Daily Life in China                  

Making Offering Money:

Symbolic paper money is burned at many Chinese events, for example, births, deaths, weddings, and festivals. This worker is stacking wide sheets of freshly minted money made mostly from bamboo but with some cotton.  The sheets go from here to a cutting building and are cut to size.

The white dots in these pictures are from floating bamboo pieces reflecting the camara flash i.e. this area is polluted and the machine operator should be wearing a breathing mask.

The drum has a fire inside for heat to dry the paper.

A wheel turns in a bath of bamboo and cotton.  It's helping to seperate fibers so the mix will spread out making a thin paper.

A bath to help further seperate the fibers.  The slurry is thick.  There is only one bath before being spread thin for the dryer. 

The dryer gets the paper just dry enough to help the glue set and hold the paper together.

Paper air drying. 

The final paper is trimmed again packed ready for the market.