The weaving of Changhe golden silk straw hat flourished in the late 1920s. At that time, more than 65,438+0,000 women participated in knitting, and its annual output reached 65,438+0.2 million. The ingenuity and superb skills of women in the long river straw weaving are amazing. In the early 1930s, Changhe straw women also knitted a "straw hat primary school" with their own hands, which is still praised by people today. At that time, the women who drafted straw felt the pain of being uneducated, and they were determined to let their children read and write. Straw weaving women pooled the money earned by weaving cool hats and founded the famous "straw hat industry primary school", which wrote a brilliant chapter for Cixi's educational history books.

From 65438 to 0937, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out, shipping was blocked, raw materials were interrupted, and exports were stagnant, which made the golden silk straw hat weaving industry in its glorious period almost extinct. After the birth of New China, with the care and support of the people's government, the straw hat weaving industry in Cixi was reborn. 1954, Changhe established "Cixi Straw Crafts Factory". The technicians engaged in the research of straw weaving technology actively studied and innovated, and made gratifying achievements in the pattern design and process reform of straw weaving technology. In particular, the weaving process has been greatly reformed on the basis of the original plain weaving, absorbing and drawing lessons from the bamboo weaving process, so that the woven straw hat gives people a double-layer feeling. In addition, it has developed from one core to two cores, three cores, blank cores, overlapping cores, braided cores and so on. The raw materials for weaving have also gradually developed from the initial single Hypericum japonicum to Nante grass, silver silk grass, salty grass and so on 10.