Wang Yu
Every Monday, in the Huadong R&F Golden Port City community, there is such a teacher who teaches women in the community to hand hook flowers for free. Her name is Zheng Xiuwen, and she is a crochet skilled weaver passed down for three generations. Holding a crochet needle and placing various colors of yarn in front of her, under the guidance of Zheng Xiuwen, these clever ladies can weave fashionable and beautiful ornaments.
"Hand hook flower" is a stunt, originated in the 16th century, has a long history and culture, when it comes to the association with hand hook flower, Zheng Xiuwen has a wonderful story.
This craft is probably at the end of the Qing Dynasty, there are many merchants in the Chaoshan area, many people will give them some lace hat orders, after all, this is a handmade person can not do so much, so it needs to be sent to some people to help him make it, it will definitely be sent to some rural more remote places, economically underdeveloped places, others to make some money to make this thing, slowly spread to Zheng Xiuwen's hometown - Fujian Zhao'an, when Zheng Xiuwen's grandmother in order to supplement some of the family, to learn this thing to make, Slowly she will naturally pass it on to her mother, who taught her the craft when Zheng Xiuwen was about six years old.
At that time, this small crochet needle used to be a tool for women in Chaoshan in Guangdong and Zhao'an in Fujian to eat, and the villagers relied on this pure craftsmanship to earn their families to support their families.
At that time, making a lace hat can make a dime, so six-year-old Zheng Xiuwen became obsessed with crochet, and when he first came into contact with crochet, Zheng Xiuwen showed his talent for this craft. Since then, Zheng Xiuwen's interest in hook flowers has been out of control.
Zheng Xiuwen
After I learned this at the age of six, I was particularly interested. Because I think that in fact, in the heart of a child, a seed is planted, and it will take root and sprout on its own, as long as this thing is what she likes.
When she was a child, because her family was in the countryside of Fujian and her family was poor, she saw other children playing with Barbie dolls, and she wanted to make a skirt for it. This wish was finally fulfilled in the sixth grade of elementary school.
Later, I moved to Xiamen, we have the conditions to buy Barbie dolls, I will think of ways to dress up barbie dolls, this is a little girl's careful thinking. Designed a lot of clothes for her.
And these Barbie dolls, Zheng Xiuwen has been preserving it until now.
This was created when I graduated from the sixth grade of elementary school, so I wanted to make a souvenir, and it took me about ten days to make this work, and I especially like to keep it for myself. Later, I felt that this was not enough, and I wanted to study fashion design when I grew up.
So, when she entered college, she chose to major in fashion design. Upon graduation, her graduation design caused a sensation throughout the school.
My graduation design was also reflected in knitting knitting, generally other people did not use this aspect of weaving, only I used it, one of my creative inspirations at that time was a painting by Van Gogh "Starry Sky", when I was doing a dress with this sense of knitting leisure, and it was also published in the newspaper, a newspaper in our Xiamen area.
Graduation projects
After graduating, she got her wish to go to a company and became a fashion designer.
I originally did woven weaving, but once I designed a few kinds of woolen clothes, but I didn't expect that all of them were on the order meeting, and they were all made, and they sold well, and then our brand gave me a bigger platform to show.
Take a group photo with Jackie Chan
In the past, Jack Chen had a clothing brand called Jack Chen, which was also his English name, and I worked with his clothing brand for about 3 years. He used to go back to work sometimes to pick out clothes, and he would come to do costume shows.
Later, for the development of his career, Zheng Xiuwen came to Huadu. In order to support her husband's work, in 2013, she chose to stay at home with her children and temporarily gave up her job.
During that time, she felt that she had lost the direction of her life and was very confused. Later, I was engaged in e-commerce for a period of time, and I taught people to draw, but I was still particularly anxious.
Teach children to draw
One day, Zheng Xiuwen went to look for some painting materials on the Internet, and saw that there were many crocheted works on the Internet, which ignited the enthusiasm in her heart again, and then she began to pick up the crochet needle and thread again, and began to hook up again.
After the hook was hooked, Zheng Xiuwen felt that the mood was particularly stable, and the person was very calm, and there was no such feeling of anxiety.
When Zheng Xiuwen became obsessed with crochet again, life had a direction again. Although it was passed down for three generations, she did not meet the craftsmanship of the time. Because she felt that the products in the weaving industry were too practical and lacked innovation.
Practicality of this kind of thing practical modern industry, the machine can do it right, we just don't have the power to compete with it, then I will add more of the art things I have learned, the beautiful things, add it, I will make some jewelry, with very fine needles and threads to make.
Zheng Xiuwen's new work
Zheng Xiuwen often shares hook flower works and production videos in the circle of friends. Because of her exquisite work, her friends who volunteered in the community recommended her to the neighborhood committee.
Xuan Dachun, deputy secretary of the community party branch, told the author that after seeing Zheng Xiuwen's works at that time, he couldn't help but sigh: "Wow is so beautiful this, this exquisite handicraft, just our three or eight festivals of this activity, can you come and teach our majority of women to hook this flower, the teacher did not say a word and agreed, after the three or eight sessions of this activity, we asked the teacher if we can help us continue to take this class, and then the teacher happily agreed to this matter." ”
In this way, Zheng Xiuwen opened a teaching class for residents in the community, and the residents of the community could learn and share the skills of learning hand hook flowers.
What makes these students even more moved is that Zheng Xiuwen usually teaches patiently and has such a kind attitude, the key is that he does not charge tuition. Although there is no charge, Zheng Xiuwen does not care.
Facing the future, Zheng Xiuwen has his own dreams. "I want to teach more people to learn this craft, and I want to have my own knitting studio, maybe I have such a picture in my head from an early age, there is such a studio." I found what I wanted to do, and I think I was very happy. Zheng Xiuwen said.