A few days ago, the results of the 2021 Guangdong Rural Craftsman Traditional Craft Title Review were announced, and a total of 6 people in Nansha passed the review, including 1 senior engineer, 3 engineers, and 2 assistant engineers. Zhou Xiaogang, a 61-year-old non-hereditary inheritor of the Olive Core Xiangyun Yarn, became the first senior engineer in Nansha specializing in traditional handicrafts with his "sunning skills".
As one of the main production areas of xiangyun yarn of national intangible cultural heritage, in recent years, Lannuo Town attaches great importance to the inheritance and development of Xiangyun yarn dyeing and finishing skills, continues to promote the protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage, and will promote the culture of Xiangyun yarn, inherit the craft of Xiangyun yarn, develop the industry of Xiangyun yarn and leisure, tourism and tourism industry, cultivate Xiangyun yarn into an important cultural industry of Lannuo Town, and build the Xiangyun yarn brand into a new cultural business card of Nansha New Area.
"Drying Fragrant Cloud Yarn" Zhu Ping photographed
Why it became the hometown of Xiangyun:
Superior natural conditions,
The historical accumulation is profound and the cultural connotation is rich
Xiangyun yarn, whose real name is sura yarn, is made of more than 20 manual processes commonly known as "three washes, nine boils and eighteen suns" such as "three washes, nine boils and eighteen suns" after repeated drying, washing, fermentation and other more than 20 manual processes such as "three washes, nine boils and eighteen suns". In 2008, the dyeing and finishing technology of Xiangyun yarn was selected into the list of national intangible cultural heritage.
Photo by Liang Zhaoming
Lan Nu area is a typical Lingnan characteristic Sha Tin water town, with potato, river mud, grassland, sunshine, which are indispensable elements of the production of xiangyun yarn, with more than 400 years of xiangyun yarn production history, is one of the four major production bases of xiangyun yarn in the mainland. In particular, the unpolluted river mud provides a natural guarantee for the production of high-quality Xiangyun yarn fabrics. According to statistics, in 2020, the output of Xiangyun yarn in Lannuo Town will be about 6 million meters.
"Drying Cloud Yarn" by Wu Gang
In order to better inherit the dyeing and finishing process of Xiangyun yarn and promote the culture of Xiangyun yarn, in 2015, Lan Nuo Town and South China Agricultural University carried out industry-university-research cooperation, established the Xiangyun Yarn Culture Research Center, and formed the Xiangyun Yarn R&D and design team, which is committed to the research and exploration of the cultural value of Xiangyun Yarn. In 2016 and 2017, the R&D achievements launched by the center, Olive Core Xiangyun Yarn, have been on the stage of China International Fashion Week for two consecutive years. Since then, in 2017, Lan Nu Town and South China Agricultural University successfully applied for the "National Arts Fund Exchange and Promotion Funding Project", and successfully held the 2018 and 2019 spring and summer fashion conferences, the Xiangyun Yarn Summit Forum and the International Art Fund Xiangyun Yarn Fashion Promotion Activities, etc., successfully launched the business card of Lan Nu Xiangyun's hometown.
Lennon Xiangyun Yarn 2019 Spring Summer Fashion Show
For the Lan nu people, Xiangyun yarn is not an intangible handicraft lying in the window, but a cultural aesthetic that infiltrates life. In Lan Nuo, a number of kindergartens set up Xiangyun Yarn special courses, condensing the dyeing and finishing process into the classroom, the children were heard from an early age; the art group created literary and artistic works with the theme of Xiangyun Yarn, in 2021, the Lan Nuo Town Cultural Undertaking Promotion Association successfully went out of the circle with the original dance "A Su Xiangyun Lifetime", won awards in district-level competitions, and also boarded the platform for learning to strengthen the country; in the Xiangyun Yarn theme activities organized by the Town Cultural and Sports Center, the neighbors visited the Xiangyun Yarn Production Base for free and carried out the DIY hand-making of Xiangyun Yarn...
Stage performance of "A Life of Su Xiangyun"
Where xiangyun's hometown is going:
Based on inheritance, focusing on innovation,
Government and enterprises should make efforts to improve the industrial chain of Xiangyun yarn
According to the staff of the Town Economic Development and Market Supervision Office, at present, the market price of Xiangyun yarn fabric is about 200 yuan / meter, the market value of finished clothing is about 5 times the market value of the fabric, and the market size of Xiangyun yarn is about 25 billion, but the current fabric output can only meet the needs of about 50% of the market. Therefore, the Xiangyun yarn industry has great room for development. "We will promote the transformation and upgrading of the industry from the original pure processing to a marketing and cultural exchange center, and give it higher economic value and social benefits by creating a whole industry chain."
With Xiangyun Yarn Drying Yard as the core to create a characteristic cultural and creative park integrating product research and development, display and trading, tourism and leisure, Hesha Xiangyun Leyuan successfully created the "Guangzhou Agricultural Park" in 2020, and in the same year, the Lanzhou Xiangyun Yarn Exhibition Hall of Xian Xinghai Culture and Art Creation Center in Lannuo Town was officially opened to the public, and its popularity continued to rise.
Xiangyunsha Cultural and Creative Park
At the same time, Lannuo Town has made every effort to promote land circulation, increase land intensification, revitalize rural inefficient land, and achieve centralized operation, on this basis, introduce a professional team to develop the Xiangyun yarn industry in a professional, industrialized and large-scale manner. In 2021, Lannuo Town introduced Hangzhou Runxiang Silk Co., Ltd. and Banmei Village Yunsha Xingyun Xiangyun Yarn Industrial Park to jointly settle in Lannuo Town, and plans to build lingnan's largest and most complete Xiangyun Yarn Industrial Park and Xiangyun Yarn Product Production and Exhibition Center that combines production, exhibition, sales and tourism.
The reporter learned that at present, the "Yunsha Xingyun" Xiangyun Yarn Industrial Base located in Xiangmei Village has completed about 200 acres of land intensification, and the infrastructure such as the Xiangyunsha Museum, product release center and research and learning experience center is under construction, and the first phase is expected to be put into operation in April 2022; the "Runxiang Silk" Xiangyun Yarn Theme Park located in Niujiao Village has now completed the construction of 20 acres of drying field and filtration purification pond, mud yard production workshop and warehouse.
Renderings of the Xiangyun Yarn Museum
The goal of Lan Nuo Town is more than this, improve the industrial system in order to enhance the development potential, the town economic development and market supervision office staff said that in the next step, Lam Nuo Town will be from the industrial planning for the overall planning, and gradually form the Xiangyun Yarn Industrial Agglomeration Area; at the same time, actively improve the construction of the industrial standard system, through the government to build a platform, guide enterprises to gather to form industry associations, with standards to promote industry development; cultivate and build advantageous industrial clusters, support high-quality resources to become leading enterprises in the industrial chain, and promote the synergy and cross-border integration of the whole industrial chain , leading the development of intangible cultural heritage.
"The Xiangyun yarn industry is a local cultural industry with a long history, and its proportion in economic volume is insignificant according to the current situation, but from the perspective of balanced socio-economic development and cultural dissemination, it is the best carrier for inheriting and disseminating Lingnan culture, Guangfu culture and promoting the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area." The staff of the town's Economic Development and Market Supervision Office said.
【Reporter Nie Peiwen】
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Source: Town Economic Development and Market Supervision Office
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