Collection: Ren Qing Handmade Tibetan Incense Sticks

Ren Qing says: “Always smile when you’re gathering medicinal plants from the mountains. When you smile, the plants will smile back.”

With his bare hands, each year Ren Qing creates 3,000 boxes of Tibetan incense over the two months when the climate is most favourable. This is Ren Qing‘s craft, as well as his livelihood.

Plants in the mountains grow and follow nature, free from any intervention by humans. Every autumn in October, Ren Qing gathers medicinal plants from his hometown, Ngawa in Sichuan. Every year in May when spring is giving way to summer, the frigid winter in Tibet begins to ease off, which is the best time for gathering medicinal plants.

As with sunrise and sunset, Ren Qing’s incense follows the climate circle in Tibet and greets us once every year.