Shanghai Chongming Earth Cloth Culture And Art Exhibition Opens At Shanghai Textile Museum

In December 28, 2019, the Shanghai Textile Museum, together with the Shanghai Sanmin culture and Art Center and the Zhengda Middle School of Chongming District, Shanghai, organized the "weaving love painting - Shanghai Chongming folk cloth culture and art exhibition", which opened in the Shanghai Textile Museum.

Chongming Island is known as "the Yangtze River gateway, the East China Sea Yingzhou" beautiful copy, rich and rich, very suitable for planting cotton, plus fine craft, rich color, soft and solid texture, creating the Chongming cloth. Chongming native cloth has a history of more than 500 years, and its reputation has been prosperous since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It reached its peak in the early twentieth Century. At that time, 130 thousand of about 600000 people in Chongming had 100 thousand cloth machines, and the output of the cloth was 2 million 500 thousand. Its products were exported to coastal areas, northeast and overseas, and became the backbone industry of Chongming. The exhibition is composed of five chapters: "the history of Chongming's homespun", "the type of Chongming homespun", "the weaving process of Chongming's homespun cloth", "the charm of Chongming's homespun cloth" and "the beauty of the reconstruction of Chongming's homespun cloth". It shows the demeanor of Chongming's homespun art to the vast audience of Shanghai.

The most vigorous inheritance is to let the traditional "live up". The exhibition site also held the exhibition of "homespun weaving" by the non heritage inheritors, and the leisurely and fluent skills ushered in the audience's sighs. Shanghai Textile Museum responsible person said that the "weaving love Shanghai Chongming Chongming cloth culture and art exhibition", it is hoped to attract more folk craftsmen and literary enthusiasts to participate in the revival of the revival culture, so as to promote the continuity of the local cloth technology, the torch relay.

Liu Jian, a teacher of Zhengda middle school in Chongming District of Shanghai, is a native of Chongming. He blended the rhyme of the lotus pond with the homespun cloth in the south of the Yangtze River through the homespun sticker, forming a different form of beauty, giving the audience the feeling of seeing each other at home and feeling at home. "The earth cloth is the pride of Chongming people, the crystallization of wisdom and wisdom of our generation, and embodies the spirit of diligence, thrift, struggle and pioneering spirit of the older generation." He said.

In recent years, Chongming people have been diligently exploring how to better inherit and popularize Chongming's local cloth culture. Since 2005, the Shanghai Sanmin culture and Arts Center has built the Chongming Chongming homespun Museum in the Sanmin cultural village in the south of the Yangtze River. It has collected more than 40000 pieces of earth cloth, held a number of "homespun Culture Symposium", a local cloth art exhibition and a homespun creative design competition. In 2015, the "homespun textile craft" was successfully selected in the list of intangible cultural heritage protection in Shanghai. The Chongming cloth of the "bottom of the box" gradually stepped onto the stage of the times, revealing its unique cultural and artistic charm. It is reported that the exhibition will be held until February 28, 2020.