares for Tet
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Tay Ninh is like the land of traditional craft
villages. In which, Long Tan hamlet, Long Thanh
Bac commune is famous for incense making village
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Sticks to make incense are bought from northern
provinces
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The main material for making incense is the kapok
leaves. After being purchased, the leaves are
dried and then ground into powder. The leaf
powder mixed with water and a quantity of powder
for aromas such as cinnamon, bass ... will
produce a mixture of incense powder. The scent of
the incense is not strong, but it is very light
and deep
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The finished incense sticks are not as yellow as
usual, which are yellow, brown of leaves and
dried flowers. Unlike Hue, Tay Ninh incense
sticks are simply yellow or brown. Not curling
each bundle, people here sunbathe sticks on long
shelves.
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2021
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Vietnam (sometimes written as Viet Nam),
officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is
located at the eastern edge of the Indochinese
Peninsula, and is divided into 58 provinces and
five municipalities, covering 331,699 square
kilometres, with a population of over 96 million
inhabitants, making it the world's sixteenth-most
populous country. Vietnam is a unitary Marxist-Len
inist one-party socialist republic, one of the
two communist states (the other being Laos)
in Southeast Asia
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