IN ENGLISH, THE WORD "CHINA" REPRESENTS TWO BASIC MEANINGS IN THE INTERPRETATION, NAMELY "CHINA" AND "PORCELAIN". People praise porcelain with words such as "white as jade, bright as mirror, thin as paper, sound like chime", which is undoubtedly the high praise of Chinese porcelain by researchers and appreciators.

Obviously, porcelain is a cultural specialty of China, but also one of the traditional handicrafts in China, it represents the far-reaching history and culture of Chinese arts and crafts to a certain extent. In traditional Chinese literati paintings, there are "Four Gentlemen (Meilan, Zhuju)".

Bamboo, as a representative of tenacity and integrity, has always been loved by literati and endowed with the character of a gentleman. The bamboo is tall and delicate, the bamboo silk is fine and tough, and the pattern is simple, simple and elegant.

Bamboo weaving art is one of the traditional bamboo products, which is made of bamboo as raw materials, weaving a variety of patterns and patterns, and making various handicrafts in the form. Porcelain fetal bamboo weaving is also known as "weaving button porcelain", "selected materials, extra-fine filament, close to the tire, hidden head" is the artistic characteristics of porcelain fetal bamboo weaving, bamboo silk stands with the tire, the bamboo wire joint is round, harmonious, the warp and weft silk is smooth, coherent, compact structure, seamless, natural. The simple and elegant patterns and woven structures reflect the historical and artistic culture of China's origins.

"China's bamboo weaving is in Sichuan, and Sichuan's bamboo weaving is in Qingshen." Pingle Town, Qingshen County, western Sichuan Province, is known as the "Hometown of Chinese Bamboo Weaving Art", and the old bamboo weaving artists in Qingshen Town, the slender and slender bamboo silk is shaped under their hands, and the finished products with exquisite craftsmanship appear in their hands. Wine utensils, tea sets, vases and stationery utensils are their main products.

First, the background of porcelain bamboo weaving

Porcelain and bamboo occupy an important position in the quintessence of the country. People have been exploring and trying these two forms of culture and art representatives, and finally in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Guozheng, a person from Chongzhou, Sichuan, was "whimsical", stripped of the cocoon, flexible and boneless, making the bamboo weaving technique from "fetal molding" to "fetal dependence".

Sichuan is the production base of porcelain and bamboo weaving, and Chengdu is one of the production areas with superior scale and quality. Porcelain bamboo handicrafts are unique and fine, and have the technical characteristics of "selected materials, extra-fine filaments, close to the tire, secret hidden heads, and colorful pictures".

Due to the changes of the times, cultural transfer, and the weaving technology of several dynasties, after several displacements, after excavation and exploration since modern times, production has gradually resumed, and it has gradually emerged and highlighted its status in the world.

In 1916, porcelain bamboo handicrafts won the silver medal at the Panama International Exposition, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, porcelain bamboo handicrafts as a representative of Chinese cultural characteristics to participate in many foreign exhibitions, won a number of awards, and as a gift between national representatives, as a regional representative, known as the "flower of oriental art".

Second, the beauty and value of porcelain bamboo weaving

After the flow of history and the accumulation of years, under the efforts of generations of craftsmen to explore and inherit the development, bamboo handicrafts from the folk daily necessities gradually beautified, appreciated by everyone, become an important handicraft in people's lives, for a long time for people to watch and use, among them, some of the delicate and delicate high-end products were collected and played by the princes and nobles.

The bamboo weaving process is diversified, the shape is very rich in national characteristics, and the decorative patterns have a sense of form and rhythm, and have the unique aesthetic characteristics and value of strong national culture.

(1) Practical value

Folk handicrafts are produced by labor, and in the process of labor, the practical value is transformed into the enjoyment of beauty. Folk culture is gradually extracted from practicality, and it is the driving force for the creation of this kind of culture.

All art comes from life, bamboo weaving is based on the premise of using function, at first, people weave bamboo weaving into a form of support wrapped in the outside of porcelain such as wine jars, which plays a certain protective role.

