In recent years, China's traditional culture has attracted more and more attention from all ages, even young people. Chasing tradition has become a fashion for young people, indicating that contemporary young people have a deeper sense of identification with traditional Chinese culture, and they are striving to be the trendsetters of traditional culture.
In traditional Chinese culture, the proportion of intangible cultural heritage cannot be ignored. Among them, Jiangxi's intangible cultural heritage is particularly rich, which can be said to be a city and an intangible cultural heritage, and hundreds of types of ten categories. There are Ruichang bamboo weaving, Jingdezhen blue and white technology, Yichun printmaking, xingan paper-cutting, etc., covering 11 prefectures and cities in Jiangxi Province, with a total of 558 national and provincial intangible cultural heritage projects.
The promotion of intangible cultural heritage is no longer the patent of silver-haired elders, but also began to become popular among children.
On October 24, after sweeping away the haze for many days, Nanchang lifted the clouds and mist, revealing a smile that had not been seen for a long time. On the banks of the Ganjiang River, a traditional cultural feast for the "post-10s" children opened! This is the first intangible cultural heritage class held by Country Garden in Jiangxi. It is reported that the theme of "Wuhua Tianbao in Jiangxi" is expected to have a total of four small classes, which are located on the banks of the Ganjiang River in Nanchang, No. 1 in Front of Country Garden House in Jingdezhen and Longyuetai in Yichun Country Garden. It aims to pass on the intangible cultural heritage and pass on the traditional skills hidden in the folk and grown in the folk to the next generation.
Classroom: Intangible Cultural Heritage College Passing on the torch
The most eye-catching thing at the check-in place is the exquisite style of bamboo handicrafts, chickens and ducks and other poultry-shaped animal bamboo baskets, bright colors, realistic looks. It is reported that Ruichang bamboo weaving can be insect-proof and anti-corrosion, if it is to make a complex and delicate bamboo weaving product, it can take up to ten days.
Thirty children of Country Garden owners dressed in Chinese Chinese academic uniforms, transformed into little book children, and sat down together with curious little heads. Blended in the ancient style arrangement of the scene, I thought that I had traveled through a thousand years and came to the Han Dynasty Academy. A book is loud and thriving.
Before officially entering the classroom, the staff of Country Garden on the spot specially prepared the Jiangxi traditional snack wick cake that symbolizes "height to a new height". Children's hearts are always easily captured by food. The host then interacted with the parents and children of the owners and asked, "What is the full name of the intangible cultural heritage?" "The source of Jiangxi snack wick cake?" "Ruichang bamboo weaving fun quiz" and so on. The atmosphere was relaxed and lively, with high levels of enthusiasm and engagement. Subsequently, the owners and children were divided into two teams, and the first lesson of the "Intangible Cultural Heritage College" was officially launched.
Tian Xianmin, the teacher of this intangible cultural heritage class, is the inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage - Ruichang bamboo weaving. At the scene, Teacher Tian popularized the relevant knowledge of Ruichang bamboo weaving to the little heads.
Due to the abundant production of bamboo in Ruichang Nanyi Town, Ruichang bamboo weaving is a folk weaving technique that uses bamboo as raw materials and handmade bamboo crafts, with a history dating back to the Shang Zhou Dynasty, and is the second batch of traditional art items on the list of representative items of national intangible cultural heritage.
"Two to three years of bamboo poles have clear stripes and a smooth texture, which is the preferred material for bamboo weaving!" Teacher Tian Xianmin personally demonstrated to the children how to shape and weave. "This should be evenly arranged, get some water, and if you get wet, the bamboo basket will be more resilient." Teacher Tian, who has a simple rural voice, patiently introduced that the children listened attentively, but the eyes met and the hands did not learn. A anxious child started to retreat after repeated failures. After taking over the bamboo weaving, each piece of bamboo was obediently listened to in Teacher Tian's hand and went to the correct position accurately.
Bamboo baskets for catching fish, bamboo baskets for cutting grass, bamboo baskets for digging rice, cool mats, steamer baskets, bamboo fans... Bamboo weaving was first used for the most common daily necessities, and it is said that art comes from life, so ruichang bamboo weaving products also appear in poultry shapes such as chickens and ducks. The little book children divided into two teams are learning bamboo fruit baskets, at first glance, they all look like they are, and when they look at them, the small fruit baskets are fat and thin, and the shape is arbitrary. Children are always childlike and imaginative, and the works full of spirit have attracted the owners and parents to press the shutter one after another, fixing a precious and beautiful moment.
"It would be nice if you hold more of these events, and I bring my son to participate often!" A country garden owner's mother said to the staff: "Next time remember to inform me, I think it is very educational, we are very willing to participate." After saying that, he hurriedly pulled the children to ask Teacher Tian about the bamboo basket weaving method, and other parents also participated in the bamboo basket weaving, and the intangible cultural heritage class ended in a relaxed and lively atmosphere.
After the class, 30 little book children took a group photo with Teacher Tian Xianmin with their bamboo weaving works.
Ingenuity: Only one thing in a lifetime
Weaving is one of the oldest handicrafts of mankind. In the Paleolithic Age, humans woven plant phloem into a net (mesh pocket), filled with stone balls, and thrown to injure animals.
Today, the children just experienced the bamboo weaving handiwork of Ruichang and came into contact with the history and culture of intangible cultural heritage. However, the real Ruichang bamboo weaving process is complex, requiring precision and delicacy, and difficult. The main processes are more than a dozen processes such as decontamination, decapitation, scraping knots, breaking bamboo, splitting strips, layering, de-yellowing, dipping, scraping, and weaving.
The craftsman should clean up a bamboo, saw the bamboo segments of different lengths according to the specifications of the product, and then put it into a high-temperature pool of about 80 degrees, pour edible alkali, repeatedly clean and decontaminate, and when it is taken out, it will change from dull gray old dark yellow to bright bright yellow, at this time, it will be taken into a finished product, and then dried and dried.
Teacher Tian Xianmin revealed that he had a serious illness when he was 11 years old, and due to the limited living conditions of his family, he was unable to treat him, resulting in a lifelong disability in his right leg. After graduating from junior high school at the age of 15, because his right leg could not go to the field to farm, he listened to his mother to learn a craft to survive, and the teenager who was not afraid of hardships began his career as a smith with his own tenacity, always "clinging to the green mountains" like bamboo, letting the east, west, south and north winds, and doing it for more than fifty years.
Inheritance: Bamboo over fingertips leave a lingering fragrance
Whether it is the organizer of the event, Country Garden in Jiangxi or Teacher Tian Xianmin himself, they all believe that this intangible cultural heritage class can let children take away not only handmade, but also plant a seed of loving traditional culture and paying attention to non-genetic inheritance. The intangible cultural heritage classroom provides a window for children to know that there are really people who only want to do one thing well in their lives, look at their own hearts and look at the world. Persistent research, a job to the extreme.
Country Garden, which held this intangible cultural heritage class, is based on the spirit of ingenuity to pass on the intangible cultural heritage, aiming to let traditional culture enter the classroom and penetrate into the hearts of the next generation. Like the craftsmen of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, adhering to the quality of products has always been placed in a very high position in the system of Country Garden. Look at each product with a craftsman spirit. Strong foundation and ingenuity to build a home, must be a long-term achievement.