(Observation of the Two Sessions) More than just traditional watchmen, how does intangible cultural heritage embroidery break out of the circle and "show"?
China News Agency, Beijing, March 3 (Reporter Huang Yuqin) Hand embroidery is an ancient traditional Chinese technique.
Today, as China continues to set off round after round of "national boom", the development of traditional hand embroidery is facing new opportunities and challenges.
On the eve of the National People's Congress and the National People's Congress, many representatives of the National People's Congress spoke out on how to "break the circle" of embroidery, emphasizing that embroidery inheritors should not stop at the watchmen of traditional culture, but should rejuvenate the ancient skills through industrialization.
The data picture shows that on February 17, in Tongren City, Guizhou Province, Shi Liping was interviewed by a reporter from China News Agency at the Songtao Miao Embroidery Museum in Bijiang District.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Qu Honglun
How to pass on: skills and culture
Miao embroidery is an embroidery technique passed down by the Chinese Miao people.
As China's national intangible cultural heritage, Miao embroidery with a history of thousands of years engraves the creation myth, migration history and delicate emotions of the tribe on the clothing.
"There are many elements of Miao embroidery costumes, such as the patterns used for crossing the river and the patterns used for climbing mountains. There are rules." Li Shaoyu, a representative of the National People's Congress and the representative inheritor of the Chongqing intangible cultural heritage project Pengshui Miao Embroidery, told reporters.
For Miao embroidered clothing, she has an image metaphor - "a wordless history book worn on the body".
"What Miao embroidery represents is not only a piece of clothing or a technique, but also the culture of a nation, which must be passed on well," said Li Shaoyu.
In response to the problems existing in the inheritance of Miao embroidery, Shi Liping, a representative of the National People's Congress and the seventh-generation inheritor of Songtao Miao embroidery, told reporters that some inheritors are only superficial at this stage. There is culture. Now we do not lack craftsmanship, but we lack literate talents.”
Shi Liping emphasized that talent training is the key link, and the government needs to improve the inheritance system through systematic planning, so that talents can be continuously supplied.
Cheng Xinxiang is embroidering.
Photo by Tang Xiaoqing
How to Position: More Than Traditional Watchmen
Hunan embroidery is one of the four famous embroidery in China, with a history of more than 2,000 years.
The double-sided embroidery, which represents the highest skill of Hunan embroidery, is also known as "magic art".
However, how traditional art "holds hands" with modern life "out of the circle" is a question that Cheng Xinxiang, a representative of the National People's Congress and director of the Hunan Embroidery Production Department of Hunan Embroidery Research Institute, has been thinking about.
Engaged in the Hunan embroidery industry for more than 30 years, this “spokesperson” of Hunan embroidery will wear the latest Hunan embroidery clothing and Hunan embroidery cultural and creative accessories every time he attends a conference in Beijing to introduce the innovation of Hunan embroidery.
"Traditional Hunan embroidery has entered modern life, and traditional art is being recognized by more people through industrial development." Cheng Xinxiang told reporters.
"You can't stop at being a watchman, you must form a brand by stimulating endogenous power, and ultimately feed the intangible cultural heritage with industrial development." Shi Liping, who walked more than 30,000 miles to villages and villages to record the history of Miao embroidery, felt deeply about this.
In recent years, she has been advocating the development model of "Miao Embroidery +" - taking "Miao Embroidery + Clothing" as an example, using the raw material of Chinese herbal medicine Isatis root as the dyeing thread, in addition to Miao embroidery itself, it can also stimulate isatis root planting, weaving, clothing The in-depth development of sales and other industrial chains.
"What belongs to the nation is what belongs to the world. How wonderful is every needle and thread." Shi Liping said, "As the inheritor, we believe that what we inherit is both culture and industry."
How to break the circle: embracing popularization and youth
As a traditional Chinese craft, "exquisite and high-end" has always been the impression of hand embroidery in the eyes of the public.
Nowadays, saying goodbye to "high and low" and embracing popularization and youth is becoming the consensus of more and more embroidery inheritors.
"Young people born in the '90s and '00s are more and more confident in the excellent traditional culture, patriotic, using domestic products, and paying attention to national trends." Cheng Xinxiang believes that to "get out of the circle" of Hunan embroidery, it is necessary to adopt the method of "modernization of traditional culture" Innovation, combining technology and art to carry out multiple crossovers into modern life.
Bedding, wedding dresses, bookmarks, Bluetooth speakers, car fragrances, backpacks... Cheng Xinxiang led the team to develop many cultural derivatives of Hunan embroidery closely related to life, becoming the "new favorite" of young people.
Faced with the problems of monotonous design and simple production of embroidery products, Li Shaoyu further pointed out that in order to develop intangible cultural heritage, we must embrace young people through innovation.
Compared with the traditional Miao embroidery that "makes a fuss" on clothing, Li Shaoyu embroiders local tourist attractions or Chinese paintings such as "Across the River During Qingming Festival" on the products, and uses silk fabrics, mulberry silk threads, etc. to create, Pengshui Miao embroidery is becoming more and more " young".
Li Shaoyu said that at this year's National People's Congress, she will put forward suggestions, hoping that on the basis of adhering to the tradition and not losing its essence, it is necessary to establish the concept of intangible cultural heritage entering modern life, and promote the more comprehensive integration of intangible cultural heritage into life.
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(China News Agency reporters Liang Qinqing, Qu Honglun, Yuan Chao, Tang Xiaoqing participated in the writing)