In the midst of everyone's small talk, before you know it, you will arrive at your destination.

After the car drove into Taoyuan Folk Village, everyone got off the bus, and the program team arranged for the tour guide to wait in front.

Lin Zhengrong is the first time to come and is not very familiar with it, so he has been following the tour guide, and in addition to the staff of the program team, Tang Wei is also their tour guide.

Taoyuan Folk Village is located in a thousand acres of peach forest, which is indeed very beautiful.

Tang Wei has been here once, so she explained, "Every year when the peach blossoms bloom, the local Nanhui Peach Blossom Festival is held here, which is very lively!"

Qin Yi asked, "So is there any now?" Some time ago in Wuhan, I went to East Lake Moshan Park and saw cherry blossoms and plum blossoms, but I haven't seen peach blossoms yet!"

Not to mention, as soon as Qin Yi said it, he remembered that Moshan Park does have a very beautiful cherry blossom garden, known as one of the three major cherry blossom viewing resorts in the world.

It is said that the main donation of the Mutsu Bank to build, the garden has both the characteristics of Chinese classical gardens, but also draws on the gardening techniques of the day, the beautiful cherry blossoms are as bright as the morning glow, white as the first snow, and the classic Japanese garden building Hirosaki Five-storied Pagoda is a symbol of friendship between the Chinese and Japanese people for generations. 5,000 cherry trees have been planted and opened in 2001.

With the construction and development of the East Lake Cherry Blossom Garden, Wuhan will be called the world's three major cherry blossom capitals in the near future, along with Aomori County in the United States and Washington in the United States.

Wuhan is known as the capital of cherry blossoms, and Lin Zhengrong thinks it is quite suitable.

The cherry blossoms of Wuhan University are famous all over the country.

For cherry blossom viewing in China, I basically go to Wuhan.

However, it is in March, and the cherry blossoms are not in full bloom.

Lin Zhengrong was told by Qin Yiyi that he remembered a lot of things, he had been to Moshan Park, but he did miss the flowering period.

It's a pity.

If you don't count his previous life, he really didn't have time to appreciate the cherry blossoms.

But when it comes to peach blossoms, Wuhan seems to have them, so he looked at Qin Yi and said, "There seems to be a peach blossom island in Wuhan's Dongxihu District, right?

Qin Yi said, "I'm busy, so I'm looking forward to it this time." ”

Well, you win.

Tang Wei shook her head, "Under normal circumstances, the Peach Blossom Festival is usually in March and April, so we don't have a good time to come, because it's already May." ”

Liu Wenbin said, "It's a pity. ”

Lin Zhengrong also said, "I really missed the best time period, but this year, because of the climate, the peach blossoms bloomed late, and we should catch up with the tail of the festival." ”

Qin Yi said, "I hope!"

Liu Wenbin was curious, "What are the Peach Blossom Festival?"

Tang Wei said, "It is the activity launched by the folk village, which is different from the music festival, there are usually some performances, and some experience projects, anyway, it is a bit like a farmhouse, but this is a folk village, so it is also like a resort, it is very fun, and the most important thing is to watch and take pictures." ”

She's a local and has been here before, so she knows a lot about the situation here.

The female director next to her is also introducing, "Since 1991, Nanhui has held the Peach Blossom Festival in March and April every year. The beautiful scenery of the seaside water town and the gorgeous peach blossom scenery complement each other, which has become a distinctive feature of the Zhonghai Nanhui Peach Blossom Festival. Whenever the grass grows and the warbler flies, the spring flowers bloom, the boat walks, under the blue sky and blue sea, the peach blossoms compete for beauty, the clouds are steaming; ”

This kind of official vocabulary sounds wonderful, but it's a bit empty.

It's better for Tang Wei to be an experiencer.

Lin Zhengrong looked at the surrounding landscape, and then said, "I look at the introduction in the evening, which is a bit similar to the Xiangshan Red Leaves Festival, right?"

Tang Wei shook her head, "I don't know, let's ask the real tour guide, I'm half a bucket of water." ”

The tour guide girl continued, "The Nanhui Peach Blossom Festival has gradually gone out of Shanghai and into the whole country, and has begun to be as famous as the Xiangshan Red Leaf Festival in Beijing and the Peony Festival in Luoyang, Henan. During the Peach Blossom Festival in 1999, 450,000 Chinese and foreign tourists visited Nanhui. Nanhui has become an ideal place for many domestic and foreign tourists to travel. Chinese and foreign tourists are welcome to come to Nanhui for sightseeing, and as of 2016, it has been successfully held for 25 sessions. ”

Lin Zhengrong went to the Red Leaves Festival many times, who let him study in Yanjing.

