China's disappearing profession

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One, change the bottom, mending pots and pans line, a faraway landscape, the decline of mending pots and pans

Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province, a dormitory of the Moon Bay community, mending pots and pans worker Zhou Dunli for the bottom of the broken aluminum pots and pans change the bottom.

A pot maker in Minxian Township, Su County, Anhui Province, mending pots on the street.

Two: Handmade clay teapots

Wu Wancheng, a handmade clay teapot artist in Wuyi County, Zhejiang Province, makes a teapot lid.

Three, changing iron palm artists

In the big fair in Guanzhuang Township, Anqiu City, Lao Wang finally waited for his first customer in the past 10 days -- Zhang Xiye, a 69-year-old man from Zhangjia Shagou Village, Guanzhuang Township, Anqiu City. Zhang Xieye is the old Wang's old customers, he and his partner rely on the streets for rice to make a living, a companion for more than 20 years of their old mule has always been Wang Jincheng to nail it to the palm. Shoveling, chipping, prying, nailing, not a moment's effort, the old mule was replaced with a new iron palm. In the words of Zhang Xieye old man: old Wang's skillful hand, nail the palm of the foot, if he did not do, our livestock will not be able to raise ......

Four, picking toon

Shandong Weifang Qingzhou 74-year-old Zhou Peihua old man is picking toon buds on the mountain

Five, making "Fire paper (paper money)

Deng Longxue, a villager from Group 6, Panglong Village, Sanli Township, Jianshi County, Hubei Province, tries to turn fire paper in a paper-making workshop.

Six blacksmiths.

Zhang Shouzhi, a 46-year-old ironworker, shows off his newly built ironware in Tailai County, Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province. Ironmaking is an ancient skill, and blacksmithing is one of the most "courageous" professions in the pre-industrial era. With just a hammer and poker in their hands, they could make all kinds of tools for living and production. The profession of blacksmithing required not only strength, but also a lot of "learning" and experience, such as the selection of materials, materials, heating, hammering skills and so on. Today, with the economy and industrialization continues to develop, mechanized production is gradually replacing the hand-made, iron this once popular in the folk skills are also increasingly declining.

Seven, strung noodles division.

A woman (left) strings noodles for customers on Zhuangzhi Road in Nanning, Guangxi. Face strangling, also known as face strangling or face opening, is a traditional beauty treatment that has been passed down in areas inhabited by Zhuang compatriots in Guangxi. Using only two threads, Zhuang women are able to remove fine hairs from the face and neck, as well as trim eyebrows to make them more beautiful. After receiving the stranded face, one's face will become smooth and elastic. In ancient times, the day before a Zhuang woman got married, she had to undergo the first facial strangulation in her life, and after that, the strangulation would accompany her for the rest of her life. With the development of the society, this ancient skill has gradually become a way of daily beauty care for people in the Zhuang area and an occupation for Zhuang women. Nowadays, all kinds of beauty salons keep appearing in major cities in the Zhuang countryside. However, those who are engaged in the profession of strangling noodles and accepting this way of beauty care are basically middle-aged and old-aged women, and the scene of strangling noodles can only be seen in the remote streets and alleys of the old city. The traditional beauty technology of the Zhuang people is gradually losing its former charm.

Eight: Barbers on the streets

A 62-year-old shaver, Guan Kangsen, pulls out a customer's ear next to the Sanshui Jingkou Bridge in Luqiao District, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province.

Nine, cotton popping

In the past, in the rural areas of Jiangnan, every winter you can hear "dong dong dong dong dong" crisp handmade cotton popping sound, artists waist tied slingshot, holding a mallet, beating the cow to fluff the cotton, and then through the shaping, pulling the threads, flat pressure and other processes, made into a cold cotton tires. With the development of science and technology and the rise of industry, cloud silk quilt, air-conditioning quilt, down quilt, blankets and other polyester fiber products have appeared one after another, the ancient handmade cotton popping skills have gradually faded from people's sight. In Wuyi County, Zhejiang Province, there is a handmade cotton popping artist named Pan Fangyuan opened a handmade cotton tire processing store, and still adhere to the handmade cotton popping, customized for local residents to marry the new cotton tires or refurbish the old cotton tires. Pan Fangyuan 17-year-old teacher to learn to play cotton, in this line has been dry for 37 years. Pan Fangyuan said with emotion, the early years of his 13 apprentices have now changed careers, and now even more no one to learn this craft, he is worried that this traditional folk skills will soon be lost.

