Yiyang Xiaoyu Bamboo Craft

Xiaoyu bamboo art is a traditional folk handicraft of Han nationality. It uses rigid (hemp) bamboo with a diameter less than 5 cm as the skeleton and bamboo as the parts to make various utensils. It is mainly composed of more than 30 processes, such as material selection, blanking, burning oil and sinking. The so-called "depression" has two meanings: first, it refers to the structural mode-the vertical bamboo of the product adopts the horizontal bamboo hoop structure, and most of the horizontal bamboo needs to be dug up at the vertical and horizontal junction to form a depression, which is then softened by fire and quickly closed; The second is to bake bamboo in fire to soften its fibers, and then bend and deform under the action of external force, so as to achieve the required shape.