You can go to Xiangshan Park if you want.

However, the Luoyang Peony Festival and the Nanhui Peach Blossom Festival, Lin Zhengrong has not experienced it.

He has never been to Luoyang, and Nanhui is also the first time to come.

Lin Zhengrong: They are not just coming to play, they are recording a show.

There is a task.

It is necessary to understand the situation of Nanhui Taoyuan in order to truly integrate these things into the design.

So these basic facts are necessary to know.

Lin Zhengrong and the four of them, under the guidance of the tour guide, visited while walking.

In the folk village, the bamboo fence of the chaimen, the small bridge and the flowing water, the fresh air, and the clusters of peach blossoms and the fragrance of the flowers, it is indeed a holy place of peach blossom source.

"Taoyuan Folk Village covers an area of about 40 hectares, with an artificial lake of 6.67 hectares, which integrates the local folk customs of Nanhui, and every house and environment in the village expresses the vitality and simplicity of rural China. ”

"The rich nostalgia, gorgeous pastoral scenery, delicious farmhouse dishes, and rich entertainment activities make Taoyuan Folk Village a good place to enjoy flowers and leisure. ”

The female tour guide's words continued, but these are all nonsense, listening to these nonsense, it is better to go directly to Baidu Encyclopedia, so Lin Zhengrong couldn't help it, and asked directly, "Can you help introduce those attractions with special plays?" Otherwise, there are too many scenic spots, and we can't go around all of them in just one morning!"

The female tour guide nodded with thoughts, "There are now more than 30 different amusement spots in the village, visitors can weave cloth in the blue cloth workshop, listen to the silk and bamboo of the south of the Yangtze River in front of the ancient stage, taste spring tea in the Taoyuan Tea House, drink rice wine in the Wang Xiaoer Hotel, fish and fish by the small thatched hut, and return to the natural fun of farm life while enjoying the scenery." ”

Lin Zhengrong finally grasped the point, so he nodded and said, "Then according to what you said, let's go to these four scenic spots." ”

As he spoke, he began to discuss with the filming crew.

After discussing the results, he looked at the tour guide, "Let's go to the blue cloth spinning first, you know, our identity, we are actually more curious about the weaving process of the folk village." ”

China is actually very famous.

Indigo dyeing is an ancient printing and dyeing process that first appeared in the Qin and Han dynasties. In the process, there are printing and dyeing of wax valerian, twisted valerian, clamping valerian and other patterns. To make an indigo dye, it takes at least 20 years of practice before a unique color appears.

Ethnic minorities in the southwest region are prevalent in the indigo dyeing handicraft, the main indigo dyeing plant of the mountain blue, both wild and planted, now the usual indigo making process is the use of precipitation method, to indigo after the indigo gradually sinks to the bottom of the filter out of the indigo mud is used as dyeing indigo.

The Miao, Buyi, Yao, and Zhuang ethnic groups are also accustomed to adding ox blood and some kind of tree sap in the process of indigo dyeing, and the blue dyed is extremely deep, to the level of blackening. Then the cloth surface is beaten with a wooden air to make it flat, and finally the cloth surface is flat and glows red, which is called "bright cloth".

I just don't know what is the difference between the blue cloth spinning here and the blue dyeing process in the southwest.

Soon, everyone arrived at the blue cloth spinning.

In fact, it is a handicraft workshop, and the folk village tries to make its weaving process look more classical and retro.

But the cloth spinning side is not so amazing.

The layman looks at the bustle, and the insider looks at the doorway.

Whether it is for blue dyeing or weaving, Lin Zhengrong is a layman.

There's nothing wrong with being a costume designer, but they're idiots when it comes to craftsmanship, let alone this hand-weaving workshop.

They just came to see the excitement.

Because Qin Yi and Liu Wenbin were both here for the first time, and it was also the first time to see this kind of handicraft workshop, they were more excited.

In comparison, Lin Zhengrong and Tang Wei are much calmer.

The latter was calm mainly because she had been here, while Lin Zhengrong's calmness was because Blue Cloth Fang did not meet his expectations.

In his previous life, he had actually seen a lot of such cloth spinning.

However, I also talked about a lot of disappointments, and I can only say that I didn't meet expectations, but it was quite kind to see this kind of blue cloth workshop here in Nanhui Taoyuan.

There's more to it than going to a playground to feel the summer vibrancy of the outdoors.

Then we started talking.

Qin Yi said, "I heard from the students of the Chinese and Japanese classes that the indigo dyeing process is more popular in Yueben, and it can even be said that indigo dyeing, an advanced technique that originated in China, is being played by the person himself, and I don't know if it's true or not." ”

Liu Wenbin said, "Xiao Yueben has really done a good job in terms of craftsmanship, and the design is also very powerful, and the fashion capital of Tokyo is not called in vain." ”

At this point, Lin Zhengrong still has the right to speak.

