Organized by the Yunnan Provincial Cultural Center and Yunnan Net, the "Happy New Year, Culture into Ten Thousand Homes - Our Beautiful Life, Yunnan New Year's Taste" rural short video collection activity has been closed, and many excellent short videos have emerged in the submitted works. Yunnan Net and the Yunnan Provincial Cultural Center also selected "leaders" from them to exhibit and broadcast the five major themes of song and dance, traditional skills, food and good things, history and culture, and folk customs.
In this edition, we have selected 5 short videos about the traditional skills of Yunnan to take a look at the wonderful traditional handicrafts of Yunnan and see the busy figures of traditional intangible craftsmen during the New Year Festival.
Paper-cutting allows Dali Nanjian to blossom the "happiness flower" of cultural life
On the first day of the first lunar month, everyone puts on the window flowers. Paper-cutting plays an important role in traditional Chinese folk activities, and people often pin their emotions through paper-cutting works. There are many categories of paper-cutting art in the north, but we also have traditional paper-cutting techniques in Yunnan. Chen De of Nanjian Yi Autonomous County in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture is the inheritor of this technique of paper-cutting, intangible cultural heritage of Yunnan Province, and since he came into contact with paper-cutting in the 1970s, he has been interested in learning to cut paper and practicing self-realization.
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Different from the northern paper-cutting technique, Nanjian's paper-cutting technique is more emphasis on "folding", while the northern one is more emphasis on "hollowing"; from the perspective of performance themes, Chen De's paper-cutting is mostly based on people and nature, folk customs and folklore, taking his own words as "national elements, flowers and flowers." "The festive window flowers pasted on the window, the door gods pasted on the door, the landscape and water, the flowers and trees, the birds and animals, the fingers flew out of the "happy flowers". In his years of carrying forward innovation, the folk art of paper-cutting has become a popular trend in Nanjian, new year festivals, kissing and marrying, paper-cutting is everywhere, becoming a part of Nanjian life culture.
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Step into the paper-cutting world of non-hereditary heir Chen De
"Paper Cut" Contributor: Bee Lifang
The shape is clumsy, simple and not simple
TangguanZhen Village, Majie Town, Luliang County, Qujing City, has always been a well-known pottery village, and it still retains the firing technique of land-good clay pottery, which has a history of more than 600 years.
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"Into the kiln one color, out of the kiln ten thousand colors", Luliang clay pottery process is complex, the process is exquisite, to go through mud making, hand pulling blank, wet billet decoration, cool billet, air drying, glazing, kiln installation, firing and other artificial links, after more than 40 days, in order to make a fine pottery, some kiln mouths also use ancient equipment and tools. Luliang clay pottery is very local cultural characteristics, closely related to people's lives, and blends with cuan culture, and is developed by craftsmen into cups, plates, bowls, altars, jars, and other living utensils, incense burners, lamps, vases and other decorative utensils, with simple and exquisite shapes. Under the protection of future generations, this ancient technique, which was on the verge of disappearing, was gradually known and passed on by a new generation, and regained its former glory.
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See how the Tangguan clay pottery is burned
"Lu Liang Clay Pottery" Submitted by: Zhao Qingsong
The ancient method of papermaking in Dali Longzhu Village has been passed down for thousands of years
Handmade papermaking, also known as "soil method" papermaking, refers to the papermaking process that does not use machinery or only uses very simple machinery to produce paper. In the decline of traditional handicraft industry today, Dali Heqing County Longzhu Village still retains the ancient handmade papermaking technology, with pure wolf peel as the main raw material, from material selection, cooking, bleaching, washing to beating, copying paper, drying paper, each step is completed by manpower, each step is immersed in the hearts of craftsmen.
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The white cotton paper produced by the ancient paper is white in color, delicate in paper, uniform in thickness, light and soft, good in breathability, and can resist insect erosion, and does not change color over the years, and is mostly used for tea packaging, famous paintings, ancient book mounting, etc. More than 1,000 years ago, the white cotton paper produced by the handmade papermaking workshop in Longzhu Village was famous inside and outside the province for its excellent texture, and today, the traditional handmade papermaking has become a culture, inscribed in the blood of the locals.
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Take a look at the process of ancient french paper in Dragon Ball Village
"Handmade Paper" Submitted by: Xiang Shuqin
It turns out that Yunnan also has enamel colors!
"Yongbei Hall makes enamel cups and plates, which are gorgeous and dazzling." This is the praise of predecessors for the enamel silverware of Yongsheng County, Lijiang City. The production technology of Yongsheng enamel silverware was founded in the Yuan Dynasty, has a history of more than 800 years, and was included in the list of intangible cultural heritage of Yunnan Province in 2009, which is a witness to the combination of Chinese and Western skills and the integration of National Culture in Yunnan.
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Yunnan has been known as the "metal kingdom" since ancient times, and people of all ethnic groups especially love silver jewelry, and the biggest difference between the production process of Yongsheng silverware in Western Yunnan and other silverware is that the former is covered with various colors of enamel on silver products, which has both the cool luster of silver and the bright color. Behind the doubly beautiful is the tedious and complex production process, melting, blankmaking, drawing, filigree, point blue, pickling, burning blue, polishing, polishing, hammering, etc., silver wire as a pen, enamel into material, craftsmen in the monotonous silverware to paint a colorful world.
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Watch the making of Yongsheng enamel silverware
"Yongsheng Enamel Silverware" Submitted by: Tang Jian'an
What a fragrance! In the New Year, when you go to the house of the Brown people, you will drink roasted tea made by ancient methods
The Brown people are one of the earliest people to grow tea, known as "ancient tea farmers", and only a few elderly and young people today will be able to brew tea in this traditional skill of the Brown people. Roasted tea is one of the specialty teas of the Brown family, this tea has a unique flavor and a unique brewing process. Burn charcoal into the fire, put water into the pot, take a handful of tea leaves in the scoop, add the hot charcoal, shake quickly, roast the tea leaves to emit fragrance, pick off the charcoal, put the tea leaves into the teapot filled with hot water, wait for a moment, open the lid of the pot, the mellow and rich aroma comes to the face, refreshing the spleen; take a sip, lips and teeth leave a fragrance.
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For thousands of years, the secret aroma of tea has long been integrated into their blood. The New Year is a good time to visit relatives and friends, and when friends and relatives arrive, they will bring out their treasured tea leaves to entertain guests. At the Festival of the New Year, they also did not forget to prepare a good cup of tea for the ancestors. In addition, the dowry of the Brown girls is also indispensable to the baked tea cake.
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See how the Browns roast tea
"Brown Traditional Roasted Tea" Contributor: Ni Hua
Yunnan Network Reporter: Qin Daiyue Lei Yingxia Intern: Li Yin
Some sources are from the "Yunnan Public Culture Cloud" WeChat public account
Editor: Wang Xiting