Dayang's traditional handmade needle-making skills were created during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. It is a typical representative of the development of Shanxi's iron smelting technology to the Ming and Qing Dynasties. From the end of the Ming Dynasty to the middle of the Qing Dynasty was the heyday of Dayang's traditional handmade needle-making skills. Superior mining and smelting conditions promoted the rapid development of Dayang's handmade needle-making industry. The rise of the needle-making industry prospered Dayang's economy and culture, and gradually formed a regional "needle culture". Dayang is also known as the "Needle Capital of Kyushu". Handmade needles in every household have brought many benefits to the local people. In addition to spring planting and autumn harvest, the old and young in every household can participate in the production. A family is a small production workshop with assembly line operations. After eating a meal of millet dry rice "staring food" on the first day of October every year, people work all night under sesame oil lamps, hammering, drilling and grinding, one after another, and the whole Dayang has become a national needle-making factory. Most of the upper floors of Baoju in Wushen Lane, West Dayang are old needle-making workshops. Many old houses in East and West Dayang are historical witnesses of Dayang's handmade needle-making industry. In order to thank the gods for their blessings and gifts from heaven, East and West Dayang successively built "Needle Temples", which are unique in China. It is not only a place for local people to worship gods, but also a place for needle shops to gather and discuss matters and package and sell finished products. People regard "Needle Temple" as a holy place to bless the source of wealth, and "divine drama" is performed on the stage of the temple every year. The inscription on the repair of "West Needle Temple" says that the names of needle-making businesses are "39 in this town, 10 in Shangcun, 5 in Zhongcun, 9 in Xiacun, 8 in Nanzhuang, 3 in Hedong, 3 in Wanli, 1 in Shicun, and 1 in Zhaozhuang". There are more names in East Town, totaling 200 to 300. At that time, Dayang was a place of employment for unemployed farmers within a hundred miles. They rented houses and joined the handmade needle-making industry together with Dayang men, women, old and young. After the Opium War, a large number of foreign needles invaded the Chinese market, and Dayang's handmade needle-making industry gradually went into depression and eventually declined. In 2006, "Dayang Traditional Hand-made Needle-making Skills" was announced as "the first batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage in Shanxi Province". (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)