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the last 20 years have seen a huge
increase in the Chinese economy thanks
partly to Christmas trees the tradition
of Christmas trees is believed to have
begun in Germany around the 18th century
but it was Queen Victoria who made them
fashionable in Britain when she was
pictured standing next to one with her
family in 1846 this factory in Suzhou
makes sheng dan shoot as they call them
in all sorts of sizes and this is how
they produce a 2 metre high version the
branches start out as flat strips of
polyvinyl chloride or PVC to you and me
the reels are unraveled and as they pass
through rollers they’re bonded and stick
together then a circular blade slices
through the PVC shredding it and making
the needles the shredded PVC is twisted
around a metal wire and then pulled
through a small coil this separates the
needles who makes them nice and bushy
these machines produce branches
measuring around 6 metres long a tree
with branches this big isn’t very
practical so they’re cut to size by hand
they cut this way because a mechanical
cutting machine would flatten the
needles back down a bunch of branches
are then stained together using a
polypropylene twine and the sharp edges
are bent over to stop little children
hurting themselves as they hang their
baubles from the tree now all that’s
left to do is attach the branches to the
metal trunks of the tree and it becomes
one of the 1 million Sheng Tang Xu that
are made here at this Factory in China
happy Christmas
the last 20 years have seen a huge
increase in the Chinese economy thanks
partly to Christmas trees the tradition
of Christmas trees is believed to have
begun in Germany around the 18th century
but it was Queen Victoria who made them
fashionable in Britain when she was
pictured standing next to one with her
family in 1846 this factory in Suzhou
makes sheng dan shoot as they call them
in all sorts of sizes and this is how
they produce a 2 metre high version the
branches start out as flat strips of
polyvinyl chloride or PVC to you and me
the reels are unraveled and as they pass
through rollers they’re bonded and stick
together then a circular blade slices
through the PVC shredding it and making
the needles the shredded PVC is twisted
around a metal wire and then pulled
through a small coil this separates the
needles who makes them nice and bushy
these machines produce branches
measuring around 6 metres long a tree
with branches this big isn’t very
practical so they’re cut to size by hand
they cut this way because a mechanical
cutting machine would flatten the
needles back down a bunch of branches
are then stained together using a
polypropylene twine and the sharp edges
are bent over to stop little children
hurting themselves as they hang their
baubles from the tree now all that’s
left to do is attach the branches to the
metal trunks of the tree and it becomes
one of the 1 million Sheng Tang Xu that
are made here at this Factory in China
happy Christmas
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