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Bamboo weaving masters turn run-down village into tourists attraction 发布日期:2023/1/29 来源: 打印

People in Langou, a village in southwest China's Sichuan Province, have boosted their incomes and turned the once run-down area into a tourists attraction through selling bamboo woven products and developing related tourism and culture industries over the past decades.

On Dec. 9, the International Bamboo Industry Fair opened in the village, presenting a vast variety of well-designed handicraft works made of bamboo.

Chen Yunhua is an inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage "Qingshen bamboo weaving." His dazzling skills in making bamboo products vowed many visitors at the event. Bamboo weaving has a long history in Langou Village. Almost everyone there can use bamboo strips to make baskets and other production and living utensils.

In 1971, Chen led villagers to make fruit plates, bread baskets and other products for a foreign trade order, in exchange for three walking tractors, which made him realize the broad prospects of bamboo weaving industry.

"A truckload of bamboo as a common material is only worth a few thousand yuan (1,000 yuan is about 143 U.S. dollars), but when it is made into furniture and handicrafts, it can increase its value by more than 10 times. And it needs to be integrated with the market so that we can pass down what is left by the ancestors from generation to generation," said Chen.

Today, Chen's bamboo weaving skills have not only been passed down to his family, but also to the society.

"Bamboo weaving is a national intangible cultural heritage. We are cultivating more craftspeople while passing it on. We combine the art of Qingshen bamboo weaving with the practicability to develop more products, so that our Qingshen bamboo weaving better into the life of common people," said Chen Lan, general manager of Yunhua Bamboo Cultural Travel Ltd.

After persistent innovation by bamboo weaving craftsmen, the bamboo weaving industry has completed the transformation from rough to refined. It was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage in 2008.

With the bamboo weaving serving as the pillar industry for local revitalization efforts, Langou has also become the veritable "village of bamboo weaving."

More and more local villagers have gotten involved in enriching their hometown through the Qingshen bamboo weaving skills in recent years. Langou Village now has more than 30 enterprises of bamboo weaving and bamboo culture industry above the designated size, with nearly 2,000 people engaged in the industry and nearly 100 merchants selling bamboo crafts. The annual output value of the bamboo industry in the village reaches 45 million yuan (about 6.44 million U.S. dollars).

"I started making bamboo woven products when I was 15 or 16. Thanks to this skill, my family's life quality has been improved a lot. Now I can earn 50,000 to 60,000 yuan (7,155 to 8,586 U.S. dollars) per year just at home. I'm satisfied with that," said Shao Xiaoling, a bamboo weaving craftsperson.

"As a post-1990s bamboo weaver, I hope to integrate our new thinking into the traditional skills and make Qingshen bamboo weaving have new possibilities with our efforts," said Chen Yi, a bamboo weaving learner.

Langou Village has also elaborately built bamboo-themed landscapes and developed rural tourism to broaden the channels for boosting villagers' incomes.

The then run-down and backward area has now become a beautiful and popular village with spectacular bamboo forests and flocks of admiring tourists.


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