"Green embroidery" is a general term for Turkish plate embroidery, Tibetan embroidery, leather embroidery, Salar embroidery, Hui embroidery, Hehuang embroidery, etc., with a long history, rich variety and cumbersome skills. Walking into the Ma Lianhua "Qing embroidery" protection base located in Lijiashan Town, Huangzhong District, Xining City, Qinghai Province, the unique design, variety and exquisite skills of the "Qing Embroidery" works come into view, sachets, purses, insoles... Each piece is like a "dance" jumped by the fingertips of the embroidery girls.
"Green embroidery" works. People's Daily Photo by Zhang Liping
Chen Yuxiu is the person in charge of the Ma Lianhua "Green Embroidery" protection base, and she learned embroidery from her mother since she was a child, and she was bent on how to inherit and carry forward this Qinghai-style skill. In the past, Chen Yuxiu, who was facing a series of problems such as equipment, funds, and factories, was also helpless. Since the Ma Lianhua "Qingxiu" base settled in Huangzhong District, Huangzhong District has actively coordinated various departments to "give the green light" and "find convenience" for the development of the base, from the approval of the construction land of the base to the implementation of project funds, from the project tilt to the protection of intangible cultural heritage, from the east-west cooperative industry support to the base professional talent training, and make every effort to support and help the development of the base in an all-round, multi-chain and multi-level manner.
"Green embroidery" products. People's Daily Photo by Zhang Liping
In order to protect and inherit the development of the "green embroidery" industry and help more embroidery girls live a better life, in 2020, Qinghai Province issued the "Three-year Action Plan for the Improvement of "Green Embroidery" (2021-2023)" and made it clear that it will support the development and growth of the "Green Embroidery" industry, deeply promote the "Green Embroidery + Base + Agriculture (Pastoral) Household" model, set up 40 provincial "Green Embroidery" employment workshops, hire "Green Embroidery" artists to teach "Green Embroidery" skills, and issue entrepreneurial subsidy funds to eligible "Green Embroidery" enterprises... Behind each policy is the "green embroidery" enterprise that continues to benefit from development and growth.
The industry is booming, and the people are thriving. The development of the Ma Lianhua "Green Embroidery" protection base has led to the stable employment of more than 400 people in the vicinity of the surrounding masses, and the per capita annual income of the employed masses is nearly 10,000 yuan. Jiao Weiyue, who has old and young people in the family and can't go out to work, is one of them, "Every day there is a special car to pick us up and come here to work." At the doorstep of my home, I can earn money to supplement the family, and the money of more than 3,000 yuan a month is already very impressive. ”
Embroidered Lady Jiao Weiyue. People's Daily Photo by Zhang Liping
"Green embroidery" is an important craft for women in the vast agricultural and pastoral areas of Qinghai to work at home and increase their incomes and become rich. In this "green embroidery" workshop, it is not uncommon for housewives like Jiao Weiyue to sweat in the fields when the farmer is busy, and transform into an embroidery lady when the farmer is idle, and embroider a beautiful life at the fingertips.
On March 22, Gongbao Tashi, chairman of the Qinghai Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, led some members of the Qinghai Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference to investigate the work of "Green Embroidery" in Huangzhong District, Xining City, saying that "Green Embroidery" is "Qinghai's treasure" and is also Qinghai's "golden business card", which has strong cultural value and economic value.
Public security tashi (second from right) investigates in Huangzhong District. People's Daily Photo by Zhang Liping
Public security Tashi stressed that as a skill born and raised in Qinghai, there are still problems such as poor platform and insufficient channels in the development, how to deeply integrate the "green embroidery" industry with the cultural tourism market, realize cultural value and economic value, how to go out and introduce, make the "green embroidery" industry bigger and stronger, let the "embroidery lady" hold the "golden rice bowl" of art to live a good life, and let the "green embroidery" inheritors like Chen Yuxiu protect, inherit and carry forward the "green embroidery" well, which is the topic that needs to be considered in the next step of the development of the "green embroidery" industry.
The embroidered lady who is cutting the sample. People's Daily Photo by Zhang Liping
The bright silk thread flips on the fingertips of the embroidery girls, embroidering not only the cultural symbols of the great beauty of Qinghai, but also the inheritance and love of the embroidery girls for traditional culture.