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Show CHINESE GEREMO LPAPE 2 square; this operation of cutting and beating i repeate seven or cight times, until the original ingo of thirty-si catties in weight (one catty equals sixteen ounces) grow ,.\muméo,emh ts of tin foil, cach sheet measurin about cight by twenty-six inches. The complete proces ofpreparation, et gtothe final beating, require from three to five weeks. The tin foil ( yeh ssu F{ ) i next smoothed and polished and cut into sheets whic measure three and one-quarter by six inches. After th tin foil hasbeen wrapped in bundlesitissold tothe o paper shop (po '), where they are sent to the polisher (a #50) for the last smoothing and burnishin makes cach sheet brilliant and lustrous. In the town o Shaohsing there are fully twenty-five thousand worker employed in this one branch of joss paper manufacture there being five thousan firms each giving work to some is finished the tinfive artisans. When the nal glossin coated sheets ufpmpumrk tied into bundles (£'uai i) o Digitalimage© 2004 Marritt Libary, University of Utah. Alrights reserved |
