Fenghua is rich in bamboo, and bamboo paper production has a long history. In the "Yanxi Collection" (Jilin Literature and History Publishing House) by Dai Biaoyuan, a poet from Fenghua in the Yuan Dynasty, there are several descriptions of Fenghua papermaking, such as: "Answering the Recent Situation of Neighbors and Friends", "Yanxi Paper for Ren Shubao", "Picking Vine" and other poems, all of which mention the raw materials and names of papermaking. From this, it can be inferred that Fenghua had already had a papermaking industry among the people between the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty. According to the "Fenghua County Atlas and Local Products" and the "Tangxi Jiang Family Genealogy" of the Jiajing period of the Qing Dynasty, Tangao introduced bamboo paper production technology from Jiangxi in the ninth year of the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty (1514). Around this time, Dayan, Jianling, Dongli and other places also introduced bamboo paper production technology from Fujian, and the trend of papermaking in mountainous areas rich in bamboo gradually became popular. During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, the leather paper of Jianling Village was famous all over the world. The 1930s was the heyday of Fenghua's handmade (bamboo paper) papermaking industry. There were more than 300 troughs and barrels in the three villages of Tangao, Dongjiang, Xijiang and Xixia, and more than 1,000 people were employed. Most of the bamboo paper produced was shipped from Xiaowangmiao Pier and sold to various places via Ningbo. At that time, the "sheep horn carts" that transported bamboo paper from Tangao to Xiaowangmiao Pier lined up along the road every day. In the early days of the founding of New China, due to the underdeveloped machine-made paper industry, Tangao's bamboo paper industry was still very prosperous. In 1951, Tangao Bamboo Paper Workshop also dried a large amount of newsprint for news organizations such as Zhejiang Daily and Ningbo Dazhong. In the following three or four decades, Tangao's bamboo paper industry rose and fell, but it was still able to barely maintain itself overall. For example, Yuan Hengtong's bamboo paper workshop could still sell 400,000 sheets of windproof paper every year in the mid-1980s. From the late 1980s to the early 1990s, with the sudden rise of the machine-made paper industry, handmade bamboo paper was quickly squeezed by the market, and the handmade paper workshops could not continue to operate and closed down one after another. In the end, only Yuan Hengtong's workshop was left. In 1997, an accidental event brought new vitality to Tangao bamboo paper industry. At that time, Ningbo Tianyi Pavilion Library needed a batch of bamboo paper that was the same as the ancient book paper of the Ming Dynasty to repair the damaged ancient books. After being introduced, the library administrator came to Tangao to find Yuan Hengtong and asked him to try to make paper for ancient books. After the first batch of sample paper was produced, it was sent to Nanjing Museum for testing. The results showed that this kind of bamboo paper was closest to the ancient book paper and was the most ideal paper. For this reason, Tianyi Pavilion Library ordered 40,000 sheets of this bamboo paper at a time. After that, ancient book repair institutions such as Sun Yat-sen University, Wuhan University, Peking University, Fujian Normal University, Tianjin Library, Guilin Library, and National Library came one after another and recognized Yuan Hengtong's workshop as a special bamboo paper manufacturer. At this point, Tangao's papermaking industry rose again, and a number of bamboo paper mills such as Jiang Dongming, Fu Zhangkai, and Fu Yanwei emerged. Information source: Ningbo Cultural Center (Ningbo Exhibition Hall Ningbo Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center) Information source: Ningbo Cultural Center (Ningbo Exhibition Hall Ningbo Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center)