Stocking up on Lanterns: Anecdotes About Paper Binding in Northern Guizhou

The papermaker Chen Shouzhuo died on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, Little New Year's Eve. His closed disciple Zhou Yu rushed back to Shangxi Ancient Town for the funeral and found his master's body tightly wrapped in a layer of paper as thin as cicada wings, like a cocoon. The black lamp spontaneously ignited at midnight. The moment Zhou Yu touched the lamp bone, his right hand began to turn into paper - synaesthesia dragged him into the battlefield of Hailongtun four hundred years ago. The hoarding lamp is not a container that seals ghosts, but a wick that protects the twenty-four crafts of Banshu. Someone is extinguishing the lamp, and he must light the remaining lamp before his right hand is completely turned into paper.