Chinese papermaker devotes to promoting ancient technique
STORY: Chinese papermaker devotes to promoting ancient technique
DATELINE: July 2, 2022
LENGTH: 00:01:47
LOCATION: GUIYANG, China
CATEGORY: CULTURE
SHOTLIST:
1. various of papermaking in Shiqiao Village
2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): WANG XINGWU, Papermaker
STORYLINE:
Wang Xingwu, 56, is a national intangible cultural heritage inheritor in papermaking from Shiqiao Village in southwest China's Guizhou Province.
Besides exerting the old papermaking technique to its full potential, Wang keeps raising product quality and improving the making procedure.
With the involvement of plants in the papermaking process, he has created more than 160 kinds of patterned papers and papercrafts. One of the products even has a shelf life of 1,500 years.
His products have received international recognition, attracting clients from some world-famous museums.
SOUNDBITE (Chinese): WANG XINGWU, Papermaker
"In 2000, experts from the National Library of China, the Palace Museum and the National Museum of China were looking for papers t
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