Chapter 247 - 110: Anniversary Grand Gift Pack (Part 3)
Its weight wasn't particularly heavy, but it felt about a dozen pounds, which made Chen Zhou even more curious about its contents.
The filling inside gift box mooncakes or rations is mostly foam or cotton, thin plastic molds.
This stuff is mainly about looking fancy, with extremely low cost-effectiveness. Anyone with a bit of sense in making gift box packaging food wouldn't stuff over a dozen pounds of rations in there, how would they make any money?
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"Could it be that the first anniversary reward has a guaranteed benefit?"
He casually hung his wide-brimmed hat on the wooden stone wall, took off his backpack, pulled out a Dagger, and Chen Zhou carefully cut the plastic ring under the Chinese knot.
He tried to keep the red waterproof paper intact. Except for dealing with the glue, he basically didn't use the knife and slowly unwrapped the outer packaging.
It didn't take too long for him to fold the basically undamaged red waterproof paper and put it into the backpack.
What remained on the sand was a square plastic box.
The plastic box was light red, not too thick, with a bumpy surface depicting various styles and sizes of the Chinese character for fortune, exactly like the widely circulated folk painting "Hundred Blessings Picture."
Seeing the exquisite plastic box, influenced by its color and meaning, Chen Zhou's mood improved.
Thinking that even if the contents inside were useless, getting this box along with the waterproof cloth and Chinese knot wasn't a loss, he opened the lid, revealing the answer directly.
He initially thought the box would have exquisite packaging, with a reward item in the center.
Chen Zhou never expected the box to serve its actual purpose, containing a mess of different items inside.
The most noticeable was a heavy book, placed at the top of everything, which Chen Zhou picked up first.
This book weighed over three pounds, with a white cover and a very simple design.
The title was "A Comprehensive Overview of Intangible Cultural Heritage: Bamboo Weaving, Rattan Weaving, and Grass Weaving," wrapped in a thin layer of transparent plastic film.
The moment he saw the title, Chen Zhou could hardly believe his eyes. He even put the book down and rubbed his face vigorously to make sure it wasn't a dream.
Picking up the book again, he nervously ripped open the plastic film—afraid to use the knife for fear of scratching the cover,
Chen Zhou first browsed the table of contents after opening the book.
Apart from the preface and the introduction to intangible cultural heritage, the book was mainly divided into three major sections—bamboo weaving, rattan weaving, and grass weaving.
Each section was further divided into sub-sections like manufacturing process, material handling, techniques, weaving methods, and finished product displays.
It included basic techniques and advanced techniques, as well as information on styling and weaving tool explanations.
For example, under grass weaving, there were detailed steps for items like grass woven goldfish, grass woven carp, grass woven cicadas, shrimp, and roses, each step accompanied by illustrations and detailed descriptions.
Rattan weaving was even more practical, including small items like lampshades, coasters, vases, storage baskets, and water cup sleeves, as well as large woven items like shopping baskets, baskets, and backpacks with weaving processes.
In terms of techniques, besides tutorials on bamboo and rattan weaving, some techniques on palm weaving were also explained.
From the most basic lift-and-press method to the twill method, trapezoidal method to the hexagonal weave method, it was very comprehensive.
Most techniques and explanations were accompanied by clear color illustrations.
The step-by-step creation of objects went from simple to difficult, gradually progressing, designed very reasonably.
It can be said that as long as a mentally sound adult is willing to put in the effort to learn and practice, they can certainly master most of the techniques in the book and create most woven crafts.
For Chen Zhou, this was essentially an encyclopedia of weaving crafts that could cultivate him from a complete novice to a skilled craftsman.
The value of this thing couldn't simply be summarized as "useful."
On an isolated island with no information sources, it was practically a cheat!