Award-winning Work Information & Description
West Hemp Paper-The Light of Rural Culture
Description
Longnan Xihe is the core area of the ancient country of Qiuchi, which is famous in history. It is located in the Yangtze River Basin and the water of the Western Han Dynasty flows through Tang and Song poetry. Meeting Xihe Zhangxi and hemp paper has become the riverbed for the growth of poetry and transformed into a new carrier for the spread of human culture. Xihe hemp paper has extended the use of Cai Lun's papermaking technology. It is one of the national intangible cultural heritages in Gansu Province. Living fossils condensed in the years. West and hemp paper is famous for its many fibers, simple paper color, flexible paper, abrasion resistance and immortality for thousands of years. Hemp paper is half-cooked, with white silk flocculent skin fiber on the paper surface. It is suitable for calligraphy and painting. The writing is not astringent and stagnant, the ink is moistened and meticulous, the handwriting is clear and distinguishable, and the ink fixation is good. It can keep calligraphy and painting for more than a thousand years. Xihe hemp paper is mainly based on family workshops. It is located in the south of Xihe County, 60 kilometers away from the county seat, and the villages of Zhu and Liu He in Xigaoshan Town are the main locations for the production of Xihe hemp paper. It is surrounded by mountains and rivers, with a humid climate and four distinct seasons. It is a warm temperate semi-humid climate. The good natural environment gave birth to the ancient paper-making civilization. The production of Xihe hemp paper is a long time ago, and in the days when it was soaked in pulp, paper artists took care of this spiritual pure land with their hands. In recent years, their production skills have been effectively protected by local governments and cultural departments, so that this ancient skill has been inherited, protected and developed. Although the hemp paper is thin, it carries thousands of years of culture, cultural relics and history books, and pries open the tip of the vast history of the iceberg. Like the gurgling water of the Western Han Dynasty, it stretches and shines, raising the simple and healthy Longyuan people.