(Baonghean.vn) -Entering the twelfth lunar month, people in Lien Duc incense village, Thanh Lien commune (Thanh Chuong) are busy producing to serve the Tet market.
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| Lien Duc village produces incense all year round, but is busier at the end of the year. Production began about 15 years ago and was recognized as a craft village by the provincial People's Committee in 2010. |
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| Made from herbal ingredients such as incense roots, cinnamon, sugarcane bagasse... dried and ground, mixed according to professional secrets to ensure the following advantages: fragrant, easy to burn, long-lasting. |
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| Currently, there are more than 30 households producing incense in the village. Because the work of making incense is not too hard, everyone can participate. In the past, incense was made by hand, but now it is mainly made by machine, so the quality of the product as well as labor productivity have increased many times. |
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| Making incense has provided regular jobs for dozens of workers with incomes ranging from 2.5 to 3 million VND/month. Some families have stopped farming and switched to making incense. Each year, the incense making profession brings in billions of VND to the village. |
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| After being fired by the machine, the incense sticks are arranged evenly on iron or wooden drying racks and dried in the sun. |
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| Lien Duc incense makers take advantage of the rare sunny winter days to dry incense. |
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| Before packaging, defective incense sticks are removed. |
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| The incense production facility of Mr. Phan Ba Bay’s family (46 years old) is one of the largest incense production facilities in the region, with dozens of incense making and packaging machines. Most of Lien Duc incense is now packaged in plastic bags, ensuring quality and design. |
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| The finished paper-wrapped incense sticks are then dried. |
Huy Thu
