The second phase of the large-scale intangible cultural heritage documentary program "New Life of All Things" will be broadcast soon, and the initiator Yang Lan will be Shan Jixiang, president of the Chinese Cultural Heritage Society, and two groups of emerging designers, Su Su and Yang Songyao, the managers of the well-known Asian design group 1983ASIA MUA; Independent designer, color expert and artist Zhi Chen walked through the famous Tea Horse Road to Zhoucheng, the "hometown of ethnic tie-dye", to experience and visit the intangible cultural heritage skills of Bai tie-dye, which has been passed down for thousands of years.
In this episode, Yang Lan and Shan Jixiang will join Duan Shukun, the eighteenth generation inheritor of Bai tie-dye, to explore how Bai tie-dye is made, and Zhang Hanmin, the state-level inheritor of Bai tie-dye, will also solve the mystery for the audience How Banlan, the key raw material for making tie-dye, turns from a plant into a precious dye blue indigo.
With the help of Duan Yuan, the nineteenth generation inheritor of Bai tie-dye, Shan Jixiang and Zhi Chen made "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" with tie-dye. Duan Yinkai, the national non-genetic inheritor of Dali Bai tie-dye, also brought the audience the key tool for making tie-dye, the rolling pin, the magic of the rolling pin, one is to wrap the cloth on it, and the other is to make the pattern into a water ripple. The randomness of tie-dye makes it like a blind box, novices may not be able to disassemble the colors and patterns they want, and what kind of tie-dye the guests will make is exciting.
In the plot of this intangible cultural heritage small theater, a girl named Jinhua made a butterfly tie-dye handkerchief for her sweetheart Arun. In fact, tie-dye is not only a way for Zhoucheng girls to express their love, but also an important witness for every Zhoucheng people throughout their lives. This skill, which was almost passed down by mistake, accompanied by the common life and growth of the people of Zhoucheng, also carried their most important emotions.
It is understood that during the recording of the program, it happened that the villagers wanted to pray for the child who was born 100 days, and the child was dressed in clothes made of tie-dye fabric and wore a tiger head hat, and received the best wishes as soon as he was born.
The story of blue and white comes from the heaven and earth of Cangshan and Erhai, but it does not stop at a corner. Banlan will grow, tie-dye techniques will evolve, and Chinese culture will go global.
Proofreading by Xu Heng