Summer cloth weaving technology

Chinese national intangible cultural heritage Name: Xia cloth weaving skills

Applicant: Rongchang County, Chongqing

Project No.: 885

Project No.: VIII - 102

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Chongqing

Type: new item

Applicant: Rongchang County, Chongqing

Protection unit: Chongqing Rongchang District Cultural Center

Introduction to summer cloth weaving technology:

Applicant: Rongchang County, Chongqing

The production of summer cloth can be traced back to the late Eastern Jin Dynasty. The summer cloth of Tang Dynasty was listed as a tribute, with the production of Wanzai in Jiangxi Province and Rongchang in Sichuan Province as the main representatives.

Wanzai summer cloth is a typical traditional handmade cloth in Jiangxi Province. It originated in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and has a history of more than 1500 years. Due to the round shape of newly woven hemp yarn, it is also called round yarn summer cloth. Compared with the foreign flat yarn summer cloth, it has better texture, finer hemp and more durable. This summer cloth has fine quality, flat edge, uniform weaving, beautiful color, strong air permeability, cool perspiration, no wrinkle, no deformation, easy to wash, the more washed, the whiter. It is a pure hand-made, pure environmental protection product, without any pollution to human body and environment. From ramie to summer cloth, the whole production process is mainly divided into ramie planting, raw material production and summer cloth production. Wanzai summer cloth can be divided into four types according to specifications, five types according to quality and five grades according to grade. Wanzai summer cloth can be used in the production of clothing, hangings, handicrafts, etc. it can also be used for poetry and painting.

Rongchang County is located in the west of Chongqing City, where summer cloth weaving is mainly distributed in Panlong town. Rongchang summer cloth has a long history, which was called "Shu cloth" in Han Dynasty, and "ban cloth" and "Tong cloth" in Tang and Song Dynasties, mainly used as tribute. During the reign of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, it was produced as a commodity and then sold to other places in the province, even to Korea, Japan and Nanyang. It became a famous traditional handicraft in Rongchang. Rongchang Panlong town summer cloth is made of ramie. The finished products are fine cloth, coarse cloth and rib cloth. Its production process includes beating hemp, pulling hemp ball, pulling hemp taro, pulling thread, threading, brushing, weaving, rinsing, shaping, printing and washing, etc. the summer cloth is fine, smooth, clean and durable. Because of the hemp quality, this kind of cloth is easy to wash and dry, simple and elegant, beautiful, cool and sweat absorbing, comfortable and pleasant. It is the best material for people's summer clothes.

At present, the number of chemical fiber cloth produced by machinery is increasing, and the raw material ramie of traditional summer cloth is decreasing day by day. The profit of summer cloth production is getting lower and lower. Many people are unwilling to engage in this complicated manual skill, and the printing and dyeing skill of summer cloth is also lacking. In this case, China's summer cloth weaving technology is on the verge of extinction and needs to be rescued and protected.