Huanggulin straw mat short story

Straw mat, commonly known as mat, mat, slider, mat, peace mat, open mat, etc. They are all hand-woven, and they are all daily necessities. The "mat grass" used to make seats was first planted in ancient forests.

Before artificial planting, mat grass was wild in the southern swamp and better in Guangde Lake, Xixiang, Ningbo. According to historical records, fragments of straw mats were unearthed at Hemudu site in 197 1, which proves that the weaving history of straw mats can be traced back to 7000 years ago. Stone age ancestors used wild aquatic plants to weave grass fabrics to lay the floor and shade the sun. Wild materia medica, also known as rush grass, tiger beard grass and jasper grass, is the earliest embryonic form of straw mats. According to Baoqing's "Siming Zhi" in Ming Dynasty, in the Western Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago, straw mats hand-woven by Gu Lin people were as famous as ginseng in Northeast China, and were presented as high-grade gifts every year.

This weed was also called "Juncus" in ancient times. It is said that in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, there was a farmer named Lin in a small village near the Guangde Lake. He fished out wild aquatic plants from the lake and cultivated them carefully. When they grow up, they are woven into straw mats and sit on the floor. People call it "Juncus and Juncus mat". This is the earliest legend of artificially cultivated Juncus. However, there are qualitative differences between locally grown herbs and rushes. The medicinal materials are tough and thick, and can be used as foreign flower mats. Juncus is soft and can only be used as a machine mat. Now tatami exported to Japan is woven with Rush machine.

According to Baoqing's "Si Ming Zhi" in Ming Dynasty, as early as 1200 years ago in the Tang Dynasty, ancient forest mats had been exported to other places as a specialty. By the Song Dynasty, the production of straw mats had reached a considerable scale, and Gu Lin became the main production base and trade distribution center of straw mats in China, and a large number of them were exported to Southeast Asia. It was even more prosperous in the Qing Dynasty. During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty (1790), there were 23 large and small mat shops in Ningbo, and there were also many mat shops all over the country. According to incomplete statistics, the annual output of straw mats is about one million. By 1932, there were 15000 hand-woven seats in Yinxi, with a production of tens of millions.

Straw mats, also known as "sliders", have a patriotic historical story.

In the third year of Jian Yan in the Southern Song Dynasty, (1 129), Zhao Gou was stationed in Lin 'an, and the nomads from the army invaded the territory in the south, forcing Zhao Gou to keep Ning. Zhang Jun and the nomads from eastern Zhejiang fought fiercely in Xixiang area. In order to outwit the nomads from Xixiang, Zhang Jun learned that the local straw mats were tough and smooth, and saw many smooth bluestones nearby, so he ordered soldiers to collect thousands of straw mats from the people and spread them on the road. The next day, 8 jin j flying horse arrived. As soon as the cavalry stepped on the straw mat, all the horses slipped on the straw mat, and immediately the horses were out of control. The soldiers and civilians of the Southern Song Dynasty ambushed on both sides of the road took the opportunity to hunt down and kill, and most of the nomadic people were eliminated, which made this battle with local specialty mats a great victory. Since then, the straw mat has been renamed as "Slipper", which was spread to the north by soldiers in the Southern Song Dynasty and became famous in the north and south.

After liberation, in order to develop the variety and scale of agricultural and sideline products, experts in ancient forest planting were invited to teach planting techniques in various provinces, so that there were mats planted and woven all over the country. However, due to the limitation of objective conditions such as climate, soil and natural environment, the yield of straw mats planted in various places is low, and the quality is difficult to compete with ancient forests. In Ningbo, the straw mats made in Gu Lin are the best. 1In late April, 954, Premier Zhou Enlai named 40 straw mats made in Ningbo as Gu Lin, which was taken as a national gift to the United Nations General Assembly in Geneva, and was loved by leaders of many countries and regions, making Gu Lin straw mats world-famous again.

