通草花是一种用通草制作的花。通草是一种属于五加科的小乔木“通脱木”的叶子。它的茎内含有大量白色髓液,生成的叶子“通草”洁白而绵薄,叶片直径大达十多厘米,成掌状7-12裂,叶面还披覆有白绒绒的茸毛,有光泽玉润之感,宛如一片片精致细腻的丝绒制品。通草堆花,便是利用这些特点加工而成的。用它做成的画幅色彩鲜艳、柔和悦目,虽属平面剪贴、匀画之作,却有立体质感,生动之姿犹如浅浮雕。“通草花”是江苏省非物质文化遗产,也是扬州特种工艺之一,其品种纷繁,真假难分,经久不衰,被誉为“四季不谢之花”。 Through the grass is a flower made of grass. Through the grass is a small tree belonging to the Waga Branch “through the wood” leaves. Its stem contains a large number of white pulp, the resulting leaves “through the grass ” white and thin, leaf diameter up to more than 10 centimeters, into palmately 7-12 crack, the foliage also covered with white velvet hair, Shiny jade feeling, like a delicate piece of velvet products. Heap grass flowering, is the use of these features processed. Made of it with a colorful frame, soft and pleasing, although the plane cut and paste, even for the painting, but there are three-dimensional texture, vivid posture like a bas-relief. “Through the grass ” is an intangible cultural heritage in Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou is also one of the special technology, its variety, true and false, enduring, known as “Four Seasons do not thank the flower ”.