Provincial intangible cultural heritage of China's Anhui: bamboo screen

A villager cuts bamboo slice into filaments for making bamboo screen at Xiaoling village of Dingjiaqiao town in Jingxian county, east China's Anhui Province, Aug. 15, 2019. The bamboo screen is an essential tool to make Xuan paper, a kind of handmade paper for traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy. It is a traditional handicraft in Xiaoling and has been listed as a provincial intangible cultural heritage of Anhui in 2017. The making of bamboo screen consists of over 40 procedures including bamboo selection, weaving and lacquering. (Xinhua/Liu Junxi)