Bamboo weaving craftsmanship in western Hunan (Baojing County) Western Hunan is rich in bamboo: mangosteen, laurel bamboo, water bamboo, nan bamboo, and mian bamboo contain a solid foundation for the birth and proliferation of bamboo weaving products. Many people of the Tujia, Miao, and Han ethnic groups here are good at bamboo weaving. The history of bamboo weaving has exceeded a thousand years. The fragments of bamboo mats found in the cliff tombs in Baojing County on the bank of Youshui River are relics from the Tang and Song dynasties. Bamboo weaving products have involved all aspects of people's lives. There are more than 300 kinds of bamboo weaving products such as sieves, baskets, winnowing baskets, baskets, racks, beds, tables, chairs, and fans, which are spread throughout the cities and towns of western Hunan and are deeply loved by the people. Bamboo weaving is mostly one place and one product. As far as Baojing County in western Hunan is concerned, the bamboo weaving products in Bi'er and - are famous for sleeping mats, and bamboo hats are the specialty of Mafuzhai. The products of Purong are the best for coarse and fine bamboo back cages. Bi'er bamboo weaving is exquisite and well-known. Its bamboo weaving products are said to be able to collect pulp and the mat can separate water. In addition, every household has bamboo weaving tools, which have been recommended by newspapers and magazines many times and praised as the bamboo village. Bi'er sleeping mats have become a must-have item in the dowry of girls from a hundred miles around when they get married, and a gift item for people going to Beijing and the province. Bi'er sleeping mats are made of water bamboo with a tender green color, straight and smooth nodes. After more than ten processes such as cutting, splitting, splitting, shaving, scraping, and leveling, the "cooked bamboo strips" are refined and smooth, and then woven. The "cooked bamboo strips" are called "melon seed bamboo strips", and each piece of bamboo strips is thick in the middle and thin on both sides. The industry judges the quality of sleeping mats by the number of bamboo strips within one inch. A sleeping mat with less than six bamboo strips within one inch is a coarse mat, and a sleeping mat with more than ten bamboo strips within one inch is a fine mat, which is the best quality mat. In recent years, the Bier people have not given up traditional sleeping mats, and have also made various handicrafts: flower baskets, flower pots, bee waist baskets, clothes boxes, egg baskets, etc., which are favored by foreign businessmen at the Canton Fair and exported to the United States, France, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong and other countries and regions. There are also many craftsman proverbs that have been passed down by word of mouth and have been included in monographs at the provincial, state and county levels, adding luster to bamboo culture. Bamboo craftsman Peng Tingming was fortunate to be included in the character chapter of "Baojing County Chronicles". This craftsman from Longxiping Village, Baojing County, can weave more than 70 patterns such as Wanzi grid, palindrome grid, industry grid, four plum blossoms, hook Wan, and words such as Fu, Lu, Shou, and Xi on bamboo mats. In 1959, he wove a bamboo mat and a bamboo pillow, both of which were woven with the seven words "Celebrating the Tenth Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China". They were exhibited in the Central National Arts and Crafts Exhibition Hall in Beijing and won awards.