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Shahe Straw Weaving Sprouts on Tradition
Jun 08,2020
Grass weaving, a traditional craft widely spread in folklore, is a very simple material, straw, branches, corn husks and so on in the fields can be transformed into exquisite handicrafts. It can be baskets, fruit boxes, cups and other daily necessities that can be found everywhere, can also be dyed and designed to become exquisite decorations, both economical and practical and beautiful.
Shahe Town Straw Crafts Shahe Town, Laizhou City, is the early distribution centre of Chinese straw crafts, and also a place of intangible cultural heritage, where straw crafts have a long history of nearly 2,000 years. Grass crafts have a long history of nearly 2,000 years in this town. The creation of grass crafts started in the Han and Tang dynasties, and the scale was formed in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and they were even exported to overseas. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, "Dazhonghe" was the earliest businessman who pushed the Shahe straw hat and braid to the international market. 1915, "Dazhonghe" operated the four famous products of straw braid, i.e., "Shahe yellow", "Shahe white", "Shahe white", "Shahe white", "Shahe white" and "Shahe white". In 1915, the four famous products of straw braid operated by "Dazhonghe", namely "Shahe White", "Shahe Moment Stripe" and "Laizhou Flower", were awarded special prizes at the Pacific Panama Exposition held in San Francisco, the United States.
Shahe people with their hometown name grass braid varieties, it can be seen, grass braid for them, has not simply handicrafts so simple, more into the strong feelings of the township and the inheritance of traditional crafts. Located in Shahe Town, Shandong Field Grass Roots Crafts Co., Ltd. to promote national craft culture for the purpose of carrying forward the spirit of craftsmanship, with China's accelerated implementation of the innovation-driven development strategy, the mass entrepreneurship and innovation of the new wave of the country advocating the vigorous development of the national industry, the situation in the country advocates the development of national industries, in the Laizhou grass braid on the basis of the traditional crafts, the national culture and modern crafts, design and production of the nature of the creative crafts paintings. The products adopt hundreds of original ecological and environmentally friendly materials such as wheat straw, corn husk, corn cob, reed straw, reed, linen, hemp rope, tree bark, weeds, shell, paper rope, paper cloth, silk, Chinese silk, etc., and are purely handmade, expressing the themes of flowers, birds, insects and grasses, plums, orchids, bamboo and chrysanthemums, eagle spreading its wings, welcoming the pines with hospitality, far-sightedness, filial piety, the picture of a lady, all the way to the clean and honest, the wind and the scenery, the abstract paintings, and the culture of Qilu, etc., which not only contain the national cultural heritage but also the abstract painting. It contains not only the heritage of national culture, but also the characteristics of modern craftsmanship, with unique and novel creativity, and has both ornamental function and collection value. Products are now stationed in Shanghai World Intangible Cultural Heritage City, the company has been invited to participate in many intangible cultural heritage exhibitions and awards, the company's founder Zhou Xueyu has been formally declared the municipal intangible cultural heritage inheritors in 2017.
Times are always developing, the footsteps of history are always moving forward, and national traditional crafts also need to evolve and develop. Throughout the traditional crafts handed down to the present day, no matter how the development of science and technology, its main raw materials, core memories, core concepts, etc., will not change, just some auxiliary operation with the development of science and technology, appropriate changes, it is precisely these changes, so that the national traditional crafts glowing with the vitality of the times. Ltd. based on the national excellent traditional craft culture, drawing on the excellent achievements of human civilisation, discovering and using the cultural elements and craft concepts contained in traditional crafts, enriching the subject matter of traditional crafts and product varieties, upgrading the level of design and production, improving the quality of the products and value-added products, so that the products are more in line with the aesthetic characteristics of the masses of the people and the needs of the consumption, and get the domestic and foreign consumers love. The products have been favoured by consumers both at home and abroad.
Nowadays, many excellent national traditional crafts are disappearing at an alarming rate in the waves of the times, and people's sighs are endless. Let the meaningful heritage and development of traditional ethnic crafts become interesting, so that interesting traditional ethnic crafts become "good and popular", is the need for social development, but also the voice of the people. On top of tradition, new shoots will be born, so that the outstanding traditional craft achievements will continue to be passed on!
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