Bi Liufu, the inheritor of the state-level intangible cultural heritage Luzhou water-separating oil-paper umbrella production technique, hurriedly ended the lecture at Chengdu Foreign Language School and hurried back to Luzhou. He planned and produced a dozen-meter-long oil-paper umbrella, which is about to be completed. This umbrella will sprint to the Guinness Book of Records. Every part of making an umbrella, he must invest in it.
Bi Liufu, 60 years old this year, is the sixth-generation heir to the Luzhou water-separating oil-paper umbrella. From the age of several years to help his parents thread and oil, Bi Liufu almost put his life's energy on the "water separation oil paper umbrella", oil paper umbrella has hundreds of procedures, he knows his chest. The simple man said: "I must pass it down to let more people feel its charm."
Handmade oil paper umbrella can resist level 5 wind
Luzhou water-separating oil-paper umbrella has a history of more than 400 years. In this long history, the Bi family made umbrellas for more than 300 years.
The process of handmade oil paper umbrella is very cumbersome. To make the blanks and linings of the umbrella ribs, the bamboo must be selected for more than three years and grow in a sunny place to ensure its flexibility. These bamboos have to be sawn into 50 cm lengths to remove the knots and scratches ... There are more than 20 processes in the production of blanks and linings alone. For making handles, wooden handles and umbrella holders, materials such as fir are required. In order to avoid drying and cracking during use, the material will be carefully brewed to dissolve the gum. The technical essence of the water-separating oil-paper umbrella lies in the use of umbrella-faced handmade paper, lithographic patterns and the use of tung oil. The raw material of this kind of handmade paper is mainly made of chrysanthemum bark, which has toughness and strong oil absorption, and is very suitable for making umbrella umbrellas. Lithography uses the principles of stone ink absorption and oil-water incompatibility to print beautiful patterns on umbrella paper at a relatively industrial speed. In the process of pasting umbrellas, craftsmen will add soy milk in the glue to make the paper smoother. The pasted umbrella is dried in the shade, and then baked and shaped in a seventy to eighty degree Celsius fire. Finally, it is painted with tung oil and stringed with five-color silk threads.
Bi Liufu proudly said that the oil-paper umbrella made in this way can resist at least a level 5 wind. It can be used without damage or leakage for more than 3 years.
Traditional craftsmanship can also be integrated into the times
The exquisite and practical oil-paper umbrella, in the 1970s and 1980s, was gradually out of sight of modern people due to the rise of nylon folding umbrellas. In today's water diversion, the only factory that retains traditional hand-made umbrellas is Bi Liufu.
Bi Liufu said that in the 1990s, the water diversion umbrella factory was unsustainable and he came forward to contract. In 2008, the production technology of the water-diverting oil-paper umbrella was rated as a national-level non-legacy, and Bi Liufu also became a national-level non-genetic inheritor. After that, Bi Liufu taught the umbrella making skills to more than 100 workers in the factory. He even called back his son Bi Yuanshen who worked in Chengdu and his daughter-in-law to inherit the craftsmanship. Last year, the annual sales of Luk Fook Paper Umbrella exceeded the 10 million yuan mark. Bi Yuanshen also innovated in the umbrella pattern and paper umbrella size. Based on the traditional patterns of flowers, birds and landscapes, we tried to add modern methods of inkjet painting and color painting, and also designed patterns that children like to expand the market.
Bi Liufu said that the production of super-large oil-paper umbrellas over 10 meters this time was not a great joy, but the impact of Guinness to expand the popularity of water-separating oil-paper umbrellas. Nowadays, the market for water-separating oil-paper umbrellas has grown larger and larger. In addition to the original "Liufu" brand, Bi Yuanshen is also preparing to develop high-end brands, allowing Bi Liufu to personally make it to enter the collectibles market and show the more exquisite craftsmanship of oil-paper umbrella .
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