Shake, shake, 4,000 years old ballad.
Sticky red, because of it, there is the famous river in Yunnan-Red River. In Yunnan, on this red land, clay is everywhere. Maybe that's the case. Four thousand years ago, residents of Bai Yang Village in Binchuan knew how to make better pottery. Four thousand years have passed, from hand-made to wheel system, from kiln-free to kiln-free, the ancient pottery-making technology still exists silently in the corner of Yunnan, accompanied by the lives of Yunnan people.
Under the quiet sky in Diqing, the sunny weather sets off all the most beautiful colors on the plateau. In the dazzling sunshine, Duoyi Ancient Village in Xishi Township is saving its life in the roundness of black pottery day and night.
Several Tibetan men sat on the floor, with wooden mats, wooden hammers, wooden swatters, wooden scrapers, black palms, black pottery and black faces. This is a combination of sweat and masculinity. Flowing roundly, pottery looks like a gentle and lovely woman under a man's hand. The falling sweat rubs in the pottery, adding strength to this red tenacity and turning it into a silent beauty.
The process of making black pottery is very complicated. First, pat the soil into strips with a wooden racket, and make a heavy slap in a low voice. The vicissitudes of ceramists have spent thousands of years in slapping. Without any thinking or hesitation, before you see it clearly, those black and red hands have pinched out the outline of the instrument, and the next process is like running water, polishing, decorating, drying in the shade and then burning, and you are done. This is the most beautiful picture he has in mind. Drinking buttered tea in a black pottery bowl, sweating profusely, the faces of pottery makers are calm, just as their tedious and plain good life can be "fabricated"
Looking at the pottery of Yunnan people, in addition to going north, you can also go south to the Banna jungle with infinite tropical scenery. I always imagine Tingting, a graceful Dai woman, drawing water by the Lancang River with a pottery bottle in her hand. The golden peacock at the water's edge saw what she expected and blossomed noble feathers. Ceramic water bottles are like a mole on a beautiful woman's face to a woman in A Dai who draws water, making people confused whether they love beautiful women or enchanting back.
The Dai girl's black pottery water bottle looks like a bamboo shoot tower, which is called "Habitual Yanan" in Dai language. Handmade with black soil unique to Dai nationality township, it has a small mouth and a wide abdomen, and the base is mostly lotus. Yan' an, immersed in the religious atmosphere, is born with aura, which is a treasure that can't damage water storage and an artifact that prays for good luck. On the day of blessing, Dai men and women knelt in the Buddhist temple with their accustomed Yana and poured water into the sinkhole devoutly. If the water doesn't leak a drop, it means that all wishes are realized and there is a full and beautiful plot.
People in Yunnan use pottery in every detail of their lives, such as the purple pottery steamer for steaming chicken in Jianshui, the pottery retort and pot of Dai people, the pottery butter tea pot and pipe of Naxi people, the pottery ashtray and pot of Hani people, etc. Let Yunnan red clay pottery be visible and tangible, and even put it on your lips when you eat!
A woman with a pistol and a silver hairpin and a knife.
Tink and start, all the women in Yunnan are graceful as a cloud. Tired of combing the clouds and leaning on the pavilion, Yunnan women all have silver dowry. In Yunnan, known as the "Kingdom of Non-ferrous Metals", metalworking skills are mature, and the border forest filled with green rhythm is dotted with swaying colors.
In Yunnan, Hani, Jingpo, De 'ang, Wa, Miao, Yi and Dai all like silver ornaments. They spread layer by layer, so that they can be almost armed to the teeth. The flowing and fine silver light shines, firmly grasping everyone's eyes, finely and clangingly, like the impact of "pouring pearls of all sizes into a plate of jade", which is seen by outsiders.
The most striking thing is the headdress of Miao people, which is as high as a corner, but the most touching thing is the silver belt around the waist of Dai women. Silver jewelry is expensive but not expensive. And "little cloth" will tie a belt made of silver wire around the waist, look around, reach out and bend over, faintly visible. If you want to know whether a woman has married someone else's wife in her boudoir, it's simple. Just see if there is a key hanging on her silver belt. If there is a key hanging, it is obvious that she is keeping property and doing housework. If not, you can match her with one.
Bronze products of Shang and Zhou Dynasties developed brilliantly in Yunnan. However, this era suddenly disappeared strangely, but there are still traces in ordinary life. Heqing County, the most famous bronze ware producing area today, can be called the flagship store of copper products in Southwest China. Whether it's pots, pans and other utensils needed by Naxi people in Lijiang, wine vessels and wine glasses used by Lisu people in Nujiang, or wine vessels, gongs, spoons and all kinds of jewelry bought by Xiaoliangshan people in Sichuan and Yi people in Yunnan, as long as you come to Heqing and stay indoors, you can take a walk in the three rivers and five mountains and see different colors and customs around the country.
Once upon a time, Jianghu heroes fought bloody battles for the treasure knife of "being flexible as mud and cutting iron as mud", which is a beautiful passage written by many senior writers. However, if you take a trip to Husa Township, Longchuan County, Yunnan Province, let alone treasure knives, there are thousands of them!
When you first arrive home, you will be shocked by the long knives and short knives piled up by every household. Looking at that mountain of sharp weapons, people can't help sweating. Husa men can almost use knives, carry slender steel materials, swing into the yard to cut, exercise and quench. It is said that Husa Dao has a history of 600 years and is world-famous. No wonder its martial arts are so high that it can achieve "softness and rigidity". It's just that people in Wulin don't know the goods. Otherwise, a stiff and soft nod is wrapped around the waist, and the cold light shines like a silver belt. How can you not be fascinated by the rivers and lakes? A friend once gave me a family knife, which was very small and only a foot long. The handle is carved with a flying dragon, which is calm in spirit. The blade is thick in the middle and thin on both sides, and the blood groove is open! This is a weapon that can be used for both melee and self-defense! Fortunately, the little girl just put it high on the bookcase. The cold wind in Leng Yue, the knife is still there, people are no longer yesterday, like a dream, leaving only the world of mortals to say.
