What's the first thing that pops into your mind when you think of wheat straw? Most people would (probable) just see it as a pile of waste in a farmer's field. However, Wu Cui, an intangible cultural inheritor, can turn the straw left over from harvested wheat beautiful functional artworks.
The earliest straw-weaving (草编的) products were discovered at Hemudu Cultural Ruins, a Neolithic cultural site (locate) in Zhejiang province. Straw weaving is method of manufacturing daily items or artworks. It (list) as a national intangible cultural heritage in 2008.
Wu explains the process of straw weaving: selection of materials is the first step of a complicated process that can take weeks, or even (month), to complete. You need to sketch (素描) the piece on paper, requires drawing skills. Next comes weaving, shaping and preserving of the work.
Actually the (hard) part is to make it lifelike.
In her view, straw weaving should respond to (people) needs and preferences, while still drawing inspiration from traditional culture. Wu wants to dig deeper into local traditional culture and create cultural creative products by (develop) the straw-weaving technique.
