Research On Bamboo Woven Flower Baskets In Xixi, Zhejiang

China has abundant natural bamboo resources,which provides favorable conditions for the development of bamboo wares.In practice,it is found that bamboo is crisp,cracking,elastic and tenacious,and can be woven easily and durable.Therefore,bamboo has become the main material for the preparation of utensils.For thousands of years,bamboo weaving has been continuously produced and used,and the most widely used is bamboo weaving basket.The bamboo basket,beautiful and graceful,light and durable,has been an indispensable civilian appliance in the daily life of jiangnan people for thousands of years.Zhejiang moist and fertile land,abundant rainfall,the advantaged natural environment creates rich bamboo resources in zhejiang natural advantage,make zhejiang formed one thousand years tradition of bamboo processing.This created the conditions to the development of xixi bamboo weaving,xixi bamboo basket is lake area has the characteristics of folk arts and crafts,originated in the old DongYue Village(now jiang village)legend handed down from the late qing dynasty,one hundred years of history,in the 1930 s of floret technology is very popular in the west lake area.Xixi bamboo flower basket,different from daily life with bamboo basket,the head is only big,its shape is graceful,weaving exquisite,is an interesting object to enjoy;Not only that,but it also contains the auspicious implies,hangzhou dialect will "basket" homophonic "to","to the head(basket),small(basket),and position,in the future will come to hangzhou",in the form of folk for KouCai show the good wishes of people and ideas,the special aesthetic features different from traditional sense of the basket.Xixi bamboo basket despite one hundred years of history,as local folk characteristics,to really understand the craft and expressing the craft,few people in rummaging through the data of this research is also slight.Fortunately villagers HongLiPing craft can’t waste,to think of it is in the street selling at the beginning,then increase as tourists,small basket of exquisite lovely acclaim by tourists,HongLiPing in xixi wetland park now runs a "xixi of floret bamboo weaving shop",2010 HongLiPing ranked the third batch of intangible cultural heritage in zhejiang province "xixi small basket weaving skills" representative inheritance,and xixi bamboo basket was named zhejiang province non-material cultural heritage,the folk crafts in xixi grow up.