The online exhibition season for the "Beautiful Zhejiang" Global Short Video Contest was recently launched across a wide range of media platforms, including ZTV-World, ZTV NEWS, China Blue, the In Zhejiang website, Xinhua-affiliated websites, as well as our website, which is an English news portal for the province.

Episode 16: Bamboo Magicians

Submitted By:

Cui Lijun from the Publicity Department of the CPC Ninghai County Committee

In this film, a girl from the ancient town of Qiantong in Ninghai county narrates how her family acts like a group of "bamboo magicians" by turning ordinary bamboos into refined handicrafts through complex procedures involving cutting, measuring, rolling, breaking, and weaving. Following in her father’s footstep, the girl aspires to be the seventh-generation practitioner of the intangible cultural heritage of traditional bamboo weaving in her family.