Let the traditional national skills bloom with new brilliance
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Walking into the Azuo Banner Horse Mane Winding Mongolian Thangka Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum, the museum displays more than 200 thangka embroidery crafts with different colors and forms, and the 450-square-meter space has a training base and a studio in addition to the display. The person in charge of this featured museum is 78-year-old National March 8th Red Banner Bearer and Communist Party member Gezhile.
Gezhile was originally a cadre of the Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau of Azuo Banner. In 1984, she was identified by the hospital as a third-degree disability due to a car accident while working in the countryside. In 1991, he retired due to illness. Gryler, who had always been idle, remembered the horse-mane winding thangka making technique taught by her mother Gizhgrad, and she began to study the craft. In order to make this skill that has been sleeping for many years shine with new brilliance, Gezhile has visited Mongolia, Tibet, Qinghai and other places many times to study and study, gathering the strengths of many families, after many comparisons and examinations, she combined the Alxa horse mane winding process and the embroidery process, adding a new way of expression to the ancient embroidery process of thangka.
The unique production method of horse mane winding thangkaqi is distinctive, which fully reflects the mongolian characteristics and unique aesthetics, and is a unique traditional intangible cultural heritage of ethnic minorities. In 2015, she and her son and daughter-in-law founded Azuoqi Golden Steel Horse Mane Winding Silk Embroidery Co., Ltd., a cultural company to protect and inherit the Mongolian thangka with horse mane winding, and undertook the heavy responsibility of carrying forward the traditional culture of the nation. After three years of efforts, the Horse Mane Winding Mongolian Thangka Museum has been built, which has received more than 50,000 people, which has greatly enriched the connotation of Alxa cultural tourism and won wide acclaim from all walks of life.
The influence of Gryle's mane winding Mongolian thangka works became more and more influential, and it was transformed into an industry that gradually went to the market and obtained better economic benefits. Many people want to learn this skill, and she teaches the skill without reservation in the face of people who come to study. "I was very worried about the loss of the skills of horse mane winding Mongolian thangka making in the hands of our generation, but it is gratifying that the appreciation and collection value of this art is now more and more recognized, revitalized, and more people are entering the ranks of preserving the heritage." Gryler said. At present, Azuoqi Jingang Horse Mane Winding Silk Embroidery Co., Ltd. has 32 fixed staff and more than 100 apprentices.
Gezhile also used traditional techniques to help women in agricultural and pastoral areas increase their income and become rich. She has held training courses in Bayanhot Town, Bayun Beli Town, Jilantai Town and other places. Since 2015, more than 700 women have been taught free of charge the skills of horse mane winding Mongolian thangka making, and the annual income of employed women is about 30,000 yuan.
In 2021, in order to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and express the gratitude of the masses of all ethnic groups to the party and the country, Gezhile and his employees spent a year embroidering a horse's mane winding and embroidering thangka work celebrating the centenary of the founding of the party, integrating national characteristics and love for the party, respect for the party, and praise for the party into the hands-crafted embroidered works, and every stitch and thread was full of fists and pure children and strong love for the party.
Gryler brings new glory to the traditional skills of the nation. She has successively won the "National March 8th Red Flag Bearer", the "National Outstanding Contributor to Helping Poverty Alleviation by Passing on the Torch", the winner of the "2020 Special Nomination Award for Journalists of the Cause of Disabled Persons in China", the inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of the national horse mane winding Mongolian Thangka (Horse Mane Winding Pile Embroidery Thangka), the person in charge of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Intangible Cultural Heritage Poverty Alleviation Employment Workshop, the craftsman of Northern Xinjiang, the master of ethnic costume craft in the autonomous region, the mongolian embroidery master of the autonomous region, the most beautiful woman in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the most beautiful embroidery lady in Inner Mongolia, Outstanding Communist Party members of the whole region and advanced individuals in the protection of intangible cultural heritage in the whole region. The company she founded was awarded the "National Civilized Post", the "National Demonstration Base for Poverty Alleviation", the National Cultural and Creative Industry Base for the Disabled, etc. The mane-winded Mongolian thangka was also included in the fifth batch of the National Intangible Cultural Heritage List.
丨 Alxa Daily Rong Media Reporter: Wei Qiang Yan Chenchen
丨 Editor: Shi Xiameng
丨 Review: Wang Ping
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