Kara Village, Longquan Town, Danzhai County, Guizhou Province, is a well-known local birdcage making village, in recent years, Kara Village with "unified standards, unified scale, decentralized processing, centralized sales" management methods, the whole village bird cage production gradually embarked on the road of large-scale production.
The village of Kara still preserves the traditional birdcage making techniques passed down from generation to generation. Its production process is complex, with more than a dozen processes such as bamboo selection, cooking, carving, and weaving. The annual sales of more than 80,000 bird cages, products are exported to home and abroad, the annual output value of about 4 million yuan.
On the basis of traditional bird cage making technology, According to the needs of the market, Kara Village has introduced nearly 100 kinds of characteristic handicrafts such as lampshades and decorative parts, and combined bamboo weaving skills with experiential tourism, attracting many tourists to visit and experience, so that the bird cage making skills have been better protected and inherited, and the rural revitalization has been helped.
Guizhou Daily Tianyan news reporter Chen Hui
Edited by Yang Tao and Hu Lan
Editor Li Feng, Liu Zengbing, Shi Yuling