Hemp paper

Walking into Heyang Town, most of the people who know Ma Touzhi are villagers in Yangpai Village of this town. The old man here told reporters that in the old society, because the villagers were poor, in order to survive, a few villagers began to learn a technology-making hemp paper, which became a livelihood for the villagers. "Hemp paper has a history of hundreds of years." The old man in the village said: "In ancient times, most of the papers used were made by the villagers here, such as memorials made by the courtiers to the emperor, letters of complaint from the people to the government, or making soles, pasting windows, mounting houses and ordering account books. Even before liberation, it was used to make banknotes in the liberated areas. " 18 crafts show splendid culture. Yang Huizhang, an 80-year-old man, still remembers making hemp paper that year. "The process requirements can be strict, there are 18." It can be divided into "spreading rope", "soaking in dragon cabinet", "clearing rope", "holding rope", "stringing hemp", "pinching hemp", "steaming pulp", "washing fine hemp" and "pinching hemp beans", that is, first remove the pimples on the rotten hemp rope and soak the rotten hemp rope in a special groove. Finally, after the pulp is beaten in into the pit, the paper is made with a special curtain that is two and a half feet long and one foot and two wide, until "silver flowers appear in the water and white clouds rise on the curtain", and white hemp paper is obtained. The old people in the village said that in order to earn more money, villagers often take a lot of hemp paper on foot to Shanxi and Henan to sell, which can account for more than half of the country.
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