The thousand-year-old neon lights hidden in the mountains are a must-have for fans of intangible cultural heritage handicrafts!


One shuttle, one line, one world
When the morning light penetrates the mist of Wuling Mountain,
The Tujia grandmother's waist loom began to sing:
Red is the cinnabar in the mountains, blue is the moonlight in Tuojiang River,
The yellow is the corn drying in the stilt house.
108 longitude and latitude lines weave the mountains, rivers and history of a nation.
Why do you have to experience Tujia brocade?
✨"History books worn on the body"——1300 years of intangible cultural heritage skills, weaving Tujia myths and mountains and rivers with silk threads
✨More colorful than oil painting - traditional "Silankapu" pattern, red, blue and yellow contrasting colors are bold and advanced
✨Check in with the same celebrity style/There is an experience workshop near the filming location of "Avatar"!
🎨The code in the pattern
▫️"Tai Tai Flower": The tiger head pattern is transformed, an ancient totem that protects children
▫️"Forty-eight hooks": Tujia version of "intensive phobia aesthetics", connecting the gods of heaven and earth
▫️"Ma Bihua": an abstract horse-riding hero, the "Iliad" in silk thread
(✨Tips: Authentic Silankapu must have a "triclinic" structure and will have a subtle luster under the sun)
🔍【Where to go? 【Super full check-in points】
❶Tujia Customs Garden (closest to the city)
▸Watching the weaver weave brocade on the spot with an old-fashioned waist loom, the process of creating a pattern from scratch is super healing
❷Zhangjiajie Good Girl Base
√ Customized exclusive brocade: Translate the name pinyin into Tujia pattern
√Night tour of the Brocade Light and Shadow Exhibition, where modern projections activate ancient patterns
❸Shiyanping Ancient Village (a small secret place)
▸The most primitive brocade weaving village in existence, with the scene of drying dyeing threads at the door of every household, it feels like traveling back to the Ming and Qing Dynasties
🛍️【What to buy? [Avoidance Guide]
✅True handmade brocade identification:
▸There are knotted threads on the back ▸The edge of the pattern is slightly jagged ▸Price ≥ 200 yuan/small piece
❌Machine printing: the pattern is too perfect, the color is harsh
📸【Secrets to producing films】
🔹Capture the moment when the weaver passes the shuttle (shutter speed is set to 1/500 or above)
🔹Put the brocade shawl on your shoulders and take a backlit photo with the stilt house as the background
🔹Close-up of the colorful silk threads on the loom, the diagonal composition is very tense
"In the mist of Zhangjiajie,
Meet the walking rainbow——
The shuttle in the hands of the Tujia grandmother has passed through thousands of years.
Weaving a national romance stronger than the sunset. "

Post by NomadicVoyager | Apr 17, 2025

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