Tourist attraction
Thuy Xuan Incense-making Village
Hillside workshops hand-rolling fragrant paste onto bamboo cores, dried in fan-shaped bursts of color.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the incense-making village of Thuy Xuan, outside Hue, follows artisan Le Thi Hoa and a folk chemistry no textbook recorded: the exact feel of a paste of cinnamon bark, star anise, clove, and glue powder that decides whether a stick burns clean or cracks apart. It traces how generations of households refined that balance by touch alone, and how a practical habit of dyeing bamboo cores grew into the village's now-famous fan-shaped bursts of color.
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