In the eyes of foreigners, it has become a "high-grade bamboo weaving art", and the price has doubled when it has been transformed abroad, and even fried to 2,000 yuan apiece, but it is still in short supply, what is going on?
The dustpan is a very common thing in our daily life, but no one would have thought that in China, it is so unremarkable and unnoticed, but foreigners are so fascinated that they even hang on the bedside to admire it every day.
Why are dustpans so popular abroad?
We ordinary people have many of these dustpans in their homes, and people generally use it to hold things, or dry grain, etc., which can be said to be a necessity of life.
In the old countryside, if anyone did not have this thing, they would be considered "people who would not be able to live", although the dustpan was small, it was very useful, and it was generally used as a simple agricultural tool.
Each dustpan is hand-woven with rattan or bamboo, so the quality is definitely not to say, buy it home and you can use it, it will not be broken for decades, and the dustpan is not only one shape, there are round and square, and the use of each shape is not the same.
For example, the disc-shaped dustpan will be used by people to dry some fruits and vegetables, and the moisture will be dried for easy storage, pickles are made in this way, and the heightened round dustpan is generally used to put some food, in film and television dramas, this kind of scene often appears.
The big white steamed buns with white flowers steaming are all placed in the dustpan, which looks very appetizing, followed by the square dustpan, which is directly used as a farm tool, and it will come in handy every time it is time to farm busy.
Farmers would put corn and wheat crops into a dustpan and then lift them up to sift out the dust and impurities that entered the grain during the drying process.
I remember when I was a child, when the adults were busy with the farm, the children would pick up the dustpan and imitate the movements of the adults in a similar way, although the dustpan was too heavy to pick up, but I still couldn't help my curiosity, I believe this is a lot of childhood memories after the 80s and 90s.
Don't underestimate this dustpan, although you can buy one for a few dollars now, but it is the intangible cultural heritage of the mainland, if you don't pay attention to it, you may face loss.
The history of dustpans on the mainland can be said to be very long, and can even be traced back to the Neolithic Age more than 8,000 years ago.
After so many years of evolution, the production methods and materials of dustpans have changed dramatically, and the dustpans we see today are made of bamboo strips or bamboo strips.
And the bamboo weaving technology is also getting more and more perfect, a small dustpan, behind the efforts and sweat of countless craftsmen, as well as the wisdom of our ancestors in it.
The construction of the dustpan is very unique, designed to allow air to circulate freely, so it is very suitable for drying things, in recent years, dustpans have become rare, and the home has begun to replace it with something else.
Fearing the loss of this craft, more and more people are paying attention to this intangible cultural heritage, and although it has now lost its market, it cannot be lost.
For this reason, someone posted the preparation process of the dustpan on the Internet, calling on everyone to pay more attention, but I didn't expect it to cause a huge response, the master took the tool in the video, and split the bamboo in three or two clicks, and peeled off the bamboo silk and bamboo strips.
Then pick up the bamboo silk and bend it repeatedly, and finally weave it into the dustpan we are familiar with, there is no action of dragging mud and water, there is no bells and whistles filter, these bamboo strips seem to have spirituality in the hands of the master.
The person who shot the video thought that this video would sink into the sea, but he didn't expect that it would directly make netizens unable to sit still, and many people left messages in the comment area, saying that they couldn't believe that such an ordinary dustpan contained such a powerful skill.
When the video became popular, some merchants saw business opportunities and thought that they could make a little article on the dustpan, but Chinese who have never seen the dustpan, no one buys it when it is expensive, and it can't make money when it is cheap, so this group of people wants to sell the dustpan abroad, maybe it will be popular.
After all, there are not no such cases, such as Lao Gan Ma, Wang Zhi and stinky tofu, etc., these merchants also want to make a fortune by relying on the dustpan, they first made the dustpan into a Chinese handicraft.
The video of weaving the dustpan was posted on the Internet, and "high-grade bamboo artwork" was written next to it, so that foreigners who had never seen this kind of thing thought that they had picked up a treasure, especially the words handmade, which cast a mysterious veil on the dustpan.
Soon after, someone discovered that the dustpan was hung on a website of high-end furniture in the United States, and the things that could be bought for more than a dozen yuan doubled in value after crossing the ocean, and were directly sold for 299 US dollars, which is about 2,000 yuan when converted into yuan.
Looking at the dustpan that had fallen into dust at home, I fell into deep thought for a while, this thing is so valuable, isn't it just a matter of sending so many dustpans at home, just imagine, if we are here, if anyone takes two thousand yuan to buy a dustpan, they will definitely be regarded as fools.
But in the United States, this dustpan has become a trend, not only in short supply, but also out of stock is a common thing, young people abroad are obsessed with it, for fear that they will not be able to grab this artwork.
In the eyes of young Americans, the dustpan is like a handmade thing made by some international brands, and they have long regarded the dustpan as a "high-end luxury" in their hearts.
But if you know the purpose of the Americans who buy the dustpan home, I am afraid that they will laugh directly, they do not buy it as a tool, but as an ornament, or ornament, and some even hang it directly at the head of the bed.
If it is changed to in China, who hangs the dustpan on the head of the bed, friends are afraid that they will laugh at him for a year, in the mainland it is a tool, and when it goes abroad, it becomes a work of art, and they even put the dustpan high-grade handicrafts.
Not to mention more than 200 US dollars, in order to get it, they would rather pay a high price to buy it, if this group of foreigners knew that dustpans are only sold for a dozen yuan in China, they don't know what they would think in their hearts?
Not only Americans are obsessed with this, but even Japanese people have also taken it, and after the dustpan became popular in Japan, some high-end places even used it as a decoration, and even gave gifts to use the dustpan as a gift.
Some people even buy it back and paint it on the dustpan, making it a high-end craft entirely.
It can be seen that what we see as "dirty" is like a treasure in the eyes of foreigners, and it seems to be a common thing to spend a lot of money to collect it.
When the skill of dustpan became popular overseas, it also reminded people to start paying attention to our country's intangible cultural heritage, and not to let these cultural treasures become treasures of other countries and eventually be lost in the mainland.