Wang Xingwu (2nd L), a papermaker, introduces his paper product to Japanese tourists at a workshop in Shiqiao Village of Danzhai County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, April 24, 2019. Wang Xingwu, 53, a national intangible cultural heritage inheritor in papermaking, learned the papermaking technique from his family as a child. Besides exerting the old papermaking technique to its full potential, Wang keeps raising product quality and improving the making procedure. With the involvement of plants in the papermaking process, he has created more than 160 kinds of patterned papers and paper crafts. He also develops a kind of handmade white paper more suitable for writing calligraphy and painting. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaohai)
Wang Xingwu (L), a papermaker, teaches a villager to make patterned paper at a workshop in Shiqiao Village of Danzhai County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Sept. 7, 2017. Wang Xingwu, 53, a national intangible cultural heritage inheritor in papermaking, learned the papermaking technique from his family as a child. Besides exerting the old papermaking technique to its full potential, Wang keeps raising product quality and improving the making procedure. With the involvement of plants in the papermaking process, he has created more than 160 kinds of patterned papers and paper crafts. He also develops a kind of handmade white paper more suitable for writing calligraphy and painting. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaohai)
Wang Xingwu (C), a papermaker, weighs the raw material for papermaking in Shiqiao Village of Danzhai County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, April 24, 2019. Wang Xingwu, 53, a national intangible cultural heritage inheritor in papermaking, learned the papermaking technique from his family as a child. Besides exerting the old papermaking technique to its full potential, Wang keeps raising product quality and improving the making procedure. With the involvement of plants in the papermaking process, he has created more than 160 kinds of patterned papers and paper crafts. He also develops a kind of handmade white paper more suitable for writing calligraphy and painting. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaohai)
Wang Xingwu, a papermaker, checks colored paper pulp made from plants at a workshop in Shiqiao Village of Danzhai County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, April 24, 2019. Wang Xingwu, 53, a national intangible cultural heritage inheritor in papermaking, learned the papermaking technique from his family as a child. Besides exerting the old papermaking technique to its full potential, Wang keeps raising product quality and improving the making procedure. With the involvement of plants in the papermaking process, he has created more than 160 kinds of patterned papers and paper crafts. He also develops a kind of handmade white paper more suitable for writing calligraphy and painting. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaohai)
Wang Xingwu (L), a papermaker, filters the plant dyestuff into paper pulp in Shiqiao Village of Danzhai County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, April 24, 2019. Wang Xingwu, 53, a national intangible cultural heritage inheritor in papermaking, learned the papermaking technique from his family as a child. Besides exerting the old papermaking technique to its full potential, Wang keeps raising product quality and improving the making procedure. With the involvement of plants in the papermaking process, he has created more than 160 kinds of patterned papers and paper crafts. He also develops a kind of handmade white paper more suitable for writing calligraphy and painting. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaohai)
Wang Xingwu, a papermaker, makes dyestuff from plants at a workshop in Shiqiao Village of Danzhai County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, April 24, 2019. Wang Xingwu, 53, a national intangible cultural heritage inheritor in papermaking, learned the papermaking technique from his family as a child. Besides exerting the old papermaking technique to its full potential, Wang keeps raising product quality and improving the making procedure. With the involvement of plants in the papermaking process, he has created more than 160 kinds of patterned papers and paper crafts. He also develops a kind of handmade white paper more suitable for writing calligraphy and painting. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaohai)
Craftsmen wash raw materials in a river in Shiqiao Village of Danzhai County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, April 24, 2019. Wang Xingwu, 53, a national intangible cultural heritage inheritor in papermaking, learned the papermaking technique from his family as a child. Besides exerting the old papermaking technique to its full potential, Wang keeps raising product quality and improving the making procedure. With the involvement of plants in the papermaking process, he has created more than 160 kinds of patterned papers and paper crafts. He also develops a kind of handmade white paper more suitable for writing calligraphy and painting. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaohai)
