Tet is a sweet-smelling, smoky time for all, but in one village in Hung Yen Province it is the culmination of months of work as households sweat over machines to make the incense sticks the rest of the country will burn to mark the new year.
Villagers in Cao Thon, Bao Khe Commune share a generations-old craft, each household turning out twenty-to-thirty thousand sticks a day, using a time-tested mix of sawdust, cinnamon, sandalwood and sunshine. Production, by some 70 percent of the commune's households, begins in earnest in October, with rain deciding the days off.
Incense from Cao Thon Village is much sought after for its quality and will be burned throughout the country.
Materials to make incense
Machines are used during making process
Round incense
Drying incense
Packaging
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