Thousands of years

Chapter 1 Preface
Excellent traditional Chinese culture, and even the theme of intangible cultural heritage, in fact, in the web articles I have created in the past three years, it can be said that three sentences are inseparable.It’s not a while since I wanted to write a book dedicated to intangible cultural heritage, but I have always been troubled by the limitations of my writing, the lack of flow, the lack of value for communication, and the power of one person, which makes people look arty .

It has been nearly four years since I began to pay close attention to intangible cultural heritage, and more than a year of on-site visits. In the first half of the year, I also raised the issue of completely focusing on intangible cultural heritage with my editor, but due to the above-mentioned distress, it has been delayed until now.

This book participated in the "Reading and Seeing Intangible Cultural Heritage" essay call. On the day the essay call started, I didn't see it myself, because I was still talking with the editor about my ideas that I didn't even write the outline during the day, and said that if I want to In terms of intangible cultural heritage, if the few articles to be written at present are used to participate in the actual essay call, which one is suitable.So as soon as my friend saw it, he quickly sent it to me, saying: Look, you were still talking about this a while ago, and it happened to hit you in the muzzle.

When I saw this essay call, I had two very straightforward feelings: one was that I was moved by the fact that I wrote this intangible cultural heritage. Maybe it was not just for love. After all, the toll fee and the purchase for reference in the past two years have also cost my parents. A lot of money, and the other is that I have been worrying about things that I can't do alone, and I have a development that I can't even imagine.

After all, the audience of this kind of article is really relatively small. I write dozens of articles, even if it is platform support.Maybe it is still the same as when nothing comes to mind, there is no response.Or maybe it really attracts a lot of great attention, but even if I don’t do my studies, I only code words and visit intangible cultural heritage. How many intangible cultural heritage can I write in a year?It's just a drop in the bucket.

Now it’s okay, it’s for love or for writing, as long as it starts, I think everyone will fall in love with these intangible cultural heritage.

The essay solicitation done by Yuewen has been really upright, from realistic themes over the years, to war epidemics, pomegranate cups, Oracle bone inscriptions, great sports... to the current intangible cultural heritage.Some people always say that China Literature values ​​profit. It is true that any enterprise is for the purpose of profit, but if you dare to invest money in something that cannot guarantee a return, it will benefit the present and the future.

Things that are difficult to do by one's own strength, if thousands of stars shine together, they will surely shine on China!
Before talking about Hangluo and this book, I would like to talk about intangible cultural heritage, the protection of intangible cultural heritage, and me and intangible cultural heritage with everyone who has read this book.

"Intangible cultural heritage" is actually a vocabulary defined by UNESCO, and its covering direction, or in other words, this word did not exist in ancient times.

The reason why heritage becomes heritage is precisely because of the "historical time" it spans, the [-]-year history of Chinese civilization, and the wisdom of the Chinese people, which naturally left a huge amount of cultural heritage for this land.

So much so that even though it has been divided into world-level, national-level, provincial-level, municipal-level, and district-level, it still cannot cover all the intangible cultural heritage on the land of Kyushu in detail.

A few years ago, probably in 2018, when I was less than 15 years old, because of an opportunity, I did a project with my friends about the current situation and promotion of Chinese excellent traditional culture, and it was at that time that I started to pay special attention. The word "intangible cultural heritage" begins to understand our country's intangible cultural heritage in more detail.

At that time, the official website of the country's intangible cultural heritage only updated some activity dynamics sporadically, and the relevant research we could find was basically ten years ago.Combined with the students around me's understanding of these things, I immediately felt a 'boom': it's over, the country is supporting it, and it's still in such a state, what can I do...

I went to see the Dongcheng Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum, and found that there were basically no patrons. I sent out questionnaires and got various survey results such as 'no time', 'don't understand', 'to spend a lot of money', and finally wrote more than 1 Words, I thought it was a complete research report...

Thinking about it now, whether it is the inheritance of folk customs or the restoration of skills, it did not happen overnight. A short-term stagnation is a normal phenomenon. The behavior and research results back then were indeed reckless, one-sided, and naive.

But I did realize that people have a one-sided understanding of intangible cultural heritage through this method. Many people may think that intangible cultural heritage only includes the part of "skills", but they don't know that folklore, sports acrobatics, etc. also belong to intangible cultural heritage... For intangible cultural heritage The protection, inheritance, and promotion of the legacy are still a long way to go, and only the glory in the distance can be seen, but the end cannot be seen.

When I started to create web articles (2019), I was trying to integrate Chinese culture into the creation of web articles. If there are people who have been following my books, they should have discovered this.

