Colorful Paper Wedding Craft Umbrella

China has a long history of umbrella making, which was first invented by Yun, the wife of Lu Ban, to avoid her husband's suffering from rain.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, the ancestor of woodworking, Lu Ban, often worked in the wilderness and suffered from the pain of rain. Lu's wife (Yun's family) wanted to make something that could shelter from the rain. She chopped bamboo into thin strips and covered them with animal skins, resembling a "pavilion". When folded up like a stick and opened like a cover, this was the earliest umbrella.

After Cai Lun invented paper in the Eastern Han Dynasty, paper umbrellas appeared, and waterproof tung oil was applied to the umbrella surface to enhance its toughness, which is called oil paper umbrellas; Literati and literati often write their surnames or calligraphy and paintings before applying oil to express their emotions.

In the Song Dynasty, Shen Kuo's "Dream Pool Essays" also mentioned: "With a new red oil umbrella, cover it with the sun." In some literary works such as "The Legend of the White Snake", the traces of oil paper umbrellas can also be seen.

In the Ming Dynasty, Song Yingxing wrote in his book "Tiangong Kaiwu": "All umbrellas and oil fans are made of small paper