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Chinese pyrography fans win fame abroad
By Global Times Published: Dec 26, 2016 04:16 PM
Wei Guohua shows a fan at his family workshop in Jiangxi province, Dec 24, 2016. 2,000 peasant workers from over 200 companies and family workshops in Guangchang County, Jiangxi Province, devote themselves to making pyrography fans. The fan artists have developed more than twenty types of products, including craft fan, calendar fan and folding fan, which have been sold to Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Spain and other countries, making about 100 million yuan (about $14.4 million) per year. Pyrograph is to use a hot iron to paint with iron marks.(Photo: China News Service/ Zeng Henggui)

Wei Guohua shows a fan at his family workshop in Jiangxi province, Dec 24, 2016. 2,000 peasant workers from over 200 companies and family workshops in Guangchang County, Jiangxi Province, devote themselves to making pyrography fans. The fan artists have developed more than twenty types of products, including craft fan, calendar fan and folding fan, which have been sold to Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Spain and other countries, making about 100 million yuan (about $14.4 million) per year. Pyrograph is to use a hot iron to paint with iron marks.(Photo: China News Service/ Zeng Henggui)


 
Wei Guohua shows a fan at his family workshop in Jiangxi province, Dec 24, 2016. 2,000 peasant workers from over 200 companies and family workshops in Guangchang County, Jiangxi Province, devote themselves to making pyrography fans. The fan artists have developed more than twenty types of products, including craft fan, calendar fan and folding fan, which have been sold to Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Spain and other countries, making about 100 million yuan (about $14.4 million) per year. Pyrograph is to use a hot iron to paint with iron marks.(Photo: China News Service/ Zeng Henggui)

Wei Guohua shows a fan at his family workshop in Jiangxi province, Dec 24, 2016. 2,000 peasant workers from over 200 companies and family workshops in Guangchang County, Jiangxi Province, devote themselves to making pyrography fans. The fan artists have developed more than twenty types of products, including craft fan, calendar fan and folding fan, which have been sold to Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Spain and other countries, making about 100 million yuan (about $14.4 million) per year. Pyrograph is to use a hot iron to paint with iron marks.(Photo: China News Service/ Zeng Henggui)


 
Wei Guohua shows a fan at his family workshop in Jiangxi province, Dec 24, 2016. 2,000 peasant workers from over 200 companies and family workshops in Guangchang County, Jiangxi Province, devote themselves to making pyrography fans. The fan artists have developed more than twenty types of products, including craft fan, calendar fan and folding fan, which have been sold to Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Spain and other countries, making about 100 million yuan (about $14.4 million) per year. Pyrograph is to use a hot iron to paint with iron marks.(Photo: China News Service/ Zeng Henggui)

Wei Guohua shows a fan at his family workshop in Jiangxi province, Dec 24, 2016. 2,000 peasant workers from over 200 companies and family workshops in Guangchang County, Jiangxi Province, devote themselves to making pyrography fans. The fan artists have developed more than twenty types of products, including craft fan, calendar fan and folding fan, which have been sold to Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Spain and other countries, making about 100 million yuan (about $14.4 million) per year. Pyrograph is to use a hot iron to paint with iron marks.(Photo: China News Service/ Zeng Henggui)


 
Wei Guohua shows a fan at his family workshop in Jiangxi province, Dec 24, 2016. 2,000 peasant workers from over 200 companies and family workshops in Guangchang County, Jiangxi Province, devote themselves to making pyrography fans. The fan artists have developed more than twenty types of products, including craft fan, calendar fan and folding fan, which have been sold to Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Spain and other countries, making about 100 million yuan (about $14.4 million) per year. Pyrograph is to use a hot iron to paint with iron marks.(Photo: China News Service/ Zeng Henggui)

Wei Guohua shows a fan at his family workshop in Jiangxi province, Dec 24, 2016. 2,000 peasant workers from over 200 companies and family workshops in Guangchang County, Jiangxi Province, devote themselves to making pyrography fans. The fan artists have developed more than twenty types of products, including craft fan, calendar fan and folding fan, which have been sold to Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Spain and other countries, making about 100 million yuan (about $14.4 million) per year. Pyrograph is to use a hot iron to paint with iron marks.(Photo: China News Service/ Zeng Henggui)