Willow weaving (Yandu Willow Weaving) is a traditional craftsman project in the fourth batch of representative projects of municipal intangible cultural heritage in Jiangsu Province. According to legend, during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, two cousins from Suzhou came to Longgang Chuxiang with bamboo craftsman tools. Seeing that the willow branches grew vigorously here, they used willow branches to weave daily necessities for sale. Inspired by the two cousins, the villagers made full use of local willow branches and learned to make simple daily necessities such as vegetable baskets for their own use. After several generations of efforts, people have developed willow products into a series and penetrated into all aspects of people's lives. Now it is mainly located in Chuxiang, Longgang Town, Yandu District, Yancheng City, and radiates to northern Jiangsu. The raw materials for willow weaving are willow branches cut from Chinese willow trees. After several processes such as foaming, peeling, drying, disinfection, bleaching, dyeing, material selection, splitting, and skinning, the willow branches are slender, uniform in thickness, soft and smooth. The extremely white and knotless willow branches are the best materials for weaving. The folk art works woven with processed willow branches are characterized by being light, exquisite, beautiful, generous, sterile, non-toxic and pollution-free. They are green products that return to nature. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)