Editor's Note:
The two sessions of the National People's Congress opened in Beijing on March 4 and 5. Guizhou delegates packed their hometown intangible cultural heritage treasures into suitcases and brought them to the two sessions of the National People's Congress, showing Guizhou's colorful national culture and people's yearning for a better life.
Guizhou is a major province of intangible cultural heritage, ranking among the top in the country. What intangible cultural heritage treasures are hidden in the luggage of the delegates? Colorful Guizhou Network plans to launch a series of reports [National Two Sessions , Representative Members' Luggage] to decrypt for you.
Colorful Guizhou Network News (this network reporter Zhang Hongjie) "This year's National Two Sessions, I brought a lot of ponytail embroidered clothing and bags. These include the 'Auspicious Ruyi' series of women's bags, which are both our flagship products and the best-selling products. On March 2, Song Shuixian, a deputy to the National People's Congress and a representative inheritor of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage projects, said.
Song Shui Narcissus displays ponytail embroidered national costumes
According to Song Shui Narcissus, the series was designed in 2020 to skillfully combine the tastes of young people with the traditional skills of horsetail embroidery. The embroidery ladies embroidered the ancient pattern of the thousand-year-old pattern, the sacred bird of the water tribe, on the women's bags of different styles and sizes, and this process alone required a skilled embroidery lady to spend nearly 8 hours to complete. The motif symbolizes auspiciousness in the aquarium tradition, and the series is named after it, and since it was sold, it has become popular among young people.
"At last year's National Two Sessions, I brought a wooden ring bag from the 'Auspicious Ruyi' series. This year, I'm going to take the entire collection with me and continue to show and promote our art of horsetail embroidery. Song Shui Narcissus said.
"Auspicious Ruyi" series of women's bags
In Song Shuixian's view, to promote intangible cultural heritage, it is necessary to integrate it into urban life. To this end, she and the design team have made a lot of innovations, extending the horsetail embroidery to many fields such as cultural creation, shoes, and sachets.
In 2021, she opened her first horsetail embroidery brand store in Guiyang. She said that taking Guiyang as a window, let more people see the beauty of horsetail embroidery, and push horsetail embroidery to a broader stage.
First Instance: Cao Yi
Second instance: Lin Meng
Third instance: Peng Qiwei