Have a soft spot, carpenters have legends.
Legend has it that Wang Mujiang of Jianchuan carved a lifelike wooden dragon, which came to life overnight, defeated the real dragon that made waves and eliminated evil spirits for the people.
When I really went to Jianchuan and saw the beauty of white wood carving, I immediately exclaimed, and I understood why even myths were rumored about the craftsmanship of Jianchuan carpenters. Jianchuan carpenter's works have reached the Forbidden City and chengde mountain resort as far as possible. The Ming and Qing emperors were very optimistic about Jianchuan woodcarving and chose a large number of "Yunnan workers" to carve beams and draw columns for his court. There are so many vivid three-dimensional patterns in front of you that challenge your eyesight and imagination.
Now, the craftsmanship of Jianchuan woodcarving master is carried forward in a new way: the natural patterns of woodcarving and marble are organically combined to make antique marble furniture, which shows luxury charm and style in any hall.
If ethnic groups in mountainous areas make good use of wood, ethnic groups living in river valleys have a special liking for bamboo. When I went to Banna, I found that the Dai people have an indissoluble bond with bamboo, and the use of bamboo is almost everywhere. Walking in the Dai bamboo building in Banna, everything is so charming and energetic. If Su Shi did not relegate to Hainan, but came to Yunnan, then known as the "South China", his living habits of "inseparable from bamboo" could be greatly improved: seeing bamboo forests, living in bamboo houses, sleeping in bamboo beds, using bamboo tableware and so on.
But there is one thing that Su Shi certainly couldn't think of: using bamboo to convey love! Dai people learn bamboo weaving since childhood. If they meet a girl they like, they always weave a basket for her. Bamboo sticks are flying back and forth, intertwined with deep love. The little basket contains deep love, and the girl hangs it around her waist and puts it in her heart. She will even pass on this feeling with a hand-woven handkerchief and become another more perfect fairy tale.
Pay attention to the color, not around the waist.
A beautiful word-brocade: it represents colorful fabrics. These brocade shirts are worn on Yunnan people. This beauty has existed for 4000 years. Of course, the earliest tapestries were made of the simplest linen, and then cotton, silk and wool appeared. After the prosperous Tang dynasty, people's love for beauty increased day by day, and those extremely complicated handicrafts such as tie-dyeing, batik and embroidery came out gracefully.
Travelers will never forget to stay for a few days in Dali, between the Yunnan-Tibet Mountain and Erhai Lake, to see the snow that does not melt all year round and the lake several feet deep. People who love Dali will also fall in love with the most beautiful color here-tie-dyed indigo. Legend has it that the melting stream at the top of Cangshan Mountain changed it and gave it such a green, dignified and elegant quality. Some people say that it was a gift woven by a fairy that brought it to the world and gave it such a dreamy and looming feeling.
In fact, as early as 1000 years ago, Bai people began to collect natural plants growing on Cangshan Mountain to make dyes, draw patterns on white cloth, fold them with both hands along the patterns, tie them tightly with ropes, and then put them into dye vats. The height of the vat is more than half a person, and the thin woman should stand on the stool and put pieces of cloth in it. Blue water actually looks dark black, like a woman hanging down.
Embroidery doesn't have to travel all the way to Dali to appreciate it. Anywhere in Yunnan, even in a small village, a young or old woman can sew and embroider with seven colors of thread in bright sunshine. Maybe there are too many ethnic groups in Yunnan, just like one woman likes red and another woman likes yellow. Every different ethnic group has different color preferences, such as Yi people like black, Bai people like white, Dai people like elephant and peacock patterns, but when it comes to Buyi people, it becomes sun patterns, Yun Leiwen, palindromes or bronze drum patterns.
However, no amount of embroidery can compare with a purse with thousands of pets. Embroidered with a girl's small embroidered purse full of thoughts about her lover. Yunnan girls, who are good at flying needles to embroider purses, have done their best: some hang money, tobacco leaves and herbs on their skirts, and some tie them around their waists. If you go to Lijiang, Dali and Chuxiong, almost all the boys and girls of Bai nationality carry a leather bag around their waist. Miss Hani's wallet is not for hanging, but thrown into the air. It's a Cupid Arrow from a simple girl.
In this red land of Yunnan, the changes of the world have not brought a little impetuousness and noise to handicrafts, but they still flow vigorously and satisfy everything in the world. Daily necessities, food, clothing, housing and transportation make the fireworks so beautiful and legendary, with endless flavor.
However, no amount of embroidery can compare with a purse with thousands of pets. Embroidered with a girl's small embroidered purse full of thoughts about her lover. Yunnan girls, who are good at flying needles to embroider purses, have done their best: some hang money, tobacco leaves and herbs on their skirts, and some tie them around their waists. If you go to Lijiang, Dali and Chuxiong, almost all the boys and girls of Bai nationality carry a leather bag around their waist. Miss Hani's wallet is not for hanging, but thrown into the air. It's a Cupid Arrow from a simple girl.
In this red land of Yunnan, the changes of the world have not brought a little impetuousness and noise to handicrafts, but they still flow vigorously and satisfy everything in the world. Daily necessities, food, clothing, housing and transportation make the fireworks so beautiful and legendary, with endless flavor.