The Jinniu water bamboo basket inherited for 600 years has been famous for its beautiful appearance and exquisite workmanship. In the period of planned economy, Jinniu water bamboo baskets were exported as native products and exported to Japan, Africa, Europe and the United States. With the development of the times, such traditional handicrafts are now faced with a dilemma in which the marketing market is narrow and no one succeeds. Is it a mere fall of its independence and disappearance, or is it another way to develop and grow?
On February 29th, the reporter walked into Zhoufuyi Bay in Jinniu Town, where he learned about the whole process of craftsmen weaving water bamboo baskets, and interviewed relevant people on how this traditional bamboo product's outlet was connected with the modern market.
Inheritance of the family's craftsmanship The ancestral tradition is not passed on. The ancient town of Daye, which is known as the Millennium Town, has always been known as one of the three treasures: "thorn, one thousand, and water bamboo baskets."
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, a bamboo craftsman named Zhou Fuyi in the Wazhi Dam in Jiangxi Province moved westwards with his family. He settled down two or three kilometers away from the township in the southeastern part of the Damai Metallurgical Town, and has been breeding for more than 600 years. The village was named after Taigong Zhou Fuyi.
Today's Zhou Fu Yi Wan has more than 150 households and more than 500 people. According to Zhou Guangjian, a villager in the village, when Taigong Zhou Fuyi was living in Jiangxi Province, he had already mastered the art of weaving baskets. Locally there was a lot of bitter bamboo. The woven bamboo basket was also called “bitter bamboo basketâ€. After resettling to Taurus, there are major mountain ranges, such as Daquan Mountain, Big Fork Mountain, and Lingxi Mountain in the southeastern part of the village. The mountain is rich in Liuzhu, commonly known as Shuizhu (also known as silver bamboo), and its ancestors adapt to local conditions and use water bamboo as a material to weave bamboo products—water bamboo baskets.
For hundreds of years, the villagers of Zhou Fuyi Bay have inherited ancestral handicraft weaving water bamboo baskets and used them as the main part of their life. Weaving techniques are constantly improving. Especially during the long period before liberation, Zhou Fuyi’s villagers were all skilled craftsmen. At the same time, this technique is limited to internal communication.
Zhou Fuyi's weaving technique in water bamboo baskets is not transmitted outside. According to the old customs of the village, the technique of weaving water bamboo baskets cannot be taught to the village people. It can only be transmitted to the sons and daughter-in-laws in the village and cannot be passed on to the daughters. Even if the daughter learned the skills, she must not be allowed to operate in the field after her marriage. Industry, otherwise, she and her mother's family must be punished by the old "village rules."
Once it was a native exporter, it concentrated on the acquisition of the water and bamboo that grew around the surrounding mountains of Zhoufuyi Bay in one year. After being exposed to extreme heat, cold, wind, rain and rain, it was resistant to corrosion and no worms. The bamboo rods were slender, straight and even. , Nearly hollow, thin bamboo, bamboo soft, elastic, good, natural raw materials. Two-to three-year water bamboo woven bamboo baskets are used for durability.
Zhou Fuyi's water bamboo baskets are beautifully shaped. The bamboo baskets are divided into round and elliptical shapes, and are available in large, medium, and small models. All kinds of water bamboo baskets are mesh baskets, pattern lock, exquisite workmanship; basket body green, golden color after use, easy to carry, and non-perishable, general service life of 3 to 5 years.
In the 1980s, Zhou Fuyi Water Bamboo Basket was one of the special products exported by Daye. In addition to the water bamboo baskets sold in counties and cities in the province, as well as Nanjing, Jiujiang, Anqing, Shanxi, and Shanghai, it was Exported to Japan, Africa, Europe and the United States and other places.
Zhou Guanghuang, 64 years old this year, was a buyer of the production team 40 years ago and was responsible for the sales of water bamboo baskets. He recalled that at the beginning of the 1970s, Daye Foreign Trade Co., Ltd. had come to Zhou Fuyi Bay to purchase two water bamboo baskets twice a year. The products were purchased in large, medium and small baskets for three sets. The purchase price was a set of 5 yuan. The acquisition time is generally around May and November.
