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.
▲ 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.
"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.
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, 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)
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