Geneva is in Switzerland, a beautiful country, and Bern, the capital, is full of flowers and green trees. Geneva, which is more than 20 kilometers away from Bern, is even more elegant and quiet: the Alps in the distance are silvery in the sun and surround the lakes in Geneva, where waterfowl inhabit. Geneva is famous for its famous Swiss watches, and it is also the headquarters of the United Nations in Europe.

1954 on April 26th, Zhou Enlai led the China delegation to attend an important international conference as a big country for the first time.

The headquarters of the United Nations in Europe is located on a hill in the center of Geneva, which is called the Palais des Nations. The national flags of all countries are bright and dazzling. Not far from the Palais des Nations is the Huashan Villa where Zhou Enlai stayed. Pierre Le Royano, Chairman of the Culture and Education Committee of the European Headquarters of the United Nations, once told the visiting cultural circles in China that Zhou Enlai was a famous politician and diplomat in the world. Up to now, we have completely preserved the speeches, photos, words and other precious materials when Mr. Zhou Enlai attended the meeting, as well as chairs, chairs and other daily necessities. Although these things are so old that even the paper mats have turned yellow, we will still preserve them as permanent cultural relics and feel honored and proud of them.

It is said that at the United Nations meeting, Premier Zhou personally presented the straw mats to the heads of state. The giants were very surprised when they saw the straw mat. They are neither cloth nor synthetic fibers, and they are soft and tough when held. Later, I heard that it was planted on the ground and hand-woven. They all felt incredible and marveled at China's straw mats. Looking through the bound edition of Xinjiang Cultural Relics published on 1994, there is an article entitled "The Formation of Mummies in Astana Tomb in Turpan, Xinjiang", which introduces in detail that during the Western Zhou Dynasty in the Tang Dynasty (about 640 AD to the second half of the 8th century), all the bodies were accidentally arranged and buried with straw mats. Although it is very old, the exposed steel mesh and grass edge are still quite complete, and they are all hand-woven. These mats are all produced in Jiangnan, but whether they are produced in Ningbo or used in ancient forests is impossible to verify.

Imagine that at the beginning, the straw mats in Jiangnan were as famous as ginseng, and they were high-grade goods used by emperors. However, before 1400 years ago, straw mats made in the south of the Yangtze River were used as burial utensils in Xinjiang, and the tomb owners were all rich. They have been rich all their lives and have to enjoy a happy mat when they die. The discovery of ancient tombs once again proved that straw mats had been widely sold and had a high reputation in the Tang Dynasty 1400 years ago.

Rush, a native of China, once crossed to Japan, and the Japanese called it "tatami". More than 2000 years ago, during the Qin Shihuang period, Xu Fu took hundreds of boys and girls to sea from Dapeng Mountain in Ningbo. They packed special products from all over the country, including ancient forest mats, crossed the ocean, boarded the Japanese archipelago and settled down. Later, they cultivated, multiplied, planted grass and woven mats on the island ... This story was widely circulated among the people in China.

It is also said that during the Tian Ping period in Japan (about the 8th century AD), Juncus was introduced to Japan from Mingzhou by monks in China, including hand-made mat-making machines, knitting materials and usage. After a long period of evolution and improvement, the Japanese landline has changed. I have seen the pictures of mat knitting performance sent by Japanese friends. The wooden crosspieces and vertical rails of the mat-making machine used in Japan are rectangular and flat, with thick wooden buttons and light pressing buttons. After the rushes are woven, the whole summer mat can't stand up. They only use a single grass to make a small mat, without putting grass edges on both sides, so that grass of different lengths can touch both sides of the mat. Woven mats have long since disappeared in Japan, and a large number of grass products such as tatami mats have been exported from overseas.

1973, Yu Shunmin, a straw mat expert from Yin County, brought back 36 rushes from Japan. Surprisingly, Juncus quickly took root and sprouted on the land where our ancestors planted grass, successfully introduced120,000 mu and spread rapidly, so Yinxian was awarded the title of "the hometown of Juncus in China".