The first foreign basket weaving skills competition in Gaoyao, Guangdong Province, China was held

The first foreign basket weaving skills competition in Gaoyao, Guangdong Province, China was held

September 03, 2024 16:38 China

Recently, the Gaoyao District Federation of Trade Unions, Gaoyao District Talent Office, and Gaoyao District Human Resources and Social Security Bureau jointly hosted the "Strive for Hundreds of Millions and Build a Foreign Basket Weaving Dream" Gaoyao District, Zhaoqing City The first foreign basket weaving skills competition was held in Gaoyao District. The foreign basket creative cultural park in Xinqiao Town, Gaoyao District was crowded with people. More than 100 contestants showed their skills in the competition, fully demonstrating the style of Xinqiao foreign basket intangible cultural heritage art.

At the competition site, the contestants' skillful hands flew up and down. On the basis of traditional warp and weft weaving techniques, they added weaving techniques such as threading, tying, tying, and nailing, allowing pieces of bamboo strips to transform into exquisite works such as flower baskets, bamboo baskets, sun hats, and boats.

The competition groups include an adult group composed of experienced old craftsmen and a youth group composed of young players. The "old and young" group proves the inheritance of the traditional handicraft of Xinqiao foreign basket from generation to generation.

After more than an hour of competition, the judges selected the special prize, first prize, second prize, third prize and winning prize for the youth group and adult group respectively based on the style, quality and skills of the works.

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This foreign basket weaving skills competition is an important attempt by the Gaoyao District Federation of Trade Unions to explore the expansion of labor competitions and skills competitions to new industries and new formats, fully demonstrating the high attention and support of trade union organizations to the labor group of new employment forms. The organizers have excavated and cultivated a group of outstanding talents in foreign basket weaving skills through competition, guided practitioners to use manual skills to contribute to the "hundreds of millions of projects", promoted the revival and growth of the foreign basket industry, and truly transformed "fingertip skills" into "fingertip economy", and transformed foreign basket weaving from the "manual work" of the masses into "rich work".

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Xinqiao Town Investment Promotion Office

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Investment Promotion Bureau of Gaoyao District

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College student commandos are in action, and various colleges and universities go to Gaoyao to carry out practical activities

College student commandos are in action, and various colleges and universities go to Gaoyao to carry out practical activities

Civilized Gaoyao September 08, 2024 17:13 Guangdong, China

With the continuous advancement of the "Hundreds of Millions of Projects", batches of college student commandos formed by young students have actively participated in rural revitalization.

South China Agricultural University Law Run Tongxin Practice Team

Recently, the South China Agricultural University Law Run Tongxin Practice Team went deep into the villages of Xinggang Town, Gaoyao District to conduct research, and had a more intuitive understanding of the current situation in rural areas and a deeper understanding of the essence of the problem.

Walking into Xingyi Village, it is like traveling through a tunnel of time and space and returning to that ancient and peaceful era. Xinggang Bagua Ancient Village has a natural terrain. It has a history of more than 600 years since its opening. It has preserved many ancient buildings from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, such as the Li Clan Ancestral Hall. Bagua Village is centered on Gangding. The houses in the ancient village form neatly structured circles from the inside to the outside. The number of houses increases with each circle, forming a layout of Bagua Sixteen Ancestral Halls. The style of the houses in the village is coordinated and unified, and three theme parks are in sight. The quiet and comfortable environment, the ancient charm and the new look complement each other, and a beautiful picture of ecological livability is drawn, which also makes the practice team feel unprecedented warmth and touching.

Walking into Fujin Village, the roads in the community are clean and flat, the houses are scattered and orderly, and the lotus ponds are layered and green, adding a coolness to the village in summer. There are many ancient trees in the community, and many villagers chat under the trees to cool off. The quiet and pleasant scene makes the members of the practice team linger.

The practice team conducted questionnaire interviews and on-site surveys in the community around the themes of rural development, rural construction, and rural governance, and combined their own majors to make suggestions for villagers' breeding or planting.

Gujing Village is located in the southwest of Xinggang Town. It has rich historical and cultural resources and beautiful rural scenery. The practice team interviewed village cadres at the Party and Mass Service Center of Gujing Village to understand the basic situation of the village. Afterwards, they visited Gujing Village to investigate the village's moral culture, living environment, supporting facilities, etc. Through the investigation, the practice team has a deeper understanding of how to apply the learned theories to practice to help the "Hundreds of Millions of Projects".

Tsinghua University Rural Revitalization Work Station

Recently, a team of 12 people from the Tsinghua University Rural Revitalization Work Station went to Gaoyao District to carry out a 10-day practical investigation activity.

