How much do you know about the Dai people's manual papermaking skills?

Handmade papermaking technology of Dai nationality is a technology developed on the basis of traditional papermaking in China. Mangshi Village, Yongkang Town, Yongde County, Lincang, and Mangtuan Village, Mengding Town, Gengma Dai and Wa Autonomous County are among its transmission areas. Lincang can make paper all year round, and the average papermaker can make 300 sheets of paper every day. The raw material for papermaking is the skin of Broussonetia papyrifera, which means "burying sand" in Dai language. Broussonetia papyrifera is not planted in Zhaizhai Village and Mantuan Village in mangshi, and raw materials need to be purchased from nearby villages. Skinning pays attention to the season, and the folks have the saying of "seven bamboos and eight trees". The papermaking process completely retains the "soaking, evaporating, mashing, reversing and drying" in the early stage of papermaking. * * There are five processes, including picking, airing, soaking, mixing with ash, cooking, washing, mashing, pouring paper, drying paper, calendering and drying paper. Paper-making tools are simple, except for an iron pot, all of which are bamboo and wood utensils, supplemented by stones. The bamboo curtain used to pour paper is made of homemade homespun and bamboo chips, which is consistent with the papermaking method recorded by Jia Sixie in the Book of Qi Yaomin in the Northern Wei Dynasty. Leather paper is tough, white, smooth, durable, not easy to tear, anti-corrosion and moth-proof. Most of them are used to copy Buddhist scriptures from Myanmar Temple in the upper part of Buddhism spread to the south, and also widely used in folk activities, daily life, food and tea packaging, currency binding in the financial system, etc., with good cleanliness, environmental protection and rich cultural connotation. At present, hand-made leather paper is widely used in folk handicraft processing, calligraphy, art circles and tea factories, which has a good development prospect. Lincang Dai people's hand-made paper technology maintains the production form of one household, which is passed down from women to men and passed down by ancestors. In recent years, due to a large number of economic trees such as rubber, Broussonetia papyrifera resources are in short supply and the cost becomes expensive. In addition, the papermaking process is complex and the labor intensity is high, and the papermaking scale is far less than before. At present, of the more than 200 households in the two stock yards, only more than 40 households are still making paper, and all of them are women over 40 years old. Mantuan Village has a good heritage and its traditional skills are intact. Mangshi Village 10 Women who know how to make paper are all over 60 years old and lack of young inheritors.