Where did the Cixi straw hat come from?

Product name: Cixi straw hat Product origin: Cixi, Ningbo, Zhejiang Product features: fine weaving, light and beautiful, and excellent feel.

Product description: Cixi straw hat, on the basis of golden straw hat, has further developed to dozens of varieties and more than 65,438+0,000 styles, including various hats, baskets, carpets, curtains, shoes, toys, gifts, bags and mats. Straw crafts is widely praised for its exquisite craftsmanship and novel patterns. In recent years, Cixi straw crafts has been exported to more than 80 countries and regions, including Britain, the United States, France and Japan. It is particularly worth mentioning that the salty grass cool hat woven by Cixi women with salty grass, a specialty of Cixi coastal area, has become the most popular straw hat product after the golden straw hat, and has been well received by foreign businessmen at the Canton Fair.

Product history: Straw weaving is an excellent traditional folk craft in China with a long history. According to historical records, the history of Cixi straw weaving is at least 200 years. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the craft of weaving straw hats was introduced from other places into the long river area of Cixi today. Since then, straw weaving has become the main household sideline of local women. "Yuyao Liu Cangzhi" records: "Straw hats, commonly known as cool hats, are made by female workers. There are cool hat shops in Qutang, Miaohou Bridge, Tang Chao and Changhe City, and Changhe City produces the best products. " There is also a folk song in Cixi: "Yao Bei has three treasures (now around Xihe River and Anton in Cixi), cotton, white salt and grass cool hats." 1922 or so, the boss of a French foreign firm learned that women in Changhe area of Cixi are good at knitting, with exquisite craftsmanship and low manual wages, and found it profitable. He transported the raw materials of Tian Jihuang produced in Nanyang to Changhe and other places for distribution, woven them into straw hats and then sold them to European and American countries. Since then, Chinese and foreign businessmen have opened dozens of straw hat shops in Changhe District. Traffickers employed by straw hat shops are active in the local area, throwing forage and buying cool hats. Since then, with the long river as the center, a commercial network of golden silk straw hats has naturally formed, and the long river has thus become the processing and production center of golden silk straw hats, and there has been a prosperous scene of "there are no idle girls in Shili Long Street, and every family is a hat weaver", and the "hometown of straw weaving" is also famous all over the world.