Zhangjiajie Specialty Products:Xiangxi Basket
 2016-12-20 16:37:24   Zhangjiajie Tourism Information Website  

Zhangjiajie Specialty Products:Xiangxi basket is divided into several types according to function, each with a different name.

1.Married girls, weave “laundry basket” for the dowry. A laundry basket is little and dainty, with exquisite strings and novel designs. It is a sign of her family, also shows the industrious hands of the bride.

2.Picking corn turns to ” tall basket”. Its diameter is large ( up to 2 feet), with thin waist. The bottom is a square, overhead.

3.Cutting firewood and pulling pigweed, belong to the “wood basket”. It has coarse belly, which could use to beat.

4.There is “support basket” for a man to pick corn, by a pole to carry two 3 feet high and 1 feet long, diameter 2 inch strips basket together. The maize insertes tightly. When picking on shoulders, it can be easy to up and down high and steep cliffs.

5.Wooden basket carried on the back, with a few sticks, stringing into a set of objects with empty frame to send pigs.

6.The most special is the “water basket”. It has long waist hole, which weaved by leather. And it brushed by tung oil. It used to carry water from the mountain, canyon.

Translated by Sophia