Text: Xiao Peng's brilliant notes
Editor|Xiao Peng's brilliant notes
[Preface]
Bamboo dustpans were a very common thing in the countryside of the mainland in the past, and many household items of the previous generation were actually woven by themselves in nature.
When you buy it in the market, the highest price is generally about 20 yuan, but in the current high-tech era, dustpans are rarely used.
Smart products such as sweepers and automatic mopping machines can even automatically collect garbage, and bamboo dustpans are still used by some people with feelings, but in fact, few people use them.
Occasionally, you may see it at a street stall, and the price will not be very high, but some people may not believe it, it is such a knitted product that is less than 20 yuan in China, and it has been speculated abroad to thousands of prices.
In fact, many things in the mainland that have been eliminated and outdated, and no one cares about them, have become the existence of crazy robbery abroad, and the bamboo dustpan is a high-level "bamboo weaving artwork" in the eyes of these foreign friends.
So what's going on, and what are they paying so much money to buy this knit back for?
【Dustpan of 2000 sold abroad】
On a foreign furniture buying platform, the price of a dustpan has attracted people's attention, the original price of this dustpan is 299 US dollars, and the yuan is almost 2,000.
Moreover, this purchase platform is also a high-end furniture platform in the United States, and the dustpans in the mainland appear in rural markets.
It appears in the home furnishing platform in the United States, presumably to decorate their own homes, and in the mainland, perhaps because this craft is too common, it is used to do farm work, hold things, sweep garbage, etc.
In fact, there were very few decorations in the beginning, but now with the development of the times, there may be aesthetic reincarnation or hunting, and there are also artworks made of bamboo weaving that are hung at home.
However, the price of dustpans is still relatively rare in the mainland, so why is there such a phenomenon? In fact, there are many reasons.
The first one, of course, is because the bamboo weaving in the mainland is very exquisite, whether we are in the history books or in the TV series, we should be very impressed by the baskets they carry.
There are also dustpans used to hold corn and vegetable leaves among farmers, which are made of bamboo, and the history of bamboo weaving products in the mainland can even be traced back to the Stone Age.
In the era of underdeveloped science and technology, many things in the lives of our ancestors were made from real life, and then woven and processed by manpower.
The wheel of history is rolling forward, these craft culture has been left for a long time, there are generations of people to inherit, and now the bamboo weaving art in the mainland has developed into a high-level level.
In addition, it is understandable that people actually have a certain curiosity mentality, and it is always not surprising that the price of something fresh and imported from abroad is high.
And there is no doubt that the artistic strength of foreign bamboo weaving is naturally not as good as the mainland, most of them are imported from the mainland, and the overall foreign market is in short supply.
In addition, when American merchants advertise, they all advertise that this is a work of art, and it is very high-end to decorate the house, so it has caused many people to rush it.
I don't know if you have a feeling now, that is, hand-woven things will be more popular with everyone now, before we may have been to save labor and material costs, so we studied and explored to make them ourselves.
Later, with the development of science and technology, people relied on machines to free their hands, and this kind of bamboo products gradually spread in the market, and artificial weaving became a particularly scarce thing.
It may be that in our current view, hand-woven is already very precious, and for foreign people, imported hand-woven bamboo products are even more precious.
So it is not surprising that there is such an expensive price, after all, the mainland's three jumpers, in our opinion, are not unusual, and they are particularly popular abroad.
【China's ever-changing bamboo weaving】
In addition to dustpans, there are many types of bamboo weaving products in the mainland, and the existence of bamboo plays a very important role in both art and daily life.
For example, thicker bamboo will be used as building materials for bamboo buildings, and some woven bamboo beds are also particularly popular, and they can also be played or blown into musical instruments.
Like bamboo baskets, bamboo baskets and bamboo cages, etc., play a very important role in the daily life of the ancients, and the use of bamboo products has also enhanced the temperament to a certain extent, after all, in the traditional culture of the mainland, bamboo also has the meaning of "gentleman".
The art of bamboo weaving in the mainland not only contains the essence of bamboo, but also shows the integrity of bamboo, in fact, there is a legend about bamboo weaving that is, in ancient times, there was a woman called "Lady Bamboo".
