Handan Yin Da cabbage cloth dough twists table

In Yin Da Bao Village, Handan County, there is an ancient artistic miracle: rubbing cloth. It is an exquisite and colorful antique theater based on the wooden skeleton of the stage and twisted with various colors of cloth, which has high artistic appreciation value. From the ridge, tile fishing, cornices and animals to columns, square beams, screens, bows and plaques, they are all made of cloth. Or feathers, flowers, figures and patterns are vivid everywhere, confusing the fake with the real.

The prototype of this craft is the funeral shed of a famous family in southern Hebei, but the difference is that it is mainly made of white cloth. Generally, there are large silver halls, such as the main filial piety shed, the left and right accompanying shed, the archway and the gatehouse, which are tied with white cloth. Applying this technique to stage decoration is a pioneering work of folk artists in Baocun history. According to the old artist Chen, this craft has been in his village for many years, but it is impossible to verify when and who it started. According to the oral tradition of the old artists, it may have happened at the same time as the folk flower show in the bushes, that is, during the period of Ming Taizu. He recalled that when he was eighteen (1993? Participate in this research? Technology. 1998, under the guidance of an old artist, I personally turned it into a colorful stage and mastered the basic technology. With the gradual death of the old artist, he became the chief commander of this craft. By 1952, it had been twisted by his hand for four times, and the technology became more and more mature.

Twenty-eight years later, in April of 1980, this craft was restored in this village on a larger scale and the design was updated. Except for the front and left eaves? Two dragons playing with beads? 、? Birthday of crane? 、? Feng Dan Chaoyang? Outside, there is another side hanging on the front? Third, look at the plaque? When you look at this plaque from the left, right and front, you can see three completely different patterns, one is a dragon, the other is a tiger, and the other is a tiger? Entertainment kiosk? Three words. A piece of cloth was twisted out of the cornice? Monkey King Thrice Defeats the Skeleton Demon? The figures are lifelike, such as the Monkey King, Pig Bajie, Tang Priest, Friar Sand and Bai.

The whole stage is10m high,13m wide and10m deep, with various shapes such as cornices, flowing water, temple ridges and screens. Every corner is skillfully twisted with colorful cloth, making it a colorful cloth-twisted palace. In recent years, most of the colorful cloth rubbing tables in this village are held at the temple fair on the eighth day of the second lunar month, which attracts many tourists from Handan and neighboring counties and cities every year. Only 1980 is the estimated number of people in a day, that is, as many as 30 thousand.