When Eucalyptus visited the mall, she saw a handicraft workshop where customers could make DIY handmade paper by themselves.

There was a big poster in front of the store that said, "Walk into the world of interesting ancient papermaking and make your first flower paper", so I wanted to try it.

The ancient and mysterious history of China is splendid and long, and thousands of years of precipitation have been preserved forever on pieces of paper.

A piece of paper encompasses the whole world.

A culture that contains thousands of springs and autumns.

With fresh flowers and plants, inherit the touch of life.

Eucalyptus wanted to make a piece of her own flower paper, put spring grass and summer flowers in the pulp, and use very simple tools to fuse flowers and paper into one.

Scattered with the fragrance of grass, it depicts a different kind of painting.

Handmade is not only about the result, but most importantly about experiencing the process and the people with whom you are creating.

These beautiful flowers and plants are solidified in the paper in the most beautiful form, retaining a unique mood......

Handmade flower paper not only has the beauty of paper, but also integrates the beauty of flowers. At the same time, it carries the personality of each papermaker.

The handmade papermaking skills of the Dai and Naxi ethnic groups are the local traditional handicrafts of Lincang City and Shangri-La County of Yunnan Province, and one of the national intangible cultural heritages.

In the Yuan Dynasty, papermaking was introduced to Lijiang. During the Ming Dynasty, a large number of Han craftsmen and artists entered Lijiang and integrated into the Naxi people, and at the same time, Tibetan paper-making methods were brought to Lijiang.

The papermaking technique of the Han people that came to Lijiang from the Yuan Dynasty was later fused with the Tibetan paper-pouring method in the Naxi area of Lijiang to form the handmade papermaking skills of the Dai and Naxi peoples.

Yunnan Province has a very long history of paper use and manufacturing. According to historical records, the history of paper introduction to Yunnan can be traced back to the Three Kingdoms period at the latest, but the record of handmade papermaking in Yunnan is relatively late.

In the Yuan Dynasty, there was already a paper industry in Lijiang, but there was no record of Dongba paper.

After the Ming Dynasty, there are many historical records about Yunnan papermaking, and there was a papermaking industry in the Dai area in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, when the Dai people called the paper "Burmese paper".

During the Qing Dynasty, handmade papermaking in ethnic minority areas was developed, and craftsmen from Sichuan, Huguang and other places brought papermaking technology.

The Qing Dynasty has the most records about Yunnan papermaking, when the paper industry in Yunnan Province was very developed, and handmade paper became a tribute paper to the court and even exported to Vietnam and other places, which shows the maturity of papermaking technology in Yunnan.

Dai handmade paper seems to be rough and not smooth, but it has its own uniqueness: it is not only flexible, non-toxic, breathable, absorbent, wear-resistant, durable, not easy to break, always exudes a faint special wood fragrance, and the preservation time is long, up to decades or even hundreds of years.

The color of Dongba paper is white and thick, not easy to be eaten by insects, and it can be preserved for a long time, and there are more than 5,000 volumes of Dongba classics written with it. In addition, the handmade papermaking of the Naxi people also incorporated some methods of papermaking in the Central Plains.

The Dai people in Lincang, Yunnan and other places have loved bamboo since ancient times and are good at using bamboo. Bamboo is a good material for papermaking, the selection of young and young new bamboo with moderate age, moderate fiber, not only conducive to paper, but also not to make the paper too rough. Therefore, it is generally after the Qingming Festival, Gu Yu and Xiaoman solar terms during this period of preparation.

After making the pulp, the paper is made, and two waters are used at this time to make the fibers of the paper form warp and weft.

The Naxi handmade paper at Diqing Shangri-La is made from a local plant-based raw material, "Adamda", a Lijiang Violens of the Ruixiang family.

The papermaking process consists of collecting raw materials, drying, soaking, cooking, washing, spring materials, spring materials, pouring paper, stickers, drying paper and other processes. The main tools are paper curtains, wooden frames, paper drying boards, wood white, etc.

The first step is to collect raw materials, and choose thick, smooth shrubs with few forks, each of which is about 50 cm long.

After chopping, the skin must be peeled while it is fresh. After peeling off the bark, the black outer skin is scraped off, leaving only the white inner skin.

The white bark should be placed in the yard to dry naturally, and then soaked in water, while soaking the remaining black bark and miscellaneous bark should be removed until the soak is soft.

This is followed by the cooking of the bark, which must be added to the plant ash to reduce the toxicity of the raw material and increase the color of the raw material. Steam for more than ten hours, then take it out to the river to rinse and knead the leather into fist-sized balls.

The washed leather is placed on a flat stone slab and beaten repeatedly with a mallet until it is beaten into a fibrous shape and the water is completely dispersed.

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