Grass woven placemats introduce the history of grass weaving to everyone

       Do you know how grass weaving originated? Friends who don't know, hurry up and follow the grass woven placemat to take a look!
       Grass weaving is a craft made by processing and weaving various flexible herbaceous plants as raw materials. Its raw materials grow in a wide range of regions and are easy to obtain and produce, so the craft of grass weaving is very popular among the people in China.
       The earliest visible straw weaving relics in China were made by the Hemudu people, dating back 7000 years. In addition, according to the Book of Rites, there were already Wan Xi made of Pu Cao during the Zhou Dynasty, and there were professional "grass workers" at that time who "made tools for making baskets and reeds". By the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were already bamboo hats woven from Xuan Ma and Pu Cao.

       During the Qin and Han dynasties, grass weaving was widely used among the people, with varieties such as grass shoes, grass mats, grass fans, and so on. From the Han Dynasty to the prosperous Tang Dynasty, grass weaving was relatively developed. In addition to the clothes and shoes made of cattail, there are also cattail sails made of cattail. The grass weaving materials in the Yangtze River Basin are mostly wild yellow grass, Su grass, mat grass, dragon beard grass, bamboo shell, etc., and also use artificially cultivated crop straw as raw materials. Suitable for grass weaving, with smooth stems, few nodes, fine and flexible texture, and strong tensile and bending resistance; The harvested grass must be selected, sorted, and processed before it can be prepared.
       The grass weaving in the Yangtze River Basin is characterized by grass mats, grass shoes, and other daily necessities, distributed in Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places. Among them, Zhejiang is China's grass weaving production base, which has been exported abroad since the 1840s.
       Grass weaving is not a product that only exists now. This type of product has existed in China for a long time. The current grass woven placemats are produced by combining grass weaving with placemats. If you want to learn more, please follow our website.