Inheritance significance of Li nationality's weaving and dyeing

Li nationality has its own language and writing. In a sense, Li Jin is their unique history book, which condenses the history and culture of Li nationality. Lijin culture conveys not only historical and technological values, but also economic and social values that cannot be ignored.

The traditional cotton textile technology of Li nationality has many remarkable characteristics, which can be summarized as follows: it is a living fossil in the textile history of China, with outstanding historical contribution, distinctive national characteristics, typical original ecology and family inheritance.

In the past, when Li women dyed, their elders always called young women to their side to demonstrate and explain them one by one, from taking dyeing raw materials and juice to mastering chromaticity. Through this oral form, the next generation can learn dyeing knowledge. Influenced by modern cultural life and various high-tech technologies, fewer and fewer people like and are willing to learn from the traditional textile processing of Li nationality. In the mountainous areas of Li nationality, few young people have learned the skills of spinning and dyeing except a few who know some brocade skills and embroidery. Those looms that used to weave colorful tapestries have long been antiques piled in the corner. With the death of folk artists who mastered the ancient brocade craft, the brocade craft of Li nationality, which has been passed down for thousands of years, is in danger of being lost. It is urgent to rescue, excavate and protect the traditional cotton textile technology, especially the brocade technology.