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How to make an annual profit of 7 billion yuan by digging out 7 billion yuan from shell!

[a message from Haimei] there is a button Museum in the ancient town of Xitang, which displays a wide range of ancient and modern buttons and various button making machines. With its unique rhythm, small buttons tell people a beautiful and long history of button making in Dashun village, Xitang Town, Jiashan County, China.

Small buttons with a unit price of Millicent seem to be the most humble small business, but small buttons embody the perseverance of Dashun button craftsmen. Through inheritance and innovation, they have turned a button from a shell to a big industry with an annual output value of 7 billion yuan. Dashun button industry produces more than 100 billion buttons every year, which is equivalent to providing more than 10 buttons for everyone in the world every year.

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After walking into Xitang ancient town in Jiashan County, walk along the long Jijia lane to the end, and turn left to a Chinese button museum hidden in the antique halls of old streets and alleys. The most eye-catching activity in this museum is to show the whole process of making a shell button by hand with traditional utensils. Chen Aizhong, 60, from Dashun village, Xitang Town, was attracted by tourists and toured the four traditional production areas of shell button processing.

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Chen Aizhong used to be a craftsman engaged in shell button processing. He is an old handle of traditional button making. With the transformation and development of shell button industry, he has now become a staff member of the scenic spot, and laodizi's craft has become a living intangible cultural heritage exhibition project. When there are many tourists, Mr. Chen feels very ceremonial. He said that these button making tools are the most traditional and have a history of more than 100 years. Now there are only one or two buttons left in Xitang town. Although the button is small, the process is not simple. There are seven processes for making a shell button.

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In the production process, we not only need to step on the tool to make it work, but also need to control the force by hand. We need to use both hands and feet, and have considerable proficiency. Blanking is the first process, mostly using seashells and mussels as raw materials; after blanking, the second step is to grind the surface, using a tool with a grinding wheel to smooth the surface of the button blank; the next step is modeling, which is to grind the edge, groove and other shapes on the surface of the blank.

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Chen Aizhong uses a clamp to clamp the button, and then pushes the turning tool in. The groove of the turning tool determines the shape of the button. There are holes on the buttons. If there are holes, the buttons can be fixed on the clothes. The drilling tool is called a drilling car. The button is clamped by the clamp, and the hole is drilled by manually turning the drilling car. In this way, only a button has been initially completed, followed by peeling, bleaching, polishing and other processes.

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Traditional button making technique is a folk practical making technique inherited from generation to generation in Xitang Town, Jiashan County. Button is an accessory of clothes. There are two kinds of traditional buttons, one is shell button, the other is coiled incense button.

The representative inheritor of the traditional shell button making technique is Tao Yunlin of Xitang Town, Jiashan County. Born in 1956, Tao Yunlin learned to make shell buttons from his father Tao Fuyun. In 1983, he started a family button factory to produce shell buttons. In 2009, it was listed as the provincial representative inheritor, and the traditional button making technology was listed in the third batch of Zhejiang intangible cultural heritage list. At present, he runs a clothing accessories company in Dashun.

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Lao Tao told us that only in the button museum can we really see the traditional equipment and traditional crafts in the past, but now we can't see them in Dashun's button enterprises. Traditional buttons are made of shells, but now there are many kinds of buttons, including shells, metals and plexiglass. Now the production process is more convenient, through the conveyor belt transmission, grinding, although some links or manual production, but most of the realization of mechanization.

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Lao Tao said that in the 1970s, he helped others make buttons to earn more than 20 yuan a month. In the 1980s, he started a family workshop to produce shell buttons. After decades of hard work, the original small workshop has become a big company. Today, Dashun button industry has attracted a large number of migrant workers to come here for gold.

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Among thousands of button enterprises in Dashun village, a company specializing in high-end shell buttons has become a partner of domestic well-known clothing brands. Gu Yongquan, general manager of the company, said that under the general trend of declining output of domestic button manufacturers, the company continued to increase equipment and investment, striding into the international market, and participated in several international fashion wear exhibitions in Europe. They imported automatic button making machines from Italy, and purchased high-quality shell materials from France and Indonesia to make more complicated shell buttons. Gu Yongquan's enterprise has successfully obtained orders from many domestic well-known clothing companies.

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A small button sold for 12 yuan, the value of the moment doubled a hundred times. Among Dashun's "tianluda" button manufacturers, more than 100 patents are particularly attractive. Their buttons have been used to make APEC leaders' clothing.

This is the automatic button making and testing equipment for button making. Most of more than 1000 button enterprises in Dashun village of Xitang town have realized modernization. Carry forward the tradition, inherit the classic, innovate the craft, let the button industry of Dashun continue to develop and grow. Button with clothes, people's clothing is more and more beautiful, button this traditional technology and products are constantly innovating. This is the reason why Dashun's button industry continues to grow and occupy half of the domestic button market.

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When you walk into Dashun village, you can see row upon row of button enterprises and endless flow of vehicles, and you can feel the bustle of the city. All these are interpreting the fast-paced life style of Dashun.

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Dashun's buttons have a history of one hundred years, and buttons have become the name of Dashun. The people of Dashun interpret this wealth story with a new flavor of the times. With their wisdom and painstaking efforts, they have won back the supreme glory of 'the hometown of buttons in China'.