He thought about it for a while, and said, "I've read the information, indigo dyeing, was introduced from China in the era of flying birds, and the indigo introduced from the Celestial Empire at the beginning has also gone through a long time before it has become the blue that people all over the world love, but I have to admit that I have indeed carried forward the process of indigo dyeing to the fullest, and the BUAISOU indigo dyeing workshop, which is popular in the global fashion circle, is one of the representatives." ”

Natural indigo is not an easy color to get!

Although indigo is often mentioned in many tutorials or products, in fact, the vast majority of it is not natural indigo dyeing.

Indigo is a natural dye extracted from the leaves of indigo, China and India should be the first in the world to extract natural indigo dye from indigo, indigo has antibacterial, insect-proof, deodorizing effects, and clothes made by indigo dyeing process are effective for rough skin and eczema, and can also prevent mosquito bites, which is very convenient.

It is said that the indigo dyeing process was transmitted from India along the Silk Road, but the exact time is unknown, and there are records of the cultivation of indigo in the 6th and 7th centuries. In the 19th century, after the door was opened to the West, British scholars who visited the city were deeply moved by the indigo color that could be seen everywhere on the streets, so they called this blue "blue blue".

In fact, the blue dye has been changed, and it is not the current blue.

Indigo came to Japan from China around the 6th century, and was widely used for dye cultivation because the cloth dyed with indigo does not fade easily, especially in the Awa region of Tokushima Prefecture, Japan, and the Yoshino River basin became the largest production area of indigo dyeing in Japan, so it is also called Awa Blue.

It was not until the Warring States period that indigo dyeing began to be used for the lining of samurai armor, and the demand for indigo dyeing increased dramatically, and large-scale mass production began.

After the founding of the country in the Meiji era, the cultivation of indigo spread throughout the country, from Hokkaido in the north to Kyushu in the south, and the scale of cultivation reached its peak in Meiji 36, when Tokushima Prefecture accounted for half of the total cultivation.

However, the good times did not last long, and India's high-quality and low-cost Indian blue easily occupied the market, and the share of chemically synthesized artificial blue in the late Meiji period also increased sharply, and the former "Japan Blue" seems to be in decline.

After all, Apo blue is a natural color, with a unique flavor and charm, just like the inherent tranquility of blue that has quietly set off waves.

Today, there is almost no cultivation of indigo in China, and although Tokushima in the Shikoku region of Tsumoto has been the production center of traditional indigo dyeing in Tokumoto, which has been developed in the region for 700 years, there are only five traditional indigo dyeing workshops in Tokushima.

These indigo dyeing workshops are indeed going to grow indigo, and at this point, it is impossible to see it in the folk village.

Lin Zhengrong and they just saw a weaving process, and there was really no way to see the blue dyeing process here.

"I heard that there are also this kind of indigo dyeing workshops in some ethnic minority areas in the southwest region, and if you have the opportunity, you can go and have a look, which is very good. ”

Lin Zhengrong felt that if he had the opportunity, he should take a look.

Tang Wei said, "Mr. Lin still knows more!"

Lin Zhengrong smiled bitterly, "We have done a project with my tutor before, and we have studied indigo dyeing, and I planned to use it to make a graduation thesis topic, but because I didn't have time to go to the local area, I didn't write it, but I still have some understanding of the process, in fact, Europe, especially Germany, has also done a good job in indigo dyeing, and China is still a little backward in terms of technology." ”

Qin Yi sighed, "I can only say that we don't pay much attention to it, every time I hear the guys in our school's Zhongri class boast about the indigo dyeing process of Yuben, I feel angry." ”

The little girl has a good temperament.

Lin Zhengrong said with a smile, "I can only say that we have too many excellent traditional crafts in China, and any one of them makes Xiao Yueben regard it as a treasure." ”

Having said that, but compared with many processes that can be compacted, the country is indeed a little backward.

But it is precisely because of this backwardness that there is room for young people like Lin Zhengrong to display their talents.

The increasingly important influence of the two major international fashion weeks in China, Yanjing and Zhonghai, in the global fashion circle, illustrates this.

If the domestic economy has maintained a rapid development, the fashion industry will definitely receive more and more attention, and the combination of traditional culture and the fashion industry is no longer such an incredible thing.

It's as if the Chinese style that the Fashion Designers Guild has been promoting is the best proof of this.

If everyone pays attention to it, it is only a matter of time before these processes are carried forward.

Lin Zhengrong has always had confidence in this.