Guiyang, September 9 (Reporter Zhang Wei) Guizhou Miao Embroidery, known for its flying and flowing ornamentation, rich and bright colors, will launch a strong collision and passionate embrace with international fashion at the 21 Spring/Summer Milan Fashion Week on the 24th.
Data map: Guizhou Miao embroidery. Photo by Chen Peiliang
Ten fingers embroidered in the spring breeze, slender hands dancing neon clothes. Long Luying, a Miao embroiderer from Shibing County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, led the Miao family embroiderers to use needles as pens and threads as ink, and skillfully embroidered a splendid "new life": not only got rid of poverty and become rich, but also let Miao embroidery win the attention of all parties at home and abroad.
Infographic: The picture shows the embroiderer embroidering. Photo by China News Network reporter Qu Honglun
Miao embroidery, it is said to have been born during the migration of the Miao people, for thousands of years, Miao compatriots have embroidered all natural things and national history on clothing, so it is also known as "history books worn on the body".
In Qiandongnan Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, where the Miao people live, Miao compatriots laughed: Miao girls can embroider with needles, Miao embroidery is as simple as writing, almost everyone has embroidery talent and craftsmanship foundation. They shuttled the ancient national history between the colorful silk threads, embroidering the hope of a better life into the square inch of the world in their hands.
Long Luying is such a "microcosm". "Miao embroidery is a treasure of the Miao people, I have been learning Miao embroidery from my family since I was a child, for me such a beautiful thing needs someone to see it, praise it, love it, and Miao embroidery skills need to be passed on and protected." As a non-genetic inheritor, Long Luying said that the longer she touches Miao embroidery, the more she feels that she has a great responsibility, and how to let the embroiderers carry their babies and embroider flowers, feed themselves and support their families is her goal and goal in establishing "Wushui Yuntai".
"The name 'Wushui Yuntai' was taken from Shibing County? Yanghe River and Yuntai Mountain mean to rely on the mountains and rivers, develop the national culture of the hometown, and make everyone prosperous together. Long Luying said. The data shows that Long Luying has carried out 48 sessions of training on rural women's employment skills and intangible cultural heritage skills upgrading, taught more than 6000,4 people employment skills, established 9 intangible cultural heritage embroidery training bases and 669 village production points, driven more than <>,<> village women to increase employment and income, and helped <> registered households to find employment and get rid of poverty.
Long Luying's self-designed and produced "Wushui Yuntai" and "Butterfly Mother" series of works have participated in many international art exhibitions and cultural exchange activities. With her unique design and exquisite skills, she showed the world the uniqueness of Miao embroidery. The "Wushui Gimbal" and "Mother Butterfly" series of works are highly appreciated by collectors and art lovers at home and abroad, and the products are exported to more than 10 countries and regions such as Europe, America, Japan and Southeast Asia.
Like Long Luying, there are many people who have skillfully integrated Miao embroidery into fashion elements on the international stage, and rejuvenated their thousand-year-old skills, including Pan Yuzhen, the inheritor of Miao embroidery of China's national intangible cultural heritage. Pan Yuzhen, 77, said: "<>% of the Miao girls learn to embroider from their mothers and sisters. Miao embroidery is not only the pride of the Miao family, but also the pride of our Chinese. ”
Since being first invited to Singapore in 2000, Pan Yuzhen has traveled to more than 10 countries including the United States, France and the United Kingdom. In December 2018, at St. James's Palace in London, England, Pan Yuzhen also walked the runway wearing her own traditional Miao costumes, showing the world the beauty of Miao embroidery. Pan Yuzhen said: "The handicraft of the Miao people has caused a sensation throughout the UK, and all the participants have come to take pictures with us. ”
Infographic: The picture shows the embroiderer embroidering. Photo by China News Network reporter Qu Honglun
The Miao compatriots used a stitch and a thread to outline the colorful Miao history, culture and wisdom - dozens of embroidery methods such as broken thread embroidery, wrinkled embroidery, pile embroidery, seed embroidery, horsetail embroidery, etc., cold colors and warm colors are staggered and contrasted, so that the colors have a symphonic artistic effect, so that the beauty of Miao costumes is full.
Because of Miao embroidery, many people at home and abroad fell in love with Guizhou, and so did Xia Hua, a native of Liaoning. Since 2003, Xia Hua, vice president of the China Civil Chamber of Commerce and chairman of Yiwen Group, has repeatedly brought designers to Guizhou, where there are many types of intangible cultural heritage, to draw inspiration from the national culture in the deep mountains and create unique aesthetic products belonging to Chinese culture. In the "intangible cultural heritage trip" in Guizhou, Xia Hua handed over a brilliant "report card": 1200,8000 family workshops were established, "Chinese National Aesthetic Pattern Database" and "Chinese Craftsman Database" were established, at present, the database has included more than 22000,400 patterns, more than 1600,<> craftsmen, and more than <> brands and more than <>,<> designers around the world have reached cooperation...
In order to further protect, inherit and develop Miao embroidery, the Department of Culture and Tourism of Guizhou Province has continuously promoted the construction of Miao embroidery intangible cultural heritage workshops, expanded the team of Miao embroidery intangible cultural heritage inheritors, vigorously promoted the research and development of Miao embroidery cultural and creative products, carried out digital records of Miao embroidery, done a good job in assessing the survival status of Miao embroidery, and carried out the cultivation of Miao embroidery experience space.
Data map: The picture shows the embroiderer finishing the embroidery. Photo by China News Network reporter Qu Honglun
The Department of Culture and Tourism of Guizhou Province organized and implemented the rescue records of three representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage of national Miao embroidery and related projects (Miao costumes), launched the pilot project of digital protection of Miao embroidery projects, and formulated and issued the "Pilot Work Plan for the Digital Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Guizhou Province". The official said that through the use of modern digital technology to digitally collect and store the text, sound, graphics, images, patterns, actions, skills, processes, space, environment and other elements of Miao embroidery, establish digital archives, and use digital technology to promote the creative transformation and innovative development of Miao embroidery.
In order to promote the industrialization, fashion, internationalization and branding of Guizhou Miao embroidery industry, during the Milan Fashion Week in the spring/summer 2024, the Chinese Consulate General in Milan and the People's Government of Guizhou Province will co-host the "China Miao Art Exhibition" on September 9. (End)