What is China's traditional handicraft wickerwork?

Wickerwork is a traditional handicraft in China, which refers to weaving articles with wicker.

Introduction to wickerwork:

1. As early as the Neolithic Age, baskets and baskets woven with wicker appeared in China. Wickerwork craftsman, also known as "willow weaver", is a traditional folk handicraft craftsman.

2. There are three wickerwork production bases in China, 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.

3. Wicker is soft and easy to bend, with uniform thickness and elegant color. Through the novel design, it can be woven into various simple, natural, beautiful, light and durable practical handicrafts. Its products include: wicker box (bag), rice basket, vegetable basket (round or oval), filter screen, sewing basket, kang mat, reed foil and so on.

Wickerwork inheritance significance:

1. wickerwork Skill, as a purposeful practical and aesthetic creative activity, 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.