Tsinghua University Rural Revitalization Work Station went to Gaoyao, Zhaoqing, mainly focusing on the revitalization of public spaces in ancient villages, cultural and creative product design, dragon boat cultural publicity, learning experience exchange, and youth public welfare classes. It went to Jindu Town, Liantang Town, Baitu Town, Xinqiao Town, Jinli Town and other places to carry out a series of research and practice activities.

For the two topics of ancient village revitalization and community development strategies, the academic group conducted in-depth academic research on the Duan Inkstone in Shuikou Community, Jindu Town, Gaoyao District as an example. From the perspective of revitalizing ancient villages, we explore how to better protect the cultural heritage of villages under the rural revitalization strategy in the new era, and propose strategies such as coordinating the development of handicraft workshops, introducing Duan inkstone culture into campuses and communities, and activating the Duan inkstone economy, aiming to achieve systematic protection, inheritance and innovation of Duan inkstone culture and promote the diversified development of community economy.

In terms of cultural and creative design, the members of the cultural and creative group conducted in-depth research on local characteristics and product culture, designed Gaoyao IP and "Gaogui" series of cultural and creative products, and proposed a revitalization plan to improve the public space of Xiongcai's hometown in Baitu Town and Chenghu Village in Huilong Town. By integrating modern creativity and traditional culture, a design upgrade and renovation plan for the Jinli Dragon Boat Museum was formed to activate the vitality of rural revitalization.

The project team members of the practice detachment went to Gaoyao District No. 1 Middle School, Gaoyao District No. 2 Middle School and Zhaoqing Rongyuanlong Senior High School to conduct learning experience exchange lectures, and fully shared their experiences on overall review thinking, specific subject learning, examination methods and mentality. In the exchange and Q&A session, students actively participated and asked questions, and humbly asked Tsinghua University students for advice on holiday planning, subject skills, and question-solving methods. The team members also went to the District Youth Palace to conduct medical knowledge popularization and paper-cutting craft public welfare classes, and conducted inspiring, interesting and practical classes for young people, further broadening their knowledge horizons and stimulating their learning interest and potential.

At the results summary report meeting, the practice detachment displayed the research report on the revitalization of ancient villages, cultural and creative product design, Jinli Dragon Boat Museum renovation plan and other practical results, and put forward a series of countermeasures and measures to provide useful ideas and suggestions for Gaoyao to further promote the "Hundred Million Project" and rural revitalization.

In the next step, Gaoyao District will take the opportunity of accelerating the creation of a youth development city to continue to deepen exchanges and cooperation with colleges and universities, promote the project-based development of college practice activities, and guide more college students to enter Gaoyao, publicize Gaoyao, and build Gaoyao.

Investment Promotion Bureau of Gaoyao District

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Too hot! Two good things from Xinqiao Town (Gaoyao,China) that you must get for this Mid-Autumn Festival

Too hot! Two good things from Xinqiao Town that you must get for this Mid-Autumn Festival

Gaoyao Release 2024-09-07 18:05 Guangdong, China

The [2024 Gaoyao District Xinqiao Town Foreign Basket Mooncake Food Festival] held from August 30 to September 1, 2024 attracted a large number of citizens and tourists with its unique cultural atmosphere and rich food experience, and also made Xinqiao's Baskets weaving and traditional mooncakes popular again, becoming a hot topic for discussion after dinner.

▲ Distinctive Xinqiao Foreign Basket and delicious Mid-Autumn mooncakes

The gradual increase in the effect of the Foreign Basket (Yanglan) Mooncake Food Festival has also brought an increase in the order volume of local bakeries and Foreign Basket (Yanglan) operators.

▲ Customers come to buy mooncakes in an endless stream

In a local bakery in Xinqiao, baskets of mooncakes of different flavors are placed on the table.

Customers come to buy mooncakes in an endless stream, and the staff are stepping up to pack, box and ship.

▲ The staff is stepping up to box and ship the mooncakes

Deng Xuefeng, who took over the "baton" of Xinqiao mooncake making from his parents, is very happy to see the business so prosperous.

He said that the three-day Yanglan Mooncake Food Festival was unprecedentedly lively, and the follow-up effect surprised him and exceeded his expectations. His bakery has added 20% of customers.

"Now there are many new customers who come every day, and there are citizens from Yunfu and Maoming who learned about Xinqiao mooncakes on the Internet and come here to try them. At present, the store sells 8,000 mooncakes every day, and the sales peak is expected to continue until the tenth day of the eighth lunar month. This year, a total of 70,000 to 80,000 mooncakes can be sold." Deng Xuefeng said.

