Kaili ponytail bamboo hat [Guizhou Kaili specialty]

What is Carey ponytail hat? Authentic Guizhou Kaili specialty: Kaili ponytail bamboo hat

Content summary:Do you want to know what Kaili ponytail bamboo hat is? This article is a detailed introduction toGuizhou Kaili specialty - Kaili Mawei Douli. It was compiled and edited by the editorial team of China Specialty Network after reviewing and collecting relevant information about Kaili Mawei Douli. The full text takes about 10 minutes to read, mainly including the basic introduction of Kaili Mawei Douli and the product characteristics of Kaili Mawei Douli? How did the history of the Carey ponytail hat come about? The production method of Kaili ponytail hat, etc

Basic Introduction to Kaili Mawei Douli

Mawei Douli is one of the traditional Miao folk crafts in Wanshui Town, Kaili City, Qiandongnan Autonomous Prefecture. Miao folk craftsmen use bamboo to cut into thin, long, and thin bamboo strips, and weave them into 360 bamboo strips and ponytails, which are specially designed for Miao girls and young women to shade themselves from the sun. The Miao ponytail bamboo hat has characteristics of refinement, beauty, and skill. It is known as "passing on skills from generation to generation, not from the inside out, not from men to women, and weaving bamboo hats for every household", and "every household marries a girl with a ponytail bamboo hat as a dowry". Sending gold and silver is not uncommon, it must be accompanied by a conical hat for a good return. The superb skill of weaving ponytail hats has been passed down from generation to generation

What are the product features of Kaili ponytail hat

How did the history of Kaili ponytail hat come about

The Miao ponytail hat is a unique and exquisite hat made by the Miao ancestors by laying bamboo leaves and brown leaves on a ponytail. The top-notch bamboo hats have also transformed from the earliest bamboo strips to the finest copper wrapped hats. The Wu and Miao ethnic groups, who migrated from Jiangxi to Guizhou during the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, not only inherited the craft of weaving bamboo leaf hats from their ancestors after settling in Mizhong and Gezhong, but also followed the oral tradition of their ancestors' "weaving horsetail hats and wearing them to protect the safety of the gods and earth; inheriting their ancestors' will, and making a family prosperous and prosperous" in combination with local geographical features and the needs of ethnic life. On the basis of weaving traditional bamboo hats with bamboo leaves, the locally produced water bamboo and horsetail hats are used to weave horsetail hats, which are of excellent quality, beautiful and practical, and are favored by the Miao people

The weaving production of ponytail hats made significant progress during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Gezhong, Huoxing, Mihuang, and Xiaowengdang are almost "skilled craftsmen in the village and skilled weavers in every household", with a considerable scale of production, greatly promoting the enthusiasm of the surrounding seedlings to learn how to weave and use ponytail hats. Especially for Miao girls getting married or rowing dragon boats, ponytail hats are essential dowry items and must-have items. "Flower clothes and skirts show craftsmanship, gold and silver jewelry show wealth, gods and earth protect peace, ponytail hats compete for precious gems"! "In Loong Boat rowing and dragon boat racing, you can't get on the boat without horsetail hats". For thousands of years, the Miao people have regarded the ponytail hat as a sacred and priceless treasure

The production of horsetail hats by the Wanshui Miao people can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty. The inheritance relationship of the horsetail hat weaving by the Wu family in Wanshui Town, Kaili City can be traced back to at least the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties. Only the inheritors of the Wu family's hook bag in Huoxing Village have been passed down for 13 generations, mainly: (first generation) → Wu hook bag → Wu Erbao → Wu Sha'er → Wu Xiangsha → Wu Gaoxiang → Wu Yonggao → Wu Liangyong → Wu Luliang → Wu Shilu → Wu Yanshi → Wu Baoyan → Wu Labao → (thirteenth generation) Wu Chengla

The production method of Kaili ponytail bamboo hat

1. Selected bamboo materials: Select healthy bamboo from the water bamboo forest that is full and thick, with lush bamboo leaves, intact branches, the longest bamboo nodes, no insect bites, and no scars, in order to seek good luck, ancestral blessings, and the protection of Yelang Bamboo King<2. Bamboo cutting: First, cut off the protruding bamboo joints and the tips at both ends. Use an iron knife to cut the bamboo into strips, which are then divided into three layers. Use a long nail as a knife to cut the first and second layers into several thin strips. Finally, use a knife to cut out evenly and slender bamboo strips as raw materials

3. Weaving bamboo hat skeleton: Based on the bamboo hat pattern left by our ancestors, 180 bamboo strips from the third layer of raw materials (360 from both sides) are woven into a ponytail bamboo hat skeleton layer<4. Weaving: Using the first and second layers of broken bamboo strips as raw materials, weave the bamboo hat into a circular shape, divided into five directions: metal, wood, water, fire, and soil, with a total of 4500 bamboo threads

5. Weaving bamboo hat edges: Use the finest bamboo strips to trim the edges and weave three braided rings, representing the Yellow River, Yangtze River, and Qingshui River. The intention is to let future generations remember the history of the Miao people's migration from the Yellow River basin to the Yangtze River basin, and then from east to west along the Qingshui River to Guizhou. When trimming, leave a finishing knife, representing the ancient wisdom of "all things should not be too full, full will overflow"

6. Color addition: After the horsetail hat is woven into shape, it is plated with egg green to make it golden, making it dazzling and magnificent

7. Laying a ponytail: On the golden upper bamboo frame, lay an average of 5 white horse tails in the middle of each bamboo gap, for a total of 1800 white horse tails (3600 on both sides)

8. Packaging process for conical hats: Wrap a golden shiny small copper wire around the five starred head of the ponytail conical hat to make it exquisite and durable (also known as grinding the heart or grinding the shaft, which records the legend of "Brothers and Sisters Getting Married" in ancient times, where only Miao siblings survived due to floods and had to roll and grind the two mountains together)

9. Coating with tung oil: The tung seeds of the tung tree are pressed into high-quality tung oil, which is then fired over low heat and carefully coated on a ponytail bamboo hat to make it shiny, durable, and not easily discolored

10. Final assembly: The skeleton layer and the thin and soft ponytail bamboo hat (upper layer), also known as the outer layer, are combined to form an upper grinding disc and a lower grinding disc, which are tightly tied with delicate thin bamboo strips

11. Sun drying for color fixation: During the sun drying process, the larger the sun, the better, and it is advisable to expose to sunlight for seven days. If the sun is too little, the color will not be enough, and if it is too much, the color will be lost

12. Upper bamboo hat headband: a bamboo hat headband made of finely woven bamboo strips that is suitable for the size of a person's head, tied tightly to the middle part of the lower layer of the ponytail bamboo hat with thin bamboo strips for wearing on the head