Oriental Incense Sticks: Time, Nature, and the Wisdom

Traditional Oriental Incense Sticks Natural Scented Fragrance
The materials in the incense sticks are taken from the four ancient trees of "pure, strange and weird" in Situ Temple, Guangfu, Suzhou, Jiangsu. The two thousand-year-old cypress trees are "pure, strange, ancient and weird" and have been rooted in Guangfu, on the shore of Taihu Lake in the south of the Yangtze River since the Western Han Dynasty. Every year when the cypress seeds are ripe, they follow the ancient ritual: tie a red rope to the branches of the ancient cypress, burn incense, and pay tribute to nature. This is the survival wisdom passed down from generation to generation by the people in the south of the Yangtze River. They regard the prosperity and decline of plants and trees as a reverence for the community of life and are grateful for the gift of time.
Following the "rubbing incense method" recorded in "Xiangcheng": dry the cypress seeds and grind them a hundred times, sieve them seven times, and then follow the ancient method of "taking flowers in spring, leaves in summer, seeds in autumn, and wood in winter", and blend with the herbs in the south of the Yangtze River in season, condensing into seven kinds of fireworks charms: [Green Plum] [Golden Osmanthus] [Azalea] [Daisy] [Blue Lotus] [Jasmine] [Black Orchid]. Every wisp of fragrance precipitates the cultural roots of the south of the Yangtze River, and tells seven kinds of civilization memories unique to this land in the curling smoke.
线香中材料取材于江苏苏州光福司徒庙“清奇古怪”四颗古树
两千年的柏树“清、奇、古、怪”，自西汉年便扎根江南太湖畔的光福。每年柏子熟时，遵循古老的仪式：于古柏枝干系上红绳，燃清香，向自然致以敬意。这是江南百姓世代流传的生存智慧，将草木荣枯视为对生命共同体的敬畏，也感恩时间的馈赠。
沿用《香乘》记载的 "搓香法"：将柏籽晒干后研磨百次，过筛七回，再按 "春取花、夏取叶、秋取籽、冬取木" 的古法，与当季江南草本调香，凝练成【绿梅】【金桂】【杜鹃】【雏菊】【青莲】【茉莉】【墨兰】七种烟火气韵。每一缕香息都沉淀着江南的文化根脉，在袅袅烟痕里诉说着七种独属于这片水土的文明记忆。