Shengxian Bamboo Weaving
Product Name: Bamboo Weaving
Product Origin: Shengxian County
Product Description: Shengxian bamboo weaving, main production areas include the county seat and towns such as Ganlin and Chongren. It gained fame during the Ming and Qing dynasties when bamboo weaving workshops were already in operation. In 1937 (the 26th year of the Republic of China), a finely crafted bamboo basket from Ye Guanghua’s Fine Bamboo Shop in the county seat was awarded top honors at the Zhejiang–Jiangxi Specialty Joint Exhibition. Shengxian bamboo weaving uses local resources such as moso bamboo, early bamboo, golden bamboo, and late swallow bamboo, and is meticulously handwoven. Key features of the main products include animal imitations, bleached bamboo crafting, patterned bamboo strips, and lacquered bamboo baskets. The animal imitations are incredibly lifelike and charming; the bleached bamboo items are bright white and tastefully designed; the patterned strips with gold inlay are intricate and elegant; the lacquered baskets are smooth and glossy, looking much like porcelain. These products are exported to more than 80 countries and regions on five continents, earning titles like “Eastern Treasures” and “World-Class Products.” Large bamboo-woven landscape artworks such as *Yandang Mountain* and *Shaoxing East Lake* are displayed in the Zhejiang Room of Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, while the artistic piece *Mountain Eagle* is showcased in the White House in the United States. The large vertical bamboo weaving piece *Six Steeds of Zhao Mausoleum* won the Hope Cup and the First Prize for Innovation at the Sixth National Arts and Crafts Awards, and was exhibited at the Ideal Home Exhibition in London, receiving widespread praise. By 1989, apart from the county’s craft bamboo weaving factory, there were 110 rural bamboo weaving craft businesses and nearly 100 individual workshops in Shengxian, offering over 6,000 product varieties.
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