On September 1, in Zhengdong Town, Jiangcheng Hani and Yi Autonomous County, Pu'er City, Yunnan Province, 92-year-old Mizaijin was weaving Dai brocade on an old-fashioned loom.
Dai brocade, the brocade of the Dai nationality, is a folk handicraft spread among the Dai people.
The colors and patterns of each pattern have specific content. For example, the red and green colors commemorate ancestors; the peacock pattern symbolizes auspiciousness; the human elephant pattern symbolizes the abundance of grains and so on.
In 2008, the Dai brocade technique was included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
Mizaijin is the inheritor of the provincial intangible cultural heritage of Dai brocade.
At an old age, she is still teaching apprentices, passing on the fingertip culture that condenses the national memory.
Zhengdong Town, bordering Laos in the southeast, is a border town with the Dai people as the inhabitants of the world.
Zhengdong Town is committed to protecting and inheriting intangible cultural heritage, gathering people's hearts and promoting national unity through culture.
(Gu Liping produced Liu Peng)
Responsible editor: [Li Ji]