Study On Hand-made Paper Technological Diversity On Yunnan And Guangxi Nationalities

Paper-making has been one of the greatest contributions to human-beings byChinese people. With the progress of industrial civilization, mechanical paper withwood as raw materials appearances has great impact on the traditional hand-madepaper, which disappeared in many local places. Yunnan and Guangxi province liesin the southwest of China, in which lots of nationalities still reserve the traditionalhand-made paper technology due to geographical terrain, traditional cultures andother factors. These nationalities'hand-made paper technology has long history,and has the varied characteristics on imbalanced technological development. It isthe"living fossil"to study the Chinese traditional hand-made paper technology.This paper comprehensively research on hand-made paper technology in thenational areas of Yunnan and Guangxi by the methods of documents, comparativestudy and field survey. That the hand-made paper technology Yunnan and Guangxinationalities retained has the varied characteristics, and its processes, tools andraw material also has self-contained. The technological diversity has been moldedby environment, economy and cultural diversity. Under the impact of mechanicalpaper, handmade paper market is narrowing, but the mechanical paper can notreplace handmade paper, because of handmade paper has its own specific culturalcontent in the process of its production and use. Whether Gongchuan tissue paper,Dai Broussonetia papyrifera Vent paper or Dongba paper, they all describe thattechnology and culture go hand in hand due to technology is one of culturalexpression, and culture also provides a suitable survival soil for the technology.