(Observation of the two sessions) Not only the traditional watchmen, how can the intangible embroidery break the circle and "show" out?
Beijing, March 3 (China News Service) -- Hand embroidery is an ancient traditional Chinese skill. Nowadays, as China continues to set off round after round of "national hot flashes", the development of traditional hand embroidery is facing new opportunities and challenges. On the eve of the two sessions of the National People's Congress, many NPC deputies spoke out about how embroidery "breaks the circle", emphasizing that embroidery inheritors should not stop at the watchmen of traditional culture, but should revitalize ancient skills through industrialization.
The data picture is february 17, Tongren City, Guizhou Province, Shi Liping was interviewed by a reporter from China News Agency at the Songtao Miao Embroidery Hall in Bijiang District. China News Service reporter Qu Honglun photographed
How to pass it on: Skills and culture are equally important
Miao embroidery is an embroidery technique inherited by the Chinese Miao people. As China's national intangible cultural heritage, Miao embroidery with a history of thousands of years engraves the creation myths, migration history and delicate emotions of the people on the costumes.
"There are many elements of Miao embroidery clothing, such as what pattern to use to cross the river and what pattern to use to turn over the mountain, there are rules." Li Shaoyu, a deputy to the National People's Congress and a representative inheritor of Peng Shuimiao embroidery of Chongqing's intangible cultural heritage project, told reporters. For Miao embroidered clothing, she has an image metaphor - "wordless history book worn on the body". "Behind the Miao embroidery is not only a piece of clothing or a technology, but a national culture, which must be passed on well." Li Shaoyu said.
In response to the problems existing in the inheritance of Miao embroidery, Shi Liping, a deputy to the National People's Congress and the seventh generation of heirs of Songtao Miao embroidery, told reporters that at this stage, some inheritors are only superficial, "As inheritors, in addition to skills, they also need to have knowledge and culture." Now we do not lack craftsmanship, what we lack is educated talents. ”
Shi Liping stressed that talent training is a key link, and the official needs to improve the inheritance system through systematic planning in order to achieve a steady supply of talents.
Cheng Xinxiang is embroidering. Photo by Tang Xiaoqing
How to position: More than just the traditional watchmen
Xiang embroidery is one of the four famous embroideries in China, with a history of more than 2,000 years. Double-sided fully heterogeneous embroidery, which represents the highest skill of Xiang embroidery, is known as "magic art". However, how to "hold hands" with traditional arts and "go out of the circle" of modern life is a question that Cheng Xinxiang, a deputy to the National People's Congress and director of the Xiang Embroidery Production Department of hunan Provincial Xiang Embroidery Research Institute, has been thinking about.
Engaged in the Xiang embroidery industry for more than 30 years, this Xiang embroidery "spokesperson" will wear the latest Xiang embroidery clothing and Xiang embroidery cultural and creative jewelry every time he goes to Beijing to participate in the conference, so as to introduce the innovation of Xiang embroidery. "Traditional Xiang embroidery has entered modern life, and traditional art is being recognized by more people through industrial development and prosperity." Cheng Xinxiang told reporters.
"We can't stop at being a watchman, we must form a brand by stimulating endogenous power, and ultimately feed back the intangible cultural heritage with industrial development." Shi Liping, who has walked more than 30,000 miles to the village to record the history of Miao embroidery, is deeply touched by this. In recent years, she has continuously advocated the development model of "Miao embroidery +" - taking "Miao embroidery + clothing" as an example, using the raw materials of Chinese herbal medicine plate blue root as the dyeing thread, in addition to the miao embroidery itself, it can also pull the in-depth development of the industrial chain such as plate blue root planting, weaving, clothing sales and so on.
"The nation is the world, and a needle and a thread are so wonderful." Shi Liping said, "As an inheritor, we believe that what we inherit is both culture and industry. ”
How to break the circle: embracing popularity and youth
As a traditional Chinese craft, "exquisite high-grade" has always been the impression of hand embroidery in the eyes of the public. Nowadays, bidding farewell to "high and low" and embracing popularity and youth is becoming the consensus of more and more embroidery inheritors.
"'Post-90s' and 'post-00s' young people are becoming more and more confident in excellent traditional culture, patriotic goods, domestic products, and attention to the national tide." Cheng Xinxiang believes that Xiang embroidery "out of the circle", need to innovate through the "traditional culture modernization" method, combined with science and technology, art to carry out diversified cross-border into modern life. Bedding, wedding dresses, bookmarks, Bluetooth speakers, car fragrances, backpacks... Cheng Xinxiang led the team to develop many Derivative Products of Xiang embroidery culture that are closely related to life, and became the "new favorite" of young people.
In the face of problems such as monotonous design and simple production of embroidery products, Li Shaoyu further pointed out that in order to develop intangible cultural heritage, it is necessary to embrace young people through innovation. Compared with the traditional Miao embroidery of "making a fuss" on clothing, Li Shaoyu embroidered Chinese paintings such as local tourist attractions or "Qingming on the River" on the product, and created with silk fabrics, mulberry silk thread, etc., Peng Shuimiao embroidery became more and more "young".
Li Shaoyu said that at this year's National People's Congress, she will put forward suggestions hoping that on the basis of adhering to tradition and not losing its roots, it is necessary to establish the concept of intangible cultural heritage entering modern life and promote the more comprehensive integration of intangible cultural heritage into life. (End)
(China News Service reporters Liang Qinqing, Qu Honglun, Yuan Chao, and Tang Xiaoqing participated in the writing)