April in the world, the wind and the sun are warm, and now is a good time to fly kites. When traditional silk meets kite making, from bright and agile swallows to light and delicate butterflies, from palm-sized "palm swallows" to more than 1 meter tall "zha swallows...... Recently, the reporter walked into Wang Yipinzhai Bizhuang located in Shuanglin Ancient Town, Nanxun District, where various shapes of silk kites are displayed.
Shen Yuting, the district-level intangible inheritor of silk kite making skills, is rushing to make a product ordered by an old customer. The production of a silk kite has to go through dozens of tedious and complex processes, just cutting fine bamboo slices, smoking the skeleton has a lot of exquisiteness, in order to ensure the symmetry of each bamboo slice in terms of size, thickness, curvature and so on. After a "concave shape", the bamboo strips that are split and used are gradually transformed into various skeleton shapes, and then the silk patterns are drawn by hand, and the colorful, light and flexible silk kite is basically completed.
In the 80s of the last century, the combination of Beijing Cao's kite craft and Shuanglin silk kite production skills formed a silk kite making technique. "Silk kites are mainly divided into five categories: soft wings, hard wings, plate wings, strings and three-dimensional, and the sand swallow kite is generally loved and welcomed in the market. Shen Yuting introduced that since they are all handmade, from the design of the order to the completion of the production, it is generally necessary to contact her half a month in advance to place an order.
In recent years, Shen Yuting has been committed to inheriting and promoting the intangible cultural heritage skill of "silk kite making", and has developed a series of derivative products such as silk kites and silk fans through continuous innovation and expansion of product forms. A few days ago, a "Silk Kite Making Skills Experience" brought by her was held in Penzhuang. At the scene, under her guidance, more than 10 groups of families learned kite making and silk painting together, completed the unique silk kite, and felt the charm of this intangible cultural heritage.
The seemingly simple kite contains thousands of years of culture and charm, and a kite flying is the happiness of children, and it also leads to the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage. With the silk kite flying into the sky, Shen Yuting also has a new plan: school-enterprise cooperation, vigorously promote the silk kite making skills into the campus, guide and cultivate a group of intangible cultural heritage inheritors, so that the intangible cultural heritage culture of Shuanglin silk will continue to be full of vitality.