Bamboo weaving (Qingshen bamboo weaving)

Sichuan
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Qingshen bamboo weaving is an ancient folk craft that is popular in Qingshen County, Meishan City, Sichuan Province. It is a kind of craft that uses different thicknesses of bamboo pieces and strips to weave various production and living supplies by hand, and is widely used in the local area. Qingshen bamboo weaving has a long history. The ancestors of Qingshen used bamboo strips to weave "sweeping baskets" to raise silkworms, and initially formed a set of bamboo weaving skills. In the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Wu led the county people to weave bamboo baskets to fill stones to block the "Honghua Weir" to irrigate farmland, which made bamboo weaving more developed. In the Ming Dynasty, Qingshen bamboo weaving was more widely used. After Yu Chengxun, a Qingshen man, passed the imperial examination in Beijing and was appointed as a compiler in the Hanlin Academy. The book boxes and meal boxes he used were all woven with bamboo silk. After entering the Qing Dynasty, Qingshen's exquisite bamboo woven palace fans became famous and were listed as tribute by the Qing court. During the Republic of China, Qingshen bamboo weaving continued to be inherited and developed. The county people once wove fine bamboo silk hats with the words "Fight to the End" written on them to comfort the anti-Japanese soldiers. After the founding of New China, Qingshen bamboo weaving has further developed and innovated, weaving a variety of exquisite artworks such as celebrity calligraphy and paintings, figures and landscapes, flowers, birds, insects and fish. The "China Hundred Emperors" and "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" woven with bamboo silk as thin as cicada wings and as fine as hair have won international and domestic gold awards many times. At present, Qingshen bamboo weaving has fallen into an endangered situation. The reasons are: first, the environment has deteriorated, the bamboo joints have become shorter, the toughness has weakened, and there are problems with the raw materials; second, people's consumption concepts have changed greatly, and many bamboo weaving products have been replaced by industrial products; third, the old artists are old, and young people are unwilling to inherit, resulting in a lack of successors to this folk handicraft. Under this situation, it is necessary to quickly formulate a feasible plan to rescue and protect Qingshen bamboo weaving.

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