What does traditional handicraft wickerwork mean?

Wickerwork, a traditional handicraft, refers to the art of weaving objects with wicker.

Wickerwork is one of the traditional folk arts and crafts in China. In ancient times, people only regarded it as an ordinary daily public utility, and it didn't rise gradually until the last few decades of the 20th century, and it gradually became an export-oriented foreign exchange earning project in some parts of China.

China has three major wickerwork production bases, namely Hubei, Shandong and Anhui (in addition, Henan is also rich in wickerwork). On June 7th, 2008, wickerwork was approved by the State Council to be included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

First, the inheritance significance of wickerwork skills is as follows:

1. As a purposeful practical and aesthetic creative activity, wickerwork's skill is characterized by mastering and using wicker and other raw materials and weaving tools with skilled and specialized skills, which is an important means to understand and utilize the laws of nature.

2. the popularization of 2.wickerwork skills. Wickerwork's skills are produced and developed in the long-term labor practice, and the creation process and circulation process of each handicraft are formed on the basis of * * * *.

3. wickerwork products have a wide range of raw materials, making full use of the characteristics of tough plants, paying attention to color and texture, and pursuing nature, which embodies the simplicity, simplicity and sincerity of working people.

4. Compared with the general traditional art, wickerwork's modeling concept is more subjective, which is an organic combination of folk practical technology and folk arts and crafts, and also an organic combination of practicality and aesthetics.