The "leading goose" of half the sky in Qinghai's Regong art town: a single branch is not spring

The picture shows the embroidery girls in Huangnanzhou, Qinghai Province, making intangible cultural heritage products. (Data map) Photo by Huang Xuan

(New Year goes to the grassroots level) Qinghai Regong art town half of the sky's "leading geese": a single branch is not spring

Xining, February 10( China News Network Title: Qinghai Regong Art Town Half the Sky's "Leading Geese": A single branch is not spring

Written by Han Li and Zhang Tianfu

Every Spring Festival, women in Wutun Village, Longwu Town, Tongren City, Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, start the busiest days of the year – cleaning courtyards, buying New Year goods, and cleaning up their rooms.

As the leading goose of the embroidery girls in the village, Hezang Tso gave a holiday to the female compatriots of the cooperative a month before the Spring Festival, and distributed 20,000 yuan of dividend funds to each person in 2021, so that the sisters could have a happy New Year.

She contacted the relevant departments of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province, wanted to wait for work, and took some embroidery girls of the cooperative to learn from the scriptures there, integrating Huangnan embroidery with Hainan Tibetan embroidery, advancing with the times, learning from each other's strengths, and allowing everyone to create more high-quality works.

Influenced by the art of Regong, he has loved the art of piling embroidery since he was a child.

The Regong area, where The more Tibetan tso is located, refers to the banks of the Longwu River in the Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. The main manifestations of the Regong culture formed here are Regong art (thangka, murals, embroidery, clay sculptures, gold sculptures, etc.), The Regong June Festival, Huangnan Tibetan Opera and other architectural paintings, folk songs and dances, ethnic costumes, religious culture, etc. Among them, Regong Art is a UNESCO "Intangible Cultural Heritage" project for humanity.

Through the help of the artists around him, the embroidery technique has continued to mature, and the embroidery products have been favored by the market.

"Many of my sisters around me are extremely inconvenient to go out to work, and there is no fixed source of income, and I have always had a wish, that is, how to drive these sisters to get rich and well-off together." Getting rich does not forget the more hidden measures of the people around you.

With the support of the policy of benefiting the people, in June 2017, in Wutun Village, More Tibetan Tso established a professional cooperative for the production of ethnic handicrafts, cultivating Regong artists in an all-round way, carrying out art exhibitions and cultural exchanges.

What makes Tsang Tso even more proud is that she once took 16 sisters to Thailand to exchange and spread the Regong culture.

Today, Gengzangcuo has become one of the leading geese of green embroidery in the Huangnan region, and has been rated as the representative inheritor of the provincial intangible cultural heritage project Regong Art (embroidery), and the 59 cooperatives have also grown into representative inheritors of state-level embroidery.

He said that every time he holds a meeting or studies, he always benefits himself a lot, and he is often invited to teach in other places or villages, feeling that the responsibility on his shoulders is getting heavier and heavier. The more hidden measures that dare to take responsibility are also more long-term.

In January this year, Gengzang Tso led 48 embroidery girls from Huangnan to participate in the provincial-level intangible cultural heritage representative inheritors training class, and also visited the Chinese Tibetan painting grand view of about 600 meters, so that everyone could open their eyes and learn relevant skills, so that the "Girl Scout Army" could develop better in the future.

After that, Gengzang Tso established Huangnanzhou Qingxiu More Tibetan Cultural and Creative Development Co., Ltd., opening up a more suitable entrepreneurial road for local women, continuing to work on promoting Regong culture, making its brand bigger and stronger, and broadening the influence of women's hand-knitting art and thangka art in rural revitalization.

A single branch is not spring, and thousands of purples and thousands of reds fill the garden in spring. Today, in Wutun Village, there are more than 1,000 regong art practitioners. Looking forward to the future, More Tibetans are full of vision and confidence. She said that on the road of rural revitalization, step by step, let one beautiful dream after another become a reality. (End)