The attentive Hu Hua saw that his lover's hat was crooked, and immediately went up to help put it on.
The process of drawing threads by hand is still preserved.
Hu Hua spread the cotton beaten by the machine into a quilt.
Hu Hua often uses his mobile phone to shoot short videos and post them online, winning himself many customers.
The previous hand-fired bullets have been replaced by machine drawing.
Hu Hua said that his wife and he were "golden partners" at work.
Sew gauze for cotton wool.
Zhuzhou Evening News Rong media reporter / Xie Hui text / photo
36 years ago, the craftsman Hu Hua took a line from Shu to Xiang, just to earn more than fifty cents. Years have flown by, and now that he is more than half a hundred years old, he has regarded Hunan as his second hometown.
Hu Hua, from Guang'an, Sichuan Province, graduated from high school in 1983 and learned the craft of playing cotton at the advice of his father. Since then, a slingshot and a millstone have become his closest "friends" and have traveled all over the world together.
Initially, he went to the door to play quilts in Jingzhou, Huitong, and Guizhou in Huaihua. "In the 1980s, it cost only three yuan and fifty cents to play a quilt in Sichuan, but in Hunan and Guizhou, you could receive five yuan." Hu Hua said.
"At that time, mechanized production had not yet risen, craftsmen were very popular in the countryside, families needed to play quilts, and whoever they worked in, ate and lived in whoever they wanted." Hu Hua recalled that at that time, television was not yet popular, and at night, everyone would gather around the fire pond to talk about the world, which was very interesting.
As the saying goes, there are three filial pieties, and no queen is greater. In the 1990s, at the urging of his family, Hu Hua had to return to his hometown in Sichuan to go on a blind date, get married, and have children. After forming his own small family, Hu Hua took his lover to Changsha and finally came to Zhuzhou, where he stayed for more than 20 years.
"In the beginning, the quilts were all in the streets and alleys, today in the east, tomorrow in the west, like wandering entertainers." Tired of wandering life, Hu Hua decided to settle down in Zhuzhou more than a decade ago, and the location was chosen on Songshan Road.
Nowadays, the sound of playing cotton has gradually become the afterglow of history. Looking at the new cotton processing machine in the store, Hu Hua touched the old slingshot again. He said that after another ten years of work, he would retire and wanted to enjoy the blessings of his son in Chengdu.
【Source: Zhuzhou Evening News】
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