Uzbeks' exquisite handicraft culture

Uzbeks are ethnic minorities living in northern China. They have their own traditional culture, which has been inherited and improved by local people for many years. Historically, Uzbeks were mainly engaged in commerce and handicrafts. The following Uzbek culture brings you more Uzbek handicraft culture. Let's have a look.

After the end of 19, with the development of commercial economy in Xinjiang, Uzbek people engaged in commercial activities began to differentiate into businessmen, merchants and small traders. Uzbek businessmen, large and small, who are mainly engaged in import and export trade, depend on foreign capital to varying degrees. In collusion with foreign aggression, Uzbek businessmen began to appear in the form of foreign companies, relying on foreign markets and economic forces.

At that time, foreign firms established by Uzbek businessmen in Urumqi business circle included Desheng Foreign Firm, Dehe Foreign Firm, Geely Foreign Firm, Renzhongxin Foreign Firm and Maowai Foreign Firm. Of the eight large foreign companies in Urumqi, five are Uzbek. This foreign firm is well-funded and large in scale, and has direct ties with capitalists in Britain, Russia, India, Afghanistan and other countries. They buy agricultural and livestock products and handicraft products from Xinjiang at low prices, sell them abroad, import foreign goods such as fabrics, woolen goods, ironware, leather, sugar and matches from abroad, and dump them all over Xinjiang for huge profits.

However, due to the shortage of funds, most small and medium-sized businessmen in Uzbekistan are unable to compete with foreign firms and gradually become agents or salesmen of foreign firms to purchase and sell goods. Under the pressure of big commercial capital, they have no other way out except bankruptcy, bankruptcy and forced closure. After losing their capital, many small Uzbek businessmen became employees of foreign companies and their affiliated processing plants, and some people fled from cities to rural areas. Most of them have no land, livestock and other means of production.

Uzbek handicrafts are concentrated in shache, and most of them are silk weaving. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, there were more than 200 Uzbek silk weaving workshops in shache alone, and the larger workshops employed about 150 workers, which became handicraft workshops with the nature of budding capitalism. Because the raw material acquisition and product promotion of silk weaving handicraft industry are directly controlled by foreign monopoly capital and destroyed by local feudal system, the once prosperous Uzbek handicraft industry has not been fully developed and soon declined.

Under the impact of foreign economic forces, there are only some special handicrafts-Uzbek women's hand embroidery, such as flower hats, lace, sheets, pillowcases and so on. , have been preserved, and most of them belong to the nature of family sideline. Even this small amount of craft products, because the raw materials and sales are in the hands of foreign firms, its output is greatly limited.