Zhang Guozheng, a native of Chongzhou, Sichuan, created a fetal bamboo weaving on the basis of bamboo weaving, and the descendants have formed the current porcelain fetal bamboo weaving after continuous development. The predecessor of porcelain bamboo weaving was created only to protect porcelain from damage, and this protection is not only a single aspect, but also a major reflection of the value of beauty.

The porcelain fetal bamboo weaving is attached to the surface of the fetal bottom through the bamboo weaving, and is woven according to the shape and structure of the fetal bottom, so that a protective layer is formed at the bottom of the fetus.

Due to the good toughness of bamboo, in the process of using porcelain bamboo weaving, in the case of bumps and drops, the outer layer of bamboo weaving can play a good cushioning role, effectively protecting the safety of the inner porcelain fetus; On the other hand, the thermal conductivity of bamboo itself is very poor, if there is a hot thing in the porcelain tire, it is easy to be burned by bare hand contact, in order to avoid this unnecessary injury, you can add a layer of bamboo weaving on the outer layer of the porcelain tire, so that you don't have to worry about being burned, and it can also play a role in heat preservation.

The above physical characteristics of bamboo weaving make bamboo weaving more in line with the use of modern people, but also in line with the aesthetic characteristics of modern people, its artistic characteristics and practical value coexist, so that it has more social potential in the direction of development.

(2) The beauty of modeling

The porcelain tire is created according to the shape of the inner tube, which brings different visual feelings, and the diversification of the shape also brings diversity to the development of porcelain bamboo weaving. The characteristics of bamboo determine that bamboo products are round and smooth, giving people a sense of softness, closeness and completeness.

The creative lines of porcelain bamboo weaving have been summarized many times, and they are mainly round. In Chinese history and culture, the circle represents a sense of harmony and happiness, and the Chinese have a kind of ideological sustenance and comfort for round objects, and the round shape also brings storage and ornamental value to porcelain bamboo weaving.

This mellow beauty shortens the sense of distance between people and utensils, and makes people feel relieved to return to nature.

At present, the common porcelain bamboo shapes mainly include bottles, altars, boxes, screens, etc., among which the scale of vases is changeable, the bottle height is as small as 5cm, and the pattern is as large as 2m, and some are elegant, and some are colorful. The shape of the porcelain bamboo weaving shows a variety of shapes through the porcelain tire to which it is attached, but the overall posture is round and smooth.

(3) The beauty of the pattern

Bamboo weaving is based on the shape of the inner tube is tightly wound, and through different techniques and techniques when compiling, different forms of geometric patterns and complex patterns are formed. Because of the limitation of bamboo's flexible characteristics, most of the patterns of bamboo weaving are regular geometric ornamentation.

Through this regularity of fabrication, a unique rhythm of the style is formed, and the sense of form of the pattern and the beauty of Chinese folk customs are inherited from each other, giving people a feeling of the beauty of natural laws, and having a strong national characteristics of labor art.

With the development of modern science and technology, it has brought a greater breakthrough to the weaving color, the complexity of the pattern has also made a qualitative leap, and the color of animals and plants has changed more abundantly, and there is more layering in the visual.

Chengdu's characteristic bamboo weaving also because of the national treasure panda survival here also shows unique local characteristics, the level of the pattern according to the color and weaving skills to form a sharp contrast, in the bottle pattern color to increase the level, the formation of distinctive local characteristics.

Third, the economic value and market potential of bamboo weaving art

In the long-term development and application, there are handicrafts created close to folk life, beauty in the labor gradually generated, more able to drive people's visual senses, practical bamboo weaving gradually evolved into artistic expression.

Bamboo weaving has artistic value, historical value and economic and cultural value, the most significant embodiment of the value is the economic value, the economic value determines the market positioning and market development potential of bamboo weaving art; In the same way, economic development can protect the development of the cultural value of porcelain and bamboo weaving.

