Searching for special Xuzhou--Xuzhou fragrant buns

A needle and a thread locking thick fragrance, a thread overflowing with a thousand years of wisdom.

Talking about Xuzhou, it is absolutely impossible not to know the Xuzhou incense bag, especially with the name of Ma Zhuang incense bag.

Xuzhou's incense buns have a long history, dating back as far as the Warring States period.

The incense packets have a variety of themes, but most of them have a festive and auspicious meaning, such as dragon and phoenix, mandarin ducks playing in the water, pine and cranes prolonging the year, magpies haunting the plum, etc. Later on, there are also some models that attract wealth and send children, and their shapes are even richer and more creative, the common round, rhombus, rectangular, teardrop-shaped, etc., quite popular with young people, heart-shaped, butterfly-shaped, character dolls, and even three-dimensional soft sculpture modeling.

It can be said that in terms of shape and subject matter, the inheritors of the non-foreign heritage have given a lot of thought to it, and a small incense bag has brought together a lot of energy.

The color of the incense bag also depends on the subject matter and shape, such as the elegant creamy white beige, the warm and auspicious red-orange, the serene and calm blue-green, etc. The beautiful colors are sewn into the incense bag, and people will find its hidden glory only when they play with it.

Even if the popular things, through the wash of the years will inevitably be worn, incense bag such a slow and delicate work of fine accessories also by the impact of modern technology, gradually disappeared.

Until the afternoon of December 12, 2017, the General Secretary Xi's "support", the incense bag this long-dormant intangible cultural heritage back to the world.

The inheritors also seized this opportunity to push forward the new, in the shape of the incense bag, filling and other aspects of the effort, and opened incense bag training courses, dedicated to this traditional handicraft to more people, but also so that the public can learn about this intangible cultural heritage.

It is believed that their efforts will enable the intangible heritage to live on in this land and blossom into a new era of glory.