China Good Crafts: Yiyang Xiaoyu Bamboo Art

Author:Guangming Daily Time:2022.09.03

Speaker: National Intangible Cultural Heritage Yiyang Xiaoyu Bamboo Art representative inheritors Guolu Mian

As early as the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Yiyang bambooware became an industry. In the Qing Dynasty, Yiyang was a well -known "city of bamboo" in Jiangnan.

I came from a handicraftist's house. When I was a kid, I often went to the bamboo art factory near home to play. When I saw a straight bamboo, I "Yu" became a exquisite bambooware in the hands of the master, so I became interested in Xiaoyu bamboo art.

In Yiyang dialects in Hunan, "Yu" means heating bamboo to soften the fire, and then it means to create a variety of style utensils. In the process of "Fire Equipment", the craftsman grasped "fire" with experience. The heating time is too short, and the bamboo material is difficult to "depressed"; otherwise, it will burnt again. If you want to practice "Yu" bamboo skills, you must work hard.

To make a piece of bambooware, it must be selected, feed, oil -burned, and depression. Make a skeleton with moso bamboo. After the bamboo junction is flattened, the oil is burned in order to steam dry water, and the surface impurities are burned, so that the surface of the bamboo material is clean and smooth. When roasting with fire, the sugar in the bamboo material will be heated up. It looks like "oil", which can also prevent mildew and moth.

In the past, it was as large as bamboo beds and bamboo cabinets, as small as bamboo fan and bamboo lanterns. Today, with the help of electronic equipment instead of polishing, feeding, etc., it saves time and effort. I tried to make small products such as mobile phone racks and car hanging with Xiaoyu Zhiyi, which is very popular.

"It is determined that the green mountains are not relaxed, and the roots are in the broken rock." Bamboo is often given a spiritual symbol of personality such as straight and qi festivals by literati. I combined bamboo culture with Xiaoyu Zhiyi to cooperate with primary and secondary schools to open the "Xiaoyu bamboo art work classroom" to inherit Xiaoyu bamboo art.

(Reporter Zhao Jiawei, and the correspondent Wang Sheng interviewed and sorted out)