Lycra fashion, nylon light, cowboy casual, silk deserved ... ... How many people will remember the quiet cotton? Pay attention to "magnificent turn around" today, season after season in the gorgeous color, adhere to the simple combination of blue and white color will be how many people sought after? Yesterday afternoon, Tongxiang Shimengfeng same cloth market, the upcoming blue printed cloth in the autumn sun fluttering. Blue printed cloth, the Millennium craft from the Qin and Han Dynasties, Feng Tongyu this century-old workshop, completed his quietly resurrected elegant turn. Millennium craft "India" full of lingering memory Textile and printing and dyeing has always been a specialty of the Chinese nation. According to historical records, the Neolithic ancestors knew how to dye burlap with red hematite powder. During the Western Zhou Dynasty, there was already a government official specializing in printing and dyeing textiles. During the Song and Yuan dynasties, the weaving industry developed gradually, followed by the emergence of the blue printed cloth rich in folk art characteristics, which was widely used in people's life. When the ancestral home of Shanghai's Huang Daopao brought back cotton spinning technology from Hainan, the blue printing process in the Jiangnan area became more and more mature. The blue printing cloth soon became the most popular textile in the country. In the long history of the millennium, the blue printed cloth shines on people's life because of its unique artistic effect. Cultural baby meet young inheritors live long years, inevitably affected by the times, when the ever-changing patterns, the effect of fast and good modern mechanical printing and dyeing appeared, pure hand and stick to their simple blue calico began to face a severe test, that "Tongxiang blue printed cloth" was included in the first batch of Zhejiang Province "Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection List." In this year's Jiaxing City government named the second batch of the list of folk artists in the city, 38-year-old guard who was among the sad, the representative of its art project is the "blue calico." In 1995, the 24-year-old Ailao Wei "meets" the blue calico at a mall in Shaoxing. Amber guard was born in Tongxiang Shihmen, has a solid art foundation, after he has been engaged in the work of painted silk scarves. But that day, when he walked out of the mall, but have a new plan. "What I saw there was a piece of cloth made of blue calico, and I think it would have done better if it was done by me!" For the next three years he traveled almost The whole country, to a variety of printing and dyeing enterprises learn, through unremitting efforts, he finally mastered the entire blue printing cloth dyeing process. In 2003, Ailao invested and built "Tongxiang Yutongyu Printing Co., Ltd." to enable Feng Tongyu, a century-old workshop which was founded in 1846 and was destroyed by the War of Resistance Against Japan, with a brand new attitude. In order to better retain the "Feng Tongyu" a hundred years old, in December 2004, the company registered in the Trademark Office, "Feng Tongyu" trademark. Sentimental guard on the blue calico feelings, but also continue to explore more profound. Two years ago, he specialized in going to Dunhuang Grottoes to observe the murals, and professedly benefited from it. "Originally thought of as a line art originating from a foreign country, it was only when we saw Dunhuang murals that China had such an art." The inspiration for this trip He overcomes the problems that plagued him for many years: limited by the paper pattern plates, the longer lines have been difficult to show in the blue calico. After reading Dunhuang mural paintings, he has successfully designed his own new work - Chinese lines. " New works to the Chinese classic fine lines grid and other elements to composition, simple and complicated, smooth twists and turns. In order to let more people know the history and unique style of Tongxiang blue printed cloth, Ailangwei opened the blue printed cloth exhibition hall in Fengtongyu Company. "Blue calico is an ancient and beautiful art, but to survive in modern society, art must go to the market.Although we put commercial development of blue calico, we do not forget the cultural heritage it contains. Blue printed cloth is a meager profit industry, but I will treat it as a business! "