On Xusong Road in the Songzhuang International Art District, there hides an agarwood shop named after the signboard in "Along the River During the Qingming Festival."
On the second floor of Baozang Tianxia, No. 98 Xusong Road, Songzhuang International Art District, Tongzhou, Beijing, hangs the signboard of "Liu Family Colored Agarwood and Sandalwood Selected Incense Shop." The name is taken from the incense shop depicted in Zhang Zeduan's "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" of the Northern Song Dynasty, and its signboard design has obtained a national design patent. The bustling incense lineage of a thousand years ago has thus settled into today's art district.
There is nothing too fancy in the shop. Raw agarwood materials, bead bracelets, incense sticks, blended incense balms, and incense utensils are laid out by category. Regular customers know not to rush to buy upon entering; they sit down and take a sniff first, while the shopkeeper explains from oil lines to aroma, then discusses usage. This slow pace is precisely what keeps people coming back.
Besides buying and selling, the shop also offers agarwood appraisal, buyback, and incense ceremony training. The ¥9.9 public-benefit appraisal is a standing program—not for quick profit, but to keep fakes at the door. Many new incense friends first visit the shop and get to know it through an appraisal.
The advantage of a physical shop is that you can smell it, touch it, and ask about it. Buying agarwood through a screen always leaves you a bit less confident.
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