Huang Daobo was a very famous cotton weaver and reformer who lived in the late Song dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty, and was called "cotton god" by later generations. In fact, in addition to this name, Huang Daobo was also called "the ancestor of the cloth industry" by the craftsmen of the Qing Dynasty, and today it is also known as the lord of China's textile industry.
Just by looking at the above list of titles, we can know why the zodiac is called "cotton god", of course, because his achievements in the cotton textile industry are extremely high, so that he has been canonized as a "god". This is a very common method of praising outstanding people in a certain field in Chinese, just as Li Bai and Du Fu wrote poems well and were called poetry immortals and poetry saints.
In her early years, Huang Daobo was sold to a family with a field as a child bride and lived an inhuman life. Later, because she could not bear the torture of the in-laws' time, the zodiac chose to flee. By chance, he came to Yazhou in the South China Sea and was taken in by the Li people here. The Li are a skillful people with relatively advanced technology in the textile industry. Huang Daobo learned their textile techniques during a long period of time with the Li people. And according to this, it is combined with the textile technology of the Han people to take the essence of the two. Later, Huang Daobo returned to Wunijing because he missed his hometown, and generously gave his income to the people of his hometown.
The reason why Huang Daobo is called "cotton god" is because of her contribution to the Han cotton textile industry. One is to generously pass on his decades of textile experience, and the other is to reform the cotton textile tools with the craftsmen.
In terms of textile experience, Huang Daobo combined the weaving technology he learned from the Li people with his own practical experience to summarize a set of advanced "wrong yarn, color matching, thread, and flower" technology. This technology has greatly improved the textile technology in the Yangtze River Basin, especially in Wunijing, and the cotton fabrics produced such as quilts, mattresses, belts, and brooms have various beautiful patterns such as folded branches, tuanfeng, chess games, and characters, which are bright and picturesque, and there is a scene of Songjiang cloth "clothes under the world". At that time, a poet wrote a poem praising:
Cliff state cloth is covered with five-colored reels, groups of foggy clouds japonica flowers and grasses,
Flakes of the sail whale sea to the wind outlet, a thousand axes of the dark path to conquer the sky.
In terms of cotton textile tools, in view of the situation that textile tools were relatively backward and time-consuming and laborious at that time, the zodiac and the craftsmen studied for a long time, repeatedly experimented, and finally reformed a set of tools for catching, bouncing, spinning and weaving: seed stirring car, cotton vertebral arch, three ingot pedal spinning wheel.
The birth of these tools has greatly improved the efficiency of cotton textile, ensured the raw material demand of the cotton textile industry, and further promoted the development of the cotton textile industry.
Huang Mother-in-law,
Yellow Mother-in-law.
Teach me yarn,
Teach me cloth,
Two tubes of two pieces of cloth.
Simple folk songs, in plain vernacular language, express gratitude and commemoration of the personal contributions of the zodiac.
In 2010, the TV series "Dressed by the World" directed by the famous director Li Guoguo, which was carefully prepared by the top production team of Shanghai Tang Ren Film Company for three years, was broadcast on TV. This TV series adapted from zodiacals has made the personal image and story of zodiacals widely disseminated, but at the same time it has also brought some misunderstandings.
In this TV series, the zodiac played by Liu Shishi is named Huang Qiao'er, so many people think that the real name of the zodiac is Huang Qiao'er. However, the truth is that Huang Qiao'er is only a name created by the screenwriter for the needs of the plot and the beauty of the name.
The true name of the zodiac is not recorded because of the ignorant contempt of the feudal history of scientists and inventors. The stories of the zodiac that circulate today are all handed down by the people. In folklore, the zodiac is also called Huang Po and Huang Mu, which are her pseudonyms. Her real name has long been submerged in the clouds of history, leaving only the "Huang" surname.