Gong Xi of Shucheng is famous at home and abroad for his exquisite skills and unique style. He won the first prize in Panama International Commodities Fair and the silver prize in Nanyang Products Fair.
Comfortable sleeping mat, also known as Longshugong sleeping mat, is a traditional bamboo weaving handicraft in our county, which has the advantages of fine weaving, fine silk, softness and smoothness, coolness and perspiration, sleep aid, no moth-eaten, folding and rolling, convenient carrying and durability. The production of comfortable seats has a long history in Shucheng, and there are many legends circulating among the people. The most profound one is that Qin Minyue, a Shucheng official whose ancestral home is Shucheng, brought a comfortable seat engraved with dragon patterns to Kyoto as a tribute during the Tianshun period of Ming Yingzong in the Ming Dynasty, which was praised by the emperor and was named "Top Yamazaki Bamboo, Dragon Tree Public Seat". Shu Xi won the title, and his value rose sharply. At one time, the ruling and opposition parties fought for each other, and various workshops for weaving Shu Xi came into being.
As a characteristic product of Shucheng, Shu Xi has a long history. 1906 (thirty-two years of Guangxu reign in Qing dynasty), Shu Xi, as a famous product in China, won the first prize at the Panama International Commodities Fair. The following year, he won the first prize at the Chicago International Fair. 1926 and 1934, Shu Xi participated in two national exhibitions in Shanghai and Hangzhou, and won the "Gold Medal" and "Silver Medal" respectively.
Before the Anti-Japanese War, Maeda Corporation also sent a special envoy to Shucheng to order ten Zhang Kuan eight-foot-long comfortable seats for Emperor Hirohito's wedding. Over the past century, Shu Xi, as a famous product of China, has enjoyed a high reputation in the world, exported to Southeast Asia, Japan, the United States, Canada, Italy and other countries, and won prizes at Panama Expo, Nanyang Fair, Chicago Sports Meeting and West Lake Expo.
However, the comfortable rest, once famous at home and abroad, is facing an unprecedented impact in the market and its prospects are worrying. Cha Yong, a technician from the former Shu Xi factory, told us in detail about yesterday and today in Shu Xi. According to him, he is the third generation descendant of Shu Xi. At the age of 65,438+08, he studied fine arts and had 22 years of experience in weaving seats. His paintings are bright in color, elegant in shape and solemn in style. His six horses, welcoming pine and heroic figures are lifelike, and he entered the elegant hall with his unique artistic style. Cha Yong's master is Pan Xiaoben, the second generation descendant of Shu Xi, and Shao Jinquan, the first generation master, is mainly based on monochrome line drawing. Pan Xiaoben, a descendant of the second generation, pays attention to layering and rich colors, and is good at image painting. Subsequently, there are more and more new varieties in Shu Xi, ranging from single sleeping mats to children's mats, pillow mats, cushion mats, large decorative mats and calligraphy and painting mats. In weaving technology, his bamboo paintings are soft and smooth, as thin as cotton textiles and as thin as paper, and their paintings are vivid and lifelike. Traditional masterpieces, such as Zhu Lan Tu, Ma Ben Tu by Xu Beihong, Camel Tu by Wu Zuoren, scattered flowers in the sky and the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, can be woven into banquets. The scenery on the cushion surface is suitable in distance, with bright contrast between light and shade and clear spatial hierarchy, forming a unique style of comfortable cushion technology. According to Cha Yong, the material selection and production technology of the mat are very particular. The sleeping mat should use Phyllostachys pubescens born from June of that year 165438+ 10 to February of the following year, and all crowns, tails, knots, scars and hairiness should be removed. After more than a dozen processes, such as bamboo cutting, bamboo lifting, bamboo splitting, bamboo tearing, bamboo boiling, bamboo scraping, bamboo weaving, bamboo twisting and bamboo wrapping, they are all manual operations. In particular, the cooked summer sleeping mat is soft and not easy to break, and there are no bamboo worms. If you cherish it, a bamboo mat can be enjoyed for sixty or seventy years. If you get sweaty, it will be clean with a little wet cloth. The smoother and brighter it is, the cooler it will be when you sleep. What is even more peculiar is that even in midsummer, people sleep on a mat, sweat quickly, and their body temperature drops accordingly, which makes people feel that the breeze is coming slowly. After several summers, the color of the mat changed from turquoise to orange or brown, crystal clear. In 1930s, many foreign businessmen tried to make their own comfortable seats by stealing the technology of the church, but they gave up halfway because of the complexity and difficulty of the manufacturing technology.