【Tell the story of my family's well-off (22)】
Narrator: Zhejiang Fuyang oil paper umbrella non-hereditary heir Wen Shishan
When I met the oil-paper umbrella, I was still a hairy head, and I often watched my father make an umbrella under the bamboo forest behind the house. In this way, watching to make umbrellas I grew up day by day. Looking at it, I unconsciously followed my father to make an oil-paper umbrella.
Hand-making oil-paper umbrellas is much slower and more complicated than you might think: more than 100 processes such as material selection, skin scraping, bamboo splitting, and so on. Every process is ambiguous.
Relying on this kind of bitter haha business, it is really difficult to get rich. Especially now, there are many processes and materials for umbrella making, and the market space for oil-paper umbrellas is getting smaller and smaller.
I once carried the oil-paper umbrella I made to Yiwu and Guangzhou to sell, and there was no market at all. At a glance, it is all steel umbrellas.
In the village, there were originally many people who made oil-paper umbrellas. Later, they all changed careers.
However, I persevered, feeling that it was a pity that the craftsmanship handed down by my ancestors had been lost. Besides, isn't there still this old reason: things are scarce and expensive. In this way, grit your teeth and insist, insist...
No, it is really "willow dark flowers bright" - the province selected me as a non-hereditary heir, and also promoted my oil-paper umbrella to foreign countries.
Good guys, foreigners like our Chinese culture, overseas orders are endless, and they can sell tens of thousands of umbrellas every year. The foreigners who came to visit the town came to my umbrella stall. Once our fellow townspeople went on a trip abroad and bought my umbrella back as a souvenir.
Recently, someone called me and said I was on fire online. Guess what? Over the years, young people in China have become more and more fond of traditional culture, and the short video I made to make an oil-paper umbrella has become a hit. Young people followed the short video to place orders, and last month, they brought more than 100,000 yuan in sales.
Lo and behold, orders are lined up for next year. The 12 workers in the factory, working day and night, are too busy to come and go.
(Guangming Daily correspondent Dai Qian interviewed and sorted out)
Guangming Daily ( 2021-08-10 01 edition)
Source: Guangming Network - Guangming Daily