Recently, in Barley Island Street steep Gate Village bamboo processing and Lin Yinbin's home, I see the old sitting in front of his home deftly weaving a thin bamboo sheet. Beside him, a few to have good weaving baskets on the paint on the brush, is placed in the sun drying, waiting for customers to come from.

“I am 13 years old started to learn bamboo craft, then, at the time of the production team in thebasket, bamboo, bamboo dustpan, blue and other repair and weave. Later the land to households, at home specially woven baskets, measures and some other bamboo products for sale, for over 40 years." Woven baskets a lifetime Lin Yinbin said.

Because of the bamboo in the production after long time seawater immersion, weave baskets durable, received a lot of customers. “Every year sixty or seventy to weave baskets are in short supply, now have the needs of customers to one month in advance reservation, to get it."

“Bamboo Basket weaving process is complex, and hard, monotonous, young people now have few are willing to learn, and after many years that a trade will inevitably lost." Master Lin said, in his memory, the Chen Yu like he could weave baskets are there's not much older, he is the youngest one. " If there are people who come to learn, I am willing to teach."

It is reported, in Yuhuan customs, the woman get married, must carry a pair of baskets, built-in hi eggs, candy and other objects, be handed down from age to age. Now, master Lin programmable six or seven styles of basket, price is in four hundred or five hundred yuan to one thousand yuan range.