Stay tuned for the special report – Common Prosperity in Zhejiang Running on the Field of Hope. In the last issue, we appreciated the beautiful bamboo forest of Hangzhou Yuhang Bauhinia Village, how the bitter bamboo that spreads over the mountains makes a small mountain village become the world-famous bamboo flute first village, and the secret is in the hands of bauhinia villagers.
Video: Running on the field of hope: Bitter bamboo transforms into "three hundred million", and the bamboo flute plays the song of common prosperity
Backed by Qingshan, rows of rural self-built houses are staggered, and the closer they get, the signboard of the roof "Tongling Bridge Flute Flute" appears impressively, Tongling Bridge is the predecessor of Bauhinia Village, which is the bamboo flute factory of villager Dong Weiqing.
The flute hole of the bamboo flute has several kinds of blow holes, membrane holes and sound holes, which are generally oval. With the machine, you can make a hole in a bamboo pipe in a few minutes, but before punching the hole, there is still a lot of craftsmanship. From the step of raw material storage, there is a special point, natural bitter bamboo is baked and straightened, and bundled in the warehouse for two years to become the raw material for making bamboo flutes.
"According to the round flatness of the bamboo, we draw lines, timbres, and punch holes." Measure the size of the inner diameter, this size just do C key, we will draw the line to determine the height of the tone, because the inner diameter has a thickness, it is impossible for each bamboo inner diameter to be the same size, some are slightly less, there is a little larger, all within the range are suitable for C key. ”
Dong Weiqing compares the fixed bamboo flute sample, and can easily set the three holes of blowing hole, auxiliary sound hole and base sound hole on the new bamboo pipe. How to determine the hole in the middle, he took out the "artifact" that he had followed for decades - the wire plate.
"Usually we use calculations to draw the positions of the 6 holes, but if we use calculations, each flute is more troublesome to calculate, then we make a wire board based on the experience of the Shanghai master and the experience we imparted, so that the position of the 6 holes can be easily and accurately ejected." ”
The hole position is fixed, which is the initial punching link, and the bamboo pipe has the prototype of the bamboo flute as soon as the hole is finished. Then came the important audition step.
"(Before) I often encountered, its pitch is not good, how to get the octave tone, get it around and get it badly, because it is related to the inner diameter of the bamboo, mainly the proportion of the inner diameter is not right, then I am now slowly groping myself, I will put this inner diameter, some are not right, after polishing the inner chamber, hit the taper is appropriate, then this pitch is good. ”
Dong Weiqing and this bitter bamboo in his hometown have been dealing with each other for a lifetime. He said that when he was seventeen or eighteen years old, he worked as an apprentice in the village bamboo factory, and later set up his own bamboo flute factory.
"After doing it for so many years, it was a channel for making a living at the beginning, and at that time I felt that I could make money, and then I didn't have to run this thing outside, I made it at home, my own craft, I thought so at the beginning." Now, I do have feelings for making flutes, and sometimes I will touch the flute and blow it when I am free. ”
After the test of the bamboo flute both ends are decorated, and finally painted and wrapped, engraved with logos, it becomes a Zhongtai bamboo flute sold to the whole country and even around the world. Dong Weiqing introduced that the price of bamboo flute depends on the growth quality of bamboo itself, and the conventional quality of a bamboo flute sells for three or five hundred yuan, the better the quality, and the price will not be capped. Bitter bamboo made into a bamboo flute, the value of at least 50 times more, as the mainstay of the family of a generation, watching the small bamboo flute to bring great changes to the family.
"There is this industry in the village, which has changed a lot for my family, (for my son) also bought a house outside, this kind of is real for me, it is a great income in the economy, I am quite satisfied, with the flute industry, it is very satisfying and satisfied for me, and it is a good income for our whole village." ”
"Now there are a total of 168 bamboo flute processors, the village and the bamboo flute industry association, through the model of joint consultation and sharing, we hold activities, the government sets up a stage for enterprises to sing, to provide them with some opportunities to show to the outside world, our entire bamboo flute industry output value is reached (annual) 340 million." ”