A bamboo pole, a knife, a pair of skillful hands, bottoming, weaving, locking, day after day, year after year.
With tenacity and persistence, the eighty-year-old Deng Jiafu has been quietly weaving bamboo in the "silent world" for 60 years. Ordinary bamboos were split into thick pieces in the hands of the old man.
First, after the thickness of the consistent strip, after a warp and weft staggering, into a sturdy, exquisite, exquisite basket, basket and other production and living utensils.
A bamboo product generally has to go through more than a dozen to more than 30 processes from broken to finished products. Deng Jiafu's younger brother Deng Jialu said that all the processes of weaving bamboo are all operated by hand, and they must go through multiple processes such as material selection, breaking, scraping, weaving, and loading handles, and each process is strict. When my brother was 20 years old, he began to teach himself the craft of bamboo weaving, through watching people make it, dismantling and reweaving it, groping again and again, practicing it over and over again, breaking his fingers countless times, and learning countless times at night, it took three years to learn the craft of making baskets.
In the 60s of the last century, the baskets made by my brother could be sold for four or five yuan, and at that time, a laborer could only earn 2 cents a day's work. Talking about his brother, Deng Jialu was full of pride.
Deng Jiafu is a native of Baijiaba Village, Kelou Town, Cengong County, Guizhou Province, when he was young, he was deaf and dumb for life due to illness, and he was unmarried all his life, had no children and no daughters, and has always lived with his nephew Deng Jiapei's family. Clean and tidy, hardworking and simple, reliable work, the old man and his nephews and nephews get along well, and the whole family is happy.
Uncle weaves from 6 a.m. to dark every day, and sometimes weaves by light at night, and can weave 3 small baskets a day. In Deng Jiapei's eyes, the uncle has been diligent and pragmatic all his life, meticulous in his work, helping to do farm work in the busy season, making bamboo products for sale in his spare time, and also taking care of children. With the help of the uncle, the family's life is thriving.
With the full popularization of plastic utensils and glass products in people's lives, the folk bamboo weaving craft that was once closely related to production and life has gradually drifted away. In the face of the current situation of the decline of traditional bamboo weaving skills, the old man Deng Jiafu did not rest on his laurels, he conformed to the trend of the times, thinking day and night about how to innovate bamboo weaving techniques, and increasingly refined production skills. Now, the old man combines traditional skills with modern aesthetics, and has developed "new products" with meticulous and neat workmanship, exquisite and beautiful appearance, and practical and generous, so that the old craftsmanship is close to the new life.
In the past, my brother could only weave baskets, dustpans and baskets, which are commonly used in rural areas, but now my brother has also learned to weave small bamboo blue and small blue. Deng Jialu said that through continuous improvement of skills, his brother's workmanship is now more refined, the style is more beautiful, and the products are better sold. The woven bamboo products are sold for four or five thousand yuan a year through the door-to-door purchase of customers, the help of cadres stationed in the village and the sale of them in the market. Coupled with the care of the party committee, my brother can receive more than 10,000 yuan a year for the living expenses of the rural five guarantees, and his life is guaranteed.
There is no technology and ruthless pure handmade bamboo products do not contain formaldehyde, low-carbon and environmentally friendly. "The star fruit girl who lives in Guiyang bought a small basket after seeing the handmade bamboo products of the old man Deng Jiafu in the WeChat circle of friends. "I was born in a rural area, I know that life is not easy, and it is even more difficult for the deaf and mute, and supporting rural green ecological products to help farmers increase income is also the need to practice the concept of green consumption and enjoy a happy life. Carambola said.
From youth to sideburns dyeing, Deng Jiafu takes bamboo as the theme, chooses one thing, and lives his life.
Beyond the noise and noise of the world, in the breaking day after day, year after year of weaving, he takes bamboo for a living, takes bamboo as a pleasure, uses the "dance on the fingertips" to combine bamboo and people's tenacity and patience, condenses the beauty of nature between vertical and horizontal, shows the art of bamboo rhyme with the beauty of staggering, and uses a piece of plain and natural, pure and simple bamboo weaving products to give vigorous vitality to traditional handicrafts, leaving his own "glimpse" in this era, and promoting the transmission of traditional skills from generation to generation.
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