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China is rich in bamboo resources and has a long history of using and planting bamboos. As early as over seven thousand years ago, our ancestors started to explore how to use bamboos. Many places of China are well-known for their distinctive bamboo products and bamboo weaving products, for example, Jiang'an of Sichuan Province, Hunan and Hubei Provinces, as well as Dongyang, Shengxian and Anji of Zhejiang Province. According to relevant records in the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, Rui'an County was rich in bamboo plants and bamboo products. The rich bamboo resources in the area have fostered a lot of bamboo craftsmen and a distinctive tradition of choosing bamboo-related jobs. According to a professional, as early as in the 1960s, in some bamboo weaving factories of Quanzhou, Fujian Province, craftsmen from Rui'an had already been employed as technicians.......

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