Good craftsmanship in China: Da Mingcao editor

Speaker: Wang Qunying, a national intangible cultural heritage in Daming County, Hebei Province

Peking opera Facebook, performance dresses, theme comics ... Can you imagine these objects, all made of grass?

The big name is the old craft. In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, Da Ming had the custom of making a "back spring hat" -in the first summer after the girl got married, he wanted to give the man a few straw hats from his mother. Today, the households of the famous family make straw hats and straw hats and braids. In addition to their own use, they can also sell money.

Most of the materials of Da Mingcao are wheat stalks, with various weaving methods. There are dozens of braids, flat editing, twisted, standing, and editing flowers. The most important kung fu is to make braids: first choose wheat crickets, and the six verses of wheat stalks can be used to weave stems below the ears of the wheat ears and above the first section. When the selected stems are soft in the water, you can braid.

I first learned the seven -stranded braids. I started with 5 wheat crickets and turned up and down in my hand. In my tens, I learned a variety of braids.

In the autumn of 1988, a Peking Opera Facebook inspired me: Can the grass compilation be combined with Facebook? After conceived and drawing, after a dozen processes such as the selection, steaming, drift, dyeing, embroidery, skewers, and entanglement, I created the grass to compose the Facebook of Beijing opera. Unexpectedly, as soon as he came out, he was loved by people.

I also tried to integrate paper -cutting, painting, embroidery and other techniques into the art of straw editors, and produced objects such as screens, zodiac signs, and performances. Shining the most traditional straw hat to the size of broad beans into a card is also a popular goods! With the continuous innovation of the product, the market has also opened, and the famous grass has really made a "big name".

In recent years, I have often went to grass to make technical classes in primary and secondary schools, and also drove more than 2,000 people to get rich by making grass.

(Reporter Geng Jianyu and Chen Yuanqiu, a correspondent Zhou Jinli, interviewed and sorted out)

Source: "Guangming Daily" (01, July 14, 2022)

Editor -in -chief: Wang Yuanfang

Editor: Xing Yanyan Zhu Xiaofan

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