Papermaker makes effort to retain cultural heritage

Wang Xingwu, a papermaker, checks colored-paper pulp made from plants at a workshop in Shiqiao Village, Guizhou Province on April 24, 2019. The 53-year-old is a national intangible cultural heritage inheritor in papermaking. He 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 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. [Photo: Xinhua]