CCTV *** News Network): Dulongjiang Township, located in the depths of the Nujiang Grand Canyon in Yunnan, is the main gathering place of the Dulong people. In 2018, the Dulong ethnic group became the first ethnic minority in China to lift the entire ethnic group out of poverty, and more than 4,000 people "crossed the millennium in one step" and kept up with the development of the times. How are their lives changing today? Recently, the reporter of "Walking the Grassroots in the New Year" came here.
In Dulongjiang Township, the reporter met a 34-year-old Dulong woman Jasper Flower, she and her sisters before the Spring Festival, to make a batch of Dulong blankets for customers, the yarn just arrived, they couldn't wait to rush to the studio on the other side of the river.
There are only more than 100 sunny days in the Dulong River a year, and during the long rainy season, industrious Dulong women weave Dulong blankets at home. In recent years, the state's targeted assistance has opened up more new ways for them to increase their income.
Jasper told reporters that in the past, they weaved Dulong blankets, mainly to make clothes and quilts. With the opening of the Dulong River to the highway, the unique charm of the Dulong blanket has been seen by more people, and Jasper Hua and more than a dozen Dulong women have also had the opportunity to go out of the mountains and cooperate with a company in Shanghai for the first time.
The design of Shanghai designers integrates the modern color matching concept, coupled with the oldest waist machine weaving of Dulong women, so that the national characteristics can be in line with the fashion frontier. The backpacks, pillows and shawls made of Dulong blankets are exported to the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and other European countries, and are deeply loved by foreign consumers.
As a result, Jasper could earn an extra six or seven thousand yuan a year, and the family bought a new car, and the old house was also rented by the Shanghai company.
Biyuhua told reporters that now in Dulongjiang Township, nearly 1,000 Dulong women, like her, are weaving Dulong blankets to the world in a traditional way. Last year, Dulongjiang Township held the Dulong Carpet Competition, and Jasper's sister Biyulian won the first place, which also made more and more young people firm in their determination to inherit the characteristic culture of their hometown.
During the reporter's interview, the road at the end of the Dulongjiang Highway Tunnel is also being upgraded, and the newly put into operation of the 35,000-volt interconnection project has allowed the local area to use more sufficient and stable electricity, and the new energy charging pile has been put into use for the first time for the villagers to drive a new energy vehicle, and the newly renovated more than a dozen homestays are preparing to welcome the New Year tourists. The Dulong people, who weave a good day into a "brilliant rainbow", are striding forward on the rainbow-like road.