Hakka hat is a kind of Folk Culture with Han characteristics. More than 300 years ago, in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Hakka women had to go down to the fields and cultivate the land like men, and women at that time could not casually show their faces, and wearing a cool hat with a hat curtain on it could avoid violating the customs. This hat has been continuously improved and slowly developed into today's Hakka women's special cool hat.
The legend of the cool hat
Legend has it that hundreds of years ago, in the midst of years of war, among the refugees who fled from the north was an imperial prince and noble princess, who fled to a small mountain village in southern Guangdong, where the enemy soldiers chased after them, and several smiths who were weaving in this mountain village cleverly buckled the semi-finished products of the bamboo hats on the heads of the fleeing female refugees, and the Hakka women next to them put black cloth turbans on the bamboo hats, blocked their faces, pulled them to work in the fields, and escaped a disaster.
A record of cool hats
Hakka hat is a Hakka custom of wearing, from the Northern Song Dynasty there is a Su Dongpo "Su Gong Kasa" record, so far about 1000 years of history. Legend has it that during the Northern Song Dynasty, Su Dongpo was demoted to Huizhou, and one day he saw the concubine Dynasty cloud on the hot sun to take care of flowers and plants in the garden, in order to love the concubines from the sun and rain, on the basis of the local bamboo shoots, a hole was opened in the middle to adapt to the bun of the cool hat for her to use. People followed suit, so it became the Hakka hat of later generations.
The characteristics of the cool hat
Hakka cool hats have been continuously adapted and optimized in the inheritance of historical cool hats, forming unique characteristics. Hakka hats are woven from thin bamboo flakes, resembling bamboo flat rice sieves, the top of the hat is hollowed out, the edges are sewn, the hat is hung around the 12cm long colored cloth, and the unmarried girl also hangs colorful ribbons at both ends of the draped cloth. The ribbon is a sign of whether a Hakka girl is married or not. In addition to the functions of shading, rainproof and dustproof, the cool hat is also a unique headdress for Hakka women, which has always been loved by local Hakka women and has strong local characteristics.
The Hakka hat resembles a bamboo flat rice sieve, with a circle in the center and a soft silk cloth sewn on the brim of the hat as a curtain to shield the sun, along which two tassels hang down. Hakka women like to wear this kind of cool hat to work, light, cool, shade, in addition to the short hat curtain cool hat, there are long hat curtain cool hat hanging down to the shoulder, wearing it is beautiful and generous.
Folklore of cool hats
The Hakka hat is worn on the head, and the color of the hat can be distinguished from whether it is unmarried or married. The flower spikes of unmarried girls are white, the flower spikes of married young women are red, and middle-aged and elderly women mostly use cyan, black or red-green black variegated colors. Girls go out, go to the ground, and rush to the market, they all take white tassels and cool hats, and never take other colors, even if they are mother's or temporary. It is better not to wear it than to be misunderstood. Wearing a cool hat is both lightweight and protected from solar radiation and cool, so it has been popular for generations.
The production process of the cool hat
The shape of the hat is simple, and the production technique is not simple at all. There are 22 production processes of Hakka hats, in addition to bamboo weaving, there are also complex processes such as weaving, dyeing, sewing, hatping and so on. The first process of making a cool hat is "broken hat boy", that is, the bamboo is processed into a bamboo basket with a thickness of less than 1 mm, and then the bamboo basket is woven into a hat for the cool hat. In addition to the difficult process of "broken sash", it is also very handy to twist the dyed silk cloth into a hat pleat. With a piece of silk cloth, soaked in water and smoothed, placed on a long strip of template, skillfully twisted up the hood pleats, twisted and compacted with a wooden board and sun-dried to form.
After the pieces of bamboo were evenly distributed in the hands of the Hakka women, they began to weave the central part of the bamboo hat. After completion, they also have a series of processes to be completed, such as sweeping tung oil, cutting hat rings, twisting hat pleats, weaving "hat snakes", cutting hat frames, bow hats, hats, hats, and tying vines. The intertwined bamboo baskets have become exquisite cool women in the industriousness and wisdom of the Hakka people, which carry the simple essence of Hakka culture.
Every process of Hakka hats is pure handmade, but now there are fewer and fewer people who can make Hakka hats, and we see less and less Hakka hats.
The small cool hat may not seem so remarkable, but it also condenses the wisdom of the Hakka in bamboo weaving, fabric, dyeing, painting technology, and is also the material carrier of the Hakka spirit, carrying the hakka traditional culture and dreams, and constantly developing forward.
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