Ding Village, as the location of a national key cultural relic protection unit, has preserved many production and living customs of the northern working people since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Due to the superior climate and geographical conditions, the locals have been able to cultivate and burn pottery, spin yarn and weave cloth very early (as evidenced by the pottery spinning wheel unearthed in the Ding Village site). Since the Ming Dynasty, with the introduction of cotton and textile technology, every household in Ding Village has learned to grow cotton and weave, and this traditional skill has been developed to this day. Old cloth, also known as old coarse cloth and hand-woven cloth, is a kind of pure cotton textile used in the old times. From picking cotton and spinning to weaving on the machine, it has to go through 72 large and small processes such as ginning, fluffing, cotton wadding, spinning, beating, dyeing, dropping, patterning, warp and weft, palm picking, tying the machine, weaving, etc., all of which are purely handmade. The products include more than ten varieties such as white cloth, blue striped cloth, red striped cloth, green striped cloth, colorful square petal cloth, plain jacquard cloth, and colored jacquard cloth. Compared with other textiles, handmade old cloth has exquisite textile technology and rich local flavor. It is warm in winter and cool in summer, breathable and sweat-absorbent, thick in feel, soft in texture, and green and natural. For thousands of years, it has been made into bedding, clothes, shoes and socks by local people and widely used. The emergence of folk traditional cotton spinning skills is another major change in human clothing customs. For thousands of years, the Chinese nation has gone from raising silkworms and growing hemp to spinning silk and hemp, which has solved the human need for silk and hemp. Although cotton textiles have been introduced to the mainland for less than a thousand years, they have replaced the status of silk and hemp and become the dominant product of Chinese clothing and bedding. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)