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Traditional skills are hard to find, and the genealogist in Anhui is "very busy"

Guide: in Shitang Town, Feidong County, Hefei City, there is a genealogical family, which is also a family in Anhui Province. Zhang Dewen, 52, is the current one. The pedigree of Pei family and the pedigree of Xu family, which were printed by him using the traditional ink printing method, were collected by the Palace Museum

in recent years, as people's lives have become richer and richer, the awareness of root seeking has gradually revived in people's hearts, and some people will choose to go out to find their relatives. A family tree has become the basis for many people to find relatives. In modern society, it is difficult to find a genealogist when there is a need to revise the genealogy. In Shitang Town, Feidong County, Hefei City, there is a family of yinpu family, which is also a family in Anhui Province. Zhang Dewen, 52, is the current one. The pedigree of Pei family and the pedigree of Xu family, which were printed by him using the traditional ink printing method, were collected by the Palace Museum. Many people came to ask for printing the pedigree in order to make it more historical and valuable

movable type printing type that was still in use before 1999

Zhang Dewen introduced that he had been engaged in printing pedigrees since his ancestors, and he was the fourth generation. Before the 1980s, due to historical reasons, the revision of genealogy was once interrupted. After the situation improved in the early 1990s, 199 but the profit was high for two years. He returned to his hometown to work in genealogy printing for 24 years

around the Qingming Festival and the winter solstice are the seasons for spectrum production, and Zhang Dewen is also busy. The first floor of a dilapidated office building in wangtie community, Shitang Town, is a workshop rented by Zhang Dewen for printing genealogy. The workshop is full of the fragrance of rice paper and ink, which looks very simple. There is no modern printing machine here. The printing equipment is a traditional silk printing tool. According to Zhang Dewen, modern computer typesetting technology is used in the printing process, and the silk plate making, printing, drying and binding are all done manually. Before 1999, movable type typesetting was still used. Around 2000, the efficiency of movable type printing plants declined and closed down one after another. I also insisted for some time. However, movable type typesetting was time-consuming, laborious and expensive, which failed to meet the requirements of the guests. Later, it was changed to computer typesetting without changing the printing effect of genealogy. In the past, rice paper and ink were a perfect match. Ink is more environmentally friendly than ink. Ink can seep into rice paper, and the genealogy printed by ink and rice paper can be preserved for a long time

the printing procedure is very cumbersome. Zhang Dewen said that his workshop can only receive threeorfour orders every year. The large family tree can only print one to two sets a year, and the small family tree can print three to four sets a year. In 2004, he once printed a family tree of more than 40000 people, and was very busy with opening the wire change experimental machine for more than years. Since 1992, more than 100 sets of genealogies have been made by Zhang Dewen

all the employees in Zhang Dewen's workshop assume that if he doesn't use the machine for a long time, he should pay attention to cutting off the power supply. His relatives are also his apprentices. As printing is a family business, everyone is very attentive in the production process. Feidong has a reputation of yinpu aristocratic family gradually spread from Shitang Town, and now it is also a little famous. Zhang Dewen's workshop now not only prints genealogies for others, but also prints Buddhist Scriptures for some merchants who make rice paper. These merchants come for the traditional craftsmanship of Zhang Dewen's family

during his 24 year career in printing, Zhang Dewen was proud that the Pei family tree and Xu family tree produced by the workshop were collected by the Palace Museum in 2012 and 2014 respectively. Traditional hand printing, coupled with the integrity of the genealogy itself, is an important reason for the collection of the Palace Museum. Zhang Dewen said. The family business has achieved a masterpiece handed down from generation to generation, which makes Zhang Dewen very proud and easy to process. Zhang Dewen has a pair of children who are also familiar with manual printing. He hopes that when he gets old, his children can inherit this traditional skill