Gutian County, a thousand-year-old town located in Ningde City, Fujian Province, is a famous hometown of edible fungi in China, with the output of edible fungi ranking first in the world and the export volume ranking first in the country. Nowadays, in addition to edible fungi, bamboo handicrafts here are also famous and exported to Europe, America, Asia and other countries and regions.
Most towns and villages in Gutian are engaged in bamboo weaving production, and Yangshan Town is one of them. Shande Village is a village with bamboo weaving as its main industry. Shande Village has a long history of bamboo weaving production. Almost every household knows the skill of bamboo weaving, and every corner is filled with various styles of bamboo weaving products.
Walking into the home of the old artist Li, traces of bamboo weaving can be seen everywhere in front of and behind the house. In the corner of the kitchen, old Li Man Li Anqi took out a dusty tablecloth, also made of bamboo. This kind of bamboo tablecloth has a handle and an open square, and the edges are carefully bound, and the thickness of bamboo strips in each part is different; Even the word "Fu" on the lid is written with a brush at first glance. On closer inspection, it turned out to be made of red bamboo sticks and white bamboo sticks.
"One hundred bamboo sticks should be the same width, otherwise the word' fu' will be crooked, and the width will be grasped by feeling. My father made this up. He began to learn bamboo weaving at the age of twelve. I inherited his old man's bamboo weaving skill, and now I will continue to pass this skill on to my son. " Li Shen, an old artist, has experience.
"Bamboo weaving is the interweaving of bamboo strips. Generally speaking, layering is called warp and weaving is called weft. By pressing the warp and weft, you can weave ever-changing patterns and make various bamboo woven products. " Li, an old artist, said, "If a bamboo woven product has a hole or a broken thread, it can be used again." . It is no exaggeration to say that a cage can be used for a lifetime. Because the raw material is strong, we also use it to weave chairs. "
Gutian bamboo weaving originated in the late Qing Dynasty. In the early days, bamboo woven products were only regarded as agriculture and daily necessities, such as baskets, pig cages and dustpans. The appearance is simple and practical. With the development of society and the progress of science and technology, bamboo farm tools and daily necessities have gradually retired from farmers.
Due to the continuous innovation of bamboo weaving by craftsmen, Gutian bamboo weaving has not disappeared, but has been continued and developed. With the improvement and innovation of bamboo weaving technology, the appearance of Gutian bamboo weaving products is gradually more beautiful, from the previous farm dishes to many exquisite decorations, which increasingly shows the brilliance of handicrafts.
In 1930s, the bamboo pillow made by Gutian won the prize in the international exhibition. 1959, flower baskets, flower baskets and suitcases woven by Gutian bamboo were included in Selected Arts and Crafts Works of Fujian Province. After the reform and opening up, several young people in Shande Village saw that almost every household in Shande Village knew bamboo weaving skills, so they joined hands with relatively skilled local bamboo weaving artists to set up a bamboo weaving factory with family workshops as the main form, which was the first bamboo weaving factory in Shande Village.
From the perspective of bamboo weaving technology, products are distributed to various family workshops, and bamboo weaving is produced by assembly line, so Gutian bamboo weaving has gradually embarked on the road of industrialization. In the mid-1990s, some local young people who went to Guangzhou and other places found that foreigners liked bamboo weaving products very much, and brought the concept of "export" back to their hometown, which set off the second revolution of Gutian bamboo weaving, making Gutian bamboo weaving go to the world for the first time, and the bamboo weaving industry developed rapidly.
After 2000, a large-scale bamboo weaving factory emerged in Gutian, where skilled workers gathered to polish, wax, dye and package bamboo weaving products, completely changing the old pattern of "scattered flowers". In order to enhance the market competitiveness of Gutian bamboo weaving, all enterprises attach great importance to technological innovation, and each factory generally has five to six technicians specializing in product design.
Today, Gutian bamboo weaving products include nearly 100 kinds of gorgeous flower baskets, bamboo butterflies, corner-eye baskets, "cat boxes" and jade blue-and-white inlays. They are exquisite and elegant, beautiful and generous, and have both ornamental value and collection value, attracting many foreign merchants and claiming that their value is extremely high.
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