Bamboo weaving (Dongyang bamboo weaving) is a traditional art in Dongyang City, Zhejiang Province, and it is one of the national intangible cultural heritages.
Dongyang bamboo weaving has been widely used in people's daily life in the early Tang Dynasty. During the Southern Song Dynasty, Dongyang bamboo weaving reached a high level of technology and was associated with folk festivals. Dongyang bamboo weaving is good at weaving three-dimensional figures, animals, traditional bamboo baskets and other handicrafts. Handmade as fine as hair, as soft as silk, meticulous and vivid. Dongyang bamboo woven products are often used in baskets, baskets, boxes, reeds, dustpans, baskets, hats and other daily necessities.
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Bamboo weaving can be divided into filament weaving and coarse silk weaving, and can be divided into daily bamboo ware and craft bamboo weaving according to the purpose. On June 7th, 2008, bamboo weaving was approved by the State Council to be included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
Bamboo weaving has compact structure, exquisite workmanship, beautiful lines and durability. It has a long history and contains the crystallization of the hard work of the working people in China. The Qing Shen bamboo weaving "The Hundred Emperors of China" and "The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival", which is made of bamboo filaments as thin as cicada's wings and as thin as hair, has won many international and domestic gold medals.
Archaeological data show that after human beings began to settle down, they engaged in simple agricultural and animal husbandry production, and there was a little surplus of rice and hunting food, so they stored food and drinking water for emergencies. At this time, local materials were used to cut plant branches into baskets, baskets and other utensils with various tools such as stone axes and knives.
In practice, it is found that bamboo is neat, strong in crack resistance, elastic and tough, easy to weave, strong and durable. Therefore, bamboo became the main material for making utensils at that time.
The cross-sections of bamboo filaments used for bamboo weaving are all rectangular, and there are strict requirements on the thickness. The thickness is only one or two hairs thick and the width is only four or five hairs wide. All the roots of bamboo filaments are evenly cut to achieve the same thickness, and the viewers all admire its difficulty. Traditional bamboo weaving technology has a long history and is rich in the crystallization of hard work of working people.
Bamboo weaving technology is divided into filament technology and thick silk bamboo weaving technology. The traditional skill block displays different styles of bamboo weaving works, including Qingshen bamboo weaving with a long history and exquisite skills, and Liu bamboo weaving which combines modern fashion with China traditional culture and crafts to learn from each other's strong points.