[Explanation] Huanggu Village, located in Shibing County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, is a "Chinese minority village". Miao nationality embroidery, textile, tie-dye and other skills are well preserved and rich in national culture.

For a long time, the local Huanggu Primary School has fully integrated ethnic culture into their interest teaching and study life. Students dyed ethnic school uniforms with indigo by themselves and organized scarf charity sales to harvest ethnic skills and creative value.

　　[Explanation] Recently, the reporter walked into Huanggu Primary School. The blue and white silk scarves covered the corridor of the school's second-floor stilted building. The cloth was flipped in the wind like waves. The students wore indigo blue ethnic school uniforms and played on the campus. .

　　[Explanation] The blue extracted from plants is not only used in the local Miao food sister rice, but is now widely used in school uniforms and scarves made by students.

In the school's "Miao Nationality Skills Teaching Room", Wan Xiuying, a teacher of ethnicity class, was demonstrating the production of dyed cloth to the students. On the scene, she was picking up or placing ready-made garments and fabrics in the dyeing vat for dyeing. In the large vat of paint, there are yellowish water, dark green silk, and blue bubbles. After a few operations, a blue cloth is revealed.

　　[Live sound] Wan Xiuying, a trainer of indigo dyeing skills

　　If it (pigment) does not have a kind of (brown) green in it, and there are strips of green threads in it, it is dead. It can only be colored if it is alive. If it is not alive, it cannot be colored. life's.

　　[Explanation] In order to feed the living flora of indigo dyeing, Wan Xiuying not only adds a pound of indigo mud to each dyeing vat every day, but also adds a pound of rice wine, so that students of each grade can learn to dye, pass In the interest course for nearly a year, the students learned to dye indigo and put on their self-dyed school uniforms.

　　[Sound of the same period] Tai Xiumei, a student of Huanggu Primary School in Shibing County, Guizhou Province

　　This process is to take white clothes into the tank to soak, then take it out, and then let the water (filter) off some, then take it to the sun, and it can be worn after drying.

Now our school uniforms are all made by ourselves.

　　[Explanation] Now, under the guidance of the teacher, the students have also received corresponding valuable feedback on the scarf tie-dyeing techniques they have learned.

In 2022, under the friendship of the students from Jincheng No. 4 Middle School in Lin'an, Zhejiang, Huanggu Primary School sold 80 scarves and exchanged them for 60 study lamps. Daily necessities such as towels.

　　[Sound of the same period] Pan Yuqiuchen, a student of Huanggu Primary School in Shibing County, Guizhou Province

　　The teacher taught us to dye, and we exchanged these scarves for (bed) three-piece suits (such as daily necessities), we felt a sense of accomplishment, and we felt that these handmade things were very valuable.

　　Reported by Yang Jian, Wang Yiwei, Yuan Chao, and Qiandongnan, Guizhou

Responsible editor: [Wang Kai]