National Tide Revival — Homespun Cloth
Homespun Cloth--"Bottom Of The Box" Treasure
Many people know that in the old jiangnan family,
if a baby girl was born, they would plant a camphor tree in the courtyard.
When the daughter married, the father cut camphor trees into a pair of wooden boxes,
put silk as dowry, meaning: two boxes of silk together.
But what many people do not know is that, along with the two boxes of silk at the same time, there is also the old mother woven cloth, which is what we call homesickness.
Homespun cloth is the most durable and practical material for ordinary people in the past.
It looks rough, but in fact it is strong and durable, with the characteristics of keeping warm in winter and absorbing sweat in summer.
The patterns of homesickness cloth are also diverse and contain cultural and emotional implications.
The patterns of homesickness cloth are also diverse and contain cultural and emotional implications.
For example, a set of "medicine spot cloth" collected in huang Daopo Memorial Hall in Huajing Town, Shanghai, can be traced back to the Song Dynasty, with the pattern of dragon and phoenix auspicious, long life.
As well as her daughter married, the mother should prepare a well-shaped cloth in advance, meaning in good order, I hope the bride to her husband's home after housekeeping.
The dyeing and weaving skills of homesclot in Shanghai began with Huangdaopo.
During the Yuan Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty, huangdaopo introduced the cotton weaving skills to the local area.
At that time, it was also known as "ceiba is brocade and clothes are popular in the world".
After Ming Dynasty, the sale of Shanghai homespun cloth has been expanded to all parts of the country, and some of them are sold to Japan, South Asia and other places.
At present, there are still three places in Shanghai where homespun fabric can be seen, and it is also listed in the list of intangible cultural heritage protection.
Fengxian Zhuang Hang Homespun Fabric
Zhuang Hang weaving technology originated from the Yuan Dynasty Huangdaopo cotton weaving technology,
variety, color is rich and colorful, specifications are divided into large cloth, small cloth, belt cloth,
weaving methods are flat cloth, step cloth, jacquard cloth, plaid cloth, beautiful and practical.
Chongming Handwoven Cloth
With a history of more than 600 years, Chongming homespun cloth enjoys the reputation of "clothing under heaven".
Chongming people turn pure natural cotton into cotton strips and then go through more than 70 trivial processes such as plant dyeing to make them.
It takes one to seven months to weave a single piece of cloth.
Most significantly, chongming homespun cloth was once a necessary dowry for local people. No matter how poor the family, the daughter before getting married, will be woven by the mother a few pieces of homescloths. These dowries are woven into the mother's love for her daughter.
Chongming homescloths are mainly blue, with exquisite patterns, such as stripes and thin squares, chengxin cloth with chenghua pattern, Xizi cloth with red characters on a white background, lufei cloth with the most traditional significance, etc.
Although some people can weave homespun fabric now, the scene of mother spinning cotton, dyeing and weaving under an oil lamp will never come back, so the homespun fabric at the bottom of the box is of special significance
The Porch Handwoven Cloth
Since Huang Daopo spread his skills, the folk cotton and textile industry in Jinshan has been extraordinarily prosperous in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, among which jinshan's thin cloth, fine cloth, spindle and spinning wheel were once famous, and the corridor textile also got its heyday development.
By the Qing Dynasty, the old homescloths had been promoted to a special tribute and became the royal imperial use.
What is the non-material cultural heritage
it is precisely non-material
text to the people, people-oriented
