Zhengzhou, January 31 news of the Central Broadcasting Network Wearing new clothes and hats, rejoicing and celebrating the New Year. Looking back on childhood, wearing tiger head shoes, wearing a tiger head hat, and sleeping tiger head pillow was once a traditional custom that was indispensable for the New Year in the childhood memories of a generation.
With the advent of the Lunar Year of the Tiger, some handicrafts that are cute and contain traditional Chinese folk culture have been loved by more and more young people, awakening their deep memories of family affection in their childhood. This is also the biggest wish of Li Qian, a collector of folk traditional handicrafts, for many years, and what she has been doing tirelessly.
Li Qian and her female red collection (Photo by Zhang Weiyi, a reporter from the Central Broadcasting Network)
As a native of Henan, Li Qian has been in love with female red (same as "female worker") handicrafts under the influence of her family since she was a child, she is an educator, as a "post-70s", relying only on hobbies, insisting on collecting traditional handicrafts for 19 years. Over the years, with the traditional female red as the main line, she has visited traditional handicraft makers all over the country, recorded a large number of graphic materials, and made continuous efforts to promote traditional Chinese culture, and the collection of traditional handicrafts is innumerable.
Female red "one needle and one thread" is full of family warmth
On January 25, in The Guancheng District of Zhengzhou, the reporter stood in Li Qian's personal folk collection hall, looking around at the place of less than 100 square meters in front of him, traditional costumes, folk toys, New Year paintings, clay sculptures, paper-cutting and other traditional handicrafts are available, with different categories, rough estimates, only containing tiger elements of handicrafts there are thousands.
Li Qian's collection of cloth tigers is very diverse (Photo by Zhao Mengyang, issued by the Central Broadcasting Network)
"My collections come from all over the world, from all ages, thousands of miles away, hundreds of years ago." Li Qian said with a smile that in order to collect this full house of folk crafts, she ran almost all the prefectures and cities in Henan Province, and also went to Shanxi, Gansu, Shaanxi, Guizhou and other provinces, "The farthest one was to run to Yunnan, inquire all the way to many ways, and walked into the homes of some craftsmen who do ethnic embroidery to explore 'treasures'." ”
Collecting more, Li Qian has also become a half expert in the field of folk culture, casually picking up two tiger head shoes and saying the head is the tao, "You see, this pair of tiger head shoes is relatively fat, it is considered that in winter the children's cotton pants and feet can be tucked in to warm up, so this is our northern tiger head shoes." "The temperature in the south is high, so this tiger head shoe from Suzhou is relatively thin and narrow."
Tiger head shoes can be cute (Central Broadcasting Network sent by Zhao Mengyang photo)
"In the past, during the New Year, the elders would wear tiger shoes and tiger hats for their children, and send them the blessing of peace, hoping that the 'King of the Hundred Beasts' would protect the children's healthy growth." Li Qian believes that traditional Chinese folk handicrafts are not only used, but also pay attention to affection, and each item contains rich cultural connotations.
For example, female red is called the art of the mother, they are not only beautiful on the outside, but also beautiful in connotation, each pattern has undergone fantastic ideas, each stitch and thread have passed through the temperature of the hand, and each finished product is full of strong family affection, "This is also the essence of traditional Chinese female red beauty." ”
Learn and excel. Today, Li Qian is also a non-hereditary heir of the sachet in Guancheng District, and in her spare time, she often makes some small female red handicrafts.
"I'm thinking about opening a studio, holding an art salon, inviting some craftsmen to make traditional crafts together to experience the beauty." Li Qian revealed that the location of the new studio has been determined, and in the future, she wants her son who has just graduated from college to inherit his mantle, "He is studying design, art, we have the same heart." ”
Run to more than 150 primary and secondary schools and kindergartens, so that young people fall in love with traditional culture
"Not only the collection, but also the culture and story behind it." In order to allow more children to get in touch with traditional culture, over the years, Li Qian has traveled to more than 150 primary and secondary schools and kindergartens, with her own traditional handicrafts that she has treasured for many years, and as an off-campus volunteer counselor, she has given children a vivid "intangible cultural heritage" art appreciation class.
Li Qian explained tiger head shoes to children (photo provided by the interviewee sent by the Central Broadcasting Network)
She found that more and more children in the process of zero-distance contact with these traditional handicrafts, experienced the cultural connotation behind the back, sowed the seeds of love and inheritance in their hearts, "I remember that in Zhengzhou Erqi District Art Primary School, children strangely carry henan folk traditional dolls "monkey plus official" to play, that caution and infinite joy make me can't help but Wan'er."
Last year, Li Qian Chinese unexpectedly resonated strongly with teachers and school leaders in a "non-heritage" lecture at a school outside the Zhengzhou Economic Development Zone, and the school leaders expressed their willingness to build a cultural exhibition hall, which she gladly accepted.
On December 29, 2021, the Intangible Cultural Heritage Women's Red Hall was officially listed in the school's Aesthetic Education Hall, with traditional sachets, embroidered curtains, embroidered pillows, patchwork seat cushions... More than 500 folk handicrafts in Li Qian's collection have a fixed "home".
"The school leaders told me that in the future, this pavilion will also be open to teachers and students from other schools." Li Qian's heart was full of relief.
In the New Year, do not forget to live broadcast the story of female red, awakening the nostalgia in the hearts of netizens
The New Year of the Tiger is approaching this time, Li Qian groped at home to "play" the vibrato live broadcast, through the Year of the Tiger to give netizens "Amway" tiger head shoes, tiger head hat.
"Welcome friends into the live broadcast room of 'Muzixi says female red'..." At 8:40 every night for the past few days, she sat in front of the beauty lamp on time, picked up the collection of female reds and talked, quite a professional anchor meaning.
Li Qian shares tiger head shoes in live broadcast (photo by Zhao Mengyang, sent by CCTV)
"Thank you for sharing the flower insoles that remind me of my grandmother who has passed away..."
Li Qian said that after a broadcast, a netizen took the initiative to tell her in a private message that he was a "post-80s" who was a migrant worker, and Li Qian's sharing reminded him of when he was a child, when his grandmother sat on the wall to give himself a shoe insole when he was idle, and the strong homesickness made him cry for a while.
"Perhaps this is the charm of the traditional female red, a pair of small insoles, which not only conveys the thick and simple folk customs of the Central Plains, but also accommodates the infinite hard work and love of relatives." Li Qian sighed.
Source: CCTV