The oil-paper umbrella produced in Fuzhou is one of the three treasures in the province. The time-honored artifact is popular in the Chinese market, as well as among other countries and regions.

Zheng Yinghai, an intengible cultural heritage inheritor of oil-paper umbrella making, works on an umbrella in Xingyang Village of Tengchong, southwest China's Yunnan Province, on Nov. 17, 2020.

Lin has now passed the torch to her son Lee Ming-hsiang, who also runs Yuanxiangyuan Paper Umbrella Culture Village. According to Lee, when the industry was at its peak in the early 1960s, there were ...

Photo taken on July 9, 2019 shows tools used to make oil-paper umbrellas in Xiangyang Village of Qiubei County, Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Wenshan, southwest China's Yunnan Province.

Bi Liufu, a 59-year-old villager in Fenshuiling Township, Luzhou City of southwest China's Sichuan Province, is a sixth-generation inheritor of traditional Chinese oil paper umbrellas .

Zheng Yinghai, an intengible cultural heritage inheritor of oil-paper umbrella making, works on an umbrella in Xingyang Village of Tengchong, southwest China's Yunnan Province, on Nov. 17, 2020.

Lin has now passed the torch to her son Lee Ming-hsiang, who also runs Yuanxiangyuan Paper Umbrella Culture Village. According to Lee, when the industry was at its peak in the early 1960s, there were ...

Zhang Ronghua makes an oil-paper umbrella in Xiangyang Village of Qiubei County, Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Wenshan, southwest China's Yunnan Province, July 9, 2019. Zhang Ronghua, 89, ...