Dongyang bamboo weaving heritage significance

Nearly 10 years, with the city of several former large collective bamboo enterprises restructuring and disintegration, a number of socialist market economy from the exercise of the growth of private bamboo craft enterprises emerged. Such as the city's Dongfeng Bamboo Weaving Factory, etc. are the city's bamboo weaving enterprises of the newborn frontrunners. They or to animal utensils fine bamboo weaving called long, or to plane Chinese painting and calligraphy bamboo crafts known, or to Jiangnan folk customs for bamboo art boutique subject matter, or practical bamboo crafts for mass production, or the use of new technology for bamboo moving shadow series products, or specializing in the production of ancient bow and arrows and other fitness new products, it is really the eight Immortals across the sea, each show their skills, will be the level of bamboo craft in Dongyang to a new realm and a new height. Around these front-runners turn, there are a large number of scattered in the townships and villages, households of the bamboo weaving individual operators, they will be Dongyang bamboo weaving craft products market to get alive and red-hot.

According to incomplete statistics, Dongyang bamboo weaving technique of weaving more than 150 kinds of existing. Bamboo crafts can be divided into figures, animals, utensils, antiques, furnishings, furniture, lamps, stationery, bath furniture, flowers, decorative items, bamboo wire inlay (bamboo and wood), bamboo painting and calligraphy works of art, bamboo garden architecture, bamboo indoor and outdoor decorations, bamboo wallpaper, bamboo root carvings, stay in the green carving, such as 25 categories, more than 3,000 varieties of colors. The city employs more than 6,000 people. There are 2 Chinese bamboo craft masters, 2 provincial arts and crafts masters, 4 senior arts and crafts masters and 98 intermediate arts and crafts masters. Products are exported to more than 60 countries and regions in Europe, Asia and the United States, in 2004 the city's total output value of bamboo crafts reached 200 million yuan, 150 million yuan of export earnings. Dongyang bamboo handicrafts are famous for their superior skills, unique style, beautiful shape, fine weaving, elegant colors, appreciation and practical combination.

In short, "Dongyang bamboo weaving" as the traditional arts and crafts of Zhejiang Province, the special arts varieties, not lost in the Chinese arts and crafts in the garden of a sun blossomed oddball. If we can get the attention and support of all levels of government and departments, in the glorious 21st century, Dongyang bamboo weaving will be able to inherit the tradition, innovative techniques, create new achievements.

Creating brands, creating fine products, has become a highlight of the new era of bamboo craft production. To 2005, at the national, provincial and ministerial level arts and crafts exhibition, competition or exposition, Dongyang bamboo crafts *** award-winning 95 items, of which more than 42 gold medals, 18 silver medals, 15 bronze medals, excellence in 20 pieces. Award-winning results in the national county and municipal bamboo counterparts in a distant second. Among them, He Fuli's bamboo silk white crane tripod, elephants, singing geese, Nezha and other gold medal works, Lu Guanghua's large-scale bamboo wall hanging "Lanting Preface", a hundred horses, tiger, Su Dongpo before and after the Red Cliff Fugu calligraphy, three-dimensional bamboo weaving, "Tang Yin Landscape Painting" and other gold medal works, Xu Jingbin's millenium dragon plate gold medal works, all in their respective crafts to reach the height of the art of excellence for the nation's experts, connoisseurs and the public at large! They are praised by experts, connoisseurs and the general public nationwide. Among them, Lu Guanghua's "Orchid Pavilion", "Eight Cyphers" and He Fuli's "Eight Immortals Bamboo Silk Flower Basket" were successively recognized as Zhejiang Province Arts and Crafts Excellence. He Fuli in 1997 for the Hong Kong Council of Social Service to celebrate the return of Hong Kong and the special 2500-meter-long giant dragon lanterns, by the Chief Executive of Hong Kong Tung Chee-hwa hand for its eye opening, won the Guinness World Records medal. CCTV has also reported on the traditional skills of bamboo weaving in Dongyang many times. However, due to the impact of the market economy and high-tech industries, bamboo weaving skills, a lack of successors, Dongyang bamboo weaving mainly by a group of artists over 45 years old to support the young people, almost no one is willing to learn, there is a shortage of young people, if not protected in a timely manner, this traditional skills will face the loss of. So the traditional arts and crafts products a Dongyang bamboo weaving protection, has been urgent.

Dongyang bamboo, known as the hometown of bamboo weaving. Dongyang bamboo weaving in the Yin Shang era. As a handicraft "Dongyang bamboo weaving", also has a history of more than 1200 years, the Song Dynasty to the Lantern Festival lights famous, since the Ming and Qing Dynasties to be selected as a tribute and famous, the late Qing Dynasty into the heyday of the early Civil War, as early as 1915, that is, in the Panama International Exposition awards. After liberation, especially since the reform and opening up, dongyang bamboo weaving withered wood, flourishing, has won the Ministry of Light Industry quality products, zhejiang boutique, China arts and crafts hundred flowers award competition silver cup award and gold cup award, China folk art a great gold medal, and so on. By the end of 2005, *** award 95 (times).

Bamboo weaving museum has more than 500 pieces of bamboo weaving. Among them are "bamboo weaving champion" Ma Fu Jin century boutique "basket", national treasures "Nine Dragons Wall" and "fisherman ", "incense burner pavilion" and other rare masterpieces of craftsmanship, as well as "China's bamboo craft masters" Lu Guanghua He Fuli's representative masterpieces.