Zhang Yongjie shows woven bamboo wares in Dayuan Village of Chenwu Township, Luoning County, central China's Henan Province, Dec. 18, 2019. (Xinhua/Feng Dapeng)

An old farmer makes himself a bamboo weaving craftsman through years of practice.

LUOYANG, Dec. 20, 2019 (Xinhua) -- Luoning County in Henan Province, with a long history of bamboo cultivation and famous for bamboo weaving products, is known as "the hometown of bamboo in north China".

Zhang Yongjie, a 71-year-old farmer, began to learn weaving bamboo at the age of 15. In the 1980s, he followed a Japanese craftsman to learn bamboo weaving skills and went to Tokyo for further study. In 2015, bamboo weaving was included in the fourth batch of intangible cultural heritage in Henan Province. As a representative inheritor, Zhang Yongjie said he would keep innovating to attract more people to learn bamboo weaving.

Zhang Yongjie shows woven bamboo hairpins in Dayuan Village of Chenwu Township, Luoning County, central China's Henan Province, Dec. 18, 2019. (Xinhua/Feng Dapeng)

Zhang Yongjie makes woven bamboo wares in Dayuan Village of Chenwu Township, Luoning County, central China's Henan Province, Dec. 18, 2019. (Xinhua/Feng Dapeng)

Zhang Yongjie makes woven bamboo wares in Dayuan Village of Chenwu Township, Luoning County, central China's Henan Province, Dec. 18, 2019. (Xinhua/Feng Dapeng)

Zhang Yongjie looks at his woven bamboo wares in Dayuan Village of Chenwu Township, Luoning County, central China's Henan Province, Dec. 18, 2019. (Xinhua/Feng Dapeng)

Zhang Yongjie makes woven bamboo wares in Dayuan Village of Chenwu Township, Luoning County, central China's Henan Province, Dec. 18, 2019. (Xinhua/Feng Dapeng)

Zhang Yongjie makes woven bamboo wares in Dayuan Village of Chenwu Township, Luoning County, central China's Henan Province, Dec. 18, 2019. (Xinhua/Feng Dapeng)■