Thuy Xuan Incense Village Hue

Introduction

Thuy Xuan incense village is known for its long-standing tradition of making incense in Hue. This place also attracts virtual believers by the brilliant scenery of multi-colored bouquets of green, red, purple, and yellow incense.

During your trip to Hue, in addition to visiting cultural and historical heritage sites, visitors should spend a little time visiting Thuy Xuan incense-making village. This is a place where you can learn about the incense-making process, experience the stages as well as a check in with a beautiful colorful space.

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Thuy Xuan Incense Making village Location

Hue incense making village is one of the famous Hue tourist attractions that almost every tourist stops to visit. The address of Thuy Xuan incense village is on Huyen Tran Cong Chua Street; nearby Hue Vong Canh hill, Tu Duc mausoleum, 7km southwest of Hue city center.

Hue Incense village history

According to old artisans in Thuy Xuan Hue incense village, incense-making jobs appeared here about 700 years ago under the Nguyen Dynasty. In the past, the village was a place to provide incense and frankincense to the court, mandarins, people in Thuan Hoa and Phu Xuan areas.

Although it has undergone many changes over time, this Hue incense-making village continues to be preserved and developed. Generations passed from father to son to make fragrant incenses, serving the spiritual life of local people as well as outside the province.

Thuy Xuan Hue Incense Prices

Incense and frankincense products in the village are diverse with different prices:

• Sandalwood Incense: about 80,000 – 200,000 VND/ pack
• Cinnamon Incense: about 40,000 VND/ bundle
• Agarwood buds: about 50,000 – 600,000 VND/ box

Products in the village are not only supplied to local markets such as Dong Ba market, An Cuu market … but also exported to many provinces and cities with different product segments. People use Thuy Xuan incense in addition to ceremonial purposes, and also use it as a stress reliever, bringing comfort to the spirit.

What makes the Thuy Xuan Incense village Special?

The reason why this incense village in Hue has existed for a long time and is very popular is because of the delicate and meticulous way of making incense in each stage. Thuy Xuan incense has a gentle ethereal smell, no chemicals are used. Each incense has to go through many elaborate preparation stages to retain the full characteristic smell of pure agarwood.

First, people will select raw materials for incense and then mix the flavors of cinnamon, star anise, cloves, cardamom, and pine buds in a careful ratio. Besides, forest grapefruit and slightly dried eucalyptus, cinnamon peel powder… are also added to create the perfect scent for the product.

Besides, the raw materials for splitting incense sticks are also old bamboos exploited from Binh Dien, Phong Son, or Nam Dong forests. This is the stage that requires the decisiveness and skill of the craftsman to make the right size incense sticks.

Traditional incense sticks will have two basic colors, brown and red. However, the workers in the Thuy Xuan incense village have creatively mixed them into many colors to make the product more eye-catching. Therefore, when walking around the village, you will not be able to help but admire the brilliance of the bouquets of yellow, blue, purple, red, pink incense.

What to do at the Hue Incense Making Village?

Check in the colorful incense area

Visitors come to Thuy Xuan incense village not only to learn about the traditional craft of making incense for generations but also to check in with the eye-catching scenery here.

Under the gentle sunlight, each bouquet of incense spreads out, spreading like colorful flowers. All create a photogenic background so you can freely pose and capture shimmering pictures.

Experience making incense by yourself

Visitors to Thuy Xuan Hue incense village will be extremely excited to discover with their own eyes the process of handmade incense making as well as experience some stages with their own hands.

Thereby, you will understand more about this traditional profession as well as the daily life of the people here.

Buy some unique souvenirs

Hue incense village is not only a place to produce incense but also sells souvenir products. You can walk around the shops to buy something such as fans, brocades, oil paintings… bearing the colors of the ancient capital as souvenirs for relatives and friends.