Ten, cloth tile

Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hubei Province, residents in the past to build the foot of the building must be, it is the construction of small tiles used in the curved, with a kind of clay burnt and become. With the change of people's housing habits, farmers are now building more reinforced concrete as a material, the roof does not need to use "cloth tile" cover. The reason why there are still people in the "cloth tile", most of them are only for the past construction of the foot of the building to repair the roof of the use. At present, most of the tilers who are still in the production line of "Buwa" are around 60 or 70 years old, and they do not have any apprentices. As a traditional skill, "Buwa" is gradually fading from people's sight.

XI,

China's fading industry - monkey playing

One of the sources of childhood joy

XII, Slender Man

Dangerous beaches have become rivers and streams, and the ancient industry of slender man is gradually disappearing

XIII, Mulberry Paper

Because the production process is primitive, the practical value of the product is relatively low, and it can be used for a variety of purposes. The production process is primitive, the practical value of the product is low, mulberry paper does not have much of a market

fourteenth, bark clothing

Hawaii fantastic bark products. the early 19th century, bark clothing gradually disappeared

fifteenth, New Year's Paintings

New Year's Paintings in the beach has been more than 200 years old, in the early Republic of China's heyday, the annual sales of up to more than seven million

sixth, selling coolers

The old profession of the slipper has become a river stream. In the south, the varieties of selling cold water in addition to herbal tea, there are sugar water, white water, watermelon juice, sugar cane juice, etc., belong to the housewife's way of life.

Seventeen, turn tile maker

Turn tile, this is just a mason's small process, the reason why the development of a profession, or because of the demand for a larger market prompted.

Eighteen, the tombkeeper

The respect for the grave, embodied in the traditional ethical thinking of the Chinese people, can be said to be unprecedented. Not to mention the majesty and grandeur of the royal mausoleums, alone in folklore, it is the key to embodying the sentiment of loyalty and filial piety.

Nineteen, the collector of barren craftsmen

Collector of barren craftsmen's voice ripped open on the flavor of the mountain song: "Orange skin toothpaste skin rabbit skin broken copper, iron, scrap paper, old books, chicken feathers, duck feathers, goose feathers to sell - yo - ... "Every three or two minutes, he sang once, sang the old lady and child heart itchy, began to look for money under the bed by the door!

Twenty, firewood and coal store

Citizens burning firewood and coal less and less, firewood and coal store gradually lost the prosperous scene

Twenty-one, repair pens

Repairing pens, forget it?

Xxii. Hand-pulled scales

Is it a case of "calculating", or is it a case of unrequited love?

Twenty-three, repair umbrellas

Have you ever remembered the street mending umbrella maker.

Twenty-four, the traditional portrait shop

This kind of artificial portrait has gradually disappeared under the influence of the advanced photographic industry.

Twenty-five, backpackers

Backpackers are often more than ten people traveling in pairs, carrying as little as 30, as much as 150 kilograms of tea, over snow-covered mountains, cliffs.

Twenty-six, horse gang

The ancient tea-horse road, horse gangs in the transportation of wood.

Twenty-seven rowers

Two rowers driving more than 60 cubic meters of wooden rows can float on the Duliu River.

Twenty-eight, sharpening people

In Anhui Province, every family has a knife, a pair of scissors, sharpening people will go to the door of each village yelling "grinding scissors le"!

Twenty-nine, playing noodles

Farmers in Huiyang County, Anhui Province, every family has wheat, part of the harvest sold as a source of income, part of their own consumption. To the "flour beaters" to grind the wheat into flour is an essential part. The flour is used for food, and the bran is used to feed pigs, cows, and sheep.