These famous papers are all produced in the south of the Yangtze River and have regional characteristics. Due to the restrictions of the times, Li Shizhen did not specify which ethnic groups made what paper, and the Miao people of Guizhou ethnic minorities have long used bamboo and 楥 to make paper, and the local name of the tree is to construct skin hemp, which is the main raw material for Shiqiao papermaking.

Ethnic minority Miao is the first to invent silkworm breeding in ancient times, silk silk was first widely used in the minority Miao people, and silk silk is expensive, labor-intensive and time-consuming, white paper has long replaced the role of silk silk.

So far, in the funeral customs of the local ethnic minority Miao people, silk silk should be used as a burial item with the deceased into the coffin, and white paper should be used if there is no silk silk. In many daily necessities such as clothes and shoes, white paper has also replaced the position of silk.

According to people with several major surnames, such as Wang, Yang, and Liu, their ancestors migrated from the vast plains to live in the reckless forests of the southwest.

In this special environment, due to its remote location, traffic blockage, relatively backward science and culture, slow economic development, not many uses of paper, and small sales, Shiqiao's paper industry has been in individual production for a long time to ensure the daily use of paper and the preservation of skills.

It was not until after the Xinhai Revolution that China's economy and culture developed greatly. Schools were established in Nangao and the surrounding areas, civil contracts were widely implemented, literati gave each other calligraphy and paintings, and folk embroidery and painting gradually increased, all of which required a large amount of paper, and the paper they produced was in short supply.

At that time, the big families of Shiqiaobao invested in the paper industry, recruited workers everywhere, and set up a trough paper under the big stone wall opposite the natural stone bridge, and the white paper produced was better than the original paper, and soon opened up the market.

The village has also slotted paper, resulting in the development of more than 30 papermaking in the early 30s of this century, and the products are exported to Guiyang, Zunyi out of Sichuan, or through Tongren out of Hunan, Wuhan and other places. In 1934, a paper competition was held in Guiyang, and Shiqiao paper won the second place.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Wang Youjin and Wang Youfang of Nangao and Jiumen built troughs on both sides of the Nangao River to make paper. When the civil war broke out, the people were miserable, the sales of white paper were greatly reduced, and the products were backlogged, so they had to sell on credit, so that some of them went out of business at a loss.

Because the workshops in Shiqiao relied on the advantages of natural workshops, self-retained spring water, and skilled technology, they were able to maintain production until the liberation of Danzhai.

White paper has a long history of production and is a typical representative of traditional handmade paper. The white paper is made of textured hemp as raw material, and then added slippery medicine.

There are more than 10 processes in the whole production process, mainly including: hemp production process, papermaking, paper pressing, paper drying, paper unwrapping and other final packaging for finished products, white paper finished products are required to achieve paper toughness, tensile strength, smooth paper surface, good gloss, strong water absorption, etc.

There are two kinds of products: white paper and colored paper. Among them, colored paper can be divided into six series of products, such as cloud dragon paper, wrinkled paper, concave and convex paper, flattened paper, flower paper, and hemp silk paper.

Shiqiao white paper production has a long history, and it is the papermaking technology of the ancestors of the Miao nationality of the Shiqiao ethnic minority who borrowed from the Han nationality.

Due to the lack of records of the method of making paper from bark in the historical books, we cannot understand the inheritance of papermaking skills in detail, but summarize several major characteristics formed in this long history:

1. Material characteristics. The textured hemp selected for the white paper is produced in the karst mountains, which has the characteristics of uniform and fine fiber, high pulping rate, good flexibility, gloss and strong water absorption. It is the main reason for the excellent ink wetting performance of white paper.

2. Simplicity features. Shiqiao ancient method of papermaking makes use of rich skin hemp and water source conditions, and sets up troughs to make papermaking under the cliff or in the natural cave on the shore, in addition to the paper baking room, there is no workshop, and several processes are done by hand, so the workshop is simple, the investment is small, easy to operate, and there is no pollution.

3. Process characteristics. First of all, it takes more than 10 processes to complete the white paper from raw materials to paper, and its production skills are only passed down from generation to generation by the master's teaching, and it generally takes 3 ~ 10 years to be proficient; The second is that the processing of raw materials adopts methods such as sun, rain, and open training, which are all handmade, natural and self-contained, and no industrial raw materials are added.

4. Product features. The paper is white, and there is a >>