This is the sound of wind from the southwest bamboo sea.

More undefinable than the wind is the people here.

Five years ago, on March 5, 2018, Yang Changqin, a Miao girl from a ethnic village near the Chishui River in Guizhou, took her bamboo water cup made by herself to the "representative channel" of the National People's Congress and the National People's Congress for the first time. On March 5, 2023, she became a deputy to the National People's Congress again with strong steps and full confidence, telling the story of villagers "weaving" a well-off road with bamboo in the Great Hall of the People.

Yang Changqin (first from left) attended the first session of the 14th National People's Congress. Photographed by Du Pengcheng, reporter of Guizhou Daily Tianyan News

1328000 mu of bamboo forest, the annual output value of bamboo industry reached 7.46 billion yuan, and the per capita income of 180000 bamboo farmers increased by more than 5000 yuan

Today, the wind carries the good news from the bamboo town to the north.

Chishui Bamboo Sea

　　 It's windy. Walk on the wind

Yang Changqin was born in Yinjiang Autonomous County, Tongren City, Guizhou Province. In 2007, when she was 17 years old and entered the ancient town of Datong in Chishui, hidden in the depths of the bamboo sea, she was deeply attracted by the ancient and artistic skill of Chishui bamboo weaving since she was young.

Chishui bamboo weaving can be traced back to the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty. After more than 20 processes, such as bamboo selection, scraping, bamboo breaking, processing, dyeing, and wire drawing, a bamboo has been woven into exquisite handicrafts by the skillful hands of craftsmen.

Chop bamboo

The first time she cut bamboo, the first time she pulled up bamboo silk... Although her hands were full of scars, she knew that she had found a career for which she would devote her life. "My mother asked me before that you can't seem to see the effect of doing these things. But I will tell her that if I can do it in the future, it will play a vital role."

She gave up the "iron rice bowl" in her family's eyes and plunged into bamboo weaving. "Development is the best inheritance. If we want to be recognized by generations of people, we must develop products that are suitable for the aesthetic requirements of each era and integrate into the life scene, so that we can have the commodity attributes that lead to the market and better inherit and develop."

Bamboo wrapped porcelain crafts

Over the next ten years, Yang Changqin has deeply rooted in the principles of traditional handicrafts, explored the artistic elements of the times, creatively promoted the traditional bamboo weaving technology to the combination of practical value and artistic aesthetics, and developed dozens of products from traditional practical life products such as bamboo baskets and dustpans, such as three-dimensional bamboo weaving, bamboo woven bag decoration, bamboo silk painting, bamboo art lamps and lanterns, so that "Chishui Bamboo weaving" will shine new brilliance.

　　 The wind blows every year

In 2012, Yang Changqin established Hand in Hand Bamboo Art Development Co., Ltd. to provide free bamboo weaving training to the surrounding women left behind, relocated poverty alleviation households and the disabled. "I hope to join hands with more young people and ambitious people, as well as our local people, to develop our bamboo art inheritance to the extreme, which is why I named it" Hand in Hand "bamboo art."

Yang Changqin trains local women in bamboo weaving technology

In 2018, one of the training bases of the International Bamboo and Rattan Organization settled in Chishui. Later, Yang Changqin led his team members to participate in the national foreign aid training program for many times, and went to countries along the "Belt and Road" to carry out bamboo weaving craft training, share their stories of struggle to get rid of poverty and become rich by bamboo weaving, and spread Chinese bamboo weaving art to the world. In the same year, she was elected as a deputy to the 13th National People's Congress.

In 2019, Yang Changqin set up the production, learning and research base of Jizhutang intangible cultural heritage bamboo weaving in the Ethnic Village of Datong Town, Chishui City, integrating processing and production, research and development design, apprenticeship training, research and learning experience, display and sales. There is a big paragraph on the wall of the base: learn a technology, drive a group of people, bring the rich side to develop, and help the rural revitalization.

This is her original intention and also her distance.

Jizhutang Intangible Cultural Heritage Bamboo Weaving Production, Learning and Research Base

In 2022, the number of employees of the company will increase from more than 20 at the beginning to more than 100, of which 18 have arts and crafts certificates. The company's output value has increased from two to three million yuan to 20 million yuan. At the same time, the base has reached an interest connection with 570 people from 177 households in the Ethnic Village, driving tens of thousands of people in the upstream and downstream industries of bamboo weaving around.

Just after the Spring Festival, Yang Changqin kept busy with product replacement, new commodity bar codes, base display design and transformation. "In the next five years, our goal is to truly realize the industrialization of bamboo weaving technology. Previously, it was a characteristic industry for us to fight poverty. I believe that in the future, it can also become a cultural industry for rural revitalization, which is both culture and industry." Taking advantage of the spring breeze of tourism recovery, more than 60 boxes of bamboo weaving products piled up in the base's warehouse, full of her and fellow villagers' expectations, be fully equipped for.

Xu Yan (middle), a villager, has worked in the base for 5 years and is mainly responsible for weaving bamboo thread porcelain, with a monthly income of up to 6000 yuan.

　　 Thousands of miles of mountains and rivers are surging in the east

From a simple craftsman, to a craftsman, an enterprise manager, to a representative inheritor of intangible cultural heritage in Guizhou Province, and a leader in rural revitalization, she ran forward non-stop, and the wind around her ears was her direction.

Yang Changqin, NPC deputy and inheritor of Guizhou provincial intangible cultural heritage "Chishui Bamboo Weaving"

This year, Yang Changqin was re elected as a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress. "Responsibility and honor coexist. After re-election, I feel more responsible. I will continue to do my best to do a good job in bamboo weaving, so that more people can become rich through their craftsmanship."

Yang Changqin attended the first session of the 14th National People's Congress. Photographed by Du Pengcheng, reporter of Guizhou Daily Tianyan News

Time is indelible, and the east wind blows the horn. Once again on the stage of the NPC and CPPCC, she has become an "old representative" of the post-90s generation, whose enthusiasm and skills are used by the people. Her most concern is still the branding of intangible cultural heritage industry and the construction of Luzhou Zunyi high-speed railway and Chongqing Chizhou Xuzhou high-speed railway, which are closely related to the development of bamboo weaving industry. In her opinion, it is the most benign development that sales feed back production, convenient transportation is the guarantee of sales, and sales will attract people. And when you have people, you have everything. She and her fellow villagers are looking forward to the new journey of Chinese style modernization. The road will be wider and faster.

"Blossoming Flowers", a bamboo wall painting created by Yang Changqin

"In the past five years, I have learned a lot and grown a lot. But what I am most happy about is not how many orders I have made, but seeing children come to the base to do their homework after school, when their mother is knitting things beside them, which is the most meaningful thing for me." Under the leadership of Yang Changqin, more and more local stay at home mothers become "office workers" at home, Together, "bamboo" dreams of rural revitalization.

With family reunion and industrial development, the happy life in front of us is like the blooming spring in the home of Yang Changqin and the villagers, full of hope. She put the most beautiful "spring scenery" into her new work, the bamboo wall painting "Blossoming Prosperity", and went with the wind to the next mountain and sea.

Tianyan News Reporter of Guizhou Daily

Planning/Wang Luyao, Tian Minjia, Pang Bo

Executive/Zhou Xuan, Liu Yipeng, Gao Hang

Poster/Qi Qingyang

Edited by Luo Hangnian

Second instance He Tao

Third instance Min Jie