Family-style hand-made “fringer†marketing hot Daye Foreign Trade Co., Ltd. will generally place orders in advance within half a month. After the villagers receive the orders, Zhou Fuyi Bay will implement family-type hand-made. During the day, the villagers ploughed their crops, and spent the night at leisure. The family gathered around and cut bamboo sticks and was busy. Zhou Guanghuang is also an expert in weaving. He can do more than 40 sets in half a month, and nearly 100 sets a year. Waiting until the day of receipt, the acquisition of vehicles stopped early in the nearby Xia Wan, the villagers took two bamboo baskets and rushed there to wait for acceptance.
Zhou Guanghuang was specifically engaged in the acquisition and registration work. The foreign trade company handed over the money for the acquisition to Zhou Guanghuang and Zhou Guanghuang distributed the wages according to the production quantities. Foreign trade companies will purchase 4,000 sets of water bamboo baskets a year. At that time, Zhou Fuyi Bay was one of the top 2 wealthy villages in the town. According to the villagers, “it is always a matter of eating meat and white rice.â€
At that time, the production team had a production standard, and the production and sale of a bamboo basket was 2 points and 8 cents for a single point. In order to earn more work points, the villagers often organized 20 young people as “vendors†to carry bamboo baskets to sell in foreign markets. Zhou Guangxin, the “wifeâ€, was only in his early twenties. When he did not shine, he took 160 bamboo baskets and walked with the villager for nearly 3 hours to the Lingxiang Town Railway Station. He then drove to Shanghai, Guangzhou, Anhui and other places. Selling often sells for three or two days. Zhou Guangxin still remembers the pride and excitement of the moment when he stepped on the entrance to the village for the first time with a thick pile of red, green and green bills.
The profit space is getting smaller and smaller, and the succession of bamboo woven craftsmanship has not been passed down for 600 years. It has given birth to the traditional folk arts and crafts of water bamboo baskets, and many bamboo craftsmen have exquisite craftsmanship. However, when time passes, when we look back and search carefully, we find that such folk artists are rare, and that this industry is facing embarrassment and may even disappear gradually in the near future...
After 72-year-old Li Jingyi married Zhou Guangxin at the age of 18, she followed her husband and fellow villagers to learn weaving skills. Li Jingyi said that she and her husband are older and hope that the children and grandchildren can pass on this craft from generation to generation. Weaving water bamboo baskets is time-consuming and laborious, and young people today rarely learn this. Jing Li has 6 children, but none of them are willing to learn skills.
Nowadays, the profit space for making bamboo baskets is getting smaller and smaller. This is the key to the success of no one. Zhou Guanghuang analyzed that: “From bamboo picking to bamboo picking, weaving and forming, we can make up to 4 water bamboo baskets in a day. One can sell 10 yuan. It's quite good. The villagers do a day of masonry, even if it is As a deputy worker, there are 80 dollars a day to say less. It is also hard work and the value is different. Of course, no one wants to make a bamboo basket.â€
The reporter learned from the interview that Zhou Fuyi had more than 500 people engaged in the weaving of bamboo baskets in his early years. Now it has been reduced to only 20 people. Artists are mostly over the age of 60, and none of them are under 40.
More than 20 bamboo artists have their attachments and hardships in their hearts, and are struggling to find “disciples†to inherit traditional craftsmanship. Unfortunately, hope, like their hair, gradually faded and withered, even broke...
Variety alone requires a breakthrough in the path of rebirth of the need to break through The director of the Jinniu Town Cultural Center, Chen Guoan, believes that the Zhoufuyi Water Bamboo Basket is a historical testimony of traditional bamboo handicrafts and has a certain historical significance; Zhou Fuyi Water Bamboo Basket is not only practical, but also The exquisite craftsmanship of the traditional craftsmanship embodies the wisdom of the working people and has unique cultural and artistic values.
