Losang Wangdu and his family are busy with making Tibetan incenses to meet the booming market demand during holidays as the Tibetan New Year and Spring Festival that fall on the same day on Feb. 16 this year are arriving.
Losang Wangdu followed his father to learn making Tibetan incenses when he was 15 years old. Since then, he has been engaged in this for 21 years, and his production is also well-known to all.
When it comes to making Tibetan incenses, almost each family knows the skill in Losang Wangdu's hometown in Thonpa Township where the Nyemo Tibetan incenses are firstly produced.
For more than 1,300 years, there preserved the most traditional Tibetan incenses production skills, whereby it was included as a national-level intangible cultural heritage of China in 2008.
"Not each kind of Tibetan medical material can be used to make Tibetan incenses, but most of raw materials for making Tibetan incenses can serve as medicine," said Migmar, a researcher at the Tibetan incenses research and development center.
According to Migmar, Tibetan incenses are made of dozens of natural spices and herbs such as agilawood, sandalwood, calamus and cypress. And the ingredients are strictly regulated in proportion and processing methods and they contain no chemical spices as well.
