Xiaoyu Bamboo Ware

Xiaoyu Bamboo Ware

　　Yiyang Xiaoyu Bamboo Ware originated in the Yuan Dynasty and has a history of over 600 years. The products feature beautiful designs, exquisite craftsmanship, unique ethnic styles, and strong local characteristics, making them outstanding traditional folk crafts of Hunan.

Xiaoyu Bamboo Ware uses high-quality nanmu bamboo, hemp bamboo, gao bamboo, water bamboo, and yellow-stem bamboo as raw materials, and applies four traditional techniques—yu-making, splicing, inlaying, and mortise-and-tenon joining—as well as four new processes: bamboo coloring, bamboo skin veneering, bamboo tip edging, and bamboo branch flower decoration. This has resulted in a wide variety of exquisitely crafted, high-quality products. The product range includes 12 major categories such as tables, chairs, stools, racks, cabinets, beds, pillows, lamps, screens, birdcages, decorative halls, and children’s carts, with over 200 different styles.

In 1963, Yiyang Xiaoyu Bamboo Ware was introduced to the international market, exported to Hong Kong, Macau, Southeast Asian countries, as well as some nations in Africa and North America. Many countries rich in bamboo resources, such as Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Central African Republic, Iran, Fiji, and Mexico, actively invited artisans from the Yiyang Bamboo Art Factory to teach their skills. Inspection teams from countries like Thailand, Norway, and Egypt also visited the factory for observation.