Where can I play cotton?

Generally, cotton is played in the relatively remote streets of the city, but it is generally difficult to find it.

Playing cotton, also known as "playing cotton", "playing cotton wool" and "playing flowers", is one of the traditional handicrafts in China, aiming at making cotton softer and more suitable for use. It has a long history. China had this industry at the latest in the Yuan Dynasty, and people are still engaged in this industry. In the old society, many poor farmers and craftsmen in rural areas were forced by life and spent all the year playing cotton wool in other places, commonly known as "playing cotton lang"; There are also movie songs of the same name.

Development process of elastic cotton

Playing cotton is an ancient craft. At first, we bent slingshots, grindstones, played with flower needles and pulled yarn needles. The structure of hanging bow is very simple. When playing with flowers, all people will play bowstring with a flower hammer to loosen cotton fibers, but each person has to play 8 kilograms of lint every day. The way of inheritance is also that the master takes his apprentice or father to pass on his son, so the skills of many flower artists are passed down from generation to generation.

However, in the 1990s, the cotton beating technology changed radically. The appearance of cotton elastic machine enables cotton elastic to be produced on a large scale, and cotton elastic instruments such as bow, millstone and flower elastic hammer begin to fade out of the sight of flower elastic artists.

There are only a handful of craftsmen engaged in this industry now. It is rare to persist in and carry forward pure handicrafts.