As Old Ali said, Bannarasi Saree was named Varanasi, but locals called her "Bannarasi".

The silk brand produced here is built with a unique history of India embedded in every needle and thread. For sari textile workers, women wearing saris, businessmen and designers, Bannarasi saris are what they believe.

Lucky stuff.

When and where the silk industry in Varanasi originated, it is still an unsolved mystery. In the written records of ancient Buddhism and Hinduism, the city has become a cotton spinning base in India. During the Mughal Empire, Persian textiles

When the master came to India, after some discussions and exchanges, India's silk textile technology was also flourishing.

For centuries, the city of Varanasi has been a holy city for devout believers, and for businessmen and tourists, it is also a must-pass stop for the journey. For a long time, photographers, writers and skilled craftsmen have also come to the pilgrimage.

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The textile workers in Varanasi decorated a large amount of gold and silver embroidery on their silk brocade, and the pattern design was so sophisticated that the city became increasingly famous.

As time goes by, images on cloth have also evolved in a series of evolutions. Flowers, animals, birds and plant herbs each thrived on Bannarasi saris, and geometric patterns are also popular designs for handmade saris.

To weave a high-quality Bannalasi sari, it requires master-level skills, artistic aesthetics and patience. The textile craftsman sits in front of the loom, ranging from weeks to half a year, just to create a sari.

, if the patterns are complicated, it will be a more protracted and protracted task.

Under normal circumstances, Old Ali and Lanzan have to sit in front of the textile machine for 15 hours every day. If the customer is anxious and willing to increase the wages, they are willing to work overtime to increase the working hours of coal to 17.

, even 18,9 hours.

Holding a shuttle, wearing thin silk, shuttle back and forth between rows of weaving threads.

"In India, you can't find any place with such a huge textile scale. In the world, you can't find any workshop that can create such amazing works." Old Ali said proudly.

Although Textile did not make the Alibaba family prosperous, it also allowed them to live a life without worrying about food and drink.

The birth of each sari comes from the overlap between the warp and weft of yarn. The brocade weaving technique of Bannarasi sari is very special. The craftsman will add a bunch of silk threads to shuttle between horizontal and vertical lines, and weave the patterns into the cloth.

, create exquisite images as decoration.

"These patterns are very delicate and delicate, and must be manually operated. We must stare at the embroidery with our eyes and be meticulous." Old Ali said, "Slow work is done with meticulous work. Not everyone can do this job, it requires special skills. We

The Alibaba family has its own unique skills.”

Nan Yi did not ask what skills he had, nor did he let Old Alibaba show it too much. He just asked a question - electric textile machines are gradually replacing handmade fabric machines, what impact will this have on you?

"With an electric loom, as long as you press the switch, it starts to babble and will work automatically, and people just need to watch it; a manual loom is different, we need to keep busy with it."

Old Ali said, his eyes full of confusion and worry. He turned to look at Lan Zan, then turned to look at Nan Yi and said, "I am saving money. As long as I save for another seven or eight years, it will be enough to buy an automatic one.

Textile Machine, Lanzan has grown up. With automatic textile machine, Lanzan can marry a few more wives and have more children, and the Ali family will grow stronger."

After looking forward to a beautiful scene where the daughter-in-law called him father-in-law, Old Ali sighed again and said, "There are very few young people who are willing to pick up shuttles now. The younger generation has grown up watching electric looms since childhood, handmade textile looms.

They have no idea how to operate.

However, these manual tools are still lying in the homes of many people, passed down from generation to generation, and we continue this tradition."

"If you want to weave fine silk, I think the handmade loom is better. The complex patterns and the continuous switching of silk threads are not something that can be done by electric looms, and I think it is an art and cannot be used to put them in.

Classified into industrial products.”

Nan Yi put forward his own opinions, both true and false, with the purpose of comfort.

"I am not so optimistic. Nowadays, electric textile machines are becoming more and more complex, and complex cloth can be weaved. Hand-woven fabrics will definitely decline more and more. There will always be a day when we will have no way to live, and this day will not

Today comes, but it is definitely in the near future.”

"Maybe." Nan Yi said thoughtfully: "You keep busy, I won't disturb you."

Nan Yi winked at Pulan and took her outside the workshop.

"Do you know who the largest underground leader of Varanasi is?"

“don.”

"Don?Don? Has something to do with the Mafia?"

"It shouldn't be. I've heard the rumor that Don likes Marlon Brando very much and his "Godfather" very much."

"This Tang is not old?"

"Not too old, probably not over thirty-five years old."

"How is the personality?"

"Boss, I'm not very clear about it, I'm not very familiar with Varanasi," said Plain.

"It's okay, your butt is clean?"

"It's very clean, the team members who are in charge of the wipe have returned to Mumbai."

"There are 160 female soldiers in Dalit now?"