Aerial photo shows craftsmen washing raw materials in a river in Shiqiao Village of Danzhai County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, April 24, 2019. Wang Xingwu, 53, a national intangible cultural heritage inheritor in papermaking, learned the papermaking technique from his family as a child. Besides exerting the old papermaking technique to its full potential, Wang keeps raising product quality and improving the making procedure. With the involvement of plants in the papermaking process, he has created more than 160 kinds of patterned papers and paper crafts. He also develops a kind of handmade white paper more suitable for writing calligraphy and painting. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaohai)
Wang Xingwu (2nd L), a paper maker, introduces his paper product to Japanese tourists at a workshop in Shiqiao Village of Danzhai County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, April 24, 2019. Wang Xingwu, 53, a national intangible cultural heritage inheritor in papermaking, learned the papermaking technique from his family as a child. Besides exerting the old papermaking technique to its full potential, Wang keeps raising product quality and improving the making procedure. With the involvement of plants in the papermaking process, he has created more than 160 kinds of patterned papers and paper crafts. He also develops a kind of handmade white paper more suitable for writing calligraphy and painting. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaohai)
Wang Xingwu makes paper at a workshop in Shiqiao Village of Danzhai County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, April 24, 2019. Wang Xingwu, 53, a national intangible cultural heritage inheritor in papermaking, learned the papermaking technique from his family as a child. Besides exerting the old papermaking technique to its full potential, Wang keeps raising product quality and improving the making procedure. With the involvement of plants in the papermaking process, he has created more than 160 kinds of patterned papers and paper crafts. He also develops a kind of handmade white paper more suitable for writing calligraphy and painting. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaohai)
Wang Xingwu (2nd R), a papermaker, washes raw materials with other craftsmen in Shiqiao Village of Danzhai County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, April 24, 2019. Wang Xingwu, 53, a national intangible cultural heritage inheritor in papermaking, learned the papermaking technique from his family as a child. Besides exerting the old papermaking technique to its full potential, Wang keeps raising product quality and improving the making procedure. With the involvement of plants in the papermaking process, he has created more than 160 kinds of patterned papers and paper crafts. He also develops a kind of handmade white paper more suitable for writing calligraphy and painting. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaohai)
Wang Xingwu (L), a paper maker, tidies papermaking materials with his wife in Shiqiao Village of Danzhai County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, April 24, 2019. Wang Xingwu, 53, a national intangible cultural heritage inheritor in papermaking, learned the papermaking technique from his family as a child. Besides exerting the old papermaking technique to its full potential, Wang keeps raising product quality and improving the making procedure. With the involvement of plants in the papermaking process, he has created more than 160 kinds of patterned papers and paper crafts. He also develops a kind of handmade white paper more suitable for writing calligraphy and painting. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaohai)
Wang Xingwu makes paper at a workshop in Shiqiao Village of Danzhai County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, April 24, 2019. Wang Xingwu, 53, a national intangible cultural heritage inheritor in papermaking, learned the papermaking technique from his family as a child. Besides exerting the old papermaking technique to its full potential, Wang keeps raising product quality and improving the making procedure. With the involvement of plants in the papermaking process, he has created more than 160 kinds of patterned papers and paper crafts. He also develops a kind of handmade white paper more suitable for writing calligraphy and painting. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaohai)
Wang Xingwu checks the dried paper at a workshop in Shiqiao Village of Danzhai County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, April 24, 2019. Wang Xingwu, 53, a national intangible cultural heritage inheritor in papermaking, learned the papermaking technique from his family as a child. Besides exerting the old papermaking technique to its full potential, Wang keeps raising product quality and improving the making procedure. With the involvement of plants in the papermaking process, he has created more than 160 kinds of patterned papers and paper crafts. He also develops a kind of handmade white paper more suitable for writing calligraphy and painting. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaohai)
Wang Xingwu (C), a papermaker, talks with other craftsmen about papermaking skills at a workshop in Shiqiao Village of Danzhai County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, April 24, 2019. Wang Xingwu, 53, a national intangible cultural heritage inheritor in papermaking, learned the papermaking technique from his family as a child. Besides exerting the old papermaking technique to its full potential, Wang keeps raising product quality and improving the making procedure. With the involvement of plants in the papermaking process, he has created more than 160 kinds of patterned papers and paper crafts. He also develops a kind of handmade white paper more suitable for writing calligraphy and painting. (Xinhua/Huang Xiaohai)
