Small boxes of various shapes are made there from cotton thread, which is wound around different wooden shapes each layer being coated with some kind of sticky substance which when dried—becomes very hard; then the whole thing is varnished, and when thoroughly dried you might place one on the ground and stand on it without doing it the least harm. In other parts these boxes are made from grass cloth but I have not heard of them being made of thread elsewhere. The trade is mostly for tobacco boxes but any other shape or size desired can be ordered; these works are greatly prized.
Hsinfenghsien produces a stuff called Shao Hung, which is the foundation for vermilion, the amount is not great and goes mostly to Kuangtung where it is used for that purpose.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.