▲ Customers enter the store to choose their favorite mooncakes

Auntie Liang can be regarded as an "old fan" of Xinqiao mooncakes. Every Mid-Autumn Festival, she goes to Xinqiao to purchase mooncakes. This year is no exception. She came all the way from Duanzhou, Zhaoqing.

"Xinqiao mooncakes are really delicious. I bought eight boxes for myself and as gifts. Now Xinqiao mooncakes are becoming more and more famous, and many friends around me come to buy them." Auntie Liang said.

"When I was very young, I remembered Xinqiao mooncakes. This is an unforgettable taste and a kind of sentiment. I come here to buy them every year." Customer Auntie He said.

Xinqiao Foreign Basket（Yanglan洋篮）

A bamboo woven basket is a traditional handicraft of Xinqiao Town, Gaoyao. It is a work of art. It is as famous as Sihui jadeware and Duanzhou Duan inkstone.

Along with the new and colorful Xinqiao mooncakes, there are also Xinqiao's "foreign baskets". This year, major mooncake merchants have launched "foreign basket mooncakes", including a variety of foreign basket mooncake boxes that incorporate Chinese traditional culture and are beautifully designed, as well as simple hand-drawn baskets and hand-held baskets.

▲ A variety of Xinqiao mooncakes are deeply loved by the citizens. foreign basket mooncakes

According to Xu Zhanjie, a foreign basket business owner on Qilou Street in Xinqiao Town, in order to meet the supply demand during the Mid-Autumn Festival, they began to purchase and weave various foreign baskets suitable for assembling Mid-Autumn mooncakes in May, among which small foreign basket crafts are in the greatest demand.

"Among them, little pig cages are the most. Every year around the Mid-Autumn Festival, we produce and sell 50,000 to 60,000. This year, we also made mooncake hand-held baskets, which are very popular. It is expected that the production of bamboo weaving and packaging for mooncake packaging will reach 100,000 this year." Xu Zhanjie said.

▲ Piglet mooncakes are loved by children. 

▲ Piglet mooncakes put into a small basket like a pig cage have the good meaning of "pig cage into water"

Xinqiao Town is a famous mooncake town. There are currently 9 traditional mooncake shops such as Fengji, Youbang, etc., and the town's mooncake production accounts for more than 60%. A group of mooncake merchants are busy expanding the market while catering to market demand. Some merchants have not only entered e-commerce platforms such as Taobao and Pinduoduo, but also launched group purchases on Douyin, using the network effect of the foreign basket (Yanglan) Food Mooncake Festival to attract a large number of new customers.

▲ Xinqiao foreign basket (Yanglan) is a perfect combination of Xinqiao mooncakes

In terms of taste, lotus paste, egg yolk, five kernels, and ham are still the most popular flavors, while new flavors such as lava milk yolk and ice skin are more popular among young people.

In order to further stimulate the vitality of mooncake and foreign basket market entities, the Xinqiao Town Government regards expanding consumption as an important task of economic work, takes the initiative to provide services, and promotes the prosperity and development of the "mooncake economy" from multiple aspects such as policy guidance, publicity and promotion, service guarantee, and industrial linkage.

"We have established a professional team to provide enterprises with professional services such as sales, raw material supply, and quality inspection. While ensuring the production supply of enterprises, it also allows the public to buy reliable mooncakes, and further inherits and promotes our foreign basket culture by increasing the popularity of Xinqiao mooncakes." Xinqiao Town leader Tan Shihua said.

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Investment Promotion Bureau of Gaoyao District

Address: No.201, Nanxing 1st Road, Nan'an Street, Gaoyao District, Zhaoqing City

Tel:   0086-758-8392673（Cantonese粤语、Chinese普通话） 

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The whole town of Xinqiao is cheering for this couple

The whole town of Xinqiao is cheering for this couple

Released by Gaoyao on August 31, 2024 at 19:46 Guangdong, China

In order to further showcase the culture of foreign baskets and mooncakes in Xinqiao Town and create and promote the brand of "local specialties" in Xinqiao, on the evening of August 30, 2024, the three-day "Full Moon in Xinqiao, Fragrant Cakes in Thousands of Homes" 2024 Gaoyao District Xinqiao Town Foreign Basket Mooncake Food Festival officially opened on Cultural Square Road, Xinqiao Town (commonly known as "24-meter Street"), where local mooncake merchants and foreign basket operators gathered together to promote culture, promote sales, and expand consumption, adding a festive atmosphere to the upcoming traditional Mid-Autumn Festival.

At the food festival, there were wonderful performances, mooncake exhibitions, special food, foreign basket weaving experience, lantern riddle games and other activities, attracting guests from all over the world, and the atmosphere was filled with joy, festivity and excitement.

