——Oriental wisdom engraved in the longitude and latitude of time
Wheat straw weaving method: a thousand-year chess game, the world between fingers
In the smoke of cooking on the banks of Shahe River, three pieces of wheat straw started a game spanning fifteen centuries. The fingertips of the peasant woman are never tired chess players, performing exquisite military tactics in a small space:
Starting style:
“Three grasses determine the country” (human pattern), the thumb is the vanguard, and the index finger is the staff
“Seven grasses lock the clouds and rain” (wave pattern), the wheat straw surges between the fingers into the nine bends of the Yellow River
Changeable battle formations:
Old artist Zhou Zhenbang’s unique skill “Thousand-handed Guanyin” – pinching the “centipede” sawtooth pattern with the left hand, and weaving the “urgent dragon” fold line pattern with the right hand
The most subtle “fine Laizhou flower”, each inch of the grass braid hides 72 dark patterns, wandering like a silver snake under the moonlight
Grass soul tempering:
The “five-level alchemy” during the wheat harvest season: combing the grass like combing the hair, sulfur fumigation makes the grass color not fade for a hundred years
It is said that Wang, a skilled woman in the Republic of China, can use wheat straw to weave the “Twenty-four Solar Terms Chart
Corn Husk Knitting: Rebirth of Waste Materials, Plants Become Poems
In 1952, the autumn wind swept across the golden cornfield, and the people of Laizhou discovered a “canvas” wilder than wheat straw:
Seventy-two transformations:
“Flat weaving” is like regular script, weaving the Confucian style of tea mats
“Oblique weaving” is like running script, weaving the Silk Road long song of handbags
“Twisted weaving” is like cursive writing, creating the Wei and Jin style of baskets
“Chain buckle” secretly matches the inscriptions on bronze ware, forging the Shang and Zhou style of fruit boxes
Cross-civilization secret language:
The “Ma Lian Duo” pattern resonates with the Mayan solar calendar, and the “Pepper Buckle” technique communicates with the Persian carpet
At the 1978 Canton Fair, the “Great Wall Snowy” wall hanging woven with “chicken claw flowers” made Italian merchants mistakenly think it was Oil paint is not dry yet
Waste epic:
Farmer Zhang Xiuqin created the “Corn Husk Embroidery Spring Technique” and reproduced “Night Banquet of Han Xizai” on the cushion
Corn husks dyed with 18 layers of plants and trees have transformed into secret colors such as “Drunken Concubine”, “Peacock Blue” and “Sunset Melting Gold”
The scraps used to feed horses in the past are now swaying on the T stage of Paris Fashion Week
Laiyin weaving skills: folding time and space, rebirth of grass soul
In the morning light of the new millennium, ancient skills start interstellar travel:
Material revolution:
Wheat straw and Italian calfskin are entangled, interpreting the “hard and soft dialectics” on the Milan show
Corn husks wrapped with carbon fiber weave the oriental poetry of NASA’s space capsule
Langya grass grafted with optical fiber, let “A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains” breathe in the night
Digital immortality:
AI pattern library Including 2876 kinds of ancient method maps, blockchain traces each “centipede pattern” back to a pair of skillful hands in the Guangxu period
In the VR workshop, young people are using virtual wheat straw to rebuild the Dunhuang caisson pattern
Eternal reincarnation:
Each “Laiyin” work is embedded with a seed chip-when the life cycle ends, it can be reborn as a raw material crop when buried in the soil
This is not only a skill inheritance, but also a contemporary declaration of the “unity of man and nature” of Chinese civilization
(Inheritance formula)
Three wheat straws cause wind and clouds, and ten fingers fly to determine the longitude and latitude
The stars are hidden in the corn husk, and Laiyin’s weaving skills are ancient and modern
Don’t say that farmers have nothing, there are skills in the palm to pick stars
The thousand-year-old grass soul is still here, and we will see the East recreate the extreme
-This is not only the skill code of Laizhou straw weaving, but also a philosophical poem dedicated to the world by the yellow land. When you touch the straw weaving installation at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, encounter the straw handbag at Galeries Lafayette in Paris, and discover the straw weaving screen in Ginza, Tokyo, it is the love letter written to the earth by 700,000 Laizhou craftsmen in fifteen centuries.