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By about 100 BC, the Chinese had begun to produce paper. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cai Lun improved papermaking technique using bark and hemps. This then became one of the four great ancient inventions of China which contributed greatly to the world’s civilization.
In Guizhou, papermaking has been a tradition in local town for hundreds of years. Many papermaking workshops are preserved and continued to make paper in small quantity. Shiqiao Village where people still keep the ancient way of paper making.
Located in a deep valley area, 210km southeast of Guaiyang, the capital city of Guizhou Province, the village is surrounded by lime-stone hills and limpid floating river, which provides the best condition of water resources for paper making. Local people use hemps (Scientific name: Broussonafjapapgrifera) as raw material for the paper making, with the addition of birch leaves, lime and water.
The acient papermaking produced to can trace back to this deckle craft that expects at that time at the earliest stage till Tang Dynasty, being apart from to have already have now 1400-1500 years.This has very important meaning to the development of[with] deckle technique and its politics,economic cultural society that studies from Han Dynasty to Tang Dynasty.In the meantime it still the emersion of Chinese calligraphy and the painting art object is complement each other with the calligraphy and the painting art, is a culture to spread to accept essential to have to carry a body.Its production craft process is complicated, the delicate degree and requests of each work preface are all higher.These production technical skill is local seedling clansmen, the people labors over a long period of time of intelligence crystallize, and hard is act for by modern technique.It is a very and precious history inheritance.
The Shiqiao ancient method deckle craft keep the thou of its integrity,technical skill is old,big scale, belong to national and ex- row.Its paper quality is pure,the pliant and tough is strong and bear to pull dint, the paper noodles is neat and absorbs water sex strong, is the calligraphy and painting work the best paper article.Shiqiao’s papermaking is extensively applied the daily production life is medium in the soldier work business enterprise,financial industry and people.Shiqiao colorful handicraft paper is also the domestic and only in Chian, having already studied to develop a cloud dragon,cave and convex and wrinkly plait,thread,flower and grass and flattenning currently etc. the 6 greatest serieses is 168 colorful handicraft papers, mainly selling as far as France,Australia,New Zealand,Hong Kong,Southeast Asia etc. the nation and region.It mainly is apply in to manufacture clear slice,lampshade, lantern,wrapping paper,wallpaper,the packing bag,greeting card etc..University of Peking,people's university etc. expert,taught to make a special trip to the Shiqiao to investigate.
The Shiqiao village can produce white parchment everyday currently 240 firm, but market demands is 800 firm above everyday, press to tie 18 yuan to account each time, everyday of Shiqiao should the income is 14400 yuan, but actually everyday the income is only 4320 yuan, because of the funds problem, greatly part of produce door can keep on to produce for 7-9 months, but can insist the whole years produce of have only several rarely.The colorful paper that the Shiqiao produce sells toward the nations, such as Southeast Asia,Western Europe,France,Australia and Hong Kong...etc. and the region generally.
The Shiqiao equally receives 15 guests everyday, but the guest is general to just visit the ancient method deckle production, eating,living in the Shiqiao, can't produce a very big economic performance.The general purchases some colorful papers, the colorful paper can sell to the 10 yuan per piece generally, colorful paper’s income is 150 yuan everyday, a year the income is 45000 yuan, plusing a year 150,000 yuan orders, the brilliance color paper an item can the income is 200,000 yuan.If extension Shiqiao of the white parchment production, light the white parchment produce this, can increase income 3,679,000 yuan, if open an exhibition to develop to the research of the colorful paper handicraft product annually, raising its additional value, can increase income to be close to 1000,000 yuan, two item it with can reach to 5,000,000 yuan or so.Still have already openned the exhibition tour reception moreover, the year receives to measure to one myriad people, average everybody presses 100 yuan to account, can reach to 1,000,000 yuan.So the item's foreground is vast, having stronger maneuverability.
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