Xinzhuang Crochet Knitting Skill And Local Female

Crochet Knitting skill, a folk-custom which has been extensively popular in Xinzhuang for hundreds of years, has a great influence on Xinzhuang custom. Xinzhuang crochet knitting skill has even greater influence on local female.On the other hand, local female also contributed immensely to Xinzhuang crochet knitting. The Interaction between Xinzhuang crochet knitting and local female is the main focus of the paper. There have been some discussions about the relations between traditional techniques and female in the academic circles. The innovation spot of this paper rests is studying the relations between crochet knitting and local female in the view of sociology and folklore, centered by female.This paper consists of two parts. The first part discusses local female and crochet knitting skill, local female’s livelihood and their social contribution. Crochet knitting skill has a history of hundreds of years, and is now named non-material cultural heritage. Female has been the main participants of this skill all along from the skill’s coming to China. Female have also made most contributions to improvement and innovation of crochet knitting skill, which explains itself the close connection between female and crochet knitting skill. Female in Xinzhuang have been both major participants and main beneficiary. The manufacture scale and sale volume of handicrafts made of Xinzhuang crochet knitting skill helped boost the economic prosperity, from which we can see the contribution female have made in this.The second part of paper focuses on what local female gain inherently from Xinzhuang crochet knitting skill. First, how Xinzhuang crochet knitting met social needs of local female, helped them cast off social bands and walked out of houses to participate in economic production. Second, how did local women get self-realization through crochet knitting, by which lots of women get free from a long-term durance physically. Third, what contemporary female do to protect the non-material cultural heritage of Xinzhuang crochet knitting, which also would enrich their spirit.What local female contributed to crochet knitting helped change folk customs of local people. As a group, local female improved their higher social status for their contributions to Xinzhuang crochet knitting skill. Considering the decline of the protection of non-material cultural heritage of crochet knitting, female’s work will help change regional cultural structure, make modern and tradion in harmonious state.