Starting from the Ming dynasty, the village of Dengcun (邓村 in Chinese) is famous for its Sihui Paper (会纸 in Chinese), a kind of bamboo paper manufactured With the traditional approach developed by Cai Lun (蔡伦), the inventor of paper-making in early A.D.105. It is the only village in this world you can still see this 2000-year-old paper-making process.
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Dengcu, A traditional Guangdong Village

These bamboo will be cracked into sections on a wooden or stone block with a hammer or the back of an axe, three to five sections at a time.

Cracked bamboo will be spread with quicklime and put into a trough; later infuse the trough with water – soak for three months. The villagers will not pollute the environment as they seldom drain the processing water into the river, but recycle it.

Almost every household here has a paper mill.

The process of turn the thin layer of pulp into a piece of paper. I don’t know why all this kind of heavy jobs are done by women.

Airing the paper under the sunshine.

Dengcun is not faraway from Sihui, a city in the middle of Guangdong.

It’s a small village surrounded by Suijiang River and small hills. There are many bamboo grow on the hill. These bamboo is good material of Sihui paper. Bundles of fresh bamboo are piled up almost everywhere. And you can also see many pool to process these bamboo.

Sihui paper is a kind of paper which can absorb moisture very well. It is made to resemble money and burned as an offering to the dead. It is only used from the Pearl River Delta through out other Southeast Asian countries.

The villagers only make paper when they are not too busy with farming. Their techniques of make paper from bamboo mainly by hand are passed down from generation to generation.

Dengcu Paper-making Travel Guide:

How to get there:
Sihui is a county-level city of Guangdong Province, it locates in the middle of Guangdong. Dengcu is situated 10 kilometers from downtown Sihui.
There is no traffic service directly to Dengcun, You’d better visit there by self-drive.

Other tips:
There is no restaurant or big shop there, You’d better prepare all the food you need before you start off.

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