The government "sets the stage", enterprises "perform", and the whole people enjoy. This consumption promotion model has led to the concentrated exhibition and sale of many local brands of mooncakes and foreign baskets, which has been praised and recognized by many people.

Event site-The first foreign basket mooncake food festival in xinqiao town

The first foreign basket mooncake food festival is an important measure for Xinqiao Town to implement the rural revitalization strategy in depth, vigorously promote the "hundreds of millions of projects", and consolidate the "inner beauty" of the countryside.

The event time is from August 30 to September 1, 2024. In addition to being able to buy local specialty products in Xinqiao Town, citizens and tourists who come to play can also watch and experience the production skills of Xinqiao foreign baskets, stroll around the Republic of China retro arcade street, and explore more beautiful rural scenery in Xinqiao Town.

Xinqiao Mooncake

Mid-Autumn Festival

Xinqiao Town is a well-known mooncake town with a long history of mooncake making and many traditional old shops with word-of-mouth reputation. In the food festival mooncake exhibition area, various time-honored bakeries took turns to present their own specialties and recommended them to the public.

Many businesses also launched "foreign basket mooncakes", designing and making foreign baskets into various exquisite mooncake boxes, which are both environmentally friendly and beautiful and can promote local characteristics.

猪笼饼--新桥洋篮月饼

"Yanglan Mooncake"--foreign basket mooncakes-洋篮月饼

▲ Photo provided by Xinqiao Town

Mooncake merchant Ye Jiewen said:

"Xinqiao mooncakes are very famous, and every Mid-Autumn Festival, a large number of citizens come to buy them. The packaging of Yanglan mooncakes is specially designed to promote Xinqiao mooncakes while also promoting Xinqiao Yanglan. During this food festival, many people thought that Xinqiao mooncakes tasted very good after trying them, and they sold a lot at once."

Tourist Ms. Yang said:

"I am from Sichuan. Compared with Sichuan mooncakes, Xinqiao mooncakes are more delicate, more fragrant, and more delicious. They are soft and sticky. I am planning to buy some back."

The Yanglan weaving (foreign basket weaving) experience area is also bustling with people. There are a variety of innovative, exquisite and unique Yanglan weaving objects such as flower baskets, handbags, and lanterns, which are dazzling and irresistible.

Seeing that the characteristic handicrafts of Xinqiao Town are very popular, the local people are also smiling.

Xinqiao Town, Gaoyao, China - Innovative and exquisite basket weaving

Ms. Feng, a villager, said: "I can weave all these new styles of baskets. I am really happy. Many people praised the beautiful Xinqiao baskets. I hope that such activities can be held every year to make Xinqiao Town more prosperous and better developed!"

Ye Minying, a basket business owner, said: "These basket styles are designed by us. Usually, our basket decorations are sold online. In the past, baskets were mainly practical, but now online sales focus on craftsmanship and decoration. These new models are popular. Many people came to take pictures at the event. They thought that the baskets were very beautiful with colored lights installed, which better promoted Xinqiao baskets."

▲ The basket stall was surrounded by tourists

Xinqiao Town leader Yang Min said that the Xinqiao Town held the basket mooncake food festival to showcase the characteristic culture of baskets and mooncakes through the government "setting the stage" and enterprises "performing", promote industrial linkage, and stimulate new consumption. "I hope this event can become a good window to showcase, promote and invest in Xinqiao, and achieve 'double promotion' of economic development and cultural prosperity."

We welcome knitting enthusiasts, knitting artists, and food lovers from all over the world to come to China Gaoyao Xinqiao Town to exchange and learn. We warmly welcome you.

Xinqiao Town, Gaoyao, China: More than just a foreign basket--the first basket weaving competition in Gaoyao, Zhaoqing, China in 2024

Xinqiao Town, Gaoyao, China: More than just a foreign basket

Gaoyao Release 2024-08-30 21:22 Guangdong, China

More than a hundred contestants, including the elderly, middle-aged and young, gathered together to compete in fingertips skills. What happened?

On August 30, 2024, the "Strive for Hundreds of Millions and Build a Foreign Basket Weaving Dream" Gaoyao District's first foreign basket weaving skills competition, jointly sponsored by the Talent Office of the Gaoyao District Party Committee, the Gaoyao District Federation of Trade Unions and the Gaoyao District Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, was held in Xinqiao Town. More than 100 contestants competed on the same stage to show their "embroidery" skills and pass on the intangible cultural heritage art on their fingertips.

The bamboo strips were interlaced left and right, and flew up and down between the dexterous fingers. The contestants' weaving skills were extremely skilled.

