Bamboo Weaving
01 · Historical Records
From 1958 to 1978 the Dongyang Bamboo Weaving Factory was merged into the Dongyang Woodcarving Factory; bamboo weaving and woodcarving were produced together, exchanging experience and advancing each other, and substantial development was achieved in subject matter, form, coloring, flavor, style, and other respects.
02 · Core Techniques & Process
Bamboo-weaving handicraft production in Zhejiang is concentrated in the Dongyang and Shengzhou area, and Dongyang in particular has long enjoyed the reputations of a “home of a hundred crafts” and a “home of arts and crafts.” Dongyang bamboo weaving centers on three-dimensional weaving, combined with flat weaving techniques; the workmanship is fine, the forms lively, the colors elegant, bearing strong folk-art characteristics and fully reflecting the character of Dongyang's bamboo culture. Dongyang bamboo weaving excels at three-dimensional figures, animals, and vessels such as traditional bamboo baskets; the hand-split bamboo strips are as fine as hair and as soft as silk, and through fine weaving the works are lifelike and true to spirit.
Mainly three-dimensional weaving
Dongyang weaving is mainly three-dimensional, its hand-split splints as fine as thread and as supple as silk.
The Nine-Dragon Wall
In 1983 He Fuli led the making of a 6.19 m Nine-Dragon Wall using over 150 weaving techniques, and in 2005 restored the bamboo work of the Forbidden City's Juanqinzhai.
Side by side with Dongyang woodcarving
From 1958 to 1978 the bamboo-weaving workshop was merged with the woodcarving factory, and the two crafts cross-fertilised in subject, form and colour.
Domestic wares and architectural decoration
Its products divide into domestic wares such as baskets, chests and winnowing fans, and display or architectural pieces.
The Hong Kong craft dragon
In 1997 He Fuli helped make a 2,500 m craft dragon for Hong Kong, dotted by Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa and recorded as the world's longest.
03 · Regional Records & Related Items
Dongyang bamboo weaving products fall into two main categories: everyday utensils, which prioritize practical function, and three-dimensional display pieces and architectural decoration, which prioritize artistic appreciation.
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04 · Cultural Value & Contemporary Safeguarding
The most common Dongyang bamboo weaving products are everyday articles such as baskets, crates, boxes, luo baskets, winnowing fans, bamboo baskets, and rain hats; combined with decorative techniques such as gold-stamping, printing, and engraving, they perfectly display the charm and cultural refinement of bamboo and possess considerable artistic value and value for the study of folk crafts. At present the aging of Dongyang bamboo weaving inheritors is pronounced, with an average age over forty, while few young people are learning the craft, leaving it short of successors; transmission has fallen into difficulty and urgently needs protection and rescue. He Fuli (from the official archive record of the associated inheritor): Male, Han ethnicity, born in November 1944, from Dongyang City, Zhejiang Province. Senior Arts and Crafts Artist; Chinese Master of Arts and Crafts. In 1958 he entered the Dongyang Bamboo Weaving Factory, studying bamboo weaving under the renowned bamboo-weaving artist Ma Fushi. In 1982 he was invited to demonstrate his skills in Australia and other countries. In 1983 he directed the weaving of the large bamboo work “Nine-Dragon Wall,” 6.19 meters long and 2.68 meters high, employing more than 150 weaving techniques. He originated numerous weaving techniques, including “scale-form woven clustered flowers,” “twin-strip silk-threaded rattan fine dragon,” and “herringbone pattern color-separated dragon.” In 2005 he carried out restoration of the bamboo-woven portions of Juanqin Studio for the Palace Museum. He has participated many times in skill demonstrations and exchanges; his works won the Golden Cup Award of the Hundred Flowers Awards for Chinese Arts and Crafts and were designated national arts-and-crafts treasures. In 1997, as a principal participant, he made a special “Craft Dragon” 2,500 meters long for Hong Kong; the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Tung Chee-hwa, performed the eye-dotting ceremony, setting a Guinness record for the world's longest dancing dragon. He is a representative inheritor of the third national-level batch of the national intangible cultural heritage project “Bamboo Weaving (Dongyang Bamboo Weaving).”
05 · Associated Representative Bearers
Representative bearers recorded under this item, organized by national nomination batch:
- Yu Zhanggen 01-0119
- He Fuli 03-1265
- Song Zengli 03-1266
- Mou Bingheng 03-1267
- Liu Jiafeng 04-1794
- Su Chengjun 05-2640
- Chen Qinghe 05-2641
- Tian Xianmin 05-2642
- Wei Lumian 05-2643
- Tan Sujuan 05-2644
- Chen Yunhua 05-2645
- Zhao Sijin 05-2646
- Ding Zhiyun
- Hu Zhengren
- Lvcheng
06 · Authoritative Sources & Bibliography
Sources
China Intangible Cultural Heritage Network (ihchina.cn)
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