Bamboo weaving in Shengzhou began in the Warring States period more than 2000 years ago. Hard-working and intelligent working people of the Han nationality weave simple utensils with bamboo, weaving patterns such as checkered patterns, rice patterns and herringbone patterns. By the Han and Jin dynasties, the craft had been improving. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the bamboo products produced by Shengzhou Bamboo Weaving Workshop were quite exquisite, and bamboo weaving became an indispensable daily necessities for the people, which were exported to Hangzhou, Shanghai, Nanjing and other cities. Shengzhou bamboo weaving has become a famous folk craft in China. During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, bamboo weaving workshops appeared in Shengzhou, mainly weaving exquisite bamboo weaving utensils such as silk reeling baskets, examination baskets, fragrant baskets, vegetable baskets, vegetable baskets and shoe baskets.

After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), Shengzhou bamboo weaving has developed from a traditional handicraft to a wonderful flower in the world. Bamboo weaving artists cooperated to establish a production and marketing workshop in Shengxian County (prefecture), and later renamed it as a craft bamboo weaving factory, which is known as the first bamboo weaving factory at home and abroad.

In the early 1980s, there were more than 30,000 people engaged in bamboo weaving all the year round, forming a group of professional enterprises, villages and households. By 1988, Shengzhou bamboo weaving has developed more than 360 kinds of weaving patterns and more than 6,000 kinds of colors, and innovated six technologies, such as bleaching, flower reinforcement, blue tire paint, moth prevention, degreasing and animal simulation. It has the reputation of being the first in bamboo weaving at home and abroad, and was named as the only hometown of bamboo weaving in China by the State Council.