Zhoucheng is known as the "hometown of white tie-dye", the handmade goods here is worth getting?

Almost every family in Zhoucheng will tie-dye, the older generation will stay in the village, continue to dye cloth and then sell sell, they tie-dye to use raw materials, basically their own home self-sufficiency, such as the picture of this leaf named Panlangen, is their own species, Panlangen is very special, used to dye the cloth on the color with the leaves to get crushed and stirred together with the water, so that the dyeing out of cloth, the natural and non-irritating, the cloth, the cloth, the cloth, the cloth, the cloth, the cloth, the cloth, the cloth, the cloth, the cloth, the cloth, the cloth, the cloth, the cloth, the cloth, the cloth, the cloth, the cloth. The leaves are crushed and stirred together with water, so that the dyed cloth is particularly natural and non-irritating. This kind of leaves almost every family has planted.

In Zhoucheng, you can also see a wealth of ethnic tie-dye products. Tie-dye is a traditional folk craft of the Bai people in Zhoucheng since the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and tie-dye handicrafts integrate culture and art. Tie-dye cloth is made by hand sewing and threading, and repeated cold-dyeing and dipping, showing the color of green with green, heavy and elegant. Crafts made of tie-dye cloth are not only full of strong ethnic flavor, but also have a modern flavor. Tie-dye handicrafts, which have a history of more than 300 years, shine in the new era. The picture shows the local elderly sewing the dyed cloth at home, and you can see that they are threading the needle. The village old people, only a small number of local young people are willing to learn to inherit the tie-dye, most of them go out

Tie-dye township Zhoucheng, Zhoucheng known as the "township of the white tie-dye", is located 23 kilometers north of the old city of Dali, located 38 kilometers away from the Xiaguan next to the Yunnan-Tibetan Highway. Visitors, many follow the villagers together to learn tie-dye, together to feel the culture of this inculcation, tie-dye handmade, the picture is a large tank, which is made of blue root dye, and then do a good job of white cloth into the tank to soak.

Zhoucheng's tie-dye fabrics and embroideries are finely crafted and are exported both at home and abroad, and are known as the "Town of Tie-Dye". Here you can visit the white folk residence, market, white tie-dye production, shopping for white folk crafts. Pictured here is a close-up of an elderly tie-dye hand, often engaged in tie-dye, to avoid finger friction, the hand is also difficult to maintain.

Zhoucheng is the largest natural village in Yunnan province, with an area of 4-7 square kilometers and a population of more than 8,868, almost all of whom are Bai. The picture shows the various props needed for tie-dyeing, needles, threads, sticks, and so on. The locals manage it all as their family's treasure.

Tie-dye's most traditional indigo color is taken from the roots of herbs such as Panax quinquefolium and Lonchocarpus indicus, the so-called "blue is better than blue". Zhoucheng Bai village is characterized by "stone paths outside every door and flowing water in front of every house". In the village, there are a number of large green trees, the branches of which are as luxuriant as giant umbrellas. The picture shows the gloves used for tie-dyeing, which can be seen to have been dyed as well.

With more than 1,500 Bai residents living in the village, Zhoucheng is the largest Bai village in Dali, and is now open to the public as a Bai folklore tourism village. These cloths are dyed and hung on hangers to dry. Dyed cloths can no longer be exposed to the sun, which affects the color difference, but can only be placed in the air vents, waiting for him to dry naturally.

Every year in March and April, with the water soaked out of the blue in the stems and branches of the blue root, injected into the wooden vat, mixed with lime or alkali, is a purely natural and additive-free dyes. The picture shows a vat made from the root for dyeing cloth.

If you like tie-dye, you can buy the cloth as a souvenir or make your own clothes. You can also direct them to use tie-dye good clothes, I myself also bought a few pieces, a piece of finished cloth texture feel especially comfortable, made of natural materials, all handmade, especially cost-effective. The picture is the finished cloth, is natural drying drying, which is also the last step of tie-dye.

Tie-dyeing dyes used to repel mosquitoes and insects, both anti-inflammatory health effects, the modernization of machine dyes is certainly not as good as the handmade natural, the picture business is showing a piece of finished cloth, special than the Bai art and culture of the pattern.