“Jiaodong folk silkworm cocoon ancient silk-making technique” was selected into the Shandong Intangible Cultural Heritage List
Recently, the website of the Shandong Provincial People’s Government announced the fifth batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage representative projects, and the “Jiaodong folk silkworm cocoon ancient silk-making technique” in Huancui District, Weihai City was successfully selected. What kind of skill is this? What are its characteristics? Let the editor take you to find out.
Jiaodong folk mountain silkworm cocoon ancient silk reeling technique is a traditional silk spinning technique that uses mountain silkworm cocoon as raw material, uses thick juice of plant ash as a soothing agent, and uses a pedal silk reeling wheel to reel the silk. Mountain silkworms, also known as tussahs, are naturally raised in wild mountains, and Weihai has been the main mountain silkworm production base in Shandong since ancient times. The important tool for silk-making, the pedal silk-making machine, is exquisite in craftsmanship and has been used by Jiaodong folk to this day, allowing the ancient silk-making technique to be completely preserved and passed down.
Historical origin: The ancient silk-making technique of mountain silkworm cocoons originated from the prehistoric Dongyi people and was passed down from generation to generation. “Ancient and Modern Notes” records that tussah silkworm industry originated in Shandong, my country. Wendeng and Muping of Jiaodong were known to use tussah silkworms to make wadding as far back as the Eastern Han Dynasty. With the development of the tussah silkworm industry, after the Yuan Dynasty, tussah silkworms were developed from natural production to artificial breeding. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, tussah silkworms spread from Shandong to all parts of the country. From the late Qing Dynasty to the early 1960s, Weihai tussah silkworms and cocoon silk became the most important household sideline businesses in rural areas of the Jiaodong Peninsula. Mountain silkworm varieties in Jiaodong area have always been in a leading position in the country.
In modern times, Weihai has gradually become an important distribution market for imported products from Europe, America and East Asia and local products exported from North China. It has also become a major source of exported tussah silk and cocoon silk. From the 1780s to the early 1930s, Weihai’s tussah silkworm industry, silk milling and silk weaving industries flourished unprecedentedly. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the Weihai area continued to retain and use the traditional Jiaodong folk pedal silk milling cart for ancient silk milling. According to statistics in 1958, there were 1,200 traditional foot-operated silk milling machines in Weihai and Yantai areas, with an annual production of 890 tons of oak silk and medicinal silk. The Weihai Silk Company, established in 1989, is an enterprise integrating agriculture (sericulture), industry (silk reeling, weaving, printing and dyeing), business (domestic business), and trade (international business). trade) integrated company. Its establishment provided an epoch-making humanistic environment for the development of cocoon, silk and silk industries in Weihai.
Main features: Jiaodong folk mountain silkworm cocoon ancient silk-making technique is pure hand-made silk, and the fiber produced is also pure natural fiber, which has important historical and cultural value, socio-economic value and scientific and technological value.
With the development of the tussah cocoon silk industry, silk production equipment has evolved from pedal silk reeling machines to vertical reeling machines and automatic vertical reeling machines. However, its working principle is still derived from ancient silk reeling technology and still maintains traditional skills. Although the efficiency of the ancient silk spinning method is not high, it can refine silkworm cocoons of different varieties and levels, such as tussah cocoons, mulberry silkworm cocoons, moth mouth cocoons, and oily cocoons. Jiaodong folk silkworm cocoon ancient silk-making technique contains rich scientific and technological genes and is an extremely precious historical heritage.
Inheritance and development: The Weihai area of Jiaodong has been using ancient silk milling equipment to mill silkworm cocoons. At the beginning of the 21st century, due to the influence of foreign silk markets and the impact of mechanized production methods, the ancient silk mills were almost discontinued and lost. Weihai An ancient folk silk-making technique is on the verge of extinction. Weihai Yuhongxiang Silk Cultural Center organized professional and technical personnel, and spent more than three years to rescue, protect, preserve and restore the ancient silk-making skills of mountain silkworm cocoons in the Weihai area of ancient Jiaodong.
In recent years, by improving production conditions, expanding production scale, cultivating technical backbones, organizing rural production and processing bases, and forming a systematic production management network, this ancient skill has been sustained under new historical conditions. develop.
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