China Fortune Network News A unique auction carefully organized by the China Women's Development Foundation @ Her Entrepreneurship Plan "One Needle and One Line" Special Fund and Sotheby's Auction Co., Ltd. - "A Hundred Years of Inheritance of Women's Power" Women's Zhongshan Clothing Public Welfare Auction was previewed in Shanghai from January 13 to 15, and the auction preview caused strong repercussions. This is Sotheby's first major attempt to combine jewelry with clothing and traditional handicrafts, and it is also a public welfare move to inherit, protect and promote traditional handicrafts and help women in remote areas of China. The auction presented the first female Zhongshan suit produced by the "One Needle and One Thread" Special Foundation, the embroidery on this Zhongshan suit comes from the Miao embroidery lady in the southeast region of Guizhou Province, who has a century-old embroidery technique, and Mr. Wu Fenghua, artistic director of the Chinese brand TTF, specially donated the "Jinji" brooch as an accessory jewelry for this lot, which helped and added color to the auction.
Women's Zhongshan clothing auction exhibits TTF brand courtesy of the picture
Named after Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the father of the country, Zhongshan clothing became popular under the impetus of advocating domestic products and advocating simplicity during the Republic of China period. After the founding of New China, zhongshan clothing was improved, and the collar of the coat was a figure-of-eight lapel, five buttons in a single row on the front placket, and four pockets with a bag lid, which represented the "four dimensions of the country", that is, etiquette, righteousness, honesty, and shame. This modification of the "Zhongshan costume" and its derivative changes became the main clothing style of the Chinese people before the 1980s. Today's Chinese leaders also wear Zhongshan suits on important occasions.
After the centenary of the Xinhai Revolution, the "One Needle and One Thread" Special Foundation once again improved the traditional Zhongshan suit and used the Miao embroidery technique with a century-old history for the first female Zhongshan suit design work. The embroidery on the female Zhongshan suit of "A Hundred Years of Inheritance of Female Power" comes from Wu Shenglan and Yu Miao, Miao embroiderers in the southeastern region of Guizhou. Miao embroidery is a kind of traditional hand embroidery art with great national characteristics, its unique flying needle thread, flying moon, flying dragon color phoenix, extremely unique and magical, is a Miao woman living in the depths of the mountains, according to their own unique aesthetic taste and feelings about natural life, with five-color silk thread embroidered on the three-dimensional pattern of the pattern.
The "Centennial Inheritance of Women's Power" women's Zhongshan clothing auction aims to help women in remote areas of China inherit, protect and carry forward traditional handicrafts, and all the funds raised by the auction will be used for the China Women's Development Foundation to carry out public welfare activities such as empowerment education for female handicraft inheritors, rural revitalization and women's sustainable development, to help ethnic minorities improve the aesthetic level of handicrafts and cultivate more local outstanding handicraft talents.
According to Mr. Wu Fenghua, the women's Zhongshan clothing lot with the "Jinji" brooch accessories create a harmonious and beautiful artistic conception of Bogu Tongjin and Daofa nature. As a designer based on Chinese culture, Mr. Wu has been thinking about how to inherit the beauty of traditional Chinese jade - jadeite in the contemporary aesthetic context, he takes the aesthetics and philosophy of the Song Dynasty as the source of intention and cultural cornerstone, through continuous modern craft innovation, to create a unique new style of contemporary jewelry, inherit and carry forward oriental aesthetics, promote Chinese jewelry brands to the world, and his designs have been highly recognized by the world's high-end jewelry circle.
Auction exhibits and "Golden Rooster" brooch diagram courtesy of TTF brand
The auction will also feature one of the representative works of the emerging mainland designer Ms. Zhao Yici, a jewelry work inspired by the central axis of Beijing, "Huayin". The work transforms the charming colors of classical architecture and the beauty of the twilight drum and morning bell into a ruyi shape of magnificent colors, giving deep cultural value to jewelry, helping to apply for heritage on the central axis of Beijing from the artistic level, and promoting people's strong interest in the history and culture behind the central axis of Beijing. At the same time, in order to cooperate with the auction of women's Zhongshan clothing, multimedia artist Weng Disen generously donated a piece of Chinese national butterfly jewelry in the "Zhuang Zhou Mengdi" series, a chrysanthemum brooch with jewelry sculpture and paper-cutting style characteristics, and a jewelry ring designed by Tang Bohu painting theme, each of which is unique and is a charming treasure that can be collected by private.
The "One Needle and One Line" special foundation will specially tailor a set of Zhongshan suits for the well-meaning people who participate in this auction who are enthusiastic about protecting endangered handicrafts, in order to thank the friends who have generously donated to the "Centennial Inheritance of Women's Power" women's Zhongshan clothing auction. It is hoped that with the help of a hundred sets of women's Zhongshan suits with numbers, it will arouse the attention of all sectors of society to cultural conservation and help intangible cultural heritage, and be replaced by future generations.
The auction will be officially auctioned in Hong Kong on February 18, and the proceeds will be donated to the China Women's Development Foundation after deducting related expenses. (Xueyan)