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Into the Egyptian papyrus

See the large green papyrus swaying in the breeze, the reporters know that they have arrived at the legendary quite ancient Egyptians life charm of the Kalam Si cun. Kalam, village from the Egyptian capital Cairo 100 km, population is only 20000, but for its world-famous papyrus and reputation.
Walk in the Egyptian Khan Hariri's famous old market, or hang around when the Nile temple ruins, papyrus paintings attracted people must be unique souvenirs shop. This is not only because of the Pharaoh life picture painting full of exotic and mysterious religious overtones, or painter, thick and heavy in colours carefully painted flowers and birds scenery, also because this paper precipitation for thousands of years in the history of egypt!
Once disappeared thousands of years of papyrus papermaking technology, now in the Kalam, the village is not only well known traditional crafts, has also become a majority of families of the village.
5 years old boy Ahmad is not the primary, the reporter visited the same day he was home to help mother to complete a special part of papyrus production. Although the thin body, but he deftly hammer the long soaking sticky soft papyrus stalk broken, anyway is divided into two layers of stacked, so one piece of wet paper has emerged.
The village many children like Ahmad can make papyrus. What is interesting, because the papyrus production process there are quite needs patience, processing of paper color and texture also need careful, so women have become the main force of a lot of papermaking workshop. From the field planting, harvesting, to stalk cutting, stripping, and then to the workshop soaking and rolling...... A dry carefully and toughness of full papyrus, often imbued with the villagers months of sweat.
Historical records, the ancient Egyptians is the earliest paper sedges as papermaking raw material, its history can be traced back to 3000 BC in ancient Egypt's first dynasty, then this paper spread to other Mediterranean countries, a large number of precious documents preserved by papyrus. Today, Cairo's Egyptian National Museum in tens of thousands of pieces of papyrus collection of ancient literature.
In the use of up to 4000, the art of papermaking was lost. From the beginning of eighteenth Century, many scientists are trying to revive the skill, but it was not until the 70's of the last century or so, researchers with the famous Egyptian scholar Hassan Rajab represented only through hard tests, opened a papyrus production process the veil, and put it in the tourism industry to vigorously promote and form a prosperous industry.
In recent years, the political unrest in Egypt, a great impact on the tourism industry, this let the Kalam Si Cun papyrus business experienced the cold of winter. "The workshop employees dropped from 20 to two, the monthly income also fell sharply," Saeed said helplessly, the village many families like him to worry about livelihood, young people began to look for work, the past all papyrus Tian many became wheat, rice and alfalfa fields.
However, Saeed said he was confident about the future of the papyrus workshop, because the overall situation of the Egyptian state is changed for the better. "I will continue to spread the art to my children, because the formation of papyrus and papyrus painting culture has penetrated into our blood," he said.

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