Papier-mâché offering shops in Hong Kong
traditional papiermâché offering shop hong kong sell papiermâché offering sacred festivalcelebration purpose popularity grown since since start st century demand sacred papier product declined thus papiermâché shop entire industry facing reduction sale papiermâché offering shop started opening hong kong high demand papiermâché offering papiermâché industry prosperous shop run family manufactured sold papiermâché product communist party china began simplify funeral service education persuasion stepbystep measure following cultural revolution – began – communist party destroyed many traditional practice imposed simplism simplifying traditional culture traditional funeral rite dissuaded mainland led mainland papiermâché shop owner flocking hong kong continue business hong kong transformed international financial center promoted knowledgebased economy people longer willing work papiermâché sector led gradual decline industry hong kong st century hong kong demand papiermâché product low oneninth papiermâché product imported mainland china local papiermâché offering shop produce stock sale become uncommon generally two type papiermâché product papiermâché festival celebration funeral use papiermâché offering shop occasionally target customer providing various papierproducts according different festival occasion people mostly want consecrate offering mainly taoist buddhist conducting ancestral worship chinese new year shop provide paper money joss stick fai chun red candle good luck inscription paper offering demand ghost festival various offering joss paper accessory altar candle papiermâché form item ie gold clothes bank note good visiting spirit ancestor strong footing paper offering market traditionally candle wooden bowl placed street corner along river guide wandering spirit feast prepared shop provide joss paper accessory paper incense selling public sacrifice ancestor qingming festival midautumn festival lantern festival shop sell candle paper lantern used celebration many family buy item child midautumn festival chinese funeral mainly taoist funeral occasion require paper offering paper horse paper goat must funeral ceremony offering used liberating soul purgatory fulfilling need soul underworld consist paper currency clothes food house transport method st century product paper offering funeral nearly lifesized – example television iphones electronics innovative mixture modern ancient civilization case target customer people conduct taoist funeral papiermâché offering shop long history hong kong largely located queen road west queen’s road central bo wah paper craft 寶華紮作 chau zi paper craft 秋記紮作 two wellknown papiermâché offering shop long history bo wah paper craft 寶華紮作 established located sham shui po owner used make traditional papiermâché lion’s head chinese new year au yeung bing chi son owner changed style papiermâché traditional modish order cater modern society create new trend papiermâché customized bo wah instance creative papiermâché product stormtrooper star war specific bone human skeleton available shop chau zi paper craft 秋記紮作 established located central one oldest papiermâché shop hong kong owner chan kui chau wellknown hong kong papiermâché maker make traditional papiermâché product trotting horse lamp chau zi attracts tourist world come visit order explore traditional chinese papiermâché product papiermâché popular common tradition across whole asia besides china hong kong papiermâché offering shop found japan vietnam chinese oversea community southeast asia unique culture people made papiermâché since tang dynasty yet due economic development people started set shop unlike hong kong papiermâché shop japan sell traditional paper product like orizuru japanese paper crane omamori japanese traditional doll bowing making wish shrine temple vietnam hàng mã street located hanoi selling paper good year shop established western country – usa united kingdom – chinese immigrant example mulberry street new york also known chinatown papiermâché retailer similar hong kong serve chinese living order celebrate chinese festival papiermâché shop hong kong usually designed traditional chinese style without fancy decoration layout seems disorganised good arranged orderly fashion large tablet placed top door name shop written gold yellow red around chinese lantern decoration shelf put outside shop displaying product setting simple closet placed around shop variety product glass case table form corner shop owner generally table placed middle shop lot package foss paper papiermâché placed ancestral worship sorted plastic basket carton papiermâché item wrapped plastic bag hung inside shop traditional chinese festival midautumn festival festive product also wrapped plastic bag hung outside shop attract customer