She is very beautiful, and very good at bamboo weaving, the things that are woven are very ingenious, exquisite, by the king at that time appreciated, her bamboo weaving skills are also widely known in the world, this art has become a handicraft with great cultural connotation.
Of course, this is just a legend, but the existence of bamboo weaving art and the cultural significance contained in it is also real, and the bamboo weaving industry in Quxian County in the Tang Dynasty is very developed.
In people's daily life, bamboo products are used almost everywhere, such as beds, chairs, hats and fans, etc., which can be woven from bamboo.
Later, when it developed to the Qing Dynasty, the bamboo silk palace fan and the fine mat in Qu County were even listed as tributes to the imperial court, in short, they have great cultural value and significance.
In 1980, the "jacquard weaving method" of bamboo weaving greatly promoted the development of bamboo weaving technology, and the scale of bamboo weaving handicrafts in the mainland is also expanding, and the skills are constantly improving and improving.
Our modern bamboo weaving artwork contains a lot of weaving skills, and in the process of weaving, we also pay attention to the reality and light and shade of light and shadow.
Bamboo weaving paintings will also be combined with some famous calligraphy and painting, and its delicacy can even be combined with silk and embroidery from the mainland, which has a very great inheritance significance.
In Tianzhi County, Guangxi, the mainland, there are very rich bamboo resources here, and the people in this area have a very long history of making bamboo handicraft products.
In the villages here, there are many talented people with bamboo weaving skills, and the young people here have been familiar with this technology since childhood.
In today's development, the products they weave have gradually developed from the rural bazaars to the online business, in addition to dustpans, there are all kinds of other things, such as bamboo baskets, bamboo fans, and so on.
Nowadays, people are gradually aware of the importance of traditional handicrafts, so from the initial support for the inheritance of this traditional craft, to the awareness of the charm of handmade bamboo products, now they have slowly moved towards the international market.
Now the bamboo weaving art of the mainland has been listed as an intangible cultural heritage, which has been widely welcomed by foreign friends and attracted the attention of all countries in the world.
【The Influence of Chinese Art Overseas】
China's 5,000-year-old culture, no matter what field it is, is still blooming with an incomparable unique charm.
Previously, a bamboo weaving video released by mainland Chinese people on the Internet exploded, attracting more than 70 million people to watch, and the video is a simple bamboo weaving process.
But in the comments below the video, the voice of admiration is really very high, and some foreigners have said that it is really incredible.
A simple piece of bamboo is split, and after a delicate operation, it becomes a beautiful work of art, is this the mysterious "Chinese kung fu"?
When some videos show their familiar brushes and brooms at the end, they are even more amazed, and the number of likes has really skyrocketed.
There is a video made of bamboo that is made of handicrafts at the end, and the number of likes has reached 4.1 million times, and the comment area is full of praise.
It is not only an expression of respect for the art of bamboo weaving, as well as the astonishment of the talent and strength of the blogger, but also a convincing admiration for Chinese culture.
In fact, the export advantage of handicrafts from the mainland is very obvious, because first of all, our skills have experienced thousands of years of precipitation, have very rich experience, and have a complete and mature production system.
In recent years, the concept of "bamboo instead of plastic" has gradually become popular, so many areas with bamboo economy-based have greatly increased their export volume.
In addition to the regions we mentioned earlier, in fact, Guangdong Xinyi is also a very large bamboo weaving production base, in the statistics of 2022, the annual export volume of bamboo weaving in this region has reached 200 million pieces, involving more than 30 countries.
In addition to inheriting Chinese culture, bamboo products are actually taking on more values and missions, and perhaps in the near future, China's bamboo products will also spread all over the world and penetrate into the lives of people in various countries.
From this point of view, it is actually very understandable that foreigners are so enthusiastic about bamboo weaving, which is also a manifestation of their appreciation of Chinese culture and pursuit of Chinese art.
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Resources:
Global Network - "Japanese Media: $12.2 billion, China Regains Its Position as the World's Second Largest Art Market"
Guangming.com - "Tianzhi County: Taxation Helps Traditional "Fingertip Skills" to Innovate Out of the Circle"
China Customs Media - "Maoming Customs Helps Xinyi Bamboo Weaving to Seize the Opportunity of "Replacing Plastic with Bamboo" and Becomes Popular Overseas"