In view of the current situation, Chen Guoan believes that the unique variety of Zhoufuyi water bamboo baskets is one of the reasons for its narrow sales. If you want to become bigger and stronger, in addition to practicality and aesthetics, you should also increase awareness.
At present, Zhou Fuyi Water Bamboo has declared the intangible cultural heritage of Huangshi City, and the Jinniu Town Cultural Center is proceeding to report it to the provincial “intangibleâ€.
In the market survey, reporters consulted consumers on the use of bamboo products. Citizen Li Jiancheng said that he once used some bamboo weaving tools and felt that it is a very backward matter to carry bamboo baskets for shopping now. Therefore, it is basically unnecessary. Chen Lien-chi, a citizen, believes that bamboo products are not without markets. They are both environmentally friendly and hygienic, and they are also durable.
The reporter also visited Dongjiakou in the mountainous area of ​​Yinzu Town at the end of last year. The local bamboo products and the Zhoufuyi water bamboo basket faced similar difficulties. Their income was too low and they were on the verge of being lost.
Some people in the industry believe that traditional bamboo products, in order to survive and develop, have to get rid of the imprisonment of old customs, change the traditional single function, transform from living appliances to craft supplies, and increase the added value by developing tourism products.
Dongjiakou bamboo products are seeking such a breakthrough. Daye City Green Zhitang Bamboo Industry Co., Ltd., which was attracted by the investment, will carry out deep processing of the original bamboo products, research and development of high-quality fine bamboo mats, bamboo kitchen and bathroom supplies, bamboo flooring, etc., and apply for bamboo plastic baskets and bamboo plastic. Six patents, such as cups and pearl seats, increase the brand value and added value of bamboo products.
The chairman of the company, Ma Zhegao, believes that the unique historical and cultural value of traditional handicrafts is its potential for market development. While traditional craftsmanship retains its own value, it can also absorb modern elements to meet the needs of the modern market. This is the true meaning. Upload and protect traditional bamboo craftsmanship.
Whether Jinniu water bamboo baskets inherited more than 600 years can be integrated into the modern market and are favored by consumers, it may be necessary to seek a breakthrough through the production and operation of external funds like the Dong family bamboo products.
On February 29th, the reporter walked into Zhoufuyi Bay in Jinniu Town, where he learned about the whole process of craftsmen weaving water bamboo baskets, and interviewed relevant people on how this traditional bamboo product's outlet was connected with the modern market.
Inheritance of the family's craftsmanship The ancestral tradition is not passed on. The ancient town of Daye, which is known as the Millennium Town, has always been known as one of the three treasures: "thorn, one thousand, and water bamboo baskets."
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, a bamboo craftsman named Zhou Fuyi in the Wazhi Dam in Jiangxi Province moved westwards with his family. He settled down two or three kilometers away from the township in the southeastern part of the Damai Metallurgical Town, and has been breeding for more than 600 years. The village was named after Taigong Zhou Fuyi.
Today's Zhou Fu Yi Wan has more than 150 households and more than 500 people. According to Zhou Guangjian, a villager in the village, when Taigong Zhou Fuyi was living in Jiangxi Province, he had already mastered the art of weaving baskets. Locally there was a lot of bitter bamboo. The woven bamboo basket was also called “bitter bamboo basketâ€. After resettling to Taurus, there are major mountain ranges, such as Daquan Mountain, Big Fork Mountain, and Lingxi Mountain in the southeastern part of the village. The mountain is rich in Liuzhu, commonly known as Shuizhu (also known as silver bamboo), and its ancestors adapt to local conditions and use water bamboo as a material to weave bamboo products—water bamboo baskets.
For hundreds of years, the villagers of Zhou Fuyi Bay have inherited ancestral handicraft weaving water bamboo baskets and used them as the main part of their life. Weaving techniques are constantly improving. Especially during the long period before liberation, Zhou Fuyi’s villagers were all skilled craftsmen. At the same time, this technique is limited to internal communication.
