Xinhua Legal Aid Network According to the Times Safety News Network anshun City, Guizhou Province (Yang Bin Yang Jun wen / photo) There are more than 100,000 Miao people in Xixiu District, Anshun City, Guizhou Province, and the Miao culture is rich and colorful, among which the embroidery culture has distinct national characteristics, and its traditional crafts have a long history, exquisite skills, and high practicality. In the Cultural Heritage Hall of the Erqiao Village Committee of Huaxi Office in Xixiu District, you will often see an old man, holding a needle and thread, after cleverly conceiving, picking flowers and embroidery, seed embroidery, horsetail embroidery....... A stitch and a thread of skillful action, on a piece of ordinary cloth gradually embroidered into a beautiful pattern, colorful, beautiful style of embroidery, that is, with traditional characteristics, but also "tide" full of flavor. If you often go to the Cultural Heritage Museum, you will also see Yang Lin holding a wax knife and making batik works on the workbench with a pair of skillful hands, he is Yang Lin, the inheritor of Miao batik and embroidery skills in Anshun City, Guizhou Province.
The 56-year-old Yang Lin is a native of the Miao, influenced by the older generation of the family, he will batik and embroidery from a young age, the early family conditions are difficult, although he loves traditional skills, but in order to increase the family's income, Yang Lin decided to go out to work. In 1992, Anshun City successfully held the first batik art festival, attracting many guests from home and abroad, Yang Lin was very touched, he felt that as long as the traditional national skills can be well developed, it will certainly be promising, but the local people are getting fewer and fewer, if not paid attention to, I don't know when it will be lost. For this situation, Yang Lin saw it in his eyes, was anxious in his heart, and was determined to pass it on and promote it to more places. So he "picked up" the batik and embroidery techniques that had been left down for a long time and began to engage in batik and embroidery production.
In June 2018, with the support of the government, Yang Lin united with a number of local traditional handicraft production and operation households to establish the Xixiu District Batik Embroidery Association, so that Miao batik embroidery from the previous small fight, become large-scale, ensure product quality, standardize the price, and gradually get the recognition of the market. In order to attract the audience, Yang Lin combines traditional skills with modern craftsmanship, reducing production costs and increasing production. At the same time, he also worked hard from the design, on the basis of retaining the tradition, integrated new elements, the Miao embroidery and batik as embellishment decoration, made into handbags, clothes, scarves, veils, etc., adjusted the Miao embroidery production materials, improved the quality of embroidery, and adapted to the needs of daily life. He innovated on batik themes, and traditional culture, humanities, landscapes, etc. from all over the country were his inspiration. Nowadays, batik and embroidery products have been exported to many cities at home and abroad, and a large number of orders have made many people gradually take batik and miao embroidery as a source of income.
The Spring Festival in 2021 coincides with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. When inspecting Guizhou, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Carry forward the Miao embroidery, the traditional is also fashionable, it is both a culture and an industry, it can not only carry forward the traditional art of national culture, but also make an industry to alleviate poverty, and use the industry to revitalize the countryside, which can contribute." Therefore, excavating, sorting, inheriting and developing the traditional national craft of "Miao embroidery" has an important role in promoting rural revitalization.
Miao embroidery is referred to as "Miao embroidery", when it was produced and developed, according to the old man: "a long time ago", "Miao embroidery" is a material and spiritual product created by the Miao in production and life. Its motifs record the Hmong worldview, artistic outlook, happiness and suffering. "Miao embroidery" has continued to this day, indicating that it has a strong vitality. Miao embroidery has experienced a long-term hidden existence, which has appeared to be a matter after China's reform and opening up, and it has been a matter of nearly 10 years since entering the cultural industry. From my practice, it has been proved that "Miao embroidery" not only has ornamental value, but also has economic value for development, because the production of "Miao embroidery" process does not need a large number of settings, and can be a family-style production method to solve the problem of labor employment.
With the historical changes of the times and economic periods, many young women in villages cannot embroider, and "miao embroidery" is in danger of being lost. In order not to let the "Miao embroidery" be lost, Yang Lin skillfully inherited the batik embroidery process and proposed development to help rural revitalization. The main suggestions are as follows: 1. Inherit the traditional "Miao embroidery" process. Embroidery is a complex tradition, and its production process requires a lot of human input. Although with the development of the industrial level, many stitching methods can be produced by machines, but most of the machine batch products are roughly made and cannot be collected. It is a machine product, the fine part is also inseparable from the traditional artificial embroidery, the embroidery style also needs to be completed manually, and the development of embroidery handicraft skills also needs continuous development. 2. Strengthen the construction of talent team. With the continuous deepening of reform and opening up, the rapid development of urbanization, the rise of the tide of migrant workers, and the large flow of rural population, there are not many local artists left. In particular, the "Miao embroidery" artists have a single knowledge structure and weak creative and innovative ability, and the education, culture, and ethnic work departments should help the inheritors of "Miao embroidery" to improve the design and production level of traditional craft products, and can hold "Miao embroidery" craft production training classes, carry out "Miao embroidery" culture into the campus, invite professional teachers to give lectures, train children to develop love for national culture from an early age, learn national traditional crafts, and cultivate "Miao embroidery" talents through various forms. 3. "Miao embroidery" industry. Relevant functional departments should support the development of the "Miao embroidery" industry, build villages, enterprises and professional cooperatives supported by traditional crafts, and drive ethnic minority villagers to easily achieve employment at home through inheritance and protection of national culture through professional design, centralized training, decentralized production, and unified acquisition and sales, and contribute to rural revitalization. 4. Establish a database of "Miao embroidery" patterns and inheritors' files. 5. Establish intellectual property protection for outstanding individual works.
In order to inherit the batik embroidery process, Yang Lin put forward the concept of craftsmanship in a more integrated, precise and systematic manner, and used practical actions and ideas to develop suggestions to help rural revitalization, orders come in, and products go out of the operating philosophy. Carry forward the inheritance of Miao culture on the train of rural revitalization.
Yang Lin is embroidering
Source: Qianzhong Morning Post, December 13, 2021, 05th edition Xinhua Legal Aid Network