In my memory, I was a child
You can see all kinds of craftsmen everywhere
They use exquisite craftsmanship
to make all kinds of exquisite, beautiful and practical things
to make all kinds of mouth-watering food
not only warms the cold winter night
also warms people's hearts
These things seem simple
but require some patience to wait
Now as the pace of society is getting faster and faster
People's hearts are becoming increasingly impetuous
Many traditional crafts have gradually declined
and have even disappeared
. But these "old craftsmanship" left by our ancestors are the precipitation of Chinese culture
interprets the true "craftsman spirit"
Let's see how they used traditional craftsmanship
to warm up the winter and stunning the time
these two days, it's time to add a warm quilt to yourself. When it comes to quilts, many older generations will think of such a cotton-spinning scene: a string, a wooden hammer, and the cotton-spinning craftsmen plucked the slingshot strings with their powerful hands, making a "bang bang" sound and a faint "dust smoke".
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Nowadays, traditional handmade cotton cotton is gradually being eliminated by convenient and fast machine processing. However, there are also a few cotton tire processing workshops in Fengxian . Follow the editor to check it out~
No. 72 Renmin South Road, No. 72, Renmin South Road, joining many small storefronts. The four big words "processing cotton tire" are embedded on a wooden plaque. Compared with the decoration of the surrounding shops, it looks a little retro, but also refreshing, making people understand the store's main business at a glance.
"Boss, please help me today and help me get an eight kilogram quilt with this cotton tire." "Okay." An old customer brought an old quilt and a few kilograms of new cotton, and asked the boss to reprocess it into an eight kilogram new quilt. Cotton grew up in farmland. The older generation slept at quilts at a young age and became accustomed to the smell of quilts.
Chapter 2 The boss has inherited the skills of his ancestors since he was a child. He said that when he first learned to play cotton, there were no mechanical equipment at all, and all quilts were popped out by hand. And now it is semi-mechanized processing.
The cotton came out again after passing through the machine, and it became snow-white and soft. Paint them and compact them, cover them with red and green cotton thread, cover them with mesh on both sides, and then compact them, and a soft quilt will be made. Boss Zhang said that in the past, more than 200 quilts were made in the past year. Now there are fewer and fewer people, mainly some old customers and some married couples to customize.
In the era of material supply failure, whenever a family member had a child, they would prepare to wait for him to grow up a little bit and make a heavy quilt for them. After all, children always have to grow up, they will leave their parents' warm beds, and they also need to have their own beds and rooms. In that era of shortage of supplies, custom-made hand-made quilts became the top priority for many families. I didn’t understand it when I was a child, but I only knew that the quilt was very heavy and strong. If it was covered with one piece, it would not be cold even in the winter.
Today we are enjoying the fruits of technological development. Back then, thick hand-made quilts were replaced by lighter and thinner silk quilts, and the progress of the times makes people happy.
With the development of society, there are no signs of cotton craftsmen walking around the streets and alleys in today's cities. Various colorful acrylic quilts, space quilts, duck down goose down and other beddings are constantly innovating, gradually replacing the old cotton quilts, meeting people's ever-elevated consumption needs.
of course sometimes makes people feel a huge sense of gap. After leaving home, we are independent, no matter how we choose a quilt, we cannot cover the warmth of the past. In the uneven quilt market, there are difficulties in choosing online, prices are mixed, and the occasional news about using black-hearted cotton businesses is heartbreaking, and it also makes the simplicity of the workers in that innocent era.
At the moment, you and I, who are busy making a living, are traveling between the cities. They have very little time to meet their parents and relatives all year round. However, whenever they go back to their parents' home during the Spring Festival, when their parents hold out their familiar hands to play the quilt, they are not only warm but also touched.
"Hand-made quilts" gradually withdrew from the stage of history. When people enjoy the convenience of life brought by technological development, the sound of handmade craftsmen "bang bang" playing cotton has long become a memory that people cannot erase.
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Correspondent: Xue Wei (Nanqiao Town)
Reporter and editor: Ling Shanshan
