Lao Xu said incense. It's another year of potpourri
In March, flowers are in full bloom, and Wuyuan, the most beautiful fragrant village in China, ushered in the proudest season of the year. Layers of rape flower fields, set off a little pear blossoms, pieces of peach blossoms, covering the green mountains and green water between the pink walls and tiles, constitute an intoxicating landscape painting. Although "Book Township" and "Tea Township" are the signboards of Wuyuan, the bustling crowd prefers to squeeze in at this time to see the rape flowers, and the road congestion and hotel price increase are also not hesitated.
My friends also came, and every year it was the case, and for a month or so I had to be busy with the reception. This year, it has intensified, because there is an incense factory, at least ten people asked me to make some rape flowers, some sincerely, some ridiculed, saying that it is "convenient to taste and smell from time to time to miss Wuyuan".
It is not easy to think about it, the difficulty is that if you want to make incense that can be smoked, you need to use dried pollen, and the aroma of dried flowers is almost dissipated, and it is useless to become incense.
The fragrance of flowers comes from the volatile oil of the petals, and it can be volatilized at room temperature, so we can smell the fragrance of flowers often. No matter what method is used to turn flowers into dried flowers, a large amount of volatile oil will be lost. In order to preserve the fragrance of flowers, the incense must be operated in the state of flowers.
Eight years ago, on a snowy winter, I came to the plum orchard in East Lake in Wuhan with my friends to see the plum blossoms. The burst of fragrance refreshed people's hearts, and the idea of making plum fragrance came to mind. So he couldn't hold it back, "stole" nearly 100 snow plums, and ran back to the studio. Put the snow plum into the juicer, add an appropriate amount of pure water, start the machine, and turn it continuously for nearly an hour to filter out the fibers that cannot be broken, and the fragrant and pleasant "flower juice" is ready. This process reminds me of a method of preparation in traditional Chinese medicine - "Shui Fei", "Shui Fei" is to protect the fine powder in Chinese medicine from drifting away; And my "juicing" is to minimize the volatilization of the aroma in the flowers.
With "Flower Juice", the subsequent process is easy. If you do a single product plum fragrance, you must choose a good excipients, pure flowers can not be incense, there must be excipients to make a structure for the flowers, through the fumigation of the excipients, the aroma of the flowers is baked, if it is directly burned flowers, it will be burned. A friend once took more than 30 kinds of incense medicine from me and burned them directly with the fire one by one, and he was very annoyed that he ignored me to this day.
If you want to make a fragrance, you have to think about the recipe clearly. After the winter solstice, the yang energy in nature is gradually enhanced, and the selection of cinnamon, cucumber, mother clove and other incense herbs are compatible with the plum blossom, and the incense will make people feel the spring breeze in the fragrance of the plum.
Whether you are making a single incense or a combination of incense, it is best to use the way of hand to rub the incense to wrap a layer of woody incense powder on the incense mud wrapped in bamboo sticks, just like putting on a coat for the incense, even if it is stored for many years, when it is smoked, the aroma is still dense.
Later, according to this method, plum blossom incense, orchid fragrance ...... madeIt seems that we are going to make some rape flowers this year!