Zhou Fuyi's weaving technique in water bamboo baskets is not transmitted outside. According to the old customs of the village, the technique of weaving water bamboo baskets cannot be taught to the village people. It can only be transmitted to the sons and daughter-in-laws in the village and cannot be passed on to the daughters. Even if the daughter learned the skills, she must not be allowed to operate in the field after her marriage. Industry, otherwise, she and her mother's family must be punished by the old "village rules."
Once it was a native exporter, it concentrated on the acquisition of the water and bamboo that grew around the surrounding mountains of Zhoufuyi Bay in one year. After being exposed to extreme heat, cold, wind, rain and rain, it was resistant to corrosion and no worms. The bamboo rods were slender, straight and even. , Nearly hollow, thin bamboo, bamboo soft, elastic, good, natural raw materials. Two-to three-year water bamboo woven bamboo baskets are used for durability.
Zhou Fuyi's water bamboo baskets are beautifully shaped. The bamboo baskets are divided into round and elliptical shapes, and are available in large, medium, and small models. All kinds of water bamboo baskets are mesh baskets, pattern lock, exquisite workmanship; basket body green, golden color after use, easy to carry, and non-perishable, general service life of 3 to 5 years.
In the 1980s, Zhou Fuyi Water Bamboo Basket was one of the special products exported by Daye. In addition to the water bamboo baskets sold in counties and cities in the province, as well as Nanjing, Jiujiang, Anqing, Shanxi, and Shanghai, it was Exported to Japan, Africa, Europe and the United States and other places.
Zhou Guanghuang, 64 years old this year, was a buyer of the production team 40 years ago and was responsible for the sales of water bamboo baskets. He recalled that at the beginning of the 1970s, Daye Foreign Trade Co., Ltd. had come to Zhou Fuyi Bay to purchase two water bamboo baskets twice a year. The products were purchased in large, medium and small baskets for three sets. The purchase price was a set of 5 yuan. The acquisition time is generally around May and November.
Family-style hand-made “fringer†marketing hot Daye Foreign Trade Co., Ltd. will generally place orders in advance within half a month. After the villagers receive the orders, Zhou Fuyi Bay will implement family-type hand-made. During the day, the villagers ploughed their crops, and spent the night at leisure. The family gathered around and cut bamboo sticks and was busy. Zhou Guanghuang is also an expert in weaving. He can do more than 40 sets in half a month, and nearly 100 sets a year. Waiting until the day of receipt, the acquisition of vehicles stopped early in the nearby Xia Wan, the villagers took two bamboo baskets and rushed there to wait for acceptance.
Zhou Guanghuang was specifically engaged in the acquisition and registration work. The foreign trade company handed over the money for the acquisition to Zhou Guanghuang and Zhou Guanghuang distributed the wages according to the production quantities. Foreign trade companies will purchase 4,000 sets of water bamboo baskets a year. At that time, Zhou Fuyi Bay was one of the top 2 wealthy villages in the town. According to the villagers, “it is always a matter of eating meat and white rice.â€
At that time, the production team had a production standard, and the production and sale of a bamboo basket was 2 points and 8 cents for a single point. In order to earn more work points, the villagers often organized 20 young people as “vendors†to carry bamboo baskets to sell in foreign markets. Zhou Guangxin, the “wifeâ€, was only in his early twenties. When he did not shine, he took 160 bamboo baskets and walked with the villager for nearly 3 hours to the Lingxiang Town Railway Station. He then drove to Shanghai, Guangzhou, Anhui and other places. Selling often sells for three or two days. Zhou Guangxin still remembers the pride and excitement of the moment when he stepped on the entrance to the village for the first time with a thick pile of red, green and green bills.
The profit space is getting smaller and smaller, and the succession of bamboo woven craftsmanship has not been passed down for 600 years. It has given birth to the traditional folk arts and crafts of water bamboo baskets, and many bamboo craftsmen have exquisite craftsmanship. However, when time passes, when we look back and search carefully, we find that such folk artists are rare, and that this industry is facing embarrassment and may even disappear gradually in the near future...
