Skillfully weaving Chinese knots is booming to welcome the New Year

A red rope, after the peasant women wrapped, wrapped, pumped, and pasted with accessories, hanging ornaments and other processes, a beautiful Chinese knot is made. Entering the Waxing Moon, the Chinese knot jewelry here ushered in the peak season of processing and sales, and the local knot weaving households worked overtime to make Chinese knot jewelry such as "Tiger Head Knot", "Ruyi Knot", "Fuzi Knot", "Reunion Knot", "Ping An Knot" and "Auspicious Knot" for customers. The red and tongtong Chinese knots not only dressed up the Spring Festival markets everywhere, but also created a road for local peasant women to increase their income and become well-off.

"This year is the Year of the Tiger of the Zodiac, and the Tiger is full of power. Since entering the Waxing Moon, I and my sisters sewed these colorful 'tiger head' Chinese knots, symbolizing the auspicious Year of the Tiger, although overtime to catch up with the Production of Chinese knots, products are still in short supply, more than 10,000 orders per day, business is booming, our income is also high, busy a day can earn at least seventy or eighty yuan, overtime and overtime pay. A 63-year-old middle-aged woman in Xuhaizi Village, Honghua Town, Tancheng County, Linyi City, Shandong Province, asked Virgin, a tiger head made with a skillful hand.

"I sewed tiger head Chinese knots in the Xuanran Handicraft Factory, calculated the wages according to the piece count, and could earn more than 4,000 yuan a month." Besides, it is not far from home, do not delay the transfer of children to school, not only do we young and middle-aged women do this work, many seventy or eighty-year-old people can also weave, there are more than 30 elderly people in the factory in the handmade production workshop. Hou Weiping, a young woman in Zhangzhuang Village, Honghua Town, said happily as she cleaned up the tiger head Chinese knot she made with an electric sewing machine. As a traditional handicraft industry in Honghua Town, China Knot is not only an important carrier of the rural cultural industry, but also a "link" to help farmers increase their income and become rich. In recent years, Honghua Town has vigorously developed the "Chinese knot" handicrafts circulated in the folk, and built the largest "Chinese knot" production and processing base in East China. At present, there are 35 professional villages in the production of "Chinese knot", with more than 30,000 employees, an annual output value of 1.8 billion yuan, and the products are exported overseas, and the "figure" of the Chinese knot in the red flower town can be seen in the United States, South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia. The "Chinese knot" in Safflower Town is divided into four categories: interior decoration, car decoration pendants, festivals, weddings, etc., with a total of more than 600 varieties of flowers and thousands of styles.

"Boss Wang of the Xuanran KnotTing Factory uses a passenger van to send me the raw materials for knot weaving every morning, so that I can gather the women and sisters in the village to weave Chinese knots, so that not only can we discuss with each other, exchange knotting skills, improve weaving skills, produce more fine products, generate more income, and laugh and be happy." Talking about employment at the doorstep of the family, Xu Xiuli, a weaver woman who is more than half a hundred years old in Yuantang Village, Honghua Town, has a feeling. Looking at Xu Xiuli, the family "small workshop" that is engaged in the processing of Chinese knot raw materials at the doorstep of her home is now in no less than 60 places in Honghua Town.

With the rise of e-commerce, the Chinese knot e-commerce in Safflower Town is not far behind, and e-commerce has become the main way of sales in China. At present, there are more than 250 e-commerce companies in Honghua Town, more than 80% of which are mainly engaged in Chinese knots, of which 28 have sales of more than 500,000. Young people returning to their hometowns to start businesses add new vitality to traditional crafts and inject young ideas. Wang Chao, head of Linyi Qiaoyi E-commerce Co., Ltd., has three major brands of "Fuyuanxiang", "Jubao" and "Jiahe Fushun", and has opened 9 operating stores on Tmall, JD.com and Alibaba, with annual sales of more than 15 million yuan, which is a model for young people in Honghua Town to return to their hometowns to start a business. Li Xiaolin, a young farmer in the former Xiaodian Village of the town, has been selling Chinese knots online through orders at home all year round, increasing their annual income by more than 100,000 yuan, and driving more than 10 poor families in the village who have no fixed economic income to sell Chinese knots online with considerable income. Wang Ting Province, a large Chinese knot weaving household in Yuanbei Village, also invited local college students to walk into the China Knot Exhibition Hall and sell knot art products through online live broadcasting.