China News Service, Huzhou, January 1st (Shi Zinan and Wu Jianxun) In winter, I came to the "Daqing Bamboo Art" workshop in Zhangcun Town, Zhangcun Town, Anji County, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province. Before I even entered the door, I saw the workshop owner Huang Daqing weaving Silhouette.

　　A pair of dexterous hands flexibly shuttled between the bamboo threads, and between the flips of the fingers, the green bamboos are transformed into bamboo baskets, bamboo baskets, and bamboo weaving lampshades...In the workshop, a wide variety of bamboo weaving products are abundant, including cattle and sheep. Bamboo crafts with horses and other shapes are novel and unique.

Huang Daqing is using a pencil to make design drawings. Photo by Wu Jianxun

　　Huang Daqing is a bamboo weaving artist in Zhangcun Village. He is 69 years old and has been engaged in bamboo weaving for more than 50 years.

He has been interested in bamboo weaving since he was a child. At the age of 17, he entered a bamboo factory in the village to learn bamboo weaving from his master.

　　A piece of "Taihu Stone" that is as tall as a person is a work of art woven from bamboo. Although it is a bit abstract, it is not difficult to see the exquisite craftsmanship and craftsmanship of this work.

This is Huang Daqing's proud work. It took more than half a month from conception to completion.

　　"Bamboo is grown everywhere in Zhangcun Village, and bamboo products can be seen everywhere in the house. Bamboo weaving was a very popular craft in the past." Huang Daqing's superb bamboo weaving skills are polished by time.

In his apprenticeship, he spent 3 years as an apprentice, 4 years of "half work", and then officially came out to do solo work 7 years later.

Huang Daqing's hands are covered with large and small calluses and scars. Photo by Wu Jianxun

　　Bamboo woven crafts are simple in shape, but complicated in craftsmanship.

From rough and heavy bamboo to bamboo strips less than one centimeter wide, it is necessary to go up the mountain to select the bamboo, scraping the knots, splitting the strips, crossing the sword gate, and scraping.

　　Bamboo weaving craftsmanship is a technical job, and it is a job that hurts one's hands.

Huang Daqing's scarred hands are the "marks" left by bamboo sticks over the years.

　　"No matter what shape you make, as long as you go through it in your head, you will know how to make the best effect." Huang Daqing is good at using his brain. The largest piece of work he wove is 3 meters high and 2.7 meters in diameter, using 30 pieces. bamboo.

　　Gradually, Huang Daqing has made a name for himself in this inconspicuous small industry by virtue of his skills of "Perfection in Art", and more and more people have come to ask him to do bamboo weaving.

　　In 2009, Huang Daqing was invited to Rwanda, Africa to participate in a foreign aid project of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration of China. He stayed for 2 years and patiently taught the skills of bamboo weaving to foreign friends.

　　After returning to China, the professor of the China Academy of Art found Huang Daqing. The combination of rural craftsmanship and the design of the Academy of Fine Arts, modern aesthetics gave this non-hereditary inheritance more imagination and creativity.

Huang Daqing's bamboo art works have also moved to various parts of China and even overseas.

Huang Daqing's bamboo weaving art work Photo by Wu Jianxun

　　In recent years, with the rise of eco-tourism, the ancient craft of bamboo weaving has also ushered in a new spring.

　　Many homestays and hotels in Anji are very fond of Huang Daqing's bamboo weaving crafts, and his orders are getting larger and larger.

　　"It has been more than 50 years, and I will continue to do it in the future." Huang Daqing said, because the bamboo weaving work is very hard, many apprentices have changed their careers.

Today, his biggest wish is to have young people willing to learn this art, hoping that an inheritor can pass on bamboo weaving skills from generation to generation.

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