What are the characteristics of Xuanen bamboo weaving craft?

Bamboo weaving utensils belong to the category of arts and crafts, the history of arts and crafts from the earth after the footprints of human activity began to arise. Xuanen County, Lijiahe Township, Touzhuangping Village can be called the hometown of bamboo weaving crafts. Head Zhuangping village of bamboo craft production, according to the survey has more than 100 years of history, since the beginning of the late Qing Dynasty, the farmers in this area have the habit of doing gabion goods, many people specializing in bamboo craft, or invited to go out to do "door-to-door work", or in their own home to weave baskets and other gabion goods, picking up the street to sell. The 1970s and 1980s for the heyday of the village, almost every family engaged in bamboo weaving, "Xuanen flower basket" is exported to Sichuan, Chongqing and other places. Into the 21st century, a large number of young and middle-aged people in the village go out to work, engaged in bamboo weaving flower basket craftsmen less and less, the product has long been in short supply. Take Xuanen flower basket as an example, the main materials for weaving are golden bamboo and southern bamboo split into gimlets (commonly known as flat gimlets), gimlets (commonly known as silk gimlets) and so on. The general procedure for making these materials is as follows: first clamp off the two ends of the knife to cut the diagonal section, use a gabion knife to cut off the raised part of the bamboo joints horizontally, scrape off the outer green skin of the bamboo, and then split (break) the bamboo, start the yellow (splitting off the brittle part of the bamboo strips), and then finally flatten the gimlets, splitting them into gimlets. Regardless of whether the gabions are flat or split into silk gabions, they need to be evened out with an even knife into gabions or gabions of uniform thickness and thickness before they can be used, which is the minimum condition for guaranteeing the quality of the products. For weaving patterns, it is necessary to process flower gimlets, i.e. gimlets of various colors such as red, green and black. Generally, black gabions are processed by scraping the bamboo and removing the green, and then burned with pine oil or rubber to make them, while red gabions are mostly made by adding wine and cooking with Baba Red (a chemical). The weaving procedure of the flower basket is: use flat gabions to weave the bottom, green gabions as the frame, silk gabions with appropriate flower gabions, and then lock the mouth, insert the sign on the basket system. In the weaving, the main warp and weft weaving method, and fully cross-utilize the sparse, partial, insertion, wear, lock, tie, set and other weaving techniques, so as to weave out the colorful, simple and beautiful, a variety of patterns to.