Red Net Moment News on February 27(Correspondent He Chengji Hu Henghui) dragon beard grass is slender and hollow, which can be processed into straw mats and straw mats for human use, and can also be made into bags and sun hats to become a fashion stage. On the occasion of the arrival of the Year of the Dragon, Hu Xiaoqin, the intangible inheritor of the weaving skills of dragon beard straw mats, transformed the slender and weak mountain grass into an auspicious dragon that "soars through the clouds and fog".
Hu Xiaoqin, the intangible inheritor of the dragon's beard straw mat weaving skills, is trying to build the dragon's skeleton. Hu Xiaoqin's idea originated from a dragon diagram on the Internet, there are no drawings and no physical objects to refer to. Hu Xiaoqin started her creation with only a painting in her mind, "Longyuan Linwu, you see we have a dragon palace again, these dragons are all a lot of dragons, plus the main thing is our dragon beard grass, which is very distinctive, so I want to be a dragon." ”
The most traditional way is to make straw mats, handbags and other knitted fabrics, while the dragon is 3D three-dimensional, with many body shapes in S shape, and the shape is complex, how to make the dragon stand stable has become difficult. After three days of trial and error, Hu Xiaoqin finally found a feasible plan, "using a piece of our local bamboo to build a shelf, and using our dragon's beard grass as a packaging for the appearance." ”
Hu Xiaoqin chose the outermost layer of bamboo, also called Touqing, to make the keel, and used the technique of weaving bamboo strips to weave a hollow shape. "Because of this skeleton, the shape should not be crooked or oblique, so I will do it for a while and look at the whole of it. Hu Xiaoqin said.
After 10 days, the keel was built, and then Hu Xiaoqin wanted to make dragon scales from dragon beard straw mats. Dragon's beard grass is born on the steep mountain cliff, after "three boiling and three drying", "two dipping and two dew" and other processes, it is woven into a mat by pure hand, the dragon's beard grass mat is soft and smooth, the color is golden, it is a good material for making the dragon's body. "You have to see it in front and back, left and right. These places must be fixed, like this. Hu Xiaoqin said that only by making the dragon whisker straw mat fit tightly to the skeleton can the dragon's form be perfectly displayed. The hemp rope is hand-kneaded by Hu Xiaoqin, and the color is the same as the dragon scales, and there are no traces of the line from the outside.
After 15 days of production, a 3-meter-long Wolong was finally completed, and as far as the eye can see, it is winding and circling, with a vigorous posture, and is walking towards us in the clouds, as if telling its past and future.
Chinese are the descendants of the dragon, the dragon has the quality of hard work, bravery, perseverance, bold innovation, as the inheritor of the non-genetic inheritance we will continue to play the dragon's enterprising spirit, carry forward this skill, and wish everyone in the new year: family dragon and phoenix auspicious, life dragon and horse spirit, career dragon and tiger leap! Hu Xiaoqin, the intangible inheritor of the weaving skills of dragon beard straw mats, said.
As early as the Ming and Qing dynasties, the industrious Linwu housewives relied on the mountain grass to weave the future of each family, and the dragon whisker straw mat was used as a tribute to the supreme ruler, carrying the glory of many craftsmen. Time flies, time flies. Generations of craftsmen continue to innovate on the basis of inheritance, and Longbeard Grass has begun the process of going abroad and going to the world.
In 1954, at the World Crafts Fair in Leipzig, Germany, the dragon beard straw mat was praised as "the world's unique handicraft". In 1988, Hu Xiaoqin was sent by the state to Africa to teach the skills of dragon whisker straw weaving, and in 2014, dragon whisker grass weaving was included in the Chenzhou municipal intangible cultural heritage project. In 2018, at the 4th Hunan (Chenzhou) Special Agricultural Products Expo, the dragon beard straw mat won the "Gold Award" and was recognized as "Hunan Time-honored Brand".