Exquisite craftsmanship of Zhejiang bamboo weaving

Creating brand and fine products has become a bright spot in bamboo handicraft production in the new period. By 2005, at national, provincial and ministerial level arts and crafts exhibitions, competitions or expositions, Dongyang bamboo weaving handicrafts won 95 awards, including 42 gold awards, 8 silver awards 18, 5 bronze awards 15 and 20 merit awards. The award-winning performance is far ahead of the bamboo weaving peers at the county and city levels in China. Among them, He Fuli's golden works, such as bamboo silk and white crane tripod, elephant, goose singing and what's wrong with the sea, Lu Guanghua's large-scale bamboo hanging Preface to the Lanting Pavilion, White Horse Map and Tiger Map, Su Dongpo's calligraphy on the front and back red walls, three-dimensional bamboo weaving Tang Yin Landscape Painting and Xu Jingbin's golden works of the Millennium Dragon Plate, have all reached outstanding artistic heights in their respective technical fields. Among them, Lu Guanghua's Preface to the Lanting Pavilion, Eight Horses Map and He Fuli's Basket of Eight Immortals with Bamboo Silk were successively rated as the fine arts and crafts of Zhejiang Province. 1997, He Fuli specially made a 2500m-long giant dragon lantern for the Hong Kong Council of Social Service to celebrate the return of Hong Kong. Tung Chee-hwa, the chief executive of Hong Kong, personally opened his eyes and won the Guinness World Records medal that year. CCTV has also reported on Dongyang's traditional bamboo weaving skills many times.