If you want to learn the ancient pottery making slow wheel pottery in Xishuangbanna, ask

The Dai family's homemade clay pottery is extremely breathable, so in the hot Xishuangbanna, it has inadvertently become a fresh-keeping box for food. At first, people thought it was magical, but in the process of using it, they slowly discovered its convenience: the ingredients are everywhere, and the production is so simple that even the firing can be raised anytime and anywhere.

In addition, Xishuangbanna is far away from the Central Plains, and as a relatively closed geographical unit, it has virtually filtered out the influence of many foreign cultures. In this way, the primitive slow-wheel pottery skills have continued with the life of the Dai family, regardless of the passage of time and the flow of the world.

Yumeng told us that the economic benefits of slow-wheel pottery are not ideal, and fewer and fewer people are learning this craft, and those who are engaged in this craft have switched to fast-wheel pottery, and even her daughter Yudanhan has her own different ideas.

When we asked Yumeng to make clay pottery with traditional techniques, she readily agreed.

Yumeng said that making pottery is kneading mud, but not all mud can be kneaded into pottery. The Dai people use a kind of clay called "Yili stone" to make pottery. Driven by tourism, Mandou Village, which was once far away from the city, has also accelerated the pace of urbanization, and construction sites can be seen everywhere, which makes Yumeng always faintly worried, maybe it won't be long before there will be no more vacant land around the village that can be taken from the soil, replaced by high-rise buildings and cement pavement.

Without clay, people wouldn't be able to make pottery if they wanted to.

The Dai slow-wheel pottery skills inheritance training course was held in Gadong.

On the morning of July 5th, the national intangible cultural heritage "Dai Slow Wheel Pottery Skills" inheritance training course jointly sponsored by the State Cultural Center and Jinghong Gadong Middle School opened in Gadong Middle School. The inheritors of the intangible cultural heritage of Yunnan Province, Yanhandian and Yumeng, performed on the spot to make pottery. At the same time, the State Bureau of Culture and Sports and the State Bureau of Ethnic and Religious Affairs designated Gadong Middle School as the Dai slow wheel pottery skills and Dai elephant foot encouragement and learning base and awarded the license.

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If you want to learn this skill more conveniently and really, it is recommended that you go to the Dai Garden in Olive Dam, they attach more importance to the inheritance of Dai traditional culture, so the excavation and dissemination are better. There are also clay pottery making artists, but you can't be sure whether they accept students, you can check the ** of the Dai Nationality Garden to express your wishes to them.

On the side of the Lancang River (Jinghong New Bridge), Mandou Village, Jinghong City, the provincial inheritor of the "Dai slow wheel pottery skills" Yumengjia. It is also a demonstration base for "Dai slow wheel pottery technology".

Yunnan has a history of more than 4,000 years of pottery, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture Jinghong Mandou Village, Menghan Manluan Station Village, Menghai Manzha Village and Menglong Village and other places have retained a relatively complete Dai traditional pottery skills.

The most prominent feature of the Dai pottery technique is the slow wheel handmade, and the surface of the utensils is printed with a patterned wooden pat, which is consistent with the printed pottery unearthed from the Neolithic sites in the south.

The Dai people love to use pottery since ancient times, and pottery is called "plate mill" in Dai language, commonly known as "earth pot". At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Qian Zuxun's "Biography of Baiyi" said that the Dai people "only use the tools of cultivation". Unlike other ethnic groups, Dai pottery is passed down from generation to generation by women.

Since the end of the 50s of the 20th century, famous archaeologists at home and abroad have conducted special investigations on Dai pottery for many times, and believe that Dai traditional pottery is the representative of China's primitive pottery and the key to solving the mystery of China's Neolithic pottery.

However, with the deepening of modernization, except for a small number of decorations and Buddhist ritual utensils used on the roof ridges of buildings, it is no longer easy to see traditional Dai pottery on other occasions. In addition, the economic benefits of pottery making are not ideal, so there are fewer and fewer people who learn and engage in pottery making. In Xishuangbanna, only a few families in the village still make pottery, and the primitive pottery is in a state of imminent extinction, in urgent need of rescue and protection.