Bamboo weaving (Qingshen bamboo weaving)

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: bamboo weaving (Qingshen bamboo weaving)

Applicant: Qingshen County, Sichuan Province

Project No.: 350

Project No.: Ⅶ - 51

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Sichuan Province

Type: Extension Project

Applicant: Qingshen County, Sichuan Province

Protection unit: Qingshen County Cultural Relics Protection Center

Introduction to bamboo weaving (Qingshen bamboo weaving)

Applicant: Qingshen County, Sichuan Province

Qingshen bamboo weaving is an ancient folk craft which is popular in Qingshen County, Meishan City, Sichuan Province. It is widely used in the local area to weave bamboo pieces and strips of different thickness into various production and daily necessities.

Qingshen bamboo weaving has a long history. Qingshen first used bamboo strips to weave "Ji" to raise silkworms, and initially formed a set of bamboo weaving techniques. In the Tang Dynasty, Zhangwu led the county people to weave bamboo baskets to fill the "Honghua Weir" with stones, and to irrigate the farmland with water, which made the bamboo weaving get greater development. In the Ming Dynasty, Qingshen bamboo weaving was more widely used. Yu Chengxun, a member of Qingshen, went to Beijing to become a Jinshi and was appointed to the Hanlin academy to write. His bookcases and meal boxes were all made of bamboo silk.

After entering the Qing Dynasty, Qingshen's exquisite bamboo palace fan gained great reputation and was listed as a tribute by the Qing government. During the period of the Republic of China, Qingshen bamboo weaving continued to develop. People in the county once made bamboo silk hat with the words "fight to the end" 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 works of art, such as famous calligraphy and painting, human landscapes, flowers, birds, insects and fish, etc. the painting of China's hundred emperors and the painting of Qingming River, which are made of bamboo silk as thin as cicada wings and hair, have won many international and domestic gold awards.

At present, Qingshen bamboo weaving has fallen into a critical situation. The reasons are as follows: first, the environment has deteriorated, the bamboo section has become shorter, the toughness has weakened, and the raw materials have problems; second, people's consumption concept has changed greatly, and many bamboo products have been replaced by industrial products; third, the old artists are old, and the young people are unwilling to inherit, which leads to the lack of successors of this folk handicraft. In this situation, it is necessary to work out a set of feasible plan quickly to rescue and protect Qingshen bamboo weaving.