Hengshui Daying Town: The Birthplace Of China'S Fur Industry

Daying Town, Zaoqiang County, Hengshui, is the birthplace of Chinese fur, and is the famous "fur town".

Fur production in this area has a long history and inheritance. The fur processed and sewn here is called "camp leather". Its skin is famous for its fine material and excellent workmanship.

More than 3000 years ago, it was called Guang County, and the Prime Minister of the late Shang Dynasty was once an official here.

He saw that the people were poor, the thorns were everywhere, and wild animals appeared, so they called on people to hunt diligently and peel the animals for food.

For a long time, the fur of animals has been abandoned for a long time. Carefully comparing with the dry Figurine, can we turn the fur into a treasure, then collect it and try it out again and again. Finally, we have invented the technology of making leather.

The hard skins are made of soft leather and then sewn into beautiful, light and exceptionally warm fur coats according to the shapes and colors of all kinds of skins.

He imparted the skills of making fur clothing to local people. Gradually, people made more and more contributions to this industry, and the owners who benefited from it compared their gratitude with gratitude.

Later, the king was destroyed by the king of Commerce. The people in the camp thought of him and offered him as the master of the industry. They built temples to worship him in the place where he had made skin.

Fur industry has become the most important industry in the world. Fur making technology has been handed down from generation to generation.

Legend has it that in the Qin Dynasty, the production capacity of the fur making industry increased greatly, which satisfied civilian use, and more satisfied with military affairs.

At the end of Qin Dynasty, military supplies such as helmets, boots and armour were also equipped with the volunteers and Xiang Yu troops to help Xiang Yu win the battle of Julu, and the strength of Liu Bang's military strength also benefited from the camp's skin.

The late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties

Zheng He was chosen as a tribute to the imperial court. When he went down to the west, he ran across the sea with Suzhou embroidery and Jingdezhen porcelain to spread the world.

In the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republican period, Ying PI reached a peak of development.

Shops and shops are booming here, showing a thriving scene.

The leather goods merchants all over the country gathered here, and they bought them ripe and bought fur from their skin.

According to the historical materials of the Zaoqiang County Chronicles (1942 Edition), "there are not many things that can be praised in Zaoqiang county. It is especially beautiful and good fur goods. It is a special product for Zaoqiang. In the past ten years, the town of Da Ying District has seen a lot of prosperity, and the store factories are everywhere." the theory is that Zaoqiang's commodities push business is second to none, and its purchase is made of Shanxi, Shaanxi, Yili, Xinjiang, Henan, Shandong and so on.

Camp leather is not only developed domestically but also abroad.

Businessmen from over ten countries including Britain, Russia, Germany, France, Portugal and other countries also set up warehouses and businesses here to engage in pactions.

However, the ups and downs of the industry are always closely related to the national pportation. After the war of aggression against China was launched in 1937, the fur industry of the big battered business suffered heavy losses as well as other industries.

After the founding of new China, in order to protect and support the leather industry, the government merged only a few leather shops to form a "fur camp", which was expanded to "big fur factory" in 1958.

1990s, camp

Once again entered a peak period of development, creating an unprecedented good situation, and continues to this day.

At present, there are 1.1 fur processing enterprises in Daying Town, 120 thousand employees, 94 professional fur villages, more than 6000 specialized households, and the fur industry has been radiating to more than 300 villages in 5 cities and counties in 2 provinces, forming a circle of around 100 miles.

The development of the industry also gave birth to the breeding base and processing base, and extended the industrial chain.

It has developed from 7 series and dozens of varieties to fur clothing, trimming accessories, shoes and hats, handicrafts, shearing products, fur mats, raw material skins and so on. The products are sold to more than 40 countries and regions in Asia and Europe. The products are sold in more than 3000 countries.

In the domestic market, the fur products of the camp are 40% of fur clothing, 80% of fur mats, knitted ornaments and wool collar.

The camp is also one of the largest areas of rabbit skin processing in the world, and rabbit skin products account for 90% of the world market.

The annual output value of camp leather products exceeds 6 billion yuan.

In order to commemorate the leather industry master Bi Gan, in 1994, the local government repaired the Bi Gan temple to make it burn.

The big camp believed that the ancient wells in the temple cooked the world's earliest leather, so the Zaoqiang camp was the birthplace of China's fur industry and fur culture.