A few days ago, the installation and debugging of the paper steamer in Jiajiang County, jiepai town 16 was completed, and the paper-making raw materials were cooked by means of "centralized pulping, unified pollution control and home papermaking". The pollution problem of manual papermaking in Jiajiang, which has attracted much attention, has been completely solved. Jiajiang Xuan Paper, which is famous for its "Tribute Paper" and "Daqian Calligraphy Paper" at home and abroad, has embarked on a healthy and sustainable development path.
Rise to fame and talk about the past
Hand-made paper in Jiajiang began in Tang Dynasty, and paper-making households were distributed in Maolin bamboo forests on both sides of Qingyi River in the northwest of the county. Ming and Qing dynasties entered a prosperous period, and the county's paper output accounted for one-third of the country.
Jiajiang Xuan paper has five characteristics: fine muscle, tender oil, iron plate (soft and tough), whiteness and manual selection. It has good wetting and water absorption performance and excellent ink color retention effect. In the Qing Dynasty, its two kinds of papers, Long Curtain Scroll and Square Fine Earth, were once designated as scroll paper and court paper by Kangxi, and Jiajiang was therefore called "the hometown of Shu paper".
During the Anti-Japanese War, major paper-making areas in China fell one after another, and Jiajiang became an important paper-making area in the rear area, with an annual output of more than 8,000 tons. Most newspapers, books, paintings and calligraphy in the rear area are printed with Jiajiang handmade paper.
From 65438 to 0939, Mr. Zhang Daqian, a master of Chinese painting, discussed with Shi Guoliang, the son of Shi Ziqing, a big trough household, in Shiyan Village, Macun Township, to reform the ingredients of Chinese painting paper and increase its whiteness and tension. Zhang Daqian spent three years in Dunhuang, using Jiajiang calligraphy and painting paper. Since then, Jiajiang Paper has gained a good reputation in the paper industry in China. 1983165438+10. In order to commemorate Daqian's contribution to improving the quality of Jiajiang Chinese painting paper, the county government named Jiajiang Chinese painting paper "Daqian calligraphy and painting paper" and listed it as the first batch of scientific and technological secret projects of the Ministry of Light Industry in the following year.
Over the years, Jiajiang Xuan Paper has formed eight distribution centers in Chengdu, Chongqing, Yibin, Lu Xian, Kunming, Xi, Lanzhou and Taiyuan. Jiajiang hand-made paper technicians have performed in the United States, Canada and Italy for many times, which has amazed westerners and called them "treasures of oriental art".
Continue to be brilliant under the reputation
In recent years, although the production and sales of Jiajiang Xuan paper have decreased, there are still three paper-making households in Macun Township, headed by Xu Anfu, Ma and Yang Zhanyao, holding the banner of "paper capital". According to rough statistics, there are more than 65,438+10,000 paper farmers and 65,438+10,000 paper workshops in China, with an annual output of about 4,000 tons of handmade paper. The debate with Anhui traditional Chinese painting and paper industry still maintains a good reputation at home and abroad.
Jiajiang's paper industry is concentrated in Macun Township, with 500 paper troughs and about 6,500 employees, accounting for about 50% of the total population. The annual output value of papermaking is about 38 million yuan. In recent years, in order to improve productivity and shorten the papermaking cycle, paper farmers have replaced the original yellow tank pulping with steam tank pulping, which has increased environmental pollution and affected the production and life of people in Macun River basin.
We should not only carry forward the national skill of hand-made paper, but also effectively protect the environment and coordinate the harmonious development between man and nature. City and county party committees and governments attach great importance to the county's manual papermaking work. The "Leading Group for Pollution Control in Macun River Basin of Jiajiang County", headed by the secretary and county magistrate, organized relevant towns and departments to implement the work plan of "centralized pulping, unified pollution control and household papermaking". The county financial investment is nearly 3 million yuan, and all the existing paper steamers in Macun Township and other towns will be moved to Qingjiang Village, jiepai town, and centralized installation and commissioning of pulping will be carried out. Jiajiang Yang Yang Paper Co., Ltd. invested 20.83 million yuan to implement the technical transformation of environmental protection and pollution control. The wastewater from centralized pulping is transported to Yang Yang Paper for centralized treatment through pipelines, and then a unified pulping and pollution control system is established. Paper farmers buy pulp and paper respectively.
Cooperate with experts and scholars at home and abroad, set up a technical research team, engage in the scientific research project of "increasing the paper strength and improving the quality of Chinese painting", and constantly develop various specifications and series of Xuan paper with the market as the guide. Ma, a big paper maker in Macun Township, cooperated with the sculptor Ma to apply traditional woodcut watermark to Chinese painting paper, and lightly printed various antique patterns, auspicious birds, tiles and other patterns on two-foot and four-foot screens, which were deeply loved by painters and painters at home and abroad. The price of screen printing is more than 30% higher than that of base paper, and the annual sales volume has increased from more than 40 knives in 1998 to more than 5,000 knives now. Chen Wenxiang of Fanggou Village, Macun Township, developed a series of "stationery" papers on the basis of deep processing of handmade paper, which greatly improved the grade and price of paper, and was well received by the market regardless of color and pattern.
Taking this year's Provincial Tourism Development Conference, Ceramic Festival, the construction of Thousand-Buddha Rock Scenic Area and the comprehensive development of Macun Reservoir as an opportunity, Jiajiang integrated the development of papermaking industry into the comprehensive development of tourism, and promoted the development of papermaking civilization and the prosperity of papermaking industry in the form of farmhouse leisure tourism. At the same time, the establishment of the pulp cooperative has United tens of thousands of single-family paper farmers, gathered to enter the market and seize the commanding heights of paper development.