Lan Eucalyptus and Mengshi held an oil-paper umbrella, strolling through the streets of Jiangnan, Wu Nong's soft-spoken conversation lingered like smoke and rain in Jiangnan, they came to the willows in separate flowers, sniffed the wildflowers on the roadside, looked up at the sky in the alley, and wandered on this bluestone road.

"Wandering all the way, all the way, first crossing the Liudi Bridge, and then to the Yijin Fang; The peach blossoms bloom all the way, full of smoke and rain in the south, ruthless smoke and willows have rain, and the oil paper umbrella paints the rivers and mountains. ”

In Su Yi'an's pen, the southern girl holding an oil-paper umbrella is like a fairy in the mountains in the indifferent and distant ink painting.

This amorous oil-paper umbrella hides how many beautiful dreams, and the dream is the consummation of love in this life.

In traditional Chinese weddings, when the bride gets out of the sedan chair, the matchmaker will cover the bride with a red oil-paper umbrella to ward off evil spirits.

It is the dowry of Hakka women, and it is the engagement token of Yao men and women, which carries the hope of young men and girls for a better married life, and engraves the promise to stay together for a lifetime.

Oil paper, "having children", the expectation of having many children and blessings. Umbrella, "umbrella", there are four "people" under the person, and there are five sons of Dengke's hope. With bamboo as the bone, it is also bamboo to report peace. The round umbrella surface is even more reunited.

In religious celebrations, it is also common to see the oil-paper umbrella propped up on the portable shrine as a shelter, which is to take its meaning of perfection, as a symbol of people's shelter from the sun and rain, and to ward off evil spirits. At present, most of the umbrellas used in daily life are foreign umbrellas, and oil-paper umbrellas are mostly sold as works of art and souvenirs for tourists.

The oil paper umbrella is a traditional daily umbrella of the Chinese nation, which has been used for more than 1,000 years. The umbrella stand is made of hand-cut bamboo strips, and the umbrella surface is made of lint paper coated with natural waterproof tung oil. The oil-paper umbrella is the world's earliest umbrella, made by hand, all made from nature, and the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancient Chinese.

China has a long history of umbrella making, and the earliest umbrella was invented by Lu Ban's wife, Yun.

At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Lu Ban, a famous carpenter in ancient China, often worked in the field, and when it rained, he was often wet. Lu Ban's wife wanted to make something that could shelter the rain, so she split the bamboo into thin strips and covered them with animal skins, which looked like "pavilions", which were folded like sticks and opened like a cover. This is the earliest umbrella.

After Cai Lun invented paper in the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was an oil-paper umbrella that brushed tung oil on the umbrella paper to make it waterproof, and the literati would also inscribe poems and paintings on the umbrella surface before oiling to send their feelings.

In the Song Dynasty, it was called a green oil paper umbrella. After the successive dynasties have been improved, there are paper umbrellas, oil umbrellas, bat umbrellas, and finally formed today's public products, which have been used for more than 1,000 years.

It is not clear when the oil-paper umbrella first appeared, but it was transmitted to Japan and Korea in the Tang Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty began to popularize among the people, and "Tiangong Kaiwu" mentioned: "All pasted umbrellas and oil fans are made of small leather paper." ”

Shen Kuo's "Dream Creek Writings" also mentioned: "With a new red oil umbrella, it will be covered in the middle of the day." "In general, the climate in the Jiangnan region is humid and rainy, which makes the umbrella industry very prosperous.

Chinese oil-paper umbrella patterns are usually based on traditional Chinese paintings, such as flowers and birds, landscapes, and also based on the plots of classical literary masterpieces such as "Dream of Red Mansions" and "Tale of the West Chamber".

A small oil-paper umbrella, from the selection of the umbrella bone to the drying of the umbrella surface, each process is a wonderful journey of artistic creation.

From the bamboo to the bamboo bubble, steamed bamboo, dried bamboo, planed bamboo, carved bamboo, drilling, stradding, threading, tandem, mounting umbrella, exposure, Hanhua, oil umbrella, umbrella, after 81 processes, the production cycle of about 15 days can be completed.

When the blue eucalyptus walked into the ancient handicraft workshop, she saw that the craftsmen were slow and methodical, not arrogant or impatient, and the faint smell of ink in the air seemed to tell the strange fate in the ancient story.

The oil paper umbrella adds a bit of antiquity and legend here, and the handicraft workshop is still based on the traditional ancient method of making oil paper umbrellas, with more than 100 processes all operated by hand, from cutting bamboo to depicting patterns by hand, without the use of machines.

The umbrella bone is made of high-quality bamboo in the deep mountains with an altitude of more than 800 meters above sea level and a growth cycle of more than 3 years in Shunan Zhuhai and other places, with great toughness and strong elasticity, and is treated by anti-mildew and anti-moth. After being handmade with centuries of traditional handicraft, it can be repeatedly harvested 3,000 times without damage, and can withstand 5 strong winds and can be used continuously for more than 3 years.

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