used to weave Wicker, Mongolia language are called “ Bao Erga ”, Willow Salix belong to Botany. Salix contains two major systems, one is Salix matsudana, is we usually say that willow. A Powell is Gaz, its original roots “ Ba La ”, bayingolin Mongol autonomous prefecture in Xinjiang, there is a place called balun, “ balun ” is Mongolia language “ Ba La ” called white said. Legend, hero concolor salisb Basi East came to this place, see Willow cluster, people go in and just dew for a head, it's very small praised the sentence: “ what good Ba La is! &Amp;rdquo; so people call this place balun, meaning willow and lush place. Powell Gaz include marsh willow, goat willow, willow, and Mongolia, Red Willow, willow, mountain willow, five core willow, strips located small Liu, SOAP-Liu, willow, and many species of Artemisia, Mongolia language are called Powell Gaz. To my impression, most of these willows grow in sand or on saline-alkali soil, groundwater level high, sand dunes, wetland, river edge, the majority. Yellow River basin, Inner Mongolia, liaohe basin, and the otindag sandy land in maowusu sandy land, badain jaran desert, there are also small watershed areas, such as huihe, moergelehe, Xilin River, and so on, all swathes into growth of the Powell Gaz.
Bao Erga, resistance stronger, more drought-tolerant, water wet; anti-sandy, certain alkali-resistant, resistant to cold and very hot; reproduction easier, strong shoot. Fast growing, spreading, huge root, sand and soil strength. Under the sand dune willow, root deeper, stretching a very long whiskers, the deepest, longest up to more than 30 meters to draw water. Willow branches into roots were buried by shifting sand, then comes from the sand surface, out of the twigs of a clump of Plexus, doggedly out of small pink flowers, sand coating of a landscape in early spring. Sometimes people circle surrounding enclosed pasture, no note left few Wicker, they will take root, is “ have no intention of inserting Willow Willow root ”. Willow has a characteristic, that is must be cut off once every two or three years, called “ &rdquo even stubble;, the cut, the Mong Kok. If you do not cut, it will “ top dead ”, aren't as afraid as most of the trees cut down. Another characteristic is its flexibility of Wicker tenacity and pressure resistance, this, growth in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia Mongolian people on a deeper understanding of it.
Wicker this natural ecological and performance, also to embrace herders that live in it to bring a cultural landscape. In Erdos ETK Suci Brigade last century 70 's, a singular world of Wicker building is found. After many years, something else is forgotten, the only way the willow leaves me a difficult devoid of impression in the world. Kang spread mat there are Wicker, stack was built by Willow on the room, courtyard wall, gate doors are Wicker, pigsty, and chicken house (then herders of pig and chicken) is a willow. In addition to these life, production is also inseparable from the wicker everywhere: sheep is ligation of Salix psammophila, stack is the surrounding of Salix psammophila, straw Wicker of Coulomb's walls are made of sand, worn by the child is toilet paper, basketry Wicker in the bus. In addition, well built, dam construction, do dung box, compiling basket, or be separated from the wicker. Wicker was an integral part of production and life, exudes a natural fragrance everywhere and human warmth. At that time is not on the wicker culture, but in fact Wicker has “ ” in all aspects of life.
