Parents and children from both sides of the Taiwan Strait experience Jiangnan sericulture culture in Wuxi, Jiangsu
From July 28th to 29th, a summer camp with the theme of “Appreciating Traditional Culture and Appealing to Cross-Strait Family Relations” was held in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province. During the event, 20 groups of parent-child families from both sides of the Taiwan Strait were invited to the Jiangnan Sericulture Museum (formerly Xizhang Silkworm Breeding Farm) in Yanqiao Street, Huishan District, Wuxi City, to visit the sericulture exhibition hall and experience Jiangnan sericulture culture.
The sericulture industry has a long history in Wuxi. According to the “Wuxi CitySilk Industry Chronicles”, counting from the time Taibo Ben Wu taught people to plant mulberry and raise silkworms, the Wuxi area has a history of more than 3,200 years of silkworm rearing and silk reeling. In the Ming Dynasty, Since the Qing Dynasty, it has flourished in rural areas. In the 1920s, the number of mulberry fields in Wuxi reached 182,400 acres, with more than 140,000 sericulture households, 223 cocoon shops, and more than 100,000 dried cocoons stored. Damn, Wuxi’s reputation as “Silk Wharf” has spread far and wide.
“The Xizhang Silkworm Breeding Farm, founded in 1926, is one of the oldest silkworm breeding farms in Jiangsu Province. It has witnessed the evolution of the sericulture industry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang from traditional family sericulture and workshop sericulture to industrialization. .” The commentator of the Jiangnan Sericulture Museum said that the Xizhang Silkworm Breeding Farm once cultivated 86 silkworm species and made outstanding contributions to the development of the sericulture industry in surrounding cities.
Nowadays, although the Xizhang Silkworm Breeding Farm has been decommissioned, the Jiangnan Sericulture Museum built on its original site not only displays the sericulture culture of Wudi, but also provides future generations with a study of silkworm breeding technology and sericulture. The physical basis for the development history of the industry.
Mr. Liu, a Taiwanese businessman who has lived in the mainland for many years, brought his two sons to participate in the summer camp this time. “When we were young, we still had some impression of sericulture, but when our next generation comes, they have no idea what it is about. So it is quite interesting to take them to see the content of sericulture this time. .” Mr. Liu told a reporter from China News Service that his children are still young and are at the age when they are full of curiosity about all kinds of things. He took them to experience the sericulture culture, so that they can not only learn how to “spin silk”, but also learn the development history of the sericulture industry. , is particularly meaningful.
“This is really amazing. After pulling out a thread for so long, it still hasn’t broken. The pulled thread has been wound around dozens of times on this windmill-like wheel.” Chen Heng from Taiwan The classmate studied at a primary school in Huishan District and was particularly interested in silkworm rearing and silk spinning. He told a reporter from China News Service that he will be entering fourth grade in September this year. He had never been exposed to silkworm raising before, but he knew that silk could be used to make clothes. “I hope I can participate in such activities every summer vacation in the future.”
During the experience session, Chen Heng also made creative cocoon handicrafts with his friends who participated in the summer camp.
During the summer camp, family members from both sides of the Taiwan Strait also walked into the Dahongmen Art Museum in Xizhang Park to appreciate the cross-strait art “Wu Yun Qing Han Mo Yuan” sponsored by the Taiwan Affairs Office of Huishan District, hosted by Yanqiao Street, and co-organized by Dahongmen Art Museum. Work exchange exhibition.
As an exhibition hall displaying the works of outstanding artists from both sides of the Taiwan Strait, Dahongmen Art Museum is another “Taiwan meets Huishan” exchange demonstration base created in Huishan District after Yuqi Wine Industry. Zhou Tianwen, director of the Dahongmen Art Museum, said that the Cross-Strait Art Works Exhibition selected more than 40 works by more than 10 artists from both sides of the Taiwan Strait, showing the elegant aesthetic taste and artistic pursuit of calligraphers and painters on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and the themes of the works are high-spirited and uplifting.
“Calligraphy, painting, paper quilling and other artistic works that inherit and carry forward the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation can transcend long distances and arouse our emotional resonance; the experience of sericulture culture can help young people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait interact and communicate. Share and enhance friendship and consensus.” The relevant person in charge of the Taiwan Affairs Office in Huishan District said that the theme summer camp activity of “Appreciating Traditional Culture and Cross-Strait Family Relations” and the “Wu Yun Qing Han Mo Yuan” cross-Strait art exchange exhibition are intended to further promote cultural exchanges between the two sides. Enhance the spiritual unity among compatriots, and at the same time enhance the recognition of Taiwanese youths that “both sides of the Taiwan Strait are one family”.
It is reported that in addition to visiting art works exchange exhibitions and experiencing sericulture culture, parent-child families on both sides of the Taiwan Strait also learned pottery handcrafting in Xizhang Park and shared their experience with each other.
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