Chao embroidery and Cantonese embroidery are also called Cantonese embroidery, and Suzhou embroidery, Hunan Xiang embroidery, Sichuan Shu embroidery, etc. because of the high level of embroidery art, the influence is greater, so it is known as "China's four famous embroidery". Tide embroidery pays attention to composition symmetry, its varieties can be roughly divided into daily necessities, appreciation products and costumes three kinds, according to the embroidery process is divided into velvet embroidery, thread embroidery, gold and silver thread embroidery, gold velvet mixed embroidery and other four categories, the specific method is divided into embroidery, pad, paste, spelling, embellishment five kinds of more than 200 kinds of stitching. Embroidery is used for costumes, props, temple decoration, etc. With its exquisite embroidery skills, it enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad.
Chao embroidery has a long history, originated and popular in the chaoshan region, began in the Tang Dynasty, formed a style in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and spread in China and Southeast Asia. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Chaozhou and other places also set up embroidery villages and embroidery workshops, and Cantonese embroidery presented a thriving scene.
Among them, chao embroidery continues to the same dilemma as many traditional Chinese handicrafts, and tide embroidery has gone from a flourish to a time, and then declined, falling into the danger of lack of successors. Just when Chao embroidery was about to face decay and no one to inherit, there was a group of craftsmen who persevered and innovated continuously, and only then did they have today's predicament to break through and regain prosperity. Kang Huifang is such a master craftsman, she has exhausted her life's energy to inherit, innovate and disseminate intangible cultural heritage embroidery to the extreme. Let many people re-understand the tide embroidery, so that the tide embroidery culture spread to the world.
In 1982, Kang Huifang stood out among many embroiderers and was admitted to the Municipal Embroidery Research Institute. In this professional platform, her embroidery skills have been qualitatively improved, laying the foundation for her growth from an embroidery girl to a master. In more than 50 years of embroidery career, she has never stopped pursuing and innovating the embroidery skills of tide embroidery. And on the basis of innovative development of traditional techniques, she has made significant contributions to excavating and inheriting traditional crafts, and she has researched and innovated the "double-sided cushion embroidery technique", adding icing on the cake to the traditional tide embroidery art.
Kang Huifang combined the characteristics of tide embroidery and hair embroidery, she used hair as thread, embroidered with different stitching methods such as needles, cutting needles, winding needles, roller needles, etc., and created a double-sided hair embroidery "Meilan Ju Bamboo", which is simple and elegant, and meticulous. In 2009, it won the gold medal of the Chinese cultural heritage "Splendid China" Embroidery Exhibition.
Hair double-sided embroidery "Meilan Ju Bamboo"
Although she has created countless embroideries, her favorite is "Songhe Yannian". This work adopts the famous painter Mr. Chen Zhifo's brush painting as the base draft, after processing, refining and choosing, the formation of "folk embroidery" decorative pattern, the picture of the crane is beautiful and vivid, a variety of stitching treatment shows the white and light feathers of the white crane, pine trunk interspersed with high and low dense. The coordinated and unified, colorful overall style gives people a noble and elegant and warm and joyful artistic effect, and also has the strong local characteristics of tide embroidery.
Double-sided embroidery "Matsuzuru Yannian"
In 2006, the first small double-sided tide embroidery work "Arowana" was released. In order to embroider the vivid and realistic Arowana, Kang Huifang, who was more than 50 years old at the time, often ran to the flower and bird market and carefully observed in front of the fish tank, staying for most of the day. The flexible fish eyes, the upward mouth of the fish, coupled with the strong three-dimensional effect, it looks as if the fish is about to jump up. By applying the traditional embroidery method of nailing gold dragon lin embroidery to the fish lin of the golden arowana, the fin and tail of the fish adopt the technique of needle connection, needle connection and needle entanglement, showing the thick and strong body of the fish body, the beautiful posture of the fish tail transparent as silk, flexible swimming, and the flip of the aquatic grass, the picture of the golden arowana swimming upwards for an instant. The whole embroidery is made of gold thread and velvet thread material, and the embroidery is delicate, like a noble scenery in the water. This technique fills the gap in the stitching method of the mat embroidery technique and creates a precedent for the double-sided mat high embroidery method in China.
Double-sided embroidery "Arowana"
Because of the persistence and innovation of these people, tide embroidery can have today's achievements, they rely on superb skills and modern concepts, with tide embroidery to break through the "rivers and lakes", in this era of market demand-oriented, and with its exquisite patterns and strong decoration, attracted many luxury companies to take the initiative to marry. At the same time, let the tide embroidery culture be better spread and passed on.