"The line in each part should be uniform and not bent, pay attention to the direction of the shoulder arc." "Come, you cut this thread"... Patient guidance, heart-warming records, recently, this scene was staged in the Ruoerge County Self-Improvement National Costume Processing and Sales Cooperative.
The woman who was teaching her apprentices to sew Tibetan clothes was named Akin, the founder of the Self-Improvement National Costume Processing and Sales Cooperative in Ruoerge County. Suffering from polio, she is patient despite the inconvenience of her legs and feet. It was she who led the team to apply for intangible cultural heritage in 2018.
Born in 1968 in Qiuji Township, Ruoerge County, Akin has suffered from polio since she was a child, and she has never experienced the taste of normal walking, and her path to education has been blocked. With the unexpected death of his parents and the loss of his labor force, Akin was at a loss for a moment. The material difficulties and the difficulties of not being able to take care of herself made her feel the hardships of life prematurely, and also planted the seeds of struggle in her young soul.
Fortunately, Ah Jin got to know the old man who was doing crafts in the village and began to make Tibetan handicrafts. At first, making Tibetan handicrafts was just a hobby, to pass the time. Over time, the vitality of the cultural industry made Ah Jin smell business opportunities. Therefore, in 2018, Ah Jin and her four disabled friends, with the support of the Ruoerge County Disabled Persons' Federation, established the Ziqiang National Clothing and Clothing Processing and Sales Farmers' Professional Cooperative. While delving into the cutting of traditional Tibetan costumes, he combined traditional skills with modern marketing methods to produce and promote Tibetan costumes.
During his entrepreneurial career, Akin often led the team to participate in various competitions and won many awards. Nowadays, these traditional Tibetan costumes are not only an ordinary piece of clothing, but also a carrier of Tibetan intangible cultural heritage.
Without a cold to the bone, the plum blossoms are fragrant. Through the hardships of entrepreneurship, Akin created his own happiness. Over the years, she has also been teaching art, working with the Ruoerge County Women's Federation to hold a flexible employment training course for women at home, teaching a number of apprentices, so that they can go from knowing nothing about handicrafts to mastering sewing skills and becoming self-reliant.
"When I started learning this craft, I couldn't afford a sewing machine of more than a hundred pieces, borrowed money everywhere, ran into walls everywhere, and remembered it vividly for a lifetime." Because I couldn't do manual labor, I went to learn the craft from the skillful old people in the village after graduating from elementary school, and I was honored to pass on this traditional craft and teach more people. Akin sighed.
Every year during the agricultural leisure season, the self-improvement cooperative will carry out training on the skills of Tibetan weaving and Tibetan embroidery for the flexible employment of disabled women at home, provide free door-to-door technical consulting services for the disabled, and drive more disabled people to find employment and start businesses. As of last year, the self-improvement cooperative had led to the employment of 24 disabled people in the local area.
Akin told reporters that she wants more disabled people like her to join the team of rural revitalization, spread the traditional culture of her hometown to all parts of the country, realize entrepreneurship and prosperity, increase employment and income, and strive to build a better hometown.
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