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Menglian Dai Brocade: The Encounter and Inheritance of a Better Life

Weave a beautiful thread, every stitch and thread are ingenuity. In the melodious room, I saw that the cotton threads and silk threads passed through the hands of the Dai women, weaving a handmade brocade with unique patterns and bright colors. This is the provincial intangible cultural heritage protection project from Menglian Dai Lahu Wa Autonomous County - Menglian Dai brocade skills.

Meet: Traditional culture glows

Dai brocade is a kind of cotton thread, silk thread, gold thread, silver thread, wool and so on as raw materials, with the traditional semi-frame curtain thread weaving flower waist machine by jacquard, weaving and other forms of process made of brocade, the style is simple, the weaver is exquisite, the pattern is unique, the color is bright, the national characteristics are strong, and it has unique historical and cultural value and arts and crafts value. In 2013, the brocade weaving skills of the Menglian Dai nationality were listed as the third batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage representative items.

Menglian Dai Brocade: The Encounter and Inheritance of a Better Life

Menglian Dai brocade has a long history, as early as the Tang Dynasty has been recorded, Tang "Barbarian Book" said: "Vast barbarian...... Its building has no city wall, Tsing Yi cloth hakama, women are ...... by the five-color Suo Luo cage" a few words to record the colorful costumes of the Menglian Dai people, and the "five-color Suo Luo cage" is the striped brocade worn by the women of the Menglian Dai nationality today.

Menglian Dai Brocade: The Encounter and Inheritance of a Better Life
Menglian Dai Brocade: The Encounter and Inheritance of a Better Life

Menglian Dai brocade is the crystallization of the weaving skills and aesthetic concepts of the Dai people for thousands of years, and its categories are rich, including scarves, Dai bags, knife belts, tube skirts, slip bags, etc.; The colors are gorgeous, with as many as 10 kinds of colors, which are extremely practical and decorative. Dai brocade patterns to animals, plants, buildings, people, etc. as the theme, common peacocks, elephants, horses, pagodas, temples, bamboo buildings and other patterns, with auspicious, strength, harvest and other meanings, these colorful, rich patterns fully show the Dai people's respect for all things and for a better life to meet and inherit.

Inheritance: Integrate traditional skills into life

The reason why craftsmen become craftsmen usually has perseverance and love beyond ordinary people, and this is the case with An Meng, the inheritor of the provincial intangible cultural heritage of Menglian Dai brocade. For more than 50 years, she sat in front of the loom, a needle and a thread, a piece of relaxation, a ball of thread through her hands, winding, arranging, wearing, weaving, in the entanglement of time and fingertips, a beautiful Dai brocade was presented in front of the public.

Menglian Dai Brocade: The Encounter and Inheritance of a Better Life

After more than 50 years of persistence and innovation, she has mastered a complete set of Dai brocade production processes from spinning, arranging, and flower making. Today, she and her daughter-in-law have developed a variety of daily necessities such as handbags, earrings, coasters, fans, mirrors, and lamps in addition to traditional Dai clothing, which are deeply loved by consumers. During the holidays, An Meng and his family would take these exquisite handicrafts to the market for sale, and they were quickly sold out. "Now that Menglian tourism has developed, our brocade products have become a favorite souvenir for many tourists, and when it comes to festivals such as Songkran Festival and Shenyu Festival, the product is in short supply." An Meng said.

Menglian Dai Brocade: The Encounter and Inheritance of a Better Life
Menglian Dai Brocade: The Encounter and Inheritance of a Better Life

Through innovative product forms, Anmeng deeply integrates traditional skills into daily life, giving intangible cultural heritage skills stronger vitality and vitality. Today, she has led more than 10 Dai women from the second group of Nayun Village, Nayun Town, to weave brocade together, and she usually distributes the patterns she designed to the women, and recycles them after weaving them into finished products. Women use their spare time to make brocades, and each person can increase their income by more than 10,000 yuan per year.

Leading: Carry forward the intangible cultural heritage skills

Menglian County is a border county inhabited by many ethnic groups, where 22 ethnic minorities live, including the Dai, Lahu, Wa, Hani and Jingpo ethnic groups. In the long years, the traditional handmade brocade skills of various nationalities have been bred, and it is known for its simple style, exquisite weaving, unique patterns, bright colors, flexibility and durability, and rich national characteristics. Nowadays, women of all ethnic groups still inherit and develop the skills of handmade brocade weaving well, and the rich brocade patterns can still be vividly reproduced in the hands of craftsmen. To this end, the Menglian County Ethnic Folk Crafts Inheritance Association was established in July 2010 with the approval of the County Civil Affairs Bureau, aiming to develop and expand the national folk crafts team, develop and prosper traditional crafts, and improve the level of traditional handicraft inheritance.

It is reported that the association is composed of local people of insight who love handmade brocade craft. Since the establishment of the association, an average of 4 brocade skills training (covering Dai, Lahu, Wa brocade) has been organized every year, and on the basis of inheriting traditional crafts, it has cultivated the ability of the masses to design patterns and improve traditional handicraft skills, which has played a positive role in promoting the inheritance and promotion of brocade skills. In the 14 years since the establishment of the association, a number of provincial and municipal intangible cultural heritage inheritors have emerged in Menglian County. In addition, the association also actively organizes centralized display and sales, participates in various theme activities at all levels, etc., takes the initiative to adapt to market demand, forms a sales subject with a certain scale, and carries forward the traditional national and folk handicraft skills.

Source: Jingmai Mountain

Menglian County Rong Media Center

Editor|Xie Xinying

Editor-in-charge|Dong Junhua

Editor|Rock Sanka

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