Jingxian Guomin Oil Cloth Umbrella Factory is located in Changqiao Township, Jingxian County, Anhui Province. The local mountains are high and forests are dense, and streams are crisscrossed. It is known as "the mountains and rivers are clear and beautiful, and the most beautiful in the south of the Yangtze River". It is famous for producing bamboo, rice paper, umbrellas and tea. Jingxian has a long history of umbrella making. According to the "Jingxian Chronicles", the umbrella industry in Jingxian was very prosperous during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, especially the umbrellas made in Gufeng, Langqiao, Maolin, etc., which were passed down from family to family. It is the birthplace and distribution center of the umbrella industry in southern Anhui. There is a local proverb: The dry son of Zhangdu and the umbrella of Gufeng, the girl of Huangtian don't need to pick. It can be seen that Gufeng is famous for making umbrellas. Jingxian Gufeng Oil Cloth Umbrella mainly uses bamboo that is more than five years old in the local Chaoyang Hill as the ribs, the selected high-quality hard wood as the umbrella reed, and pure cotton cloth or silk is boiled with natural tung oil and auxiliary materials and then applied to the umbrella surface. The umbrellas made are waterproof, exquisite and firm, wind-resistant, durable, and insulated and lightning-proof. He was praised by He Lingjun, vice president and secretary general of the National Umbrella Making Committee as "a living fossil of Chinese folk umbrella art." Jingxian Guomin Oilcloth Umbrella Factory is the drafting unit of the national standard for oilcloth umbrellas in the light industry. The factory director Zheng Guomin was hired as the main drafter of the national standard for oilcloth umbrellas. Due to the high cost, long cycle, complex skills, small volume and low profit of traditional handmade umbrellas, it is difficult to survive under the impact of "foreign umbrellas" produced by modern machine industrialization. With the gradual decrease in the number of old artists and the lack of successors, the traditional handmade umbrella-making skills are on the verge of being lost, and inheritance and protection are imminent. Information source: Anhui Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center Information source: Anhui Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center