[Explanation] A pair of skillful hands, strips of bamboo and rattan, flying up and down, red seal script characters appear on the rattan surface, delicate and elegant.

On June 29, the reporter walked into the Anxi Bamboo and Rattan Weaving Skills Training Institute in Quanzhou, Fujian Province. Chen Hongping, the winner of the 2022 Fujian May 1st Labor Medal and the inheritor of Anxi Bamboo and Rattan Weaving Skills, is busy weaving her new work "Three Character Classic".

  [Concurrent] National Intangible Cultural Heritage - Bamboo Weaving (Anxi Bamboo and Rattan Weaving) Municipal Inheritance Inheritance Chen Hongping

  Some of the information that modern people absorb is fragmented and fragmented.

But we are going to do it for a long time.

This skill has not been practiced. How to do this closing will be done. You want to make it more beautiful and finer. In fact, it is also a process of practicing meditation.

  [Explanation] Anxi bamboo and rattan weaving skills have a long history and can be traced back to thousands of years.

Bamboo and rattan weaving is rich in shapes and materials, with traditional national characteristics and a strong atmosphere of life.

In 2014, bamboo weaving (Anxi bamboo and rattan weaving) was included in the fourth batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

  [Explanation] When it comes to Anxi bamboo and rattan weaving, we have to talk about Chen Hongping's father, Chen Qinghe, the late master of arts and crafts and a national model worker.

Chen Qinghe has specialized in bamboo and rattan weaving craftsmanship all his life. He turned the humble bamboo and rattan into handicrafts that made local farmers rich.

From the age of seven, Chen Hongping learned simple bamboo and rattan weaving skills under the influence of Chen Qinghe.

  [Concurrent] National Intangible Cultural Heritage - Bamboo Weaving (Anxi Bamboo and Rattan Weaving) Municipal Inheritance Inheritance Chen Hongping

  Learned those, those basic things, but every year vacation was "caught" by my mom to polish (polish).

When I was a child, I did a lot of work in this area during the holidays. It can be said that from the first grade to the fifth grade, I was not very happy, lived, or that kind of vacation every year.

  [Explanation] Chen Hongping, who has grown up, has not left the industry.

With excellent grades and fluent foreign language, she joined the market trend and engaged in the foreign trade of Anxi rattan and iron craft products.

In 2019, Chen Hongping gave up her lucrative job and returned to her father to learn the craft of bamboo and rattan weaving again.

  [Concurrent] National Intangible Cultural Heritage - Bamboo Weaving (Anxi Bamboo and Rattan Weaving) Municipal Inheritance Inheritance Chen Hongping

  (2019) When we gave him (father) his 80th birthday, then our children, these daughters, gave him a kneeling ceremony.

My dad cried when I knelt down.

At that moment, at that time, it seemed like a thought flew into my head and said, if you are really filial, you still promise him to come back to receive the inheritance.

  [Explanation] In Chen Hongping's eyes, inheritors of intangible cultural heritage skills must not only be able to do, but also teach, speak, and write.

In addition to her busy creation, she compiled school-based textbooks for Anxi bamboo and rattan weaving skills, and often went to the training classroom and the intangible cultural heritage museum to teach students in person.

  [Concurrent] National Intangible Cultural Heritage - Bamboo Weaving (Anxi Bamboo and Rattan Weaving) Municipal Inheritance Inheritance Chen Hongping

  Whether you can do this skill is one thing, whether you can teach people it is another.

Not all people who know the art will teach people, it is not like this.

So this is also a problem that many people have encountered in non-genetic inheritance. It can be said that it is a common problem.

It doesn't mean that people can understand it when it's made, it's not.

You have to express it in modern language.

Let all people come into contact with this thing, have this foundation, and do it with ease.

  Ke Ning Wu Guanbiao reported from Quanzhou, Fujian

Responsible editor: [Li Ji]