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New technologies and new methods should be employed as appropriate to stimulate creativity and inspiration, enrich
cultural value, and express ideas and emotions, so as to make words broader and more meaningful.
——Excerpt from the fourth volume of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China

要正确运用新的技术、新的手段，激发创意灵感、丰富文化内涵、表达思想情感，使文艺创作呈现更有内涵、更有潜力的新境界。
——摘自《习近平谈治国理政》第四卷

By Fan Zhiyin □ 樊芷吟 / 文
Crafting happiness with shuttle and thread

一梭一线织就幸福

Women of the Jinuo ethnic group who people, developed through their labor. At tailoring, a complete outfit for the rite of their ancestors, they transform elements
are skilled in spinning, weaving, and dyeing the Jinuo Mikuo Professional Cooperative passage requires 5 to 6 meters of “machete of nature—mountains, water, flowers, and
are referred to as “Kama.” In Balai Village, in Xishuangbanna, Shadu sits in front of cloth,” which takes 15 days to several trees—into exquisite patterns on the cloth
Jinuoshan Township, Jinghong City, Xish- a loom, skillfully maneuvering the shuttle months to weave. Shadu has been weaving through skillful craftsmanship.
uangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, back and forth with both hands. Each time and making clothes since she was 13 years “During important festivals, I visit other
Yunnan Province, there is a “Kama” named the shuttle passes through the loom, she old, and she has continued this craft for villages to exchange weaving techniques
Shadu. She grew up learning to weave bro- uses a machete-like board to tightly press over 40 years. with the women there. I hope to spread
cades from her mother and grandmother, the weft into place, repeating this process The “machete cloth” woven by the the Jinuo brocade weaving culture to more
incorporating Jinuo people's history and until a beautiful piece of “machete cloth” is Kamas is vibrant and colorful, with every people,” Shadu said.
culture into the so-called “machete cloth.” completed. inch of the fabric carrying blessings for the Today, Shadu is employed by the Na-
Shadu is a representative inheritor of the Jinuo women take great pride in their wearers. The Jinuo people still preserve tional Museum of China as an ethnic folk
Jinuo brocade weaving skills, an intangi- hard work and weaving skills. They begin their most traditional weaving techniques, traditional craftswoman. Jinuo brocades
ble cultural heritage item recognized by learning to weave cloth and make clothing using materials such as cotton and tree bark have been sold to Guangdong, Henan, and
Jinghong City. in their teenage years. The clothes they to spin the thread and dyeing the cloth with other regions, where their charm is being
The long-standing Jinuo weaving culture wear for their rites of passage are entire- natural colors. They believe that all things appreciated by an ever-growing audience.
is a testament to the wisdom of the Jinuo ly self-made. From dyeing the threads to possess a spirit. Inheriting the wisdom of