As a member of the Sandu CPPCC Committee and a national inheritor of the Aquarium Horsetail Embroidery, Wei Taohua has always given full play to the authority of the CPPCC members, actively participated in the work of poverty alleviation and rural revitalization, led hundreds of embroidery girls to engage in horsetail embroidery production, inherited and carried forward the cultural treasures of the Shui ethnic group, and transformed the fingertip skills into a fingertip economy.
Walking into Wei Taohua Horsetail Embroidery Production Co., Ltd., these days, the embroidery ladies in the company are rushing to make the last orders of the year, under the guidance of Wei Taohua, the embroidery ladies patiently and meticulously embroider the embroidery pieces in their hands. Everyone makes embroidery according to the order, and the company is responsible for door-to-door acquisition and consignment sales, which makes the rural women who "can earn money at the doorstep" happy.
"I came here to embroider ponytail embroidery to increase income, and now I have more than 3,000 yuan per month, and I can also take home embroidery to facilitate the use of children, I think it is very good." Embroidered Lady Shi Shu said.
"Now it's almost the New Year is busy, we have more orders during this time, just call some embroidery girls to the company embroidery, I teach them wiring, some embroidery girls take home to embroider inside, to work overtime embroidery out, at the end of the year to hand over this batch of orders to the boss." Wei Taohua, a member of the CPPCC county committee, said.
The 58-year-old Wei Taohua is a member of the Board Ofe group in Sandong Community of Zhonghe Town, she has learned horsetail embroidery from her mother since she was a child, through learning, learning, studying the ancient horsetail embroidery boutique, coupled with her own design, she has created a number of exquisite and unique horsetail embroidery crafts, becoming a well-known horsetail embroidery craftsman, and won the title of "National Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritor". In order to further develop and expand the horsetail embroidery industry, lead more aquarium families to become rich, and better inherit and carry forward the horsetail embroidery skills, in 2010, with the help of the party and the government, Wei Taohua established sandu Water Autonomous County Peach Blossom Horsetail Embroidery Art Production Co., Ltd., which produces horsetail embroidery products in the way of "company + base + poor village, poor household + production expert", leading the poor people to get rid of poverty and get rich. Through years of development, today, Peach Blossom Horsetail Embroidery Art Production Co., Ltd. covers thousands of aquarium embroidery women, and the horsetail embroidery products produced have long been exported to all parts of the country and foreign markets.
Wei Taohua said: "In recent years, our company has organized many periods of horsetail embroidery training every year to improve the skills of our embroidery girls, where there are national handicraft competitions and performances in the country, we actively participate in them, so that more people can understand our aquarium horsetail embroidery, and hope that through me, more aquatic women can rely on horsetail embroidery and increase their income at home." ”
According to statistics, since 2015, Wei Taohua has driven more than 5,000 rural women, craftsmen, the disabled, poor households, etc. to start a business at home, including 30 poor villages, 2,000 poor people, and a per capita annual income increase of more than 5,000 yuan.
As an inheritor, Wei Taohua takes the inheritance, protection, development and promotion of aquarium horsetail embroidery as its own responsibility, and develops "water ethnic horsetail embroidery" into a pillar industry in the sandu national culture handicrafts, so that the excellent national culture is not buried by the times. As a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, she did not forget to dig wells, poverty alleviation did not forget to feel the gratitude of the party, walking in the forefront of development, Wei Taohua actively led the women of the water village to increase their income through embroidery horsetail embroidery to get rich, with the continuous growth of the characteristic industry of horsetail embroidery, the economy on the fingertips has become an important source of income for aquatic women, Wei Taohua led them to rely on skillful hands to create wealth, but also embroidered a better life.
Wei Taohua said: "As a CPPCC member, I have the responsibility and obligation to lead this group of rural aquatic women to get rich together, and in the next step, I will also keep up with the pace of the times, make good use of the Internet platform, develop excellent horsetail embroidery cultural and creative products, and make our horsetail embroidery fingertip skills truly become a fingertip economy." ”
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