Tantou Town, Longhui County, is located in the central and western part of Hunan Province. It is one of the 72 ancient towns in China and has taken shape since the Sui Dynasty. The town has 87 villages, 18,974 households, 74,089 people, a total area of 198.32 square kilometers, and a bamboo forest area of 500,000 mu for papermaking. The handmade papermaking technology of Tantou Town is inherited from the papermaking technique of Cai Lun, one of the four great inventions of China. Based on the production process of papermaking with nanmu bamboo recorded in "The Exploitation of the Works of Nature" written by Song Yingxing in the Ming Dynasty, "cutting bamboo, bleaching pond, boiling bamboo, sufficient fire, pounding mortar, swinging materials, putting in curtains, covering curtains, pressing paper, passing fire, and drying", the three processes of "boiling bamboo, sufficient fire, pounding mortar" were improved to form the unique Tantou handmade papermaking technology. The handmade papermaking technology of Tantou was mature in the Sui Dynasty, and it reached its peak in the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. At that time, there were more than 1,100 workshops and more than 2,000 skilled workers in the ancient town of Tantou and dozens of surrounding villages. They mainly produced native paper, and also derived multiple categories such as colored paper, leather paper, scented powder paper, rice paper, and cannon curtain paper. The annual output of various paper products was hundreds of thousands of dan, which were exported to Yunnan, Guizhou, Tanzhou, Hankou, and even Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia. Foreign merchants sold Tantou's paper industry and once set up dozens of paper shops here. There were troughs in every village, and the smell of paper was everywhere. It was once known as the "Southern Paper Capital". The prosperity of Tantou's handmade paper industry has driven the development of various cultural phenomena and handmade traditional industries such as Tantou woodblock New Year paintings, Longhui firecrackers, handmade paper umbrellas, Baoqing Bookstore (publishing industry), and Meishan paper horses, which use native paper, colored paper, and leather paper as raw materials or as carriers. It also brought relative economic prosperity to the Tantou area, making a small step from the self-sufficient natural economy to the national capitalist commodity economy. Tantou handmade papermaking technology is the crystallization of the wisdom and sweat of the working people of all generations in my country. It has made great contributions to the advancement of human spiritual and material civilization. At the same time, the functions of local paper itself and some functions in subsequent industries are still irreplaceable by machine-made paper.