阿坤香茅工坊 - Guoxing Township

After using the pure natural citronella oil, you can't go back to the chemical essential oils on the market.

I bought soap, ointment and essential oils, and also gave a loofah. The store cats and relatives are not afraid of health. Parking is convenient. Pay attention to the car.

Pillow made of lemongrass ancient method, sleeping really sweet, so calming!

500 jin of citronella is cooked in a "kitchen" to obtain 7-8 jin of oil, which is used as the basis of spices and medicinal materials. This is the main way for traditional Hakka people to make a living. Liu Changkun, who lives in Beigang Village, Guoxian Township, Nantou County, carried forward the work of "baked citronella oil" and became a leisure industry, inheriting the spirit of hard work and hard work of Hakkas. More than 100 years ago, the Hakka people were not easy to survive because of the increase in their native population. Some people searched for camphor trees all the way south and came to the barren "Guo Po". After the camphor trees were cut down, they planted sugar cane, cassava, and lemongrass in the mountain forest; Some did not have job opportunities in their hometowns, so they brought their families to their surnames, reclaimed their homes, and followed people to grow crops. When the price of cassava is good, everyone grows cassava, peels it, frustrates it, dries it, takes powder, and exchanges it for rice dishes; when the price of cassava is poor, it is abandoned and replaced with lemongrass to obtain a whole bunch of lemongrass After that, the branches are peeled off and planted. After growing, the branches and leaves are like four grasses, and then they can be harvested and dried to pick up a "cooker" (a cookware made of wooden boards, narrow up and down, wide in the middle) , Now made of metal), waiting in line to make oil. When baking citronella oil, first raise the flame from the stove under the "cooking", then boil the cauldron to produce steam, then put the dried lemongrass into the "cooking", after a certain amount, people To enter the "cooker", add grass and step on it, and use steam and trampling to make the content solid. The sultry "cooker" and the hot steam are often unbearable. About one "kitchen" can hold 500 catties of lemongrass. When it is full, put a wooden stick in the air outlet to avoid blocking the air inlet. At this time, the stove mouth can not stop the fire. The continuous heat will force the lemongrass inside. After cooling and oil-water separation, the oil content can be obtained from 7-8 catties of citronella oil in a few hours. In the past, farmers usually ate sweet potato sticks with a little rice at work, but baked lemongrass oil had to work for 24 hours without interruption. It was extremely laborious, so there was usually white rice to eat. The children smelled the smell of rice and came to visit the shuttle often after class. Once they could share the white rice of adults, and the chimneys of small factories could roast sweet potatoes and roasted peanuts. This is a rare place to enjoy. When the price of lemongrass is the best, 200 jin of oil can be exchanged for a triple courtyard. Later, some unscrupulous players mixed other things in pure oil, which made the acquisition of Japanese merchants prohibitive, and the industry changes, which made the industry of baked lemongrass. Almost extinct. Liu Changkun ’s ancestors started by planting lemongrass and baked lemongrass, and their home still has steamed and baked utensils. After the 921 earthquake, the local industry was in a slump, and the place was developing leisure and tourism businesses. It coincided with the "Nuomi Bridge" as a three-level historic site. With the development of the "Nuomi Bridge Leisure Traditional Industry", Liu Changkun also sorted out old appliances and developed into a new business, re-find lemongrass seedlings, set up "kitchen" rooms, construct warm water channels, provide visitors with DIY, so that visitors can also trample on Lemongrass enters the "cooking" and experiences the experience. Today, the citronella oil baked by Liu Changkun is a good oil that has been certified by Liren, and it is also a leisure and tourist attraction that people love to visit.

It's raining today and it's a working day, so it's not open?

It’s fun to steam lemongrass, but it’s a bit boring if you don’t steam it. You can ask the boss before you go.

Taiwan Guest Committee, the inheritance point of Hakka skills, suitable for family travel, you can enjoy the citronella road soaking foot, learn about the types of citronella, you can also use citronella oil to repel small black mosquitoes, it is a good spot for tourism and education!

Their lemongrass oil is super pure and awesome