Until 2020, when China Literature, People's Daily, and China Zhongfu Publishing House called for children's literature essays, I chose the '24 solar terms' as an intangible cultural heritage. It is better to go into the hearts of young people and teenagers to activate Chinese culture and intangible cultural heritage.

It is precisely because of this that I have become more and more determined to use literary creation to spread Chinese culture and intangible cultural heritage.

In the past two years, due to some special reasons of mine, I have also been in a relatively idle state, and I can have time to appreciate the beauty of intangible cultural heritage on the spot.It is a pity that due to the epidemic, so far, I may only have a superficial understanding of [-] or [-] intangible cultural heritage under the category of arts and folk arts, and more are still in my follow-up visit plan, waiting for someone to meet opportunity.

Let’s talk about the intangible cultural heritage itself, let’s talk about hangluo, and why I started writing from hangluo.

Intangible cultural heritage, which is different from tangible cultural heritage, is more "people-oriented".Looking back at Chinese history, the Song Dynasty should be regarded as a turning point in understanding the value of "human".

When mentioning the cultural inheritance value of the Song Dynasty, one has to mention the "Song Yun Culture" proposed in recent years, and Hangluo, as an important source of income for the people in Lin'an City, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, is an inseparable part of it.

Hang Luo is the Luo of 'Silk and Satin', a part of the Silk Road.It is the development of folk handicraft industry, silk weaving culture, working people's seeking truth and being pragmatic, and even a world name card of Chinese culture. This is its value to history and culture, and it is also its value to the development of people's livelihood.

Hang Luo is directly related to 'basic clothing, housing and transportation'.In the past, hangluo may have been something that only dignitaries were qualified to wear and could afford, but now, it is something that well-off families can afford and afford. The society is developing, and intangible cultural heritage is also Step by step 'flying into the homes of ordinary people'.

Of course, whether it is the historical value, humanistic value, or economic value of Hangluo, historians should have a better understanding than me. What I really want to do is to let everyone understand the beauty of Hangluo in the form of stories.

Although I have said a lot about the value of Hangluo, or because of the "Song Yun culture" style, I really chose Hangluo as the first book of pure intangible cultural heritage stories. In fact, there are other reasons.

As mentioned earlier, there are only dozens of intangible cultural heritages that I have actually gone to the field to understand. Compared with the vast [-] stars of national intangible cultural heritages, it is only one hundred.

I myself want to take off a touch of brilliance from these three thousand stars one by one, put them in the article, and write a long article with several million words, but the project is so huge that I can only draw it slowly.And short stories of 30 to 50 words, or medium and long web articles of about [-] words, I can still handle it.

As I mentioned earlier, in fact, I have a wide range of topics to choose from. Why do I start with Hangluo, and I have to mention the double shock that Hangluo brought to my vision and hearing.

At first I learned that Fuxing Silk Factory is the only company that still masters Hangluo weaving skills. Has it reached this point?

When I entered the factory, my first impression was 'noisy'.The roar of the loom is obviously very different from the "Zha Zha Nong loom" in the textbook.But the sound of the loom directly smashed into my heart.

When I recovered from the shock, my second feeling was 'hot'. Hangzhou in summer is still sunny, and there is no air conditioner. How many degrees!

After several conversations, I learned many stories about Hang Luo, and even learned that if it wasn't for the 'luck' of metaphysics, I could 'see', 'read' and 'joy' this treasure today.

So much so that I was in such a hurry to "please" go home dozens of meters of silk and ingot-patterned silk. At this time, I still just lamented the beauty of Hangluo and the proficiency of the rhyme. For some stories, I still hold "listen to the story" mentality.

Seeing the ready-to-wear clothes there, listening to Grandma Hong talking about her favorite piece of Hangluo clothes, and even hearing that Uncle Zhang, the latest generation inheritor, changed his view on Hangluo just because of a piece of clothes made by Hangluo, that feeling It is far from my understanding of the beauty of Hang Luo at the moment when I really wear Hang Luo on my body.

The sentence "We can't let the craftsmanship be broken in our hands", the seemingly unrealistic stories, and the stitches and stitches of time have become a simple but full of light for thousands of years of culture that is worn on the body.

Enough has been said, it would be better for you to experience the world-class supernatural being limited by my clumsy writing in this book, in the encounter of the heroine spanning thousands of years Tangible Cultural Heritage - Hangluo.

Ci Liansheng

Yihai Day, Jiyou Month, Renyin Year (September 2022, 9)
Yu Jing
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