Dancing together in the Yangtze River Economic Belt and exploring the millennium context| Liuyang Xiabu: breathing nostalgia, the rebirth of thousand-year-old famous products
Hunan Daily New Hunan client reporter Xiong Yuanfan
The right hand throws the shuttle, the wooden shuttle carries the rope and guides the weft into the shuttle path through the warp, handed over to the left hand, the right hand pulls the playing board, slaps the weft line once, alternates in turn, the cycle is repeated, and a summer cloth is slowly formed in the passage of time.
On December 19th, "Dancing together in the Yangtze River Economic Belt and Exploring the Millennium Context" came to liuyang Xiabu Cultural and Creative Center, and saw Tan Zhixiang, the inheritor of Liuyang Xiabu, operating a spinning machine, and as the shuttle shuttled back and forth, Xiabu was flowing out little by little...
Liuyang Xiabu, because the water quality of the Liuyang River is alkaline, after its rinsing, it can be washed whiter and whiter over the years, and in the Qing Guangxu years, it began to cross overseas and sold to Japan, Korea and Nanyang and other places. At its peak, Liuyang Xiabu once had a grand situation of "exporting 4.85 million cartons and worth nearly one million" a year.
"Its raw material is ramie, which we only have locally, take off the skin fibers of ramie, and weave them into cloth. This cloth fiber is slender, light and breathable. Lu Songyuan, general manager of the "Summer of Hearts" brand, introduced that he led the team to develop more than 160 creative xiabu products in eight series such as Liuyang Xiabu clothing, bags, home decorations, tea ceremony utensils, etc., and attracted more and more people's attention through the Internet.
"I hope that more and more people will pass on this craft of mine, and don't let him disappear." Tan Zhixiang believes that the market of Xiabu lies in the cultural and creative market with higher added value.
At present, Liuyang has led the construction of Liuyang Xiabu Cultural and Creative Center, and has now settled in "Summer of the Heart", "Liuxia", "Xia Yuhe" a number of enterprises, using Xiabu as raw material, integrating non-genetic inheritance, handicraft experience, creative production, cultural and creative marketing in one, Xiabu cultural and creative products sell well at home and abroad, and have successively appeared on the stages of New York Fashion Week, Beijing International Design Week, East Asian Culture Week and so on. At present, Liuyang Xiabu has formed a mature industrial chain of "center + enterprise + farmer", creating a model for saving intangible cultural heritage through creative industries.