With the progress of science and the development of the times, the handicraft industry has gradually withdrawn from the stage of life, but the value of handicraft in the market has gradually increased with the lack of quantity, and the market value of porcelain and bamboo weaving is also increasing.

In fact, with the development of science and technology and the rapid development of the network in the information age, the cultural dissemination of the network is also a good promotion and publicity channel for porcelain bamboo weaving. In Zhao Sijin's words: "There are almost no young people under the age of 40 who are weaving bamboo. ”

For young people, with the improvement of cultural and economic level, people have a strong interest in art products. The current art market consumption direction is mainly middle-aged and elderly, and their demand for cultural and artistic spirit increases after retirement, which is the main direction of development of porcelain bamboo weaving in the current market; After the economic level of the younger generation has improved, and the material needs have been satisfied, they have begun to seek the development of spiritual culture, which is also a major development direction of the future market.

The practical value and artistic value embodied in porcelain bamboo weaving is now the best use of the pursuit of society, not only can be used as decorations in people's daily life, but also can be used as practical products, which is a higher market share for porcelain bamboo weaving.

In the system of global economy, porcelain bamboo weaving represents China's art and culture, and is also widely used in diplomacy, when the two countries exchange cultures between national representatives, porcelain bamboo weaving is proposed, and the craftsmanship and artistic value of porcelain bamboo weaving make it sell well in Hong Kong and Macao, Southeast Asia, the United Kingdom and other regions. Porcelain bamboo weaving has great influence on both domestic and foreign markets.

IV. Conclusion

Bamboo is the object of the literati and writers have always sighed, and the natural properties of bamboo itself also make bamboo creative, flexible and slender are the growth characteristics of bamboo, and folk artists use the characteristics of bamboo itself to create a variety of artworks.

Among them, bamboo porcelain is one of them, it has many delicate and delicate technological characteristics and aesthetic value for different classes of Chinese people, because the porcelain itself fired with soil inevitably has the fragile characteristics of ceramic handicrafts, and with flexible bamboo as a cover, it is an important protective film for porcelain, more of a layer of packaging with artistic value, the two complement each other in nature, interdependence, and form unique characteristics.

Bamboo weaving distance has been developed for nearly 1,000 years, with a long history and culture, complex production technology, exquisite patterns, so that it has a unique connotation and character, highlighting the culture and integrity of bamboo. With the development of social culture, the progress of science and technology, the continuous improvement of people's aesthetic level, the expansion of spiritual and cultural demand, the increase in demand for craft products, such as bamboo porcelain, craft products with craft value and historical heritage gradually expand market share, and will be loved by more consumers and collectors.

Standing on the bank of the Baimo River in Pingle Ancient Town, a famous historical and cultural town in China, the Baimo River, which originates from Yuxiao Peak of Tiantai Mountain, flows through the ancient town from west to north, bringing abundance and aura to the ancient town. It is the summer flood season, and the Baimo River is mighty and noisy. It is this river that has brought a long and splendid history and culture to Pingle Ancient Town; brought a thick and long humanities and a river of Zhongyu......

On August 3, 2018, Chen Jinmei, the inheritor of porcelain bamboo weaving in Pingle Ancient Town, Qionglai City, Chengdu, Sichuan, sat in her studio as before, her hands were busy with porcelain bamboo weaving, and from time to time, the porcelain was wrapped in exquisite bamboo weaving. Take a closer look at Chen Jinmei's works, which are delicate and fine.

Porcelain bamboo weaving on tea utensils is Chen Jinmei's daily work. Chen Jinmei's studio is nestled in the Baimo River, and the singing of the Baimurong River gives Chen Jinmei vision and endurance, she is as industrious as a spring silkworm, weaving life and culture with fine bamboo silk, inheriting the skills of porcelain and bamboo weaving, and digging into the cultural connotation and heritage.

