There are several major oil paper umbrellas producing areas in China

Luzhou paper umbrellas, Hangzhou silk umbrellas and wuyuan jialu paper umbrellas.

Oil paper umbrella is a traditional daily rain gear commonly used in the north and south of the Yangtze River, is a traditional, universal handicrafts. Once upon a time the oil umbrella workshop is like the tailor store, blacksmith store, everywhere blossoms, common visible.

Only from the 1950s and 1960s, by the impact of modern technology, mechanized production of metal skeleton cloth umbrellas replaced the traditional handmade oil paper umbrellas. Traditional craft of oil paper umbrellas, craft, complicated, young people do not want to practice, making the once popular oil paper umbrellas, to the edge of the disappearance.

Previously, the blossoming umbrella factory (umbrella store, workshop) is left little. China now only Anhui Jingxian, wuyuan a road, sichuan Luzhou, zhejiang Hangzhou, hunan, there is Japan Mino.

Now included in the "non-heritage" protection of Luzhou umbrella, Hangzhou silk umbrella and wuyuan jia road umbrella. Luzhou paper umbrellas, Hangzhou silk umbrellas declared early, together was included in the national "non-heritage". Later declares the Jialu umbrella, is the provincial level "the non-heritage", then in declares the national level. On the scale, craft, is wuyuan a road umbrella.

Jia Lu paper umbrella originated in Xianchun five years (1269 AD), KangXi jiaxu year (1694) in the history, in 1936 in the international product exposition won the gold medal, resumption of production after production year by year, 2014 production and sales of more than 300000. In fact, the network rumors of oil paper umbrellas are mostly wuyuan jialu, sichuan luzhou production processing, just agents.

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Origin of the oil paper umbrella:

Oil paper umbrella is the Chinese people's traditional daily umbrella, the use of history has been more than 1000 years. With hand-cut bamboo strips as the umbrella frame, with natural waterproof tung oil coated leather cotton paper as the umbrella surface. Oil paper umbrella is the world's earliest umbrellas, handmade, all from natural materials, is the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancient Chinese.

Frequently used nylon steel frame umbrellas is the 19th century British according to the principle of opening and closing the Chinese oil-paper umbrellas, the use of modern materials, industrialized production to improve, although easy to carry, inexpensive, but it is a lifeless industrial products, the traditional oil-paper umbrellas, the beauty of the elegant heavenly, is the nylon umbrella steel frame will never be able to compare.

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