Guangxi hydrangea making technique
Inheritance and development projects
Hydrangea culture has a long history, and the Song Dynasty Zhou Qufei recorded in the "Answer to the Lingwai Dynasty": "On the day of the shangwei, men and women gather in each rank and throw it away with five-colored knots as balls and songs, which is called flying stones, and men and women are enlightened and men are married." Later, the hydrangea gradually evolved into a mascot for the Zhuang people to express love and pass on blessings. In Guangxi, as long as there is a place for mountain songs, there is no shortage of colorful figures of hydrangeas. People transformed the flying stones into embroidered sacs to throw each other for entertainment, and the hydrangea ball gradually evolved into a mascot for the Zhuang people to express love and pass on blessings.
Known as the "hometown of Chinese hydrangeas", Jiuzhou is located in Jingxi City, Guangxi, which makes this small border town also famous for hydrangeas, and the Zhuang people living here have always had a tradition of hand-making hydrangeas. In 2013, zhuang hydrangea making techniques and Zhuang hydrangea throwing customs were listed as the fourth batch of representative items of intangible cultural heritage at the autonomous region level.
The ingenuity of an embroidery lady throughout her life has cared for and promoted the development of hydrangeas. At present, The old state is engaged in the production of more than 1,000 hydrangeas, the annual production of about 230,000 hydrangeas, the annual output value of about 2.8 million yuan, has become one of the main industries in the old state farmers to increase income, and hydrangea craft, hydrangea culture-related product industries, cultural tourism projects, such as mushrooms, increasingly prosperous.
In 2013, Wang Xiufen and her husband Liu Changlei registered the country's first hydrangea as the main business enterprise, through e-commerce and other network channels to sell hydrangea to the whole country, and even around the world, to solve some of the sales problems for the embroidery girls, while creating a new domestic brand - "Jingxi Embroidery Yunfang" hydrangea.
Through the integration of government, enterprises, embroidery girls and market resources, the establishment of hydrangea industry development base, embroidery workshop in the discovery and dissemination of hydrangea culture, the inheritance and development of hydrangea production skills, the design and sales of hydrangea products, the innovation and creation of hydrangea industry, etc., has developed into a local "excellent case". "Carrying a baby, embroidering flowers, raising the old, protecting the family." At present, hydrangea skills play an important role in helping rural revitalization through flexible employment at home.
Driven by the embroidery workshop, the embroidery girls adopt the form of flexible employment at home, solve the problem of employment and income of some local women with the fingertip economy, help local e-commerce poverty alleviation through hydrangea production, and promote the consolidation and expansion of poverty alleviation achievements and the effective connection with rural revitalization.
In the past, the hydrangea ball was the mascot of the villagers to convey their feelings, and it was the artwork that the embroidery ladies poured their hearts into, and now, it is more integrated into the wisdom crystallization of a new era of dreamers. From traditional relics to zhuang symbols that are famous at home and abroad today. The hydrangea ball contains the ancient and romantic Zhuang culture, and the beautiful and moving simple emotions, which are going to the world through generations of inheritors. The story of hydrangea will surely present a more magnificent colorful chapter.
Guangxi ethnic minority costume cultural heritage
Metadata standards and featured repositories
The sons and daughters of all ethnic groups unite and coexist, create a colorful national culture with the sweat of wisdom, they live in harmony, and engrave the cultural imprint in the costume with their dexterous hands, which has become an important part of traditional Chinese culture and a precious national intangible cultural heritage.
How to protect and inherit the cultural resources of ethnic minority costumes has become an urgent problem in front of us. It is precisely because of this that Guangxi Academy of Arts and Crafts Co., Ltd. and Beijing Institute of Fashion have jointly established a project team through school-enterprise cooperation, and carried out the research and development of metadata standards and characteristic resource libraries for the cultural heritage of ethnic minority costumes in Guangxi with digital protection and digital application as the main means.
After three years, the project team members traveled to 14 prefectures and cities in Guangxi, went deep into various ethnic minority areas, collected the costume materials of 11 hereditary ethnic minorities in Guangxi, such as Zhuang, Yao, Miao, Dong, Mulao, Maonan, Jing, Hui, Yi, Shui, and Mulao, collected more than 25,000 original picture materials, restored more than 2,000 precious ethnic minority costume photos, and audio and video for about 50 hours. Organize and edit about 170,000 words of related text. In view of the characteristics of ethnic minorities in Guangxi, the project team has established a systematic and scientific metadata identification system and a database of guangxi ethnic minority costume characteristics resources.
Nowadays, by logging into the Guangxi Ethnic Minority Costume Characteristic Resource Library and entering the keywords of ethnic costumes on the home page interface, you can view the relevant information of ethnic costumes in different regions and branches of Guangxi. Users can also view the costumes and cultures of various ethnic groups according to ethnicity, region and theme classification, and can access and download related pictures. The continuous expansion of the Guangxi Ethnic Minority Costume Characteristic Resource Database provides safe, clearly structured and rich data resource services for users in multiple categories, and better promotes the protection and inheritance of ethnic minority culture in Guangxi.
The establishment of the Guangxi Ethnic Minority Costume Characteristic Resource Database not only plays an important role in the protection and inheritance of Guangxi ethnic costume cultural resources, but also lays the foundation for advanced digital applications such as digitization, scientific storage and tourism digital experience of ethnic minority costume resources, village exhibition, virtual interaction of ethnic costumes, and e-commerce systems, which have good openness and scalability.
A work called "Splendid Guangxi", at first glance and the general brocade is no different, only to see the 14 regions on the map of Guangxi brocade, embroidery skills have their own characteristics, the national imprint jumped on the brocade, this is the project team members according to the experience of collecting style, created a unique "Guangxi map", this "Splendid Guangxi" contains the project team members for many years for the Guangxi ethnic minority clothing resource metadata standards and characteristic resource library construction of the hardship and sweat, At the same time, the project team members pay a heartfelt tribute to the establishment of the resource library.
Nowadays, the protection and inheritance of ethnic minority costume culture has become the consensus of the whole society, and the establishment of the Guangxi ethnic minority costume characteristic resource database has laid a solid foundation for the classification, standardization, digital protection and application of the national ethnic tapestry cultural heritage, and it is the unity and cooperation of the project team members, pioneering and innovative, which has injected the vitality of the new era into the inheritance of China's excellent traditional culture.