"There are 165 people in total, and 90 players were transferred by the company to Madagascar to protect the mahogany cutting team there."

"Well, I know this. I draw 7 people from the rest, leave Luban Wood Industry, form the most capable and reliable team, code-named the pilgrimage team, transfer people to Varanasi, and set up a here.

Safe House, we will have big moves here.”

"clear."

“Adam.”

Sophie Masso walked out of the workshop and saw Nan Yi and Puran talking. She didn't walk forward, but shouted from afar.

"All chats?" Nan Yi heard the call and walked to Sophie Marso and asked.

"It's already agreed, and Lanzan said that she would be able to finish my clothes with Marion within three months."

"Ha, then you and Marion are bleeding."

Just now, Nan Yi heard from Lan Zan that the clothes of the two women take half a year to complete, but now the time has been reduced by half, and the wages must be quite considerable, so Lan Zan is willing to sacrifice his life to do it.

"Yes, Marion and I increased the wages just to get the clothes as soon as possible."

"Oh, then let's go to the way we came just now to take a look? I wonder if those ascetic monks have left."

"Okay, I'll call Marion."

Sophie Marso called Marion, and the three of them passed by the loess road when they returned the same way.

There are many ascetic monks wandering around in Varanasi, wearing costumes and dresses that seem strange to others and are somewhat incomprehensible, but actually reflect the beliefs of monks.

If we trace the roots, the special group of monks, ascetic monks, originated from India's Brahmanism. The classical epic "Mahabharata" says that "all losers will suffer. Only by suffering can they turn around and defeat their enemies.

, eventually become the winner, or even become a god”.

Therefore, Hindu people believe that asceticism is a necessary way to practice. Asceticism can purify one's mind and remove all worldly desires.

Asceticism is rooted in a deep pessimistic mentality about the world and life. India has moved from ancient civilization to today's globalization, just like most ancient civilizations, and cannot avoid the conflicts of values ​​brought about by rapid development.

Their way of facing conflict does not manifest itself as fierce confrontation or extreme assimilation, but more of it is a coexistence of diversity. Everything that seems to be opposites and inseparable is wonderfully healed and unified here. This may be to attract young Westerners to escape from the world.

One reason.

Here, they can re-look at the civilized society in which they live.

India's deep-rooted caste system is also an important reason for asceticism. People cannot choose and transcend their own caste class. Asceticism is one of the ways for low caste pariahs to eliminate humble identities, and it is also the only way for their suffering to live in the Brahmin class to be respected.

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In Rigveda, asceticism means "warm" or "heat", "heat", which is usually understood as obtaining mysterious "heat" through excessive physical movement and self-torture.

The ancient Indians believed that the world was born because of this heat. When Sakyamuni founded Buddhism in India, the wind of ascetic practice had already prevailed in the middle and lower reaches of the Ganges.

Until today, there are still people on the banks of the Ganges River who pursue their own realm of survival through asceticism. They stand in the shallow water of the Ganges River with their waists, fold their hands together, and whisper to the sun. They are not necessarily ascetics, but

It is an ascetic.

The original intention of asceticism was to gain divine power, and many ascetic monks had become obsessed with this.

In Varanasi and other ancient cities where Hinduism are prevalent, ascetic monks often show some cruel and unusual ways of doing things, such as lying down cow dung, staring at the sun for a long time, holding one hand for a long time, and not falling to the ground for one foot for a lifetime.

Among them, there are even more bizarre things, such as hanging iron ropes, millstones, hanging iron buckets on them, or pulling carts on them. Through various farce-like behaviors, they show the divine power they gained in abstinence practice.

A type of crazy ascetic monk has a special name - Sadu.

Sas are all special ascetics. Their extreme practice methods have become a special "performance" in the eyes of tourists. In fact, more and more ascetics have already regarded this as a way to make a living and are publicly published in the streets and alleys.

When showing the practice, when the tourists are amazed, they will smile sophistically and ask for money to shape their own golden bodies.

A Sa cooperated very well and asked Marion to take photos, and even made a few exaggerated moves, such as holding him up to two meters long, wiping yellow fuel outside, and braiding them into sticky braids one by one.

", showing his warm smile to the camera.

After taking the photo, Sadou smiled warmer, raised a finger, fucked her mouth very piously and said in English with a very standard accent: "photo, ten     rupee."

Well, this is an old man, and it is not the first time he has done this kind of business.

Marien paid Sadu twenty rupees happily and took a few photos with him, one holding Sadu's hand, the other head next to Sadu's head, the most exaggerated one is kissing Sadu

cheeks.

"Flats, isn't he cool in your eyes?"

"Yes, it's cool, Adam, I'm going to take a photo with him, too." Sophie Marso said eagerly.

Nan Yi nodded and said disgustedly: "Yes, after the shot, please take a shower with concentrated sulfuric acid eight times, otherwise don't lie on my bed."
To be continued...