The first basket weaving competition in Gaoyao, Zhaoqing, China in 2024

▲ Photo by Feng Chuyu

On the basis of warp and weft weaving, the contestants also flexibly used various techniques, such as threading, tying, and covering, to make the patterns and colors varied.

After a while,

Bamboo mats, bamboo baskets, bamboo baskets, dustpans, sun hat buckets, baskets and other works gradually took shape.

The work of contestant Uncle Feng  is the outer shell of a kettle. He introduced that in addition to weaving patterns, the work must also have a good bottom plate, painted colors, and installed inner liner before it can be used. Feng Shu said that he was very happy to be able to participate in this competition and hoped that the Xinqiao foreign basketball culture could develop better and better.

▲ Uncle Feng (right) shows his work. 

Among the contestants, there are not only experienced old craftsmen, but also new generations who have been learning weaving for several months.

These "old and young" faces fully reflect the persistence and inheritance of the intangible cultural heritage of Xinqiao foreign basketball, which is radiating new vitality.

▲ The first basket weaving competition in Gaoyao, Zhaoqing, China in 2024

"What I made today is a bamboo mat. My parents and teacher taught me. It is used to steam vegetables."

The contestant He Chaozhen is 7 years old this year. The bamboo strips are flying in her tender hands. After the bamboo mat gradually takes shape, the audience at the scene give her thumbs up.

▲ He Chaozhen (center) is weaving a bamboo mat carefully. 

Ms. Chen, who was watching the competition, said happily: "These weaving works are beautiful, practical and beautiful, reflecting the traditional weaving skills of Xinqiao. I brought the children here today to let them understand and feel the Xinqiao foreign basketball culture firsthand."

After a tense and fierce competition, the competition selected the special prize, first prize, second prize, third prize and winning prize for the youth group and adult group based on the weaving style and quality.

Feng Tianrong（People's Artist, Chinese basket weaving artist）, the winner of the special prize,----the first basket weaving competition in Gaoyao, Zhaoqing, China in 2024

Special prize in the youth group--2024 China Zhaoqing Gaoyao First Foreign Basket Weaving Competition

Feng Tianrong, the winner of the special prize, said: I hope that more weaving competitions for foreign baskets can be held in the future to carry forward the culture of Xinqiao foreign baskets.

Chen Xukun, the inheritor of foreign basket weaving, believes that the first foreign basket weaving skills competition in Gaoyao District has further polished the business card of Xinqiao foreign baskets and has greatly promoted the development of Xinqiao foreign baskets. "Today's contestants include three generations of old, middle-aged and young people. It is a persistence and inheritance, and it also allows the younger generation to have a deeper understanding of foreign baskets." Chen Xukun said.

The wheel of history rolls forward, and weaving skills are passed down from generation to generation.

From "crossing the ocean" in the 1980s to becoming the "traffic code" of the domestic market today,

The small foreign basket is connected to the profound historical memory of the people of Xinqiao on one end and the wisdom and sweat of the people of Xinqiao on the other.

Xinqiao Town Foreign Basket Crafts (Gaoyao, China)-the first basket weaving competition in Gaoyao, Zhaoqing, China in 2024

The holding of the first foreign basket weaving skills competition in Gaoyao District is a vivid practice of inheritance and innovation of intangible cultural heritage skills, and it also fully demonstrates the original intention of the older generation of craftsmen. In the future, the skill of weaving foreign baskets will be passed down from generation to generation, and the fingertip "economy" will help promote the high-quality development of Xinqiao.

Gaoyao Xinqiao Town foreign basket weaving crafts (bamboo basket weaving crafts) are intangible cultural heritage of Zhaoqing City, China. The woven handicrafts produced were exported overseas in the 1980s. Each work is a work of art. Many foreign collectors like to collect Xinqiao's foreign basket weaving crafts. Xinqiao foreign basket weaving crafts represent the pinnacle of Chinese weaving crafts. The purpose of holding the China Gaoyao (Xinqiao Town) foreign basket weaving crafts competition is to better inherit this craft. Let these works of art spread to the world.

Xinqiao Town foreign basket weaving crafts represent the human pursuit of civilization and happiness, which will never stop. It represents human intelligence, wisdom, creativity, and art.

Welcome weaving artists from all over the world to come to China Gaoyao (Xinqiao Town) to exchange and learn with each other. Together, inherit this cultural art.

Zhaoqing Foreign Affairs and Overseas Chinese Affairs Bureau

Address: No. 122, Chengzhong Road, Duanzhou District, Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province

Tel:  0086-758-2237010,  0086-758-2231845   (English、Chinese、Cantonese)