Daoming Bamboo Art Village, Chongzhou City, Chengdu: Let Intangible Cultural Heritage Bloom in Rural Revitalization

Daoming Town is located in Chongzhou City, Chengdu. It is the birthplace of Daoming Bamboo Weaving, an intangible cultural heritage in China. The local bamboo art village featuring bamboo weaving is a popular destination for Chinese and foreign tourists.

Craftsmen make bamboo weaving [Photo via Chongzhou Media Convergence Center]

Bamboo Art Village is nestled among bamboo forests, not only with beautiful scenery and overgrown flowers and plants, but also many cultural and creative workshops and products. In Bamboo Art Village, tourists can visit the bamboo weaving art workshop, check out the intangible cultural heritage market, and experience the fun of weaving bamboo crafts by hand. In 2018, Daoming Bamboo Art Village was selected as one of the "Top Ten Cases" of rural revitalization in Chengdu with its original ecological scenery of forests in western Sichuan, featuring green bamboo forests, green tiles and white walls, and the sound of birds and flowers.

Overlooking Bamboo Art Village [Photo via Chongzhou Media Convergence Center]

In recent years, relying on the long-standing bamboo culture, Daoming Bamboo Art Village has explored and developed an emerging collective economy industry integrating farming experience, characteristic homestays, and cultural and creative products, driving the rapid transformation of the traditional bamboo weaving industry. The industrial operation mode centered on "bamboo" has brought tangible economic benefits to the villagers, making Bamboo Art Village embark on the road of common prosperity, and the road with a high-quality green development.