Bamboo weaving is folk art

Bamboo weaving is a traditional folk art with a thousand-year history.

Bamboo weaving is a kind of handicraft in which bamboo is split into gabions or gabions and woven into various utensils and handicrafts. Craft bamboo weaving not only has great practical value, but also has a deep historical background.

The bamboo weaving industry has historically been in the form of workshops, mostly handed down from generation to generation or workshop-based master-apprentice relationship, where the apprentice learns and then sets up his own business, then recruits his apprentice and teaches him by word of mouth. Generally do household goods, agricultural appliances. Meishan bamboo weaving has a long history, is the first national intangible cultural heritage.

The bamboo weaving process is mainly divided into three stages: material processing, weaving and finishing. Material processing is to process bamboo into gabions, weaving is to weave all kinds of products with gabions, and finishing is an indispensable auxiliary complementary process, which aims to make bamboo weaving products more beautiful, delicate, smooth and durable.

In all kinds of bamboo products, the process of bamboo weaving is the most complicated. It is to put the bamboo a handful (each 200 roots) stand in the yard sun, sun-dried for rain, then sun, and then stored.

When used, take a first scrape off the bamboo joints, bamboo hair, and then split in two, and then in the river or mill canal soak, soak for two days and two nights, to be softened by the bamboo and then fished out, when the flexibility of the bamboo has been greatly improved, suitable for processing, and then dissected with a knife with a scorn into a proportional thin strips, and then scraped, can be used for weaving.

Secondly, weaving. First of all, the two thick and thin, equal length of the stick curved, the middle of the stick cross stacked, through the square circle tied with wire, the four stick head placed to the four corners of the circle, made of the back of the bamboo stick (also known as the back of the bamboo corner). Then braid from bottom to top.