Can oil paper umbrellas keep the rain out?

It can keep out the rain.

As a durable traditional Chinese rain gear, oil paper umbrellas have been used in China for more than 1000 years. In fact, oil paper umbrellas are very good umbrellas, compared to nylon steel frame umbrellas (foreign umbrellas), oil paper umbrellas are more durable and more resistant to wind. There are just some things you need to pay attention to in terms of storage, for example, don't put it in too dry a place. In addition, in the northern dry areas, oil paper umbrellas are not suitable for long-term exposure to the sun.

Old Hakka customary wedding including bride price and dowry, which oil paper umbrellas are also accompanied by trousseau indispensable. "Paper" and "son" resonance, "early birth" meaning, "umbrella" contains five characters, meaning The word "umbrella" contains five characters, which means "many children and many grandchildren". The shaft of the oil paper umbrella is meant to be hollow and upright, selfless and innocent. The round umbrella surface is taken as a "perfect" omen, symbolizing the success of the marriage; in addition to sending umbrellas to accompany the dowry is also said to be used to protect the sun, wind and rain, to drive away the evil and evil meanings.

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History:

The umbrella is the most moving of the Chinese people. crystallization of wisdom, because through the years of wind and rain, so the achievements of the beautiful legend.

There are records about umbrellas in the Historical Records of the Five Emperors, which shows that umbrellas have a history of more than 4,000 years in China. It is rumored that Lu Ban's wife Yun also made umbrellas. The earliest called the umbrella as Huagai, the Tang Dynasty Li Yanshou wrote "Southern History" and "Northern History" before the umbrella was formally named.

Anciently, the umbrella was a symbol of the power of the nobility and the nobility's decorations, emperors and generals when they went on patrol, the long-handled fan, "the umbrella of all the people," left and right, riding on the car with an umbrella, said "shade the people". Officials, different positions, "Luo umbrella" size, color are strictly differentiated, this practice has been passed down to the Ming Dynasty.

But the early umbrellas are made of feathers, silk and other materials. After the invention of paper, silk was replaced by paper to make paper umbrellas. Paper umbrellas appeared after the Han Dynasty, the Song Dynasty called green oil paper umbrellas. Later generations have been improved, oil paper umbrellas, oil umbrellas, Umbrella, and finally formed today's popular products.

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