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China News Service, Xing'an League, October 22, topic: Mongolian embroidery craftsman: traditional skills open up "fingertip happiness" life
Author Zhang Wei Li Na
"Now, we are also the ones who 'receive wages'!" Recently, the Mongolian Embroidery Center of Keyouzhong Banner, Xing'an League, Inner Mongolia paid wages to farmers and herdsmen. Gu Sheng, 50, was holding the wages he just received. , with a smile on his face.
The Mongolian embroidery of Keyouzhong Banner originated in the Qing Dynasty. It was integrated and influenced each other with Han, Manchu, Tibetan and other national embroidery techniques. Most of them used bold, rough, exaggerated techniques and bright colors to express the life concept of harmonious coexistence between man and nature. It is a unique Mongolian traditional art technique.
In 2009, Mongolian embroidery of Keyouzhong Banner was included in the second batch of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region-level intangible cultural heritage list.
The picture shows Bai Jingying and Xiu Niang exchange skills.
Photo courtesy of the Propaganda Department of Keyou Middle Banner
The flowers embroidered on silk are lifelike, even if they are hung in a photo frame, they feel that they can be picked by reaching out... In Keyou Zhongqi, there is a team of tens of thousands of farmers and herdsmen embroiderers who use exquisite traditional skills to create A happy life at your fingertips.
Due to the lack of arable land and poor quality of arable land at home, coupled with the provision of two college students to go to school, Gu Sheng's life before was very difficult.
In 2017, Gu Sheng found the Embroidery Association and started learning embroidery. "The flowers I embroidered at the beginning were so ugly that I couldn't even see them."
"But the teacher has always encouraged me, which made me more and more confident." Gu Sheng proudly told the reporter that little by little, stitch by stitch, she finally overcame the problem of embroidering small flowers and embroidering large ones. Difficulties with easily crooked needles, "From the beginning of the order of 5 yuan, 10 yuan, and 20 yuan, slowly, now I can embroider a single flower of 7,000 yuan."
Gu Sheng said: "I also dreamed that I could have a salary like a city person at any time. I didn't expect that the dream is really a reality."
The picture shows Bai Jingying accepting the work of the embroiderer.
Photo courtesy of the Propaganda Department of Keyou Middle Banner
"Every time I settle my salary, I will save the whole amount and withdraw it. In the past few years, I have changed a lot of big things in my home. If I save up, I can buy a building." Gu Sheng was full of hope.
Gu Sheng is good at embroidering peonies and chrysanthemums. He did embroidery in his spare time, not only enriching his pockets, but also as an embroidery leader and leading 90 women to embroider together.
Tuya is a first-class embroiderer in Gaoliban Town. She is good at flat stitch embroidery and often learns embroidery skills with embroiderers who are just getting started.
"What I mainly teach now is to match patterns and colors. I use trousers and plain stitches. The students have improved very quickly, and the colors are well matched." Tuya taught the students hand in hand.
The 42-year-old Tuya has been learning shoe making with her mother since she can remember. With the foundation of handicrafts, learning embroidery is easy. In 2017, she stood out with her excellent embroidery skills and was rated as a first-class embroiderer.
Since then, Tuya has been engaged in the embroidery industry with 60 embroiderers. "Even if the farmers and herdsmen do not make a living from embroidery, they can increase their income by more than 10,000 yuan a year through embroidery."
"Post-80s" Xiao Zhula liked embroidery needles since childhood, and cross-stitched embroidery very beautifully when he was a teenager.
In 2017, Bai Jingying, president of the Mongolian Embroidery Association, saw Xiao Zhula's work for the first time and fell in love with her skills at a glance.
Since then, Xiao Zhula has become the embroidery leader in Durki Town.
In the past few days, she took more than 20 embroidered mothers in Durki Town to receive the "salary" for the first half of 2022.
"They are all beginners, but their average salary can reach 3,000 yuan."
The picture shows Xiao Zhura receiving the "salary".
Photo courtesy of the Propaganda Department of Keyou Middle Banner
"I want to pass on the skill of Mongolian embroidery and let more sisters join in and get rich together." Xiao Zhula said that in the past few years, among the embroidered women she brought out, the highest annual income can reach 50,000 yuan Yuan.
"The Mongolian embroidery industry of Keyouzhong Banner, as a member of the rural revitalization army, will continue to cultivate local talents and craftsmen-type talents, carry forward the traditional Chinese culture, and increase the income for farmers and herdsmen." National poverty alleviation model, Keyouzhong Bai Jingying, president of the Banner Mongolian Embroidery Association, said.
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