Porcelain bamboo weaving originated in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, when it was mainly used as tribute. Fetal bamboo weaving is a unique traditional handicraft in Chengdu, Sichuan, also known as bamboo silk button porcelain, with slender bamboo silk, tightly linked porcelain, according to the tire molding. In 2008, it was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage expansion projects, and was affectionately known as the "flower of oriental art".

Chen Jinmei has been engaged in porcelain and bamboo weaving porcelain for more than 20 years, and her strengths are bamboo tea sets, bamboo vases, bamboo stationery, etc. Chen Jinmei is ingenious, and her porcelain bamboo weaving skills are perfect. In the process of Chen Jinmei's dedication to weaving, we found that the bamboo wire section used in porcelain bamboo weaving is all rectangular, and there are strict requirements on the thickness and thickness, the thickness is only one or two hairs thick, and the width is only four or five hairs wide.

In Chen Jinmei's hands, we see that the porcelain bamboo weaving is hand-woven with her hands and a knife in the production process, so that the bamboo silk is formed according to the fetus, close to the porcelain surface, and all the joints are hidden but not exposed, as if naturally generated and integrated.

Only one layer of bamboo surface is used in the preparation, the fiber is very dense, and at the same time, special treatment is carried out, which can resist drying, no deformation, no moth, water resistance and can be washed. Therefore, the porcelain bamboo weaving skills, in the vast soil of the folk, in the relay of "Chen Jinmei" under the inheritance, and finally bloom as a wonderful flower in the arts and crafts.

Why does the porcelain bamboo weaving in Pingle Ancient Town, Qionglai City attract the attention of the world?

Chen Jinmei introduced that the bamboo used in the porcelain bamboo weaving process is a special knotless porcelain bamboo that has been strictly selected. Among the many bamboo sources in the area of Pingle Ancient Town, Qionglai, the Cizhu produced by Lugou, Zhaigou and Jinjigou can be used for weaving, and can only choose to grow on the slope of Yinshan Mountain for more than one year and less than two years of high-quality knots, and use the middle three or four sections of its age and tenderness and uniform length.

Then, after cutting, removing green, breaking knots, and drying color, and then through more than ten extremely fine processes such as material selection, baking, thinning, color fixing, scraping blades, punches, soft silk, pumping, dyeing, etc., it is made into bamboo silk with square section, sharp edges and corners, soft as silk, uniform and consistent, bright color, thin as cicada wings, and as thin as hair.

Judging from the porcelain bamboo weaving alone, Pingle Ancient Town has outstanding people and abundant products.

Chen Jinmei showed us a video that recorded the whole process of porcelain bamboo weaving. After more than a dozen processes such as breaking bamboo, baking color, knotting, layering, color fixing, scraping, scratching, and pumping, all of them are manual operations, and finally fine bamboo silk is produced. Our group was intoxicated and impressed by the production process of porcelain and bamboo.

In the Qionglai folk, such non-genetic inheritance is in full swing.

"The craft tradition that has grown up in the process of long-term social and cultural development is not only the crystallization of technology, but also a carrier of cultural spirit and aesthetic ideals, and porcelain bamboo weaving is such a treasure." Chen Jinmei said to us while weaving porcelain and bamboo.

China has loved bamboo since ancient times, and bamboo occupies a place among the four gentlemen. In addition to the spiritual significance, bamboo is also vividly played in real life - bamboo weaving.

Bamboo weaving products used to be all over China, and with the increasing number of substitutes, now if you want to buy bamboo weaving products, you often have to go to the most remote places in the market, go to the craftsmen's homes, and even go to the intangible cultural heritage museum.

In the intangible cultural heritage museum of Yuhua District, Changsha, there is also such a craftsman, Li Yuanyue.

Li Yuanyue is a native of Xiangxi, born in a bamboo weaving family, engaged in bamboo weaving business for more than 50 years, looks lean, dark complexion, and has a very good spirit.

At the age of 5, he followed his parents to weave bamboo, and when he was 12 years old, he officially began to make bamboo weaving.

