It is said that the history of making fire grass cloth of the Lisu people is very long. Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a severe drought. There was a pair of Lisu youths living in the mountains. The man chased the mountains to hunt, and the woman managed the housework. The simple animal skin clothes worn by the young man could no longer cover his body and keep out the cold. After going through hardships, the girl finally found nettles and fire grass, and then she kept tearing, boiling, rinsing, and twisting the thread, and finally wove a horizontal linen long gown. [Distribution area] The fire grass weaving skills of the Lisu people in Dechang are mainly distributed in Jinsha and Nanshan Lisu Townships, and are also scattered in small Lisu villages such as Tuanjie Village in Badong Township, Xinyu Village in Kuanyu Township, and Shaba Village in Leyue Township in Han District. [Basic content] Using the plant fibers of "fire grass" and "hemp" to weave fire grass cloth and linen to make clothes is an ancient textile craft of the Lisu people. Fireweed is a wild plant that grows in the mountains. Its leaves are oval, with a white film on the back of the leaves. Its fiber has excellent toughness. June and July every year are the seasons for picking fireweed and cutting fireweed stalks. Lisu women wash and warm the wild fireweed leaves they pick, peel off the white fiber layer on the back of the leaves, twist them into threads, and wind them into balls, which are called fireweed threads. Soak the stalks, peel off the outer fibers, spin them into threads, and wind them into balls, which are called fireweed threads. The process of making fireweed cloth is relatively complicated. It has to go through more than 20 links, including cutting fireweed, warming fireweed, twisting threads, drying, arranging threads, rinsing, weaving, and weaving. Each link has its own different process requirements. It is relatively simple to weave fireweed cloth with a traditional loom. Depending on the different piles and wiring methods, single-layer or double-layer fireweed cloth can be woven, or belts with diagonal checkered patterns and lace can be woven. Before weaving the folk fire grass cloth, Lisu women always make an appointment in groups of three or five and cooperate with each other to pull the thread. Different pulling methods can determine the single or double layer and length and width of the cloth. Often a piece of cloth is more than ten meters long and can hold more than a hundred strands of thread. Then these threads are passed through the loom in pairs. Different threading methods can determine whether there is a checkered pattern and the size of the pattern. Finally, the two ends of the thread are fixed on pillars and other things, and the loom can be hung up and weaving can begin. When weaving, the weaver sits in front of the loom and steps on the bamboo board under his feet. The bamboo board will drive the loom up and down to divide the threaded thread into two neat parts. At this time, the weaver puts the thread in the middle and steps on the bamboo board again. The cloth is woven with fire grass thread and hemp thread. If you want to weave patterned cloth, you only need to add some threads of different colors to weave a patterned cloth. In order to make the laid-in line tighter, Lisu women use bamboo pieces or smooth wood pieces to repeatedly apply force in the direction of the line. Some families are also equipped with a bamboo plate (Lisu language: Yema) with hundreds of thin bamboo pieces densely packed like an abacus. Before use, the stretched lines are passed through one by one, and each line is tightened with it. The fire grass cloth woven with this tool is beautiful and strong, and it saves time and effort. Generally, experienced Lisu women only need two or three days to weave a piece of fire grass cloth. After weaving the fire grass cloth, Lisu women will dye the fire grass cloth with various colors and embroider beautiful patterns according to their rich imagination to make a rainbow-like belt; make a white pleated skirt like a white cloud with thousands of needles and thousands of threads; embroider beautiful flowers and plants on it to make a flower hanging bag that the Lisu people never leave. [Basic characteristics] 1. The particularity of the material. The "fire grass cloth" of the Lisu people in Dechang is made of plant fibers and hemp fibers from the leaves of "fire grass" in the deep mountains, which are carefully processed and woven. The materials are taken from the place where they live. 2. Uniqueness of craftsmanship. The production of fire grass cloth exists in the form of a family workshop. It has to go through multiple processing links such as cutting, drying, rinsing, soaking, sorting, bleaching, winding, and weaving. Each process is completed by hand. 3. Product characteristics. The fire grass cloth has clear texture, excellent texture, good air permeability, moisture resistance and warmth retention. [Basic value] 1. Historical value. The fire grass cloth making technique is a great achievement of the Lisu people in utilizing nature in their long-term production and life practices. It is an important part of the Lisu civilization and has an important position in the history of textiles in my country. 2. Craft value. The production process of fire grass cloth is complex and the procedures are numerous. It is an important symbol of the Lisu people's cognition and utilization of nature. Its production contains rich scientific genes and is an extremely valuable historical heritage. 3. Economic value. The production of fire grass cloth is entirely done by hand, with exquisite craftsmanship, great difficulty and long production cycle. It takes a long time from the collection of materials to the formation of a piece of clothing, and it has high economic value.