Hand made cotton textile techniques in Wunijing

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Wunijing handmade cotton textile technology

Applicant: Xuhui District, Shanghai

Item No.: 367

Project No.: VIII - 17

Time of publication: 2006 (the first batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Shanghai

Type: new item

Applicant: Xuhui District, Shanghai

Protection unit: People's Government of Huajing Town, Xuhui District, Shanghai

Brief introduction of hand-made cotton textile technology in Wunijing

Applicant: Xuhui District, Shanghai

The inheritance of Wunijing handmade cotton textile technology originated from Huang Daopo's textile skills brought back from Yazhou. At the end of Song Dynasty and the beginning of Yuan Dynasty, Huang Daopo, a native of Wunijing in Songjiang Prefecture, returned to her hometown in Yuanzhen years after living in Yazhou for more than 30 years to spread cotton planting and textile technology. She has improved the techniques of defense, elasticity, spinning and weaving, created the weaving process of "color matching" and "flower pulling" into "broken branches and group Phoenix", and developed many exquisite cotton fabrics.

Huang Daopo's cotton textile skills changed the tradition of silk and hemp as the main clothing materials for thousands of years, changed the economic structure of Jiangnan, and gave birth to a new cotton textile industry. The living customs and traditional marriage customs in Jiangnan also changed. It can be said that Wunijing manual cotton textile technology is one of the core contents of China's textile technology.

In history, the printing and dyeing skills of Wunijing in Songjiang are also very famous. Button cloth, light cloth, standard cloth, dingniangzi cloth, Korean cloth, twill cloth, bucket cloth, purple cloth, scraped cloth, step light cloth, etc. enjoy the same high reputation as the dyed and dyed Yunqing cloth, maobaolan, grey cloth, color printed cloth, blue printed cloth (medicine spot cloth). At present, the inheritors of hand-made cotton textile and printing and dyeing skills are 70 or 80 years old. This ancient skill is in danger of being lost, so it is necessary to protect it effectively.