The ingenious Li Yuanyue weaves things quickly and well, and once attracted countless people to admire him, and when he was busy, he brought three apprentices by himself, and he could sell dozens of bamboo mats a month.

A bamboo, from bamboo to the finished product, has to go through more than 10 processes such as cutting bamboo, scraping joints, peeling slivers, baking materials, and weaving bodies.

Li Yuanyue didn't wear gloves when he broke the bamboo, his hands were covered with thick calluses, and the bamboo thorns couldn't penetrate it. He said with a smile that when he first learned, he often drew bloodshot hands, and for decades, practice makes perfect.

After breaking the bamboo, the surface of the bamboo was scraped smooth, and the thickness of a piece of bamboo was only one or two millimeters, and the narrowest one was only as thick as a hair.

These bamboo scorns flew in Li Yuanyue's hands, weaving into one exquisite product after another.

Bamboo baskets, bamboo baskets, back baskets......

These things have accompanied the people of Xiangxi in the morning and twilight.

Xiangxi is rich in bamboo: mangosteen, cinnamon bamboo, water bamboo, Nanzhu, Mianzhu...... Lay a heavy foundation for bamboo weaving, coupled with the many mountain roads here, people are used to carrying baskets to carry things when working, so the Tujia, Miao and Han people here are good at bamboo weaving.

These things can be found in ancient books.

The "Yongshun County Chronicles" of the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty once described: "In February and March, women formed a team and carried a cage ......"; The "Yongshun County Chronicles" in the Tongzhi period also recorded: "If you go out, you will carry a basket and help the mountains to pick up salaries and ......."

Li Yuanyue recalled that in the eighties, every household in the village would weave bamboo.

However, the times are developing rapidly, traditional bamboo products began to be replaced by plastic, stainless steel, resin and other materials, coupled with the impact of machine production, the traditional handmade bamboo weaving that has been circulating in the land of Xiangxi for many years has also withdrawn from people's sight at a faster than usual speed.

In the case of Li Yuanyue's family, his brothers and sisters were all bamboo weaving before, and then they went out to work as contractors, engineers, electricians and other industries, and never came back to do bamboo weaving.

He didn't seem to understand what was going on, and in a blink of an eye, he was the only one left who made bamboo weaving.

Li Yuanyue has a simplicity and honesty of the people of Xiangxi in his bones, he thought for a while and said: "They don't do it, my business is better." ”

Later, he came to the Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum. There are two facades in the intangible cultural heritage museum, one is called "Bamboo Art Hui", which specializes in selling all kinds of finished products, from bamboo baskets to bamboo bags, bamboo products are dazzling, and the prices are relatively cheap; Next to the other house is the experience hall.

In the intangible cultural heritage museum, his job and income are relatively stable, and he is quite satisfied with the current situation.

Li Yuanyue is now more worried that there is no one to inherit the bamboo weaving.

Now the current situation of bamboo weaving is that there are few older generations doing it, and young people don't want to learn at all.

Before, he asked a young man to follow him to learn bamboo weaving, Li Yuanyue earned 100 a day, gave him 50, he didn't do it.

"I definitely want to inherit it." He stopped what he was doing, looked up, and said earnestly.

Many things will be changed according to the needs of the times when they are inherited, and bamboo weaving is no exception. Over the years that Li Yuanyue has been doing bamboo weaving, the presentation form of bamboo weaving is slowly changing.

Now the content of bamboo weaving is not limited to daily necessities such as baskets and mats, but is close to delicate and elegant handicrafts. Li Yuanyue gave full play to his expertise in bamboo weaving, and studied many extension products of bamboo weaving, such as panshi, bamboo two-dimensional code, bamboo porcelain, etc.

Panshi combines stone and bamboo, one heavy and one light, and both sides add a touch of aura.

Bamboo porcelain is a combination of bamboo and porcelain, crystal clear porcelain and bamboo weaving combined, bamboo scorn in the porcelain outside the weaving of cumbersome and magnificent patterns, to the white porcelain to add an interest.