After 72-year-old Li Jingyi married Zhou Guangxin at the age of 18, she followed her husband and fellow villagers to learn weaving skills. Li Jingyi said that she and her husband are older and hope that the children and grandchildren can pass on this craft from generation to generation. Weaving water bamboo baskets is time-consuming and laborious, and young people today rarely learn this. Jing Li has 6 children, but none of them are willing to learn skills.
Nowadays, the profit space for making bamboo baskets is getting smaller and smaller. This is the key to the success of no one. Zhou Guanghuang analyzed that: “From bamboo picking to bamboo picking, weaving and forming, we can make up to 4 water bamboo baskets in a day. One can sell 10 yuan. It's quite good. The villagers do a day of masonry, even if it is As a deputy worker, there are 80 dollars a day to say less. It is also hard work and the value is different. Of course, no one wants to make a bamboo basket.â€
The reporter learned from the interview that Zhou Fuyi had more than 500 people engaged in the weaving of bamboo baskets in his early years. Now it has been reduced to only 20 people. Artists are mostly over the age of 60, and none of them are under 40.
More than 20 bamboo artists have their attachments and hardships in their hearts, and are struggling to find “disciples†to inherit traditional craftsmanship. Unfortunately, hope, like their hair, gradually faded and withered, even broke...
Variety alone requires a breakthrough in the path of rebirth of the need to break through The director of the Jinniu Town Cultural Center, Chen Guoan, believes that the Zhoufuyi Water Bamboo Basket is a historical testimony of traditional bamboo handicrafts and has a certain historical significance; Zhou Fuyi Water Bamboo Basket is not only practical, but also The exquisite craftsmanship of the traditional craftsmanship embodies the wisdom of the working people and has unique cultural and artistic values.
In view of the current situation, Chen Guoan believes that the unique variety of Zhoufuyi water bamboo baskets is one of the reasons for its narrow sales. If you want to become bigger and stronger, in addition to practicality and aesthetics, you should also increase awareness.
At present, Zhou Fuyi Water Bamboo has declared the intangible cultural heritage of Huangshi City, and the Jinniu Town Cultural Center is proceeding to report it to the provincial “intangibleâ€.
In the market survey, reporters consulted consumers on the use of bamboo products. Citizen Li Jiancheng said that he once used some bamboo weaving tools and felt that it is a very backward matter to carry bamboo baskets for shopping now. Therefore, it is basically unnecessary. Chen Lien-chi, a citizen, believes that bamboo products are not without markets. They are both environmentally friendly and hygienic, and they are also durable.
The reporter also visited Dongjiakou in the mountainous area of ​​Yinzu Town at the end of last year. The local bamboo products and the Zhoufuyi water bamboo basket faced similar difficulties. Their income was too low and they were on the verge of being lost.
Some people in the industry believe that traditional bamboo products, in order to survive and develop, have to get rid of the imprisonment of old customs, change the traditional single function, transform from living appliances to craft supplies, and increase the added value by developing tourism products.
Dongjiakou bamboo products are seeking such a breakthrough. Daye City Green Zhitang Bamboo Industry Co., Ltd., which was attracted by the investment, will carry out deep processing of the original bamboo products, research and development of high-quality fine bamboo mats, bamboo kitchen and bathroom supplies, bamboo flooring, etc., and apply for bamboo plastic baskets and bamboo plastic. Six patents, such as cups and pearl seats, increase the brand value and added value of bamboo products.
The chairman of the company, Ma Zhegao, believes that the unique historical and cultural value of traditional handicrafts is its potential for market development. While traditional craftsmanship retains its own value, it can also absorb modern elements to meet the needs of the modern market. This is the true meaning. Upload and protect traditional bamboo craftsmanship.
Whether Jinniu water bamboo baskets inherited more than 600 years can be integrated into the modern market and are favored by consumers, it may be necessary to seek a breakthrough through the production and